Innholdsfortegnelse for March - April 2017 i frankie Magazine

Fruzsi Kenez knows a thing or two about serendipity. Earlier this year, while having a quiet coffee with her mum, the Adelaide artist started waxing lyrical about her long-held dream of opening an indie art gallery. It was pie in the sky stuff, reserved for some future moment when Fruzsi might have stockpiled enough cash to launch such a grand plan. Still, she somehow knew the perfect location was nestled upstairs in the Adelaide Arcade – even though she’d never set foot up there. “You’ve still got 20 minutes left on your parking,” her mum said. “Why don’t you just pop up now?” Turns out a girl running a vintage shop was keen to move on, and within minutes Fruzsi had something of a verbal lease agreement for exactly the…

 Tell us a bit about yourself. My name is Jean-Luc Feixa, I am 30 years old, and I’ve lived in Brussels for four years. Before moving to Belgium to work as a press officer, I was a journalist in France. I’ve been practising photography for more than 10 years, and especially love creating photo series that tell a story. What was the idea behind this project? I created My Public Window around three ideas. The first was to take some time to stop my flow and look at the city and its wonders. I walk to my office every day, and this project forced me to look at the windows on my path – to open my eyes. The second was to document a practice that is…

I started my working life as a radio news journalist, then jumped the fence into corporate communications, but I’ve always been a tea lover. I’ve always drunk a lot of it. Moving into tea as a career was almost an organic shift. I grew up in Newcastle, near the Hunter Valley, so I’ve had a longstanding interest in wine and viticulture, and the more I got to know tea, the more I got to see the similarities to wine. The soil and water and terroir have such an impact on what you end up drinking. I knew why red wine was red, and why white wine was white. But when I started to apply that thinking to tea, I realised I didn’t know how it got from the plant to…

Where is it? 13/11 Todd Street, Alice Springs. Describe The Goods in a sentence. Premium local roast coffee and super-relaxed vibes. What goes on there? Anna Flouris: A whole lot of coffee and a whole lot of conversation. Aoife Milson: It’s a small enough place in a small enough town that you’ll probably bump into your friends, or make new ones. How did it all begin? AM: It started around our wedding last year. A friend was giving up the lease to his shop, so we jumped on board. I love making coffee, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to see if we could start up a coffee shop. What were you doing before The Goods came along? AF: My background is in science, but for the…

HOCUS POCUS Who? The Sanderson Sisters – Winifred, Sarah and Mary. Type of witch: Classic storybook witches with billowy capes, broomsticks and wavy, windswept hair (sometimes contorted into very strange shapes). Witchy powers: Luring children to remote cottages; stealing their youthful essence; being confused by modern life. Hocus Pocus is a bit like a theme park – everything is fun! Nothing is too suspenseful or scary! All the settings feel like themed lands you might explore after buying an all-day ticket at the gate! Because everything is so cartoony and fairytale-like, it’s easy to understand why the Sanderson Sisters are the way they are. From the film’s first scenes, the trio are fully decked out in hag make-up while they cook up a potion in a bubbling cauldron and occasionally…

Genevieve Griffiths spends about half her time as a weaver wondering if the thing she’s creating might actually be a bit crap. “I definitely struggle with it. For at least the first half, I think, ‘Ugh, this is not working, this looks terrible,’” she says, which is kind of hard to believe when you see her completed wall hangings. Amid a sea of talented weavers, Genevieve manages to create distinctive designs that stand out from the crowd, with architecture-inspired geometric patterns, blocky shapes, and bold, retro colour palettes. Hailing from Tasmania originally, Genevieve moved to Melbourne to study, before falling in love with a Kiwi, abstract painter Jake Walker. In 2013 they made the move across the ditch to Featherston, about an hour north of New Zealand’s capital city of…

What’s the first artwork you can remember making? I can’t remember a ‘first’, but I have loads of vivid memories of collages, drawings and paintings I made when I was young. Luckily, I have boxes of my early drawings. I’m very sentimental! Tell us about your series of book paintings. I’ve been using text in my artwork for most of my life, but didn’t always let it shine through. More recently, I started fiddling with books, and immediately loved their purported seriousness and believability. It seemed perfect to paint book titles that were shonky, unreadable and absurd. The titles do draw on our real world, but I love their not-quite-right nature. For me, the ‘shazam’ is getting to have playtime with words and lists, then painting a picture, exploring typefaces…

