Getting Fruity with Pineapple Dance Studio
Louie Spence is the epitome of camp. He’s got the lisp, the sashay, the ability to spin on cue… plus he can backflip and put his legs behind his head.
Spence is the living, breathing, high-kicking funny bone of Pineapple Dance Studios, a hit television show being dubbed as ‘car-crash reality TV’, currently screening on Fox 8. (more…)
Fashion Forward: PFF 2010
For seven days this September, Perth Fashion Festival (PFF) returns with a spectacular calendar of over 50 events featuring more than 160 labels, 100 models and over 100 WA designers, big and small.
If you have never experienced PFF before, this is the year to do so, especially with PFF once again transforming the old Gasworks Building into a state of the art runway venue, Fashion Paramount. (more…)
Popsicle Top Picks @ PFF 2010
On William will once again take the attitude out of fashion with Popsicle, a pop-up shop dedicated entirely to emerging WA designers. This year Popsicle appears in the Perth Cultural Centre outside PICA, housed in two refurbished shipping containers, complete with outdoor exhibition space. An amazing array of items from 11 designers and four publishing ventures will be on sale, with OUTinPerth stopping by On William’s HQ to discover the top picks of Popsicle 2010: (more…)
Oh To Have Lived In America…
While the prospect of living in America may be far from appealing in this modern age where a double dip recession looms, but back in the 1950’s the USA was truly the land of opportunity.
While the suburbs became the land of white picket fences and pinafores, baked goods and nuclear families, the cities became visceral melting pots of nationalities, immigrants moving to the world’s greatest economy to pursue the American dream. (more…)
Designer Profile: Alistair Trung
I always strive to bring the boy out of the girl, and the girl out of the boy. A man and a woman are different in body, but in soul and spirit, we are the same.
A meeting with Alistair Trung falls somewhere between profound fashion insight and holy communion for the soul’s sense of style. (more…)
Book Feature: The Quiet Ones
The Quiet Ones
by C.J.Nichols
Independent
The majority of large publishers not only here in Australia do not generally accept unsolicited manuscripts from unpublished authors, which makes the business of getting published that much tougher.
Queensland author C.J. Nichols has utilised the self publishing of his debut supernatural thriller The Quiet Ones not as a vanity project or something to serve his ego, but as a way of garnering attention. (more…)
Perth Street Art Profiles: Abnormal Design
Abnormal Design have taken street art and made a commercial venture from it. Comprised of Dave and Drew, this duo’s work adorns such locations as Harry’s Bar, Joondalup Train Station, Kenwick Link for the Perth Transit Authority and also more recently Claremont’s Bayview Terrace. They do an array of jobs from private to government works, even teaching young street artists through their involvement with local councils.
How long has Abnormal Design been running for?
Dave: It’s probably been 13 years now. I went overseas and noticed that people could do mural art and things that catered to customers. So I thought why not start something like this in Perth. I met some guys in New York and Europe who were doing something similar.
What’s the biggest thing you’ve had to overcome?
Drew: The stigma attached to the spray can, that’s one thing we’ve had to deal with a lot. They see that it instantly seems to cheapen the art form. We also work quiet fast so I think a lot of people hold that against us.
So what’s the attitude from people toward aerosol work?
Drew: It’s really positive.
Dave: When you do it well.
Drew: It’s something they really enjoy, but they don’t know how to connect with people who are doing it so much. And that’s what we do, getting involved with councils and the like we figure is the best way to get through to the youth in the area. And that’s what we’re about: teaching the kids in the area. So we’re not only doing murals but we’re teaching as well. (more…)
Book Reviews
Dark Bright Doors
by Jill Jones
Wakefield Press
Jill Jones is an award winning Australian poet and one of the two brilliant minds responsible for the country’s first comprehensive anthology of lesbian and gay poetry, Out Of The Box.
Dark Bright Doors is a book seemingly populated with identity, with a central voice, yet at its core it is unsettled and unnerved. It tetters on the edge of things with a sensual energy. (more…)
Read and Win $400
Beyond the Capes is a colonial blockbuster, a gay romance that will change the way you think about gay men in history. Local author, Richard de la Haye is giving readers the chance to win $400 cash by purchasing the book and answering a simple question relating to the story.
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The World According To Kransky
To say The Kransky Sisters are odd or a little bit strange is a vast understatement: these girls are just plain weird.
Together, Mourne, Eve and Dawn Kransky have an Old World charm that is at once deadpan and endearing.
They hail from the small town of Esk in Queensland where they took up residence in their mother’s brother’s house after he died at the hands of one of his own inventions: a high-sprung wind-up envelope opener. (more…)
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