antipodes water
Yes, this water is what we would regard as a ‘luxury item' - yes, it's more expensive than a carton of beer and yes, technically it's just water; but what must be understood about antipodes is that... it really isn't just water. Scientifically speaking, antipodes is categorised as the deepest, highest quality artesian water in New Zealand.
Aesop's Opera Gift Kits
The great thing about going to an Aesop store is that even if you don't buy a product, you feel more beautiful anyway. Regardless of which store you visit it's tastefully designed and has a satisfying rather than overwhelming number of products.
The latest addition to the range is a series of four opera gift kits: two uni-sex, one for women and one for men.
Keep Company
In the golden age of infomercials, Demtel would advertise a set of steak knives by cutting through a shoe. Tim Shaw also went nuts on tomatoes and a frozen box of broccoli. It really was an amazing offer. Now however, as Australian infomercials are dying a slow death due to the internet, it stands that vegetarian shoes should rise to avenge (and overthrow) their leather cousins.
Note to Self
The craftsman behind Note to Self was not your average kid. While most juveniles were trading fags for swigs of Spumanti behind the shelter sheds, Max Olijnyk was following the skater-trails of Matt Hensley and Guy Mariano. He spent just as much time recreating their (retrospectively perhaps too large) pants on his Mum's sewing machine as he did ollying off three-inch gutters.
Tatebanko
Things go in and out of fashion right? Fondue, disco, tie dye...ahem, and other things that aren't from the ‘60s and ‘70s. Like Tatebanko. This is a forgotten Japanese art of diorama that was quite the pastime in the Edo period (1603 - 1868). We can just imagine the Tokugawa shogun indulging in a Tatebanko session before whipping some eastern barbarians.
Nooka
If you want to know the time there are two options - analogue or digital. Sundials look sweet but aren't that practical, and trying to chart the sun's axis makes for fried eyeballs.
In 1997 however, another mode of clocking time appeared. It all happened when designer Matthew Waldman was staring at a clock in a London hotel.
Free Comic Book Day
No doubt comic books will soon snake down to the bottom of the cultural ladder again, but for now, nicely-bound graphic novels are available in credible bookshops. Why would you enter the lowly, unwelcoming comic store? Four words and an exclamation point: Free Comic Book Day!
Once a year, publishers pick a single issue to give away in an attempt to lure new customers into the crack-like addiction of monthly comic buying.
Random Entries:
Search our guide to Sydney
Browse our guide to Sydney by interest
Browse our guide to Sydney by keyword
Sydney Events Calendar
Select a date to see what's on in Sydney
Browse our guide to Sydney by weekly issue
Working