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LETTERS@FRANKIE.COM.AU Dearest frankie, Thank you so much for the “Go Your Own Way” feature. We’re ruled by stereotypes, and it takes personal strength to break free from those restrictions society places on us. I'm a 40-something woman who has never married and never had children. Two months ago, I lost my father. My mother died some years earlier. I feel sad my parents didn't have the joy of grandchildren, but unlike society, they never pressured me or quizzed me. True friends don't judge – they accept and value us for who we are. Just like you, frankie. Natasha Dearest frankie, Recently I found myself living my worst nightmare – flying. As an anxiety sufferer, a laughably short flight from Melbourne to Hobart reduced me to tears, while I clung desperately…

Every Sunday night I tell myself a lie. “The past,” I say, “is behind us. This week, I will pack myself lunch.” Every Monday morning I run out of time. From what I can tell, this is a common affliction. We are a nation of people who begin our weeks in a state of utter failure, knowing that when lunchtime comes, we’ll spend our money on mediocre sushi rolls and overpriced soup instead of crisp veggies and brown rice salad. I’ve tried to intervene in my own terrible habits – I bought a lunch box from IKEA and stocked up on ‘ethical’ cling-wrap. But no matter what I do, I inevitably head out the door lunch-less, disappointed and 10 minutes late. It shouldn’t be so hard. My parents are solid…

“Boom, in your face! Women of colour centre stage! An explosion of controversy!” That’s how Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers describes Hot Brown Honey, the stage show she dreamed up with co-creator and fellow Brisbanite Lisa Fa’alafi. Since 2012, the irreverent all-female extravaganza – which mixes cabaret, burlesque, circus, comedy and more – has thrilled and confronted audiences around the world, challenging stereotypes of women of colour and bringing important issues to the stage in a spectacularly bombastic fashion. It’s a protest piece with attitude – a political movement wrapped in song and dance. Busty and Lisa had been collaborating for 15 years on underground creative projects before they started Hot Brown Honey. “We were in a world that really didn’t see us – that didn’t particularly want to see us,”…

When I was 23, I dated a guy because he had a sweet DVD collection. Like, every cool DVD you could think of, he had it – and more. In our first week of dating, he had a house party where all his cool friends showed up (one of them had a dreadlock), and he strummed his guitar in the courtyard. I got so drunk I had to puke. I wasn’t in a toilet at the time – I’d retreated to the guy’s bedroom to nap. He found me there, and I explained, “I will vomit any second.” He grabbed an empty ice-cream container (from where, I will never know) and caught my puke. With the rubbing of my back, cooing of my name, and reassurances that “It’s all good,…

We all deplore those awkward moments in life. A kiss gone awry, a mistimed handshake… that time you pooped your pants in public. They make you want to crawl under a duvet and watch reruns of Seinfeld for eternity. Your face turns red, blotches cluster on your skin like you’ve lost a fight with a tomato plant, and you suddenly feel like you’re the inspiration for an ‘I’m With Stupid’ t-shirt. Imagine, for a moment, if there was a reboot option for life’s tricky bits – a Control-Alt-Delete function, if you will. For the technological dunces among us, Control-Alt-Delete is the combination of keys you press simultaneously on a computer to have it shut down and restart after it has more or less shit itself. It’s a nifty little function,…

THINGS WE LOST IN A SENTENCE: A boutique online fashion store specialising in simple pieces to fill the gaps in your wardrobe // WHAT WE SELL: Wearable, updated basics with feminine cuts, appropriate for many an outing (because we don’t believe you need different wardrobes for work and play). Our range includes dresses, pants, skirts, tops and more // PRICE POINT: From $40 to $150 // WHAT MAKES THE SHOP SPECIAL: We use beautiful fabrics and only make small quantities, but always keep our prices affordable. We also offer free shipping Australia-wide // FIND US: Online at thingswelost.com.au HOUSE OF CUBS IN A SENTENCE: Kids’ clothing and accessories that look (and feel) really damn good // WHAT WE SELL: Backpacks, lunch bags, pencil cases, tie-dyed shirts and trucker caps //…

I approach deadlines the same way other people approach bathroom mould. When they see it, they know they need to deal with it, but figure it could probably wait for now. Over time, the mould grows. Its black, pitted tentacles begin to spread across the roof. Eventually, it gets so bad that they stock the house with bleach and start scrubbing at the walls. They wonder why they let it go for so long. This all would have been much easier had they dealt with it yonks ago. At the news of an impending deadline, some people begin to panic. Their mouths dry up, they sweat, and their breathing grows rapid. To combat this, the experts say, those who fear deadlines should try to set small goals. To break the…

