Rest

This is not a call for a return to the divine or the premodern, we only aim to contrast what was once common sense with what has now become radical.

CultureSimon Harris & Lizzy KwokJuly 11, 2024rest, time, culture

On Critical Thinking: Why it's good to have hate in your heart

Criticism falls short in the digital-age because our reality has become delusion.

CultureKate Saap & Justine HuJuly 11, 2024culture, criticism, algorithm

Climate-Change-ing-My-Wardrobe

As the seasons falter in their usual rhythm, our closets become a reflection of this chaotic dance between Winter and Summer.

FashionElla ThomasDecember 17, 2023culture, fashion, climate change, sydney

Small talk with your left-behind

I wonder whether she’s praying, or meditating, and whether she’s prone to impatience, but the 01:01 train arrives before I work it out. It takes four minutes to depart; four minutes to expose the translucent creature perched in her place.

Art, LiteratureClaudia BlaneDecember 8, 2023art, culture, trains, fiction, memory

THE PANORAMA REPORT

Your phone is hungry for the world, hungry to consume everything in front of you. Regular images are no longer enough, we must survey, collate, stitch together.

ArtSimon HarrisDecember 5, 2023photography, art, culture, panorama, iphone

Meaningful Stone Interview

In conversation with Kim Jimin of Meaningful Stone — on 90’s rock bands, surfing and the spiritual power of the universal subconscious.

MusicJustine HuNovember 27, 2023art, culture, korean music, rock, meaningful stone

Specs of my core, Exploding outwards.

Inspired by works by Youssef Nabil, Shahin Alipour, Lalla Essaydi and Shirin Neshat, this series of photographs explores the beauty of seemingly ‘paradoxical’ intersecting identities; being from the SWANA region, queer, religious/ non-religious – a child of diaspora existing in the uncertainty between eastern and western culture.

ArtMax ChahineNovember 27, 2023photography, art, culture, Lebanese, catholicism

Imagining Childhood In Lebak Siliwangi

Drawing inspiration from the dark and gritty work of Daido Moriyama, this photo series intentionally juxtaposes the youthful children within a Moriyama-esque visual style, mirroring the contradicting aura of past and present that enveloped Lebak Siliwangi.

ArtAshray KumarNovember 18, 2023photography, art, culture, childhood, indonesia

American Apparel

American Apparel ceased operations in 2017, so this shoot was a homage to the simple artistry of versatile fashion and the ways it can interact with subject and spectator.

ArtJanine WongsuwanNovember 6, 2023photography, art, culture, y2k, fashion, american apparel

Halmeoni (할머니)

‘Halmeoni (할머니)’ is a series of 35mm photographs of Estelle Yoon's grandmother and their younger sister.

ArtEstelle YoonNovember 6, 2023photography, art, culture, family, Korea, family history

Visiting an Indian temple

Ashray Kumar visits an Indian temple.

ArtAshray KumarOctober 16, 2023photography, art, culture, India, relegion

The warrior women of Dahomey

These warriors are the only known army in modern history to be exclusively composed of women, and they protected the citizens of their kingdom for at least two centuries.

Culture, ISSUE 10Imogen SabeySeptember 27, 2023culture, history, warrior women

Love unscripted: The culture industry’s romantic reel dance

Business is business, what else are you supposed to do?

Culture, Film, ISSUE 10Mia RetallackSeptember 25, 2023culture, film, romance, comedy, art criticism, politics

On the Chinese campus canteen

The Chinese campus canteen is an overlooked institution, providing sustenance and representing the deep-rooted tradition of communal eating.

Place, RecessLizzy KwokSeptember 13, 2023chinese, food, chinese food, food writing, campus, canteen, culture

Anatomising the N64

Anatomising the N64 isn’t hard when you can peer into the bottle green motherboard, the nucleus of hypnotic rotating graphics, and the labyrinth that allows you to fire off that blue shell.

CultureAmelia RainesAugust 25, 2023culture, Nintendo, N64, nostalgia

Tel Malish

It became routine for my family to gather in the living room every Friday night, with blankets, snacks and bowls of oil in tow.

CultureNishta GuptaNovember 16, 2022coconut oil, olive oil, almond oil, castor oil, hair, family, culture, tradition, Hindi

bakehouse qtr

how much labelling could make a building built for biscuits in 1908 seamlessly slip into the 2020s?

PlaceKat Porritt-FraserOctober 5, 2022Sydney, North Strathfield, food, culture, nightlife, photography, biscuits, radiology