Sydney Shopping - Shop
SHOP is your guide to boutique fashion and retail in Sydney, featuring pop-up shops and other places that are so hard to find that Google doesn't even know about them yet. SHOP attempts to open your minds, hearts and wallets to the plethora of things that you can probably live without but in actuality don't want to. Clothes, jewellery, books, bikes, bags, shoes, bags that look like shoes - SHOP gives new meaning to the superficial - wait, we're confused.
Something Weird Video
While low budget films flourish in other countries, us ‘civilised' white folks hardly ever make cheap, fun, ‘bad' movies anymore. Which SUCKS.
Something Weird Video specialize in boldly bizarre and bad movies; go-go girls, nudist camps, hippie drug casualties, low-budget sci-fi, gore, juvenile delinquents.
One of a Kind
I assumed men like convenient, calm shopping. I asked one. He agreed. So if you generated a fit out with newsagent-style practicality and a 20th Century modern lounge room sensibility you're set, right?
Curtained by vines and suitably hidden on Darlinghurt's Darley Street, One of a Kind is just this.
Lamella Art Books
The lamella is a thin layer or membrane within an organism - in a mushroom it's the gills. At Lamella Art Books, these layers are likened to the pages of a book. And conveniently this specialist book stop has a mushroom effect of contemplation.
In 1974, Lamella was conceived by one Victoria Palmerson in Amsterdam who, while immersed in a scene of specialists and distributors of the art book and obscure title sector, recognised Sydney's need for a warm house of visual and critical edification.
The Chippendale Fresh Food Co-op
Lately, in my world at least, there seems to be a strong movement towards thinking about what you eat. Not in a 'will this make me fat?' way, but in a ‘what had to happen to get this on my plate?' way. It's possible that we all just read this book, and once Mr Safran Foer's words fade from our minds we'll go back to grabbing whatever we can (be that greasy burgers, horsey-doovers from art openings or lollies from babies), but it's also possible that we're growing up a bit, and realising that our eating habits can effect change on a societal level as well as a personal one.
Blubird
You know that moment when you realise you're out of your depth in a conversation? I just had one. No, we weren't discussing Deleuze or dissecting a horrible divorce, we were talking jeans.
I went in confident: "Yeah, jeans. Jeans are great! I have a few pairs actually. Wear them on my legs sometimes.
The Arcade Project
There are only so many discordant renditions of 'Achy Breaky Heart' that even the most persevering of souls can endure. So after sharing a home for three years with the infamous, and slightly bedraggled, Ding Dong Dang karaoke parlour, innovative art space Gaffa has moved to the big end of town.
The new premises on Clarence Street in the CBD will house four galleries, Australia's largest jewellery studio, an industrial design project space and a café, spread over three levels in a 19th Century police station.
Woollahra Garage Sale
In recent years, I have become increasingly aware of my flagrant desire to consume. Books, records, clothes, inanimate objects for the home - you name it, I'll buy it. Coupled with this deep-seated compulsion is a pervasive and irreconcilable inner turmoil, consisting equally of endless moral justification and serious financial woe.
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