FlashArt is a dynamic and transgressive contemporary art magazine founded by Giancarlo Politi and co-edited by Helena Kontova. With each issue the magazine attempts to break new boundaries, featuring articles and interviews on new and emerging artists who will one day be the stars of the contemporary art market. The current issue features an article about Australian media artist Tracey Moffat’s new work Doomed. If you want to keep up-to-date with the contemporary art scene and be a timely interpreter of the market check out the online version.
http://www.flashartonline.com/
Rocketboom is a three minute daily videoblog based in New York City. They cover and create a wide range of information and commentary from top news stories to quirky internet culture, releasing each new clip at 9am ET USA, Monday through Friday. With a heavy emphasis on international arts, technology and weblog drama, Rocketboom is presented via online video and widely distributed through RSS. While TV programs have traditionally been uni-directional, Rocketboom engages its international audience in a wide range of topical discussions.
http://www.rocketboom.com/
The PopTarts female-fronted showcase nights have found a new home at Balmain’s Unity Hall after a six year residency at Annandale’s Empire Hotel.
PopTarts’ founder, local artist Amanda Easton, is also producing a 13-epsiode TV series for TVS, ‘PopTarts TV’, featuring the live performances filmed at the Unity Hall and other local venues.
PopTarts is a free event, starting at 7:30pm at The Unity Hall, at 292 Darling Street in Balmain, Sydney (opposite Woollies).The event has now also reached Melbourne, with the recent launch of ‘PopTarts South’ at the city’s EuroTrash Bar, in what is set to become a regular weekly event.
Artists interested in being a PopTart can contact the group at www.myspace.com/poptartslive
Pretty Boy Crossover + supports, Thursday Aug 30th @ Glitch Bar,
Fitzroy. Melbourne
Pretty Boy Crossover play their acclaimed new album ‘A Different
Handwriting’ live at Glitch Bar on Thursay August 30th, 2007
Described by Cyclic Defrost magazine as ” if My Bloody Valentine were an
electronic pop band that listened to Fennesz”, ‘A Different Handwriting’
has already been lauded by pundits and punters alike. At Glitch Bar
Pretty Boy Cross Over will be joined by supports ii, Casey Rice and
Toupee on DJ duties.
Doors open at 8pm, $10.00 entry
http://www.myspace.com/prettyboycrossover
www.prettyboycrossover.com
www.glitch.com.au/
A Fish Tale on a Macro Scale: How Sushi Has Changed Globalization
(and the World)
Over the past two decades, sushi — a familiar, accessible and immensely
desirable food that can be found in supermarket aisles and fast food outlets as
well as high-end restaurants — has become a staple of cultures around the
globe. Indeed, far from signaling the snobbery of those who eat it, sushi today
belongs to the masses. Yet sushi also says something important about how wealth,
taste and markets interact, according to Sasha Issenberg. In his new book, The
Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy, Issenberg
argues that sushi reveals the “complex dynamics of globalization” and shows,
against all odds, that “a virtuous global commerce and food culture can
exist.”
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1791.cfm