Thank you

The world is getting smaller every day, but the issues are getting bigger.

Hopefully shiftazine has brought some new ideas or inspiration to you on some level.

Thank you to everyone who has followed or even clicked once on shiftazine.

Have a joy-filled festive time.

See you all on the other side.

Peace.

Beautiful but temporary

Chalk drawings are all around the streets of any urban environment.

People need to see them, noticed them, love them, embrace them.

People need to create them, fill their world with them.

Go and buy some chalk today, pick a bit of tarmac and DRAW!

Place: Redfern Park. Time: early morning. Evidence: play from the evening before. Engagement: imagination and multiple coloured chalk. Result: delight from all who come across the drawings.

Issue No.18: Enjoy

Craved

Most Wallisms are painted or drawn on walls.

But these quirky examples, found in Agious Nikolas, Crete, have been craved into the soft plaster of an innocent wall.

Childish or sophisticated? A statement or a visual whim?  Skilled or clumsy?  Delightful or vandalism? 
Maybe these are a bit of all of the above, but Wallisms are a part of the texture of a place where people live, everyday.

Sparkling

Crystal clear and cooling on the hot, bright days, the sparkling water always amps up the JOY of Summer. 
Celebrate the tiny things that bring you JOY, every day, but especially on JOYDAY, 25th November, every year.

The 'otherworldly' found in a garbage bag.

A couple of black garbage bags, some marking tape and a sense of the Baroque helped create this moment at the ‘Dare to Fail’ salon. 

The otherworldly appeared from the mundane to haunt us and draw us closer. 

It's JOYDAY!

Old places, beautiful light, unexpected still lives bring me JOY.

It’s JOYDAY, so celebrate it by embracing those tiny things that bring you JOY.

JOYDAY

25th November

every year.

Curiosity killed the cat...and then what happened?

Curiosity killed the cat, but it will make you buy a book that you had no idea what the title is.

Elizabeth’s Bookshops has invented this wonderful, quirky way to sell books in a world that has stopped buying them.  

Take books from the shelf, wrap them in brown paper, write a list of what the key ingredients are in them, tie them with string, 

and wait for the irresistible pull of curiosity.  

It apparently works a treat.

Elizabeth’s Bookshops:  845 Hay Street (cnr. King Street) Perth and 257 Kings Street, Newtown, Sydney.

elizabethsbookshop.com