ROMm issue 5
Old/new
5 You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C.S. Lewis
Editor & Creative Director Zara Duffy Music Jacob Warren Movies Willem Whitfield Contributors Annie Macindoe Archer & Archer Barbarette 13 Crowning & Co Flynn (label) Tayla Jay Haggarty Photography Katelyn-Jane Dunn Savvy Creative Vanessa Flynn Models Brittany Anderson Lauren Hunter Art Modern Vampires of Art History Pixel Noizz
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Untitled by Katelyn-Jane Dunn Archer & Archer Meadow Dreams by Savvy Creative Music by Jacob Warren Moment by Vanessa Flynn Tayla Jay Haggarty Modern Vampires of Art History Movies by Willem Whitfield Pixelnoizz
Dear readers: Old doesn’t have to equal boring, grey and dusty. Something old and something new isn’t just for brides. Creatives are marrying old and new, And it’s blowing our minds. Zx
katelyn-jane dunn untitled 2013
archer & archer Why/when did you first start getting into vintage homewares and furniture? My wife Sarah and I started selling things in October 2011 but that’s not when we got into it, we’ve been passionate about homewares and interiors since we started renovating our old apartment about 10 years ago. We’ve never strictly been into vintage stuff, we’ve always liked anything rad, it just happens that a lot of those things are vintage, we LOVE new and handmade stuff too. Did you plan it turning into a business? I think so, but we hadn’t put any pressure on it to perform, until I was made redundant in June 2012, and then even more pressure on it when we had Minnie almost 4 months ago. Originally though, A&A was just a nice fun creative outlet for us, a way to find new homes for the things we were finding each weekend. We love that it’s become a real business, we love business and the personal interaction it forces between people. It’s particularly exciting that the experience hasn’t changed for our customers or for us, it’s still a lot of fun!
What’s it like working with your better half? It’s amazing working as a husband and wife team. We get on really well in all aspects of our life and we share a common interest in doing good things. Sarah is much more organised, planned and controlled than I am, and although she is a very creative person, she balances out my over-creativity and lack of interest in the more operational side of things! We bicker all the time, particularly about whether or not a product should be offered on A&A! Have you had any notable/favourite finds? Oh yeah, so many. The main one that springs to mind is this Charles Billich oil painting that we found at the tip. We paid $60 for it and it’s valued at $15,000. It’s a bad time to find a buyer for it, but it’s still a nice story and it’s a gorgeous painting. You know what though, we have new things ever week that we can’t believe we’ve acquired. Like this bell shaped black crystal bowl we found last week at an op shop, it makes this haunting bell sound that you’ve never heard before and it lasts for a REALLY long time, so cool. We’re very into finding new and handmade products right now that you’ll see come from us in the not-too-distant future!
Did the birth of a child change the way your business functioned? Hell yes, we had to find some schedule and routine real quick! We’ve never been under more pressure, both to make the business work systematically, but also in finding time off to be a family. Sarah is born to be a mother, so she has the domestic side of things very sorted, my hat comes off to her every day. Typically, I am handling most of the business for now while Minnie is so young. I start work at 9am, break at 6pm for bath time, eat dinner with Sarah once Minnie goes down, then come back to work at 8:30pm and finish at midnight. My curfew is midnight, I won’t work past it, but I almost always work right up to it, like seriously every day. Saturdays are tough because I start work at 5am, and don’t finish until midnight. That’s a big one! So a typical work week is about 85hrs, gee, I should never have added that up. once Minnie is more established Sarah will be able to help with the day to day more, and once we grow some more we’ll be able to afford some more help! What is your advice for people wishing to start their own business? Don’t think too much about it, just do exactly that, start it. Fumble through, make mistakes, follow the light of your passion and believe in the long term plan unconditionally. If you back yourself and find the grit it takes to forge forward, the endless hours will be easy. There is no such thing as failure in life, there is only life itself, so make the most of every day and believe you can do anything. http://www.facebook.com/archerandarcher
meadow dreams Photography Savvy Creative Styling Annie Macindoe and Crowning & Co Model Brittany Anderson
australian old and australian new music by jacob warren For this issue I will be looking at four songs, 2 ‘old’ and 2 ‘new’, starting with Goanna’s Solid Rock (1982) and Midnight Oil’s Beds Are Burning (1997) and then moving on to Bad//Dreems’ Too Old (2013) and Twerps’ Through the day (2012). I would say that these bands, and more so these songs, are quintessential in any collection of Australian music, actually, any collection of music.
