This Thursday 25th June EMDF party at the Toff In Town featuring past NowNow mix contributors Biscuit & Roman Bruce as well as Michael Ozone and Gorden Zola. 8pm - late. Free entry, all welcome. Magic happens. 

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This Thursday Tom will be talking at Corner College, Zurich. See flyer on left.

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New Desktop-Desktop contribution here from Kevin O’Neill of Will Work For Good. With a diverse folio including all the artwork for the renowned IGETRVNG series (check out the latest release from Purple Brain), these guys go from strength to strength!

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Melbourne photographer Christopher Day (featured in WON, Issue 01, WON, Issue 04) will be opening his show After the Breadcrumbs at Black & Blue Gallery, Sydney, tomorrow night.

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While we slowly work toward setting up our online store this weekend we are hosting the Box Office Book Stall feat: Nieves, Pam Book, Hassla, Seems, The New College Beat, Kingsboro Press and many more… Click here for more event details and links…

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WON magazine has been invited to participate in the We Love Magazines Library (returns)  from May 22nd to June 2nd at space ROCKET located in Harajuku, Tokyo.

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Hello. A long time in between posts for me but I’ve just uploaded photos from the studio visit I did to Tom’s house earlier this month in preparation for his Sydney show, Take The Edge Off, which opens tomorrow night at Black and Blue Gallery. See the visit here.

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It’s been a shame to have so many golden sets pump through the RRR air waves between 10-12 on a Sunday night to only disappear in the atmos soon after. Host of the program, Michael Kuyck, has done something about this, Noise In My Head’s weekly sets can now be reflected on, or caught if missed, and enjoyed again n’ again via the new website. See here. 

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NowNow Mix #6: From our very own Luke Brown, half of studio Hammer & Tong (the Hammer half or the Tong half, we’re never quite sure) responsible for the design of WON magazine, comes a driving mix to brain to. Wrap your ears around this  

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Contribution to WON Issue III introduced many to the imagination of Brendan Huntley and Tom’s studio visit here gave a personal insight into the space where Huntley creates, now his latest work has led to a fourth solo show, Only Human, which opens Friday 6 March at Hell Gallery. 5a Railway Place, Richmond (behind Coles Supermarket on Swan St). 6pm til late with BBQ and DJs Max, Danna, Michael Kuyck andBiscuit. Only Human runs through to 28th March.

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Another great show at Black & Blue Gallery from another great Melbourne artist. Dylan Martorell, who’s first solo show out of Melbourne opens on Friday 27th February (6pm) continues to March 15. Using the concept of transforming plant algorithms into musical scores, Stolon Tonals inhabits an imagined musical Diaspora where the rhythms and structures of nature give form to a series of architectural models, sound works, costumes, prints and drawings.

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When in Melbourne for Modular’s Nevereverland festival Andy Butler from Hercules And Love Affair popped into the RRR studio’s to record an exclusive mix on Noise In My Head. For those that missed it the mix now lives on through NowNow. We’re very excited to present NowNow Mix #05, an hour long party in your headphones, or your studio or your kitchen or your car or your …..

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Launching this Friday the 6th February at Black & Blue Gallery, is Alex Vivian’s solo show ‘Ecstasy and Decay’. Ideas of torture/sex, dungeons and dragons and role playing create ideas of opening your mind, freeing your thoughts and become heavily involved in things like fantasy, partying and new ideas of sex. Ecstasy and Decay is a pot of ideas and loss of self control, passion, drugs, presented in the idea of a makeshift cruising area or aftermath of a comic book convention. Running until the 22nd February. 

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Skin and Bones - Bus Fashion and Costume Show. Great line up of artists, curated by Patrick O’Brien of neighbouring store Sunshine & Grease. Opening Tuesday 3rd February 6-8pm. Closing party at Bus - Surprises and strange happenings. Dress up! Performances by Lakes, Gauntlet and Bum Creek 8pm, Friday 20 February

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OX PARTY

Sat Jan 31st: Dylan Martorell (Snawklor, Hi-God People), Capiche Mode

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We are pleased to present a new contribution to our Desktop-Desktop project, from London-based artist Jack Gregory. See here.

