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ENJOY; ISSUE; INTERESTING PLACES; INTERIORS; JOYDAY; WALLISM:THE SEMIOTICS OF WALLS; STREET FINDS; SHIFT HOW WE SEE; FASHION; ART; COLOUR

22 December 2015

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.

17 December 2015

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.

08 December 2015

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.

06 December 2015

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.

30 November 2015

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. 

24 November 2015

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.

19 November 2015

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