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Lou Reed on Kanye West

Lou Reed on Kanye West

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“But the guy really, really, really is talented. He’s really trying to raise the bar. No one’s near doing what he’s doing…” Some love him and some hate him, and Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed, writing for music website The Talkhouse, is full of praise for Kanye West. In a glowing, lengthy and passionate review of West’s sixth […]

Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

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Season two of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee has just been released, and as with last year’s debut, a new episode will be uploaded for viewing each week through the website. To those unfamiliar with it, well, the title says it all. With no plot and narrative, these are unconnected 12-18 minute vignettes capturing […]

Save the Palace Theatre

Save the Palace Theatre

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Chinese property investment firm Jinshan Investments has revealed plans to demolish the 100 year old Palace Theatre to build a 205-room hotel and 145 apartment tower. Best remembered as The Metro, the theatre is an important venue in Melbourne’s CBD and the city at large. With the 5,000 capacity Festival Hall and 1,000 capacity Billboard […]

Great Gatsby: Before and after VFX

Great Gatsby: Before and after VFX

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If you enjoy the magic of cinema and don’t want to remain it to remain a little mysterious, do not watch the video below… Chris Godfrey, the VFX supervisor on Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, has released a film that shows how the set looked before and after the team’s VFX work was added to the shots. […]

'Interview' Interviews Nick Cave

'Interview' Interviews Nick Cave

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An interview subject with no time for bullshit questions, Nick Cave sits down with Andrew Dominik, director of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, for an unusually candid and lengthy interview for none other than Interview magazine, complete with an impromptu cameo gatecrash from Kylie Minogue. Source: Interview Read It: Here

Chinese Propaganda Posters

Chinese Propaganda Posters

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In the heyday of what was then called Red China by the West, millions of propaganda posters were placed in shop windows and factory walls throughout the mainland. Bloomsbury Auctions in London recently held an auction of a collection of these posters, largely from the 1950s and 60s – that were designed to spread fear of U.S. […]

Galliano's First Sober Interview

Galliano's First Sober Interview

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In his first interview since he was fired from Dior after his anti-semetic rants were captured on film (and, he confesses, his first-ever interview sober), designer John Galliano opens up about the spiral of addiction, his efforts to atone, and the forces led up to his grand act of self-destruction. Source: Vanity Fair Read it: Here

Jan Gehl: Cities for People

Jan Gehl: Cities for People

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Melbourne’s Assemble Papers joined Jan Gehl, renowned Danish architect, urban design consultant and champion of the human scale, for a walking tour of Melbourne’s ever evolving streetscapes during Gehl’s recent visit to Melbourne for an international study program. Source: Assemble Papers Read It: Here

Print's New Golden Age?

Print's New Golden Age?

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Are we entering a new golden age of print publishing? This is the case argued in the new issue of Port Magazine, where seven magazine editors from Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter to to David Remnik of the New Yorker are interviewed, plus all feature on the cover. “A magazine is a brilliant invention. You take […]