Third Drawer Down is excited as absinthe punch to launch for the first time in Australia a collection of hand cut and drawn fashion works by Shoboshobo. These will be available online and in the windows of Third Drawer Down (windows will be after the 19th May).
TEXT FROM CATS_FOREHEAD.
Derived from the Japanese word, Shoboshobo, meaning a drowsy, soggy mood, is a bold and slightly odd name used by the Parisian artist, Mehdi Hercberg. The mysterious connotations of the name make us wonder what Shoboshobo is all about. The mastermind behind Shoboshobo, Mehdi is one of many respected and outstanding artists who have contributed to the heat wave traveling across the underworld of art and music. From publishing zines to organizing workshops of colourful drawings, his energetic, DIY attitude suggests that perhaps Shoboshobo simply likes doing something fun & odd. read article – (Cats Forehead is amazing, a must to check out).
We are so excited to be sponsors of the Sugar Mountain Festival. Sugar Mountain is a slathering of creative events taking place within the city of Melbourne, Australia throughout the month of April. The Main festival blasts off on Saturday, 30th April, and we will be there.
Melbourne indie label Two Bright Lakes and Egad Amia touring company will curate the sound and musical line-up at Sugar Mountain. Putting together a diverse line-up of acts that appeal to both the head and the feet, emphasising local talent and a select international line-up, there will be some special one- off performances not to be missed, as well as a line call of some of Australia’s finest young creatives and special international artists.
Sugar Mountain is a place for creativity to be celebrated across multiple platforms; above all the directors are determined to create an environment that is convivial and interactive with performances and spaces that find a natural meeting point.
What? Sugar Mountain Festival 2011
Where? The Forum Theatre, Melbourne
When? APRIL 30th 2011
How Much? 65 Bucks
Third Drawer Down is excited to announce the AMAZING collaboration and Sponsor of the Sister Corita exhibition at Neon Parc. The limited edition tea towel will be launched at our friends gallery Neon Parc on May 5th (exhibition runs from May 4 to May 28).
Enriched Bread 1965
Neon Parc is proud to present a selection of works by Sister Corita, in association with The Corita Art Center. Corita Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita, gained international fame for her vibrant serigraphs during the 1960s and 1970s. A Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, she ran the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College until 1968 when she left the Order and moved to Boston. Corita’s art reflects her spirituality, her commitment to social justice, her hope for peace, and her delight in the world that takes place all around us.
Corita was born Frances Kent in 1918 in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She grew up in Los Angeles and joined the Order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1936, taking the name Sister Mary Corita. Corita graduated from Immaculate Heart College in 1941.In 1945, she was sent to teach grade school in British Columbia, but was brought back to Immaculate Heart College in 1947 to teach art. In 1951, she received a master ’s degree in art history from the University of Southern California; it is also the year she exhibited her first silkscreen print. While Corita’s earliest works were largely iconographic — borrowing phrases and depicting images from the Bible, by the 1960s, she was using popular culture (such as song lyrics and advertising slogans) as raw material for her meaning-filled bursts of text and color.
In 1965 her students' “Peace on Earth” Christmas exhibit in IBM’s New York show room was seen as too subversive and Corita had to amend it. Corita ’s cries for peace in the era of Vietnam were not always welcome. This did not deter the sister, who devoted more time to her time to her art and her teachings.
Buckminster Fuller described his visit to Sister Corita’s department as “among the most fundamentally inspiring experiences of my life.” Other influential friends of hers included Charles Eames, Ben Shahn, Harvey Cox and the Berrigan brothers. While Corita’s personal collection of prints went to the Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts at the UCLA HAmmer Museum, she willed her unsold prints, paintings and the copyrights of her works to the Immaculate Heart Community. Her works has been widely exhibited and collected the world over, including exhibitions in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany. This will be the first exhibition of her work in Melbourne, Australia
For more information and print-ready images contact: Neon Parc
In with the new year means plenty of new goodies coming up and out of us here at Third Drawer Down. Our newest collection is just about here, and I’m so rip-rearin-ready for them to arrive. To make room for all the new selections mean we are saying goodbye to a few of our favourite things, and do a little spring/fall cleaning. If you are anywhere near Melbourne, come down and see what secrets we’ve been hiding.
Lot’s of great stuff! Confetti System – Magazines – Sumi Ink Club – Guns – Balls – Erasers – Hooters – Bags – Mouths – Camilla Engman Tea Towels. It’s All On Sale All Day Saturday!
Where: Third Drawer Down, 93 George St. Fitzroy VIC
When: Saturday February 26th. 11-5 All Day!
Come into the shop for a visit, we’d so love to show you around and rummage for some secrets for you.
One of our newest and most favourite things here at Third Drawer Down is Emma Magenta’s new animated series, The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch. Narrated by Toni Collette, and doled out in 17-2 minute segments, it gives us yet another reason to keep our sets tuned to ABC television.
Phillipa Finch is the pin up girl for the emotionally twarted. Each episode tumbles back through her past relationships, and follows her journey from the numb, torpid and stupified to the land of the emotionally fulfilled.
Produced by ABC films and in association with Screen Australia and Screen NSW, it has an eerily beautiful and wholely interactive website, where you can create your very own Emma Magenta inspired “heartworks” based on your current emotional state. Here you can also see every episode as it is revealed.
They’ve also created a super addictive iphone game, which is impossible to put down.
Third Drawer Down has created the licensed products for all the ABC stores and franchises, which include Phillipa’s favourite soap bar, tea towel, magnets and mug. We will be distributing these products, and they will be available shortly online and instore (as well as ABC stores).
The 6-part IFC Original short-based comedy series PORTLANDIA, created, written by and starring Fred Armisen (SNL) and Carrie Brownstein (vocalist/guitarist, WILD FLAG, Sleater-Kinney), premieres on IFC Friday, January 21, 2011 at 10:30 PM ET/PT. Each episode’s character-based shorts draw viewers into “Portlandia,” the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon.
“I love Portlandia. It really represents so much of what I love culturally, musically and in so many other ways,” said Fred Armisen. “This started as just a fun summer activity for Carrie and me. We’d be hanging out in Portland and shooting whatever made us laugh, and that evolved into Portlandia.”
PORTLANDIA’s inhabitants include but are not limited to: the owners of a feminist book store; a militant bike messenger; an artsy couple who attach cut-outs of birds to everything (“put a bird on it!”); an organic farmer who turns out to be a cult leader; an adult hide and seek league; and a punk rock couple negotiating a “safe word” to help govern their love life. The first episode depicts Armisen and Brownstein meeting with the Mayor of Portland (Kyle MacLachlan) who solicits the duo to write a new theme song for the city. This segment features a cameo from the real mayor of Portland (Sam Adams) playing the assistant to MacLachlan’s “mayor.” Much of the series' original music is written and performed by Armisen and Brownstein.
An assortment of guest stars inhabit PORTLANDIA, including Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Sex & The City), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), Selma Blair (Legally Blonde, Hellboy), Heather Graham (The Hangover), Edie McClurg (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), Kumail Nanjiani (Michael & Michael Have Issues), Jason Sudeikis (SNL, The Cleveland Show), and Gus Van Sant (Milk). Singer/songwriter Aimee Mann also guest stars, alongside James Mercer (The Shins), and local Portland musicians Jenny Conlee and Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) and Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney).
Brownstein and Armisen spent years observing the joyous eccentricities of Portland, Oregon (when Fred was on hiatus from SNL), which spawned their “Thunderant” project, a compilation of online videos that combined their unique music styles and comedic sensibilities. Their artistic collaboration garnered an online cult following, as their “Thunderant” characters resonated with a young audience celebrating individuality, free spirit and weirdness.
I’m always amazed at how the holidays just sneak up on all of us. We are just going along our everyday things, la-de-da, one day you hear someone humming a little Christmas tune on the tram… soon after, a sign or two about sales, in the shop, you hear people talking about stocking stuffers, and buying multiples of little gadgets or playthings. You think nothing of it until one day, Blam!
I came home a few days ago to see my stay at home writer husband Josh, sitting at his desk in his boxers wearing a dollar shop elf hat, felted red and green, with giant pointy elf ears poking out the sides.
Oh my god, The Holidays are here! I mention the boxer shorts, as this is pretty much his daily uniform in house during summer. And the hat? He found it stuck under the junk drawer in the kitchen while searching for pencil leads. It was a treasure from our first holiday in Australia, before I knew how hot summers could be, and I tried to stuff him into a reindeer sweater on Christmas morning.
So, begrudgingly it is time to hike up those boxers, get like an elf, and get ready for the holiday season. This newsletter is filled with all new goodies, from the stocking to the stuffers.
For those of you Nearby, we will be part of the MARKit @ Fed Square in a few weeks. Here we’ll be toting special deals on our best items, as well as the coveted mystery bags for 20 bucks!
We will share the Atrium with over 30 other designers and shops, so if you want to get things done quick, come and see all of Melbournes greatest design shops under one roof!
MARKit @ Fed Square
The Atrium – Federation Square
Corner of Swanston and Flinders Street Melbourne
Sunday November 28th
10 AM – 5 PM
WOW.
Oh, the internet. It’s pretty darn magical, with its ability to let you peep into the rest of the world from the comfort of your couch and slippers. Even the most housebound folk can Wikipedia themselves across the globe, picking up obscure facts to use in showy dinner conversation. Like did you know that there are tourism groups to Mexico from the US based completely around cheap dentistry work, and dentists there use styrofoam teaching tools in early days of Mexican dental school? Well, what better way to convince your friends and family about your worldliness than to have these obscure, special and oh-so unique items just laying around your house?
Want some breakfast? Peel up some potatoes with a luxurious Famos Potato Peeler, straight from Germany. After that, have some juice straight from the orange with a Citra Sipper created at the 1933 World’s Fair in Florida, then grate some cheese with a great Italian invention and do your washing up with a true horsehair dish brush, handmade in Denmark.
KIOSK can provide these things, with fantastic back stories which beat the crap out of Wikipedia. And now, in Australia, you can bring these bits back without changing out of your jammies.
Oh, and you can also get that Styrofoam Mouth Teaching tool here too.
Come to the KIOSK opening for the Launch of Third Drawer Down X Victorian Aids Council’s Free Condom Project.
Boxes of beautiful free condoms will be shipping out to stores across Victoria to help promote The Art of Being Smart.
Featuring works by David Shrigley, James Gallagher, Anne De Vries and Kill Pixie, each little box contains both condom and lubricant, and are oh-so collectable and fun. The Free Condom Project aims to positively change perceptions about condom use, helping to reduce the increasing rate of STIs by making condoms readily accessible to sexually active people in a fun and engaging way that encourages people to take ownership of their health and wellbeing.
Come to the Free Condom Projects opening launch and pick up some Free Condoms:
Retail Partners:
FAT
Third Drawer Down
Magnation
Metropolis
Polyester Records
Alice Euphemia
Little Salon
Galleon Cafe St Kilda
Kinki Gerlinki
That Store
Southern Cross Pharmacy
Chiodo
Bally Ho
Orlando and Ivy
Please email us if you have a retail store and would like to find out how to become a partner or you would like your own branded condom.
DATE: Thursday 4th November
TIME: 6-8pm
WHERE: Third Drawer Down / KIOSK
93 George St, Fitzroy 3065