Goanna’s Solid Rock (1982) Goanna formed in Geelong in 1977 and mixed political and social activism into a pop and easily accessible style of music. With the hit song Solid Rock (’82) the band enjoyed national success as it reached number two on the Australian Top 25 charts. The song is an empathetic and politically charged expression of the injustices committed by white Australians since 1788 against the Aboriginal peoples of ‘Australia’. The chorus, ‘Standing on Solid Rock, Sacred ground’ is an obvious reference to dispossession which up until now has yet to be resolved, or meaningfully dealt with. Favourite line: Ran into the heart of darkness, searching for the heart of light.
Midnight Oil’s Beds Are Burning (1997) Midnight Oil are just the best. Headed by alien-overlord front man Peter Garret, who successfully infiltrated politics only to realise that he had no idea how to control the minds of his earthly servants with normal speech, Midnight Oil enjoyed national and international success. Beds Are Burning is another Australian song that deals with the issue of Aboriginal land rights and unfathomable injustice. Garret calls for the rent to be paid, an amazing line which positions non-Indigenous Australians as merely temporary tenets who indeed do owe a great deal to the real owners.
Bad//Dreems’ Too Old (2013) Bad//Dreems are an Adelaide lazy-pop band. There is a nice aesthetic of Australiana bands who are directly influenced by the music of the 70s and 80s as well as the culture in general. In the Goanna film clip, the drummer is wearing an AFL jersey, and Too Old’s film clip is, speculatively, highlights from a game of that era. Too Old caresses your ears with nice melodies and a catchy yet dark array of lyrics about a lazy, confused bum. Eternally relevant.
Twerps’ Through the day (2012) Twerps are an a amazing band from Melbourne who, while not referencing Australiana directly, epitomise it. I wish I could just put 400 smiley faces to describe how much I enjoy Twerps, but that would be silly. Through the Day is a beautifully shoegazey pop song which speaks about the bare essential of life, the significant other person (a friend, lover, family member, pet, whatever). This song is nice and jangly however it has its moments of deep melancholy, with really pretty backing vocals.
moment Photography Vanessa Flynn Hair & Make up Barbarette 13 Model Lauren Hunter Accessories Flynn
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tayla jay haggarty Introduce yourself! Well hello, I’m Tayla Jay Haggarty and I’m a studying visual artist residing in the superb suburbs of Brisbane. My practice currently focus’s on gender in regards to queer sexuality and this idea of masculine vs. feminine. When did you first begin creating art? Art has always been a massive part of the way I function and making work allows a creative out let, to keep me somewhat sane. It’s been that way since I was a child. What are your weapons of choice when you create? Surprisingly, the unlikely combination of Microsoft word and my iPhone. You would be surprised how much ideas evolve and unfold in a word document with a little click and drag. Do you prefer installations or digital art? Lately I’ve been combining the two! But if really I had to choose… although I enjoy exploring 3d materials, I would pick digital art. This way I can manipulate my idea for hours on end and not have to leave my house and conform to pants.
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Scissoring Installation, Tayla Haggarty. 2013.
d conversational collage, series work. Tayla Haggarty. 2013.
Repeated gender suit 2, Tayla Haggarty. 2013.
What inspires you? My work is inspired by odd external happenings; whether this be an interesting conversation, a social situation or the formal qualities of an industrial structure. But in terms of contemporary art, I’m lusting after British artist Fiona Curran and her bright and ballsy installation works.
Do you have any hidden ta about? No, as It is not very hidde And am currently develo low me to shake ‘n’ create work.
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en. I like to dance, a lot. oping concepts that ale through performance
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MAS2FEM, digital series, Tayla Haggarty. 2013.
Where do you see your art in the future? Slowly but surely my work seems to be getting bigger, in all senses of the word. In the future I hope to keep developing my practice and possibly start exploring large-scale multimedia installations, so keep an eye out.
Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) / Vampire Weekend, Step (2013)
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Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant (1872) / Vampire Weekend, Obvious Bicycle (2013)
es of art history
Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1823) / Vampire Weekend, Giving Up the Gun
Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes (1598) / Vampire Weekend, Step (2013)
Henri Rousseau, The Repast of the Lion (1907) / Vampire Weekend, Young Lion (2013)
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Robert Delaunay, Homage to Bleriot (1914) / Vampire Weekend, Cousins (2010)
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remakes
movies by willem whitfeld What’s worse than a horror movie? A remake.
the wicker man
psycho
night of the living dead
scarface
i am legend
dr. dolittle
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