Doingbird #10

"Don't you wonder sometimes, bout sound and vision?"

So went Bowie's withdrawn lyrics.

Melbourne-based artist John Aslanidis would answer...

Ok, so we all know that horror movies are cool, have always been cool and will remain cool till the end of time... Why? We don't know, but it's true...

A buddy turned me onto this weird Electric Eels meets the Modern Lovers band. I bought the second 7" immediately. I gave it to Angie as had forgotten...

Around Bondi, unless you’re eating a fuzzy salad or soft serve cone, it’s hard to find a feed for a flat tenner. So you can imagine (and possibly...

Let's play the word game - think of a name and say the closest thing you associate with it. There's one right answer and the winner takes hmm, the toast...

During the 1980’s break-dance culture craze, graffiti wars took over the subway trains and streets of Brooklyn and the Lower East Side. The Rock...

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...

Remember the time that sending your risotto al-funghi back to the kitchen meant having it return with some sort of suspected spittle included? Or when...

THE GREAT ESCAPE is more than a 1963 McQueen classic, it is a girl wearing Chanel. Coated in luxe branding, she is no longer a student from a suburban...

Close your eyes and imagine you're in a calm, empty room. A softly lit, minimalist Oxford Street boutique, with white walls, experimental chill out music...

Sometimes seeing the movie before you read the book can be kind of OK. But this relies on many things including casting so creative it outruns anything...

As well as being an excellent Italian restaurant, North Bondi Italian is also an exercise in branding that fits (be it a little too snugly) into the...

Next Saturday attempt to wipe away the debris of another Friday night with the Organic Food & Farmers Market, located perhaps not far from where you...

Remember when some well-travelled trendsetters shipped some colourful rubber thongs back from Brazil, whacked an exorbitant price tag on them and called...

Tired of your sloppy contractors forgetting to chop the fingertips off their targets and leaving careless DNA evidence at the homes of your enemies? Sick...

It's a ‘beacon of pop culture in the suburban backstreets of Camperdown'. Literally. The closest pop-cul fix to Pigeon Ground is a Hello Kitty...

A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, the masses would flock together to trade their goods for coin or collectables. Then eBay swept the world...

It was real nice to read a zine which confirmed that VICE didn't invent the f*ck-you-political-correctness writing style. I guess neither did these guys...

Dead pets and hand jobs might seem like the obvious choice for exploring the themes of trust and relationships, but that's exactly the framework for the...

Hello. I am eText. I come to you via a pixelated screen, as part of a coded email. I am speedy, sometimes hyperlinked. You can access me at any time...