Ever since Jongha Choi was a wee one, he’s seen the world in just two dimensions. It’s all because of a difference in his ability to see through his left eye versus his right, and it means he can’t quite fathom exact distances. As a result, the South Korean lad spent much of his childhood falling down stairs, slipping off monkey bars and otherwise sustaining violent-sounding injuries. No amount of medical attention could do anything to remedy Jongha’s visual impairment (despite visiting the hospital “continuously”), but it’s given him a unique perspective on – appropriately enough – perspective. What’s the difference, Jongha wound up asking himself, between a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional object? “We identify different dimensional things as the same,” he says. We see an image of a…

Bailing on one of America’s most prestigious music schools after only one semester was never in Margaret Glaspy’s plans. “I didn’t want to be a college dropout, necessarily,” the singer-songwriter says. “It had a negative connotation in my mind. But at the same time, I didn’t really care.” Her reasons were mostly financial. Money was tight (read: non-existent) for the girl from rural California, and attending Boston’s Berklee College of Music was a costly affair – even with a grant to her name. She stuck around the city, nonetheless. After all, she’d made plenty of new musically inclined friends (including her future partner, jazz guitarist Julian Lage). “When you drop out of school and the rest of your friends keep going, you find yourself feeling a little bit uncomfortable at…

My butt is living its own life; I am merely its carrier. Yes, I am a person and my butt is part of me, but if you knew my butt, you would know that it merits its own life story. So, here it is: In 1983, my butt was born, attached to me. It was, in many ways, a butt like many other butts, but over time it grew and grew, bigger and more rotund than the rest of me, and with the consistency of uncooked sourdough. In 1999, a relative pointed at my butt and said, “You mustn’t feel the cold.” I assured her that I did. This prompted a conversation between my family members about the ethnicity of my butt. “It’s because she’s Italian,” someone said. “It’s a…

rocket 8 spike , 10 ROCKET (L) // Who is your hero? Probably Michael Jordan. I love basketball, and he was one of the greatest basketball players ever. Would you like to get married one day? I guess. I like the idea of having children and being able to go to the park and things like that. We’ve got a friend who has two mums, and that should be normal. Other people can like other people if they want – a man could like a man or a man could like a girl, it doesn’t matter. If you could have one superpower, what would it be? Probably to fly, so I don’t have to catch an aeroplane and pay money to go to different places. And it’s better for the…

They’re called earworms: songs that get stuck in your head and create a ‘cognitive itch’ that you just can’t seem to get rid of, no matter how hard you scratch. It was German psychiatrist Cornelius Eckert who first described such tunes as ‘earworms’ (or Ohrwürmer) back in 1979 – but people have been getting music stuck in their consciousness for way longer than that. In fact, according to neurologist Oliver Sacks, a centuries-old folk music manuscript refers to an earworm as “the piper’s maggot”. So, what makes a song prone to becoming rather maggot-like? Jingle writer Chris Smith says that one of the key elements of an earworm is repetition. “If you have something with a lot of varied content, it’s not so easily assimilated,” he said. Then again, Lauren…

A MUSICAL UPBRINGING I studied music when I was a little kid. My grandma is a singer of classical Spanish music, and I had classical training on piano and drums. Music was always in my life, then I moved to France when I was 13 or 14 to go to a boarding school, and hip hop was pretty huge in France at that time. It was normal for me, being alone in there with no friends, just getting into music as a way out. GROWING UP IN THE CANARY ISLANDS The Canary Islands are on the West African coast, very close to Morocco. The lifestyle is more like a Caribbean island, though: tropical and always hot. Growing up there, it shapes your personality in a way that feels very unique,…

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Sometimes I read about those internet rehab places in South Korea and China and I think I would like to go there. I imagine they must be very quiet and calm and slow. People must find interesting or original ways to spend their time – maybe they play frisbee? Maybe they look at the sky? I wouldn’t want to visit for a day, or a week, or a month, though. I think I’d like to settle in and snuggle up for something very close to forever. I like the internet. It’s good. It helps me get things done. Last week I purchased $5 rain pants and a discount fire extinguisher on the internet. For someone who is unreasonably and permanently worried about setting their house on fire and getting stuck…

SOOTHE YOUR SKIN Plonk a ’nana in a toddler’s hand and it will probably wind up smooshed all over their face – but there may be more to it than a lack of fine motor skills. Bananas are chock full of nutrients that help heal wounds, add moisture and generally give your skin a lift. Mash one into a paste, smear it on your face and, after 10-20 minutes, have a rinse. Your blemishes won’t stand a chance against this fruity ointment. LURE LOCAL WILDLIFE Fancy the perks of a trip to the butterfly house without the hairdo-destroying mugginess? Our favourite winged insects are partial to the sugary scent of an overripe banana, so don’t go turfing a blackened bunch. Instead, pop a piece somewhere elevated outside (or dangle it…