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Following their 2007 show Increase Your Uncertainty at ACCA, A Constructed World bring together new works that demonstrate moving links between different places, technologies and layers of knowledge, making a place for what is missing, forgotten or lost. A Constructed World Second Last Second Chance February 4 - February 28 Opening Reception: Wednesday February 4 from 6 - 8pm at Uplands Gallery.

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Neon Parc presents - Leper/Messiah. Featuring works by Alexander Ouchtomsky, Alasdair McLuckie and Alex Vivian. Opening 6-8pm February 5, running from the 4th-28th February 2009. 

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Tom’s recent visit to the studio of Sydney based illustrator Sarah Larnach is available for viewing here. 

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NowNow Mix #4. Recently aired on Noise In My Head, Josh Petherick has compiled a murky meditation from his collection of vinyl pressings, cassettes, field and television recordings. Presented during the three weeks of the Second (Fourth) Y2K Melbourne Art Biennale this is the first in a three-part Publick Broadcast exploring the idea of the private becoming public. Prepare yourself for a sound excursion.

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NowNow Mix #3: Conveying a cognition of much-loved movements and styles, this considered mix compiled by Roman Bruce will take you back to times and songs you never knew you loved. See here

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From Desktop-Desktop we present our latest contributor Michael Dean. Working with a monochromatic palette of interesting textures and imagery comprised of soft-noise, Michael’s compositions show a well considered motif. The subjects in the work, intricate objects and kaleidoscopic patterns, foster a mysterious aesthetic thats both simple and detailed. See here.  

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This Wednesday December 3 at the Rooftop Cinema experience a ‘TWO HOUR ACT OF IMAGINATION’* when Liquid Sky is shown on Film Appreciation Night #3, selected by Perks And Mini. Ticketing information here, see trailer here. *Time Magazine

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Regular contributor to WON magazine, Amanda Maxwell, will be launching her debut collection of short stories, Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like These, published by Tom’s imprint Serps Press this Saturday at our studio. The book is accompanied by stunning illustrations by Sarah Larnach and limited edition artwork will be exhibited and available for sale on the day. Please come down for a drink. [Event details: 3pm-6pm, L6, Curtin House, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne]

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This Saturday November 22nd, WHITE CUBE: BUS GALLERY DANCE MUSIC PARTY lands.  A fun-raiser curated party in the gallery space, featuring installation work from Nathan Gray, Dylan Martorell, and Tin&Ed, with live freakout from Diamondrom and DJ sets from Misha Hollenbach, Belltowers, Matt Hurst, Sweat&Spike Acid, plus more.  BUS Gallery is at 117 Lt Lonsdale st, Melbourne.

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Opening this Wednesday 19th November (6-8pm) and running until 06th December TCB art inc. will be presenting - The (self initiated, Artist funded) second (fourth) Y2K Melbourne Biennial of Art (& Design). With a dream team line-up of participants including previously involved artists to Now Now and WON Sean Bailey, ffiXXed, Christopher LG Hill and Nathan Gray (to name a few) experiencing this is a must.     

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Part of this year’s Bicycle Film Festival, The Art of the Bicycle, opens at Don’t Come Gallery this Wednesday night, 6pm - 8pm. Among others, it features work from Thomas (Jeppe) and Tristan (Ceddia) and will also include Robert Cook’s piece ‘Cyclists are fuckheads’ previously published in Issue 02 of WON Magazine.

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Melbourne artist Matt Hinkley’s upcoming exhibition, Folio, will open at Sarah Cottier Gallery in Sydney this Thursday (November 20), 6pm-8pm and will run to December 13. Matt’s work will also be featured in WON Magazine Issue 04 with accompanying text from Damiano Bertoli. Issue 04 is due for release late-November/early-December.

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PAECES plays a free show with The Donkeys Tail (John Nixon and ensemble) in the auditorium at NGV Australia, Fed Square, this Sunday 16/11 from 2pm. 

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Nick Mangan’s show, A1 Southwest Stone, opens tonight at the Project Space at Sutton Gallery, Fitzroy. The Project Space is open Fridays and Saturdays 1pm - 5pm. [See also: Nick Mangan Studio Visit, "Black Perils and Pearls by Nick Mangan", WON Magazine Issue 03]

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New ffiXXed studio visit just uploaded. Check it here.

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This Saturday night Tim Sweeney [Beats In Space/DFA] plays at The Toff In Town and on Sunday night WON Magazine contributor and Nervous Jerk founder Michael Kucyk will host him on his show Noise in My Head, 10pm on 3RRR -102.7FM]. For those that can’t listen or make it live, NowNow will be hosting this mix online early to mid-week.

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Just a note to let you know that our paypal is now working again for WON Magazine orders. Click here. Or don’t.

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We are excited to share the latest contribution to Desktop-Desktop from the Paris-based design collective ill-studio. They recently curated The Art of Music exhibition in L.A. with a great line-up including Australians Josh Petherick, P.A.M., Alter and past NowNow/WON contributors Stefan Marx, Anders Jander (Museum Studio) and Steve Harrington.

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A reflection on the positive unity of music and art has resulted in the show One Hundred Sound Works by One Hundred Artists from the 21st Century. A huge collection of works featuring Paeces, Snawklor, Sonic Youth, Chicks On Speed and Sunn O))) will be available to experience via 100 headphones at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. Show Opens Sat 11.10.2008, 6-9pm.

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Joint Hassles channels Uplands. Nick Selenitsch, Rob Mchaffie, James Deutsher, Sean Bailey, Harriet Kate Morgan, Alex Vivian, Katherine Hattam, Will Mackinnon, Jack Slattery, Kate Smith, Trevelwayn Clay, Christopher LG Hill and Matthew Griffin pay homage to previously exhibited artists from the well-respected Prahran space, with appropriations and befits. Opens tonight 6pm-8pm. Gallery hours are Thurs-Sat 12-5 2A Mitchell St, Northcote (Behind TAB).

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Each issue of WON Magazine presents its own challenges and cognitive tunes are needed to get us through. For this last issue Bisco Discuit got cerebral and the Music 2 Brain 2 series was born. Enjoy mix [.001] here. More mixes soon to come.

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Opening tomorrow [11/09] from 6pm-8pm at the CCP Gallery 4, Foto-Ography is a mixed-media group show with artists Liv Barrett, James Deutsher, Christopher L.G. Hill, Chris Kraus and Evergreen Terrace discussing themes of attachment and detachment, art in society and photography as a continuing and ever-relevant medium rather than a polarising one. On until 25.09.08.

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Tonight, The Spring Press launch Out of the Blue, the new book by photographer Henry Roy. Published Art bookshop in Surry Hills, Sydney. From 6.30pm.

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This Saturday, September 6th, Creative Aggression Magazine launches Volume 1 at TCB Gallery, Melbourne. Having established a dynamic process-driven investigation into artistic work patterns through the website, the magazine format promises a strong continuation and extension of this line of thinking.

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While recently in Berlin, Tom visited Nick Mangan’s studio. Nick has also contributed an article, ‘Black Perils and Pearls’, to Issue 03 of WON Magazine which is hitting the streets this week. [See studio visit here]

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Tomorrow night Rise and Fall present the opening of tony b: the overlook re-mix by Kieran Boland. More information here.

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This Thursday: Art opening for the work of Fjorn Butler in Sunshine & Grease. Performances by Daniel Varrichio( SA), Sleeping Weather and Henry.6pm, 117 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne.

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4 Excursions In Contemporary Photography opens tonight at The Narrows. Featuring David MArks, Michael Randall, Grant Sparkes-Carroll and Tobias Titz. 6pm. The Narrows, 2/141 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

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Nathan Gray is talking tonight at Pecha Kucha in Melbourne. [See also: Nathan Gray – Studio Visit] More details here.

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