Brain - 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.
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.
Take Care Zine Distro
The zines normally come to me. They sneak on to coffee tables nearby, or drape themselves conspiciously over friends' book shelves. They jostle for my attention in cafes, paper-cutting innocent bystanders queueing for their lattes. There's just something in the way my stars are aligned, because although I never set out to hunt down one of these papery gems they always find a way into my book bag.
Powershovel Pop! Up Shop
Immune to regulation, Powershovel toy cameras help you play, like a kid. They're plastic, simple, instantly likable, not to mention analogue (remember film?). They are plastic lenses to be carried in your pocket always - toys that recruit your finger and subjective eye to document your every day.
At the height of digital, 'real' photography can still follow the sequence of pointing, shooting, processing and anticipation, because there's just something in the grain, mood and colour when a slide of reality is captured permanently onto paper.
The Thousands Shop
For a number of years now, we've been telling you what we like via the internet. We tell, you read, and then you spend your life savings on postage trying to get yourself a picnic rug with sleeves and the latest issue of Apartamento and a pair of wooden bike handlebars, all at the same time. But not for much longer.
Deal Extreme
Most Christmas presents are useless to their receivers. So why not save your relatives brain strain and direct them to Deal Extreme (DX for short). Like StrawberryNet for gadget geeks, DX is jam-packed with super cheap, potentially useless gizmos. And they ship free to any address! That's right, super cheap gizmos, with little to no use, shipped free to any address.
Mag Nation
Gone are the days of skulking sheepishly in the back corner of a newsagency when you want to read for free. Mag Nation respects your right to loiter. In fact, they encourage it with an unlimited reading time policy, comfy chairs and free wireless.
They have a very healthy understanding of how people operate, you see, and concede that magazines are perhaps not an absolute necessity of life.
Flower Market
Floristry, think about it, it's cool and kind of evil.
First, there are ecosystems at force, fields of blooms rivalling for height and magnetic scent, weeds bootlegging the soil's vitamins, life and then fate for the most herbaceous.
At 5am, with the surrounding flush of a new day at the Flower Market, you really look at the nosegays and think.
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