Themes of loneliness, heartbreak, and loss are commonplace, but for some reason they felt more sorrowful and melancholic than their English-language counterparts.

MusicLizzy KwokNovember 16, 2022China, pop music, melancholy, sadness

Bourdainification

Bourdain’s overbearing influence on food writing inscribed all the marks of the ‘real’ into the show as much as any set designer or method actor.

CultureHuw BradshawNovember 16, 2022food writing, Anthony Bourdain, The Bear, TV, television, cooking

"Just make more"

The choctop shift can be tranquil, humbling, and quietly frustrating.

RecessPatrick McKenzieNovember 16, 2022movie theatre, choctop, movie snacks, ice cream, chocolate, food

Liminal reality

A visual representation of the liminal space between dream and reality.

PlaceJustine HuNovember 16, 2022liminal spaces, experimental video, video art

An art tour of A26

Paintings, photographs and sculptures are scattered throughout campus, sitting on walls and perched in unassuming corners.

Place, CampusAnthia BalisNovember 16, 2022art, library, curation, tour, hidden spots, photography

Clown dancing in the theatre

The clown bridges ordinary people of the world with the world of fantasy.

FashionWenmiao XinNovember 16, 2022clowns, movie theatre, dancing

They/She

In a world where labels and definitions equal success, 'They/She' visually portrays the undefinable through the lyrical limbs of the model, Archer Rose, in 35mm film format.

Art, CultureEstelle YoonNovember 16, 2022gender, art, bodies, film photography, label, queerness

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

It Girl

i aim to be discerning, use my camera like a scalpel capture the city; full of life, love, and clarity.

Art, CultureSimon HarrisNovember 16, 2022It Girl, photography, fashion, street, urban, city, perception, George Simmel

SCA undressed

Forget the whole schtick about the wagging art student drinking turpentine, University is making art purely academic.

Art, CampusSolomiya SywakNovember 16, 2022USyd, usyd, campus, University, SCA, art, art school, Rozelle, cigarettes, pretentious

The Tunnel

Make me continue my casual hospitality job after graduating from a four-year Arts degree with advanced studies and honours. But never, ever make me walk through The Tunnel.

PlaceSimone MaddisonNovember 14, 2022Sydney, Inner West, Leichhardt, Haberfield, Hawthorne Canal, USyd, horror, fear, running

Maths question involving 32 watermelons targets specific student’s love of the fruit

Staring down at the paper, what stared back was eerily similar to her own life.

ComedyHarry GayNovember 10, 2022watermelons, fruit, maths, exam, exams, USyd

Amadeus dreams and Bathurst St realities: the alchemy behind Everynight

Mr. Squiggle’s SUDS ascendancy

CultureMarlow HurstNovember 9, 2022review, SUDS, Australian theatre, theatre, puppets, Seymour Centre, musical

Review: SUDS Major Everynight — An all-inclusive package holiday to your best nightmares

Imaginative theatre has a new set of puppet masters

CampusVeronika GustafsonNovember 9, 2022review, SUDS, Australian theatre, theatre, puppets, Seymour Centre, musical

Blessed LEGO Tutankhamun arrives at Chau Chak Wing Museum

Free of curses but full of bricks, USyd’s newest LEGO model is a sight to see.

CampusSamuel GarrettNovember 4, 2022LEGO, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Ryan McNaught, Tutankhamun, Egypt, History

A holy war rages in Sydney

Their battleground? The city’s most popular nightclub venues.

ComedyHarry GayOctober 31, 2022halloween, party, costumes, angels, devils, religion, apocalypse

Review: SUDS' The Popular Mechanicals — Anything but robotic!

There’s nothing more Popular than laughter.

CampusMax DantaOctober 29, 2022review, SUDS, Shakespeare, Australian theatre, theatre, The Popular Mechanicals

Drastic times call for Jurassic measures: reversing extinction with science

No other life form has the capacity to end, preserve, or resurrect a species. We have a troubling lack of foresight when it comes to this intervention.

CultureNicola BrayanOctober 28, 2022dinosaurs, t-rex, Jurassic Park, science, STEM, Thylacine, God, ethics, film

Board reports: August 2022

The reports of the 2022-2023 USU Board Executive for the month of August.

Board reports: July 2022

The reports of the 2022-2023 USU Board Executive for the month of July.