Issue 19 of lip magazine was an absolute cracker! I have two copies to give away so if you weren’t lucky enough to get your hands on a copy yet, send me an e-mail at [email protected] with your name and address and maybe you’ll be getting something in the mail real soon. PS Include a…
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‘Life With Ashley’ may only be one week in one teenager’s life, but it’s a genre mashing ride where fiction and reality merge. First time feature filmmaker Chris Butler trailed his sister with video camera in hand and the results are surprisingly polished and unsurprisingly revealing. You’ll laugh, Ashley will cry and in the end,…
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Dirt Child is a young Australian female who makes music as just one of her chosen forms of expression. She has released an EP featuring five songs with clever raps about all sorts of things from boy-girl dynamics to Australian hip hop itself. If you haven’t heard her head to the following page for a…
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The MCA Zine Fair 2009 held on Sunday was a smashing success for lip! Thanks to everyone who came by, asked a question, flicked through a copy or even bought one or two, your interest and support is deeply appreciated. There was a wide range of goods for sale from zines to magazines, from art…
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The Museum of Contemporary Art’s Zine Fair is back for another year! Come on down to the gallery at Circular Quay, Sydney, sometime between 11am and 5pm on Sunday 24th May to check out the wares. lip is having a stall so come and take advantage of the sweet deals, for one day only and…
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Tomorrow there is going to be a zine fair at the Museum of Contemporary Art. I am having a stall selling lip so be sure to pop in if you’re in the area. It is a FREE event and goes from 11am to 6pm. There are set to be around 60 stalls. You can sell,…
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I have always been annoyed at the predominance of the objectification of the female form in art. Even today. Not because it is condescending to women but because it is not socially acceptable for the male form to be treated in the same way. People walk down the street with Kate Moss on their shirt…
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About a month ago I went to The Venue in Erindale, Canberra to see The Getaway Plan. It was an all ages licensed event. Elora Danan and The Getaway Plan were both late to the venue due to things that happened on their travels their. This meant that they had to spend a long time…
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Is defining art a pointless exercise? Does it have more in common with vacuuming than the fact that both seem to be done regularly and everybody does it differently? Today our guide led us through a small hallway to a dead end. The reason we were brought here was to look upon a vacuum cleaner…
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Hi everyone! Following your dreams costs money. Throughout the years you may have to work some interesting and not so interesting jobs to earn some good and not so good pay. Babysitting is a job many young people, particularly women, have had some experience of. I once got told that it is because boys just…
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