Dot Dot Dot Issue No. 14

The films at Tropfest were good, but not that good right? I mean if you had entered, dude, it would have been amazing. So why not put your money where...

Is it wrong to love a five-inch, stuffed bunny this much? The FELT MOI family is the brainchild of Meena Kim, whose skilled fingers hand sew each unique...

For years now, from an unassuming building on Elizabeth Street opposite the Waterloo skatepark and a lolly factory, Darren Knight has been repping great...

It's January. Look around you. Look at the peeling skin on your sunburnt nose. Look at ants on hibiscus flowers. Look at your toes in the sand. Look at...

For some reason for the last few months I’ve been getting The Magic Numbers confused with Major Moulty’s Amazing Magical Plastic Band. I thought...

January is here, and with it comes that gnawing guilt. The resolution to read more and broaden yourself was lost to endless nights watching THE WIRE...

Some moments in life, however superficial, stick in your mind. One of these was in a second floor boutique in Melbourne called Marais. On the counter...

By mid 2004 it seemed that if a band was touted as the "next big thing from Williamsburg" it would be a sure sign to avoid them. Amongst the...

Three afternoons of film and talk? Compared to the exhausting three-week grind offered by other Australian festivals, the inaugural Destination Festival's...

According to Ernie Dingo and the Northern Territory tourism board, ‘You’ll never never know, if you never never go”. It’s catchy...

Fans of West Coast style - THC strength character, brainy arrangements, episodic movement, game loving bounce - are put on immediate need-to-know basis...

Coffee - the black oil that gets the morning from akimbo to limbo. Along with legal crank, the other thing Izrock likes is independent business and...

I've got good news and bad news.

The bad news: now that fashionabe trendy kids in trenchcoats have appropriated the post-punk misery of depressed, social...

I really don't know what to make of this album. It's kind of an angular, electronic funk affair, much like if LCD Soundsystem had slightly less sensical...

In an age where magazine titles have all but lost all meaning (I'm looking at you, but not you), it’s refreshing to know that CARL*S CARS has...

When you think Japanese cinema, you probably think about anime, right? Or samurai flicks. Or mind-f*ck horror. Or a lurid blend of bizarre sex and graphic...

Much to the chagrin of my playground playmates, I never could get the gist of rock, paper, scissors. I mean, I knew that rock crushed scissors, scissors...

Tom DiCillo made one of the ‘90s most canonical indie films: the great low-budget movie about the ego-driven horrors of low-budget movie-making...

Cairns is known for its barrier reef, its melting mercury and its cruise ships. It's definitely not known for progressive fashion, because, we imagine...

Let's face it - despite the consciousness-raising, spiritual, communal sense of enlightenment and massive endorphin rush they inspire, drum circles suck...