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This ode begins with a gift. Which I must say, to this day, I still don’t know if it was truly meant for me. But as many things in my life, I took it with gratitude and a hint of cheek.

20.07.2024 // ECOLOGY

Syntropic Farming: How the Flip?

MIICA BALINT

The practical information for implementing a syntropic system. The Paddock is our case study, and the Chief of this jardim (garden), Rodrigo, is our messiah.

14.07.2024 // ECOLOGY

The humble friends that brought me back to Earth PLANT PROFILING WITH DANIEL SOUZA

Paperbark trees and beauty in subtleties.

0.05.2024 // ECOLOGY

You’re Treading on a Gentle Revolution MIICA BALINT

Soil and watching plants grow.

08.06.2024 // ECOLOGY

What The Flip is Syntropic?MIICA BALINT

Forest dynamics and reconciling humans with the planet.

28.05.2024 // ECOLOGY

Imagine Naming Your Child TurpentinePLANT PROFILING WITH DANIEL SOUZA

Let this be an ode to the incredibly special nature of Australian flora. The first; the turpentine tree.

Art ________________________________________________

_{29.09.2024 // ART}

Greet Me With An Open PalmDANIEL STEVENSON

To lay it all out, to simply be.
Introducing you to the 17.10.24 exhibition in collaboration with WOI Journal.

29.09.2024 // ART

Friends With GrainKATE MIDDELEER
A motion-picture community lab, looping systems, and experimental film-making.

04.08.2024 // ART

Streetscapes and Sagga-FiringKATE MIDDELEER

“You have to have thick skin to be a ceramicist.

19.06.2024 // ART

Duck Rodeo
JORDAN ROCHFORT
An introduction to the new Art Gallery in Lismore, Flying Arch, and to the first artist exhibiting this month-- Rebecca Cunningham.

05.07.2024 // ART

Joel Melrose

KATE MIDDELEER

Tattooist. Designer. Painter. Sculpter. In conversation with our neighbor, Joel of House House.

25.04.2024 // ART

Allie and Gimmy

SCOUT O’DONOGHUE