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Seaward Village: No Map Completion
Each time I return to Perth’s Western Suburbs, I’m saddened to see iconic, older homes replaced with yet more square, glass-fronted mansions that have zero congruence with the natural beauty of the area. Entire streets are steadily being filled with oversized concrete boxes; houses that are at pains to appear striking and ‘contemporary’, but look Continue reading
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The No Map Completion Project
How often do we navigate a new place without a map? These days I’d hazard to guess almost never. Even on the rare occasions we indulge ourselves in some aimless wandering around a foreign city, there’s almost always recourse to Google Maps sooner or later. Sometimes it’s to find a place but, more often than Continue reading
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The Central Steppe
We are on the edges of Werrima, a dream-town in remote South Australia. Here there is a desert with no red earth or Shutterstock-ready sculpted dunes. It’s instead a low expanse of brown dirt, silt-like, in which nothing can grow but tussocks of dried plain grass. This grass is the reason why this place is Continue reading
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Bottom Drawer Tapes: Taog Susej – FuneralMoonEclipse
Artist: Taog Susej (US) Title: FuneralMoonEclipse Label: Meurtre Noir Date: 2005 Taog Susej is ‘Goat Jesus’ turned backwards so, yeah, this is some real inverted crosses ‘n’ incantations black ambient; the first demo from a project which would go on to do a few splits before disappearing around 2007. At least one member was involved in Vrolok, which was Continue reading
Jackson's Ephemera 