SHIFTAZINE is about celebrating what is out there, already in your life, right in front of you. SHIFTAZINE aims to give some useful insights, to pose some questions, and to make you look at everything differently. Hopefully, it will help shift the contemporary perception of beauty and aesthetics. SHIFTAZINE is created by Jacqueline Hill and is associated with DESIGNASAW.
27 October 2013
24 October 2013
GarageSaleTrail_This Saturday, the 26th October!
In the past 3 years, GarageSaleTrail has redistributed one million items from potential landfill, helped raise $3 million in local fundraising, and
helped 800,000 people to meet their neighbours in Australia.
The following copy is from the official GarageSaleTrail site.
Thought you might like to read it here but there is a heap of additional information on the site.
Just remember, its all about sustainability, community, making a little money, and recycling.
Go and have some fun.
Garage Sale Trail organises communities around Australia to hold Garage Sales on the same day, this year Saturday October 26th.
We’re into sustainability, by redistributing great stuff and saving it from landfill.
We’re into community, by making a great occasion for you to connect with people in your neighbourhood.
We’re into you making some money from stuff you would otherwise have thrown away, for you or your favourite charity.
We’re into community, by making a great occasion for you to connect with people in your neighbourhood.
We’re into you making some money from stuff you would otherwise have thrown away, for you or your favourite charity.
23 October 2013
You can't buy Joy...or maybe you can
I love gelato...not ice cream but gelato.
Now some may say its the same thing, but its not because every time I think 'gelato',
I think of Italy and all the glorious days and nights I have spent there.
Gelato makes me feel I am closer to the Amalfi, or to Rome or to a great little town called Peschici in Gargano
where I had a green apple gelato that simply can not replicated.
Do something that brings you JOY on the 25th of November.
21 October 2013
Retro on Regent in Redfern
Walking down this strip of Regent Street between Redfern and Ragland Streets,
is like jumping into a big delicious assorted chocolate box full of the best surprises.
This collection of wonderful ceramics and glassware is a great example of what awaits you.
And after all that shopping, a drink at Arcadia Liquors will finish the outing perfectly.
PAIR OF CHAIRS: Classical,
vintage, industrial.
Reborn iconic furniture from the 50s to the present intended as one-off works of living art. Specialists in vintage, retro and industrial.
80 Regent St, Redfern_0416 016 151
Reborn iconic furniture from the 50s to the present intended as one-off works of living art. Specialists in vintage, retro and industrial.
80 Regent St, Redfern_0416 016 151
CHEE SOON & FITZGERALD: International and Australian designed home furnishings.
Acclaimed designer homewares, expert interior advice in home furnishings, wallpapers and over a hundred exquisite fabric samples from greats such as Marimekko and Jim Thompson.
173 Regent Street, Redfern
Acclaimed designer homewares, expert interior advice in home furnishings, wallpapers and over a hundred exquisite fabric samples from greats such as Marimekko and Jim Thompson.
173 Regent Street, Redfern
FINISHING TOUCH
RESTORATION: Retro & vintage restored furniture.
Regent Street's first mid-20th century design specialist,
Alan Graham's experience in restoration brings out the best in collectable pieces.
All hand done, his work is complimented by wife Linda's knowledge of all things retro. 158 Regent St, Redfern_9699 9972
Regent Street's first mid-20th century design specialist,
Alan Graham's experience in restoration brings out the best in collectable pieces.
All hand done, his work is complimented by wife Linda's knowledge of all things retro. 158 Regent St, Redfern_9699 9972
14 October 2013
When is an icon, an icon?
Icons are symbols which represent an object in a literal sense.
But over the past several decades due to the rising fascination with the notion of celebrity,
the word ‘Icon’ has come to represent or encapsulate qualities of a person whose talent or persona is charismatic to the masses.
The theory of semiotics, which includes the definition of an
icon, was developed in part by Charles S. Peirce in the late 19th century.
It states that: an icon uses shape, colour, sound, texture, and other graphic elements to create a recognisable connection between an image and an idea.
Icons are likeness that convey the idea of the thing they represent by imitating them -
such as a photograph or illustration of something.
It states that: an icon uses shape, colour, sound, texture, and other graphic elements to create a recognisable connection between an image and an idea.
Icons are likeness that convey the idea of the thing they represent by imitating them -
such as a photograph or illustration of something.
Of late, shiftazine keeps coming across pictures of
religious icons...primarily that of Jesus.
Examples of this ‘holy’ image have been found in second hand clothes stores in Berlin, a car boot market in Melbourne and in interesting ‘tat’ stores like Seasonal Concepts in Sydney.
Examples of this ‘holy’ image have been found in second hand clothes stores in Berlin, a car boot market in Melbourne and in interesting ‘tat’ stores like Seasonal Concepts in Sydney.
They are strange in that they are not a secular object, and
represent supposedly a philosophical belief, and yet
there they sit, in very secular situations waiting to be bought by some person who sees their beauty other than a religious one.
Is there a theme happening here? Is there a need for a sense of ‘mystery’ in people’s lives?
there they sit, in very secular situations waiting to be bought by some person who sees their beauty other than a religious one.
Is there a theme happening here? Is there a need for a sense of ‘mystery’ in people’s lives?
08 October 2013
Berlin Colours: No. 4 The 70s
The 1970s was such a graphic time.
The colours could be restrained but their always played their part in making strong visual statements.
It was about the Bauhaus vision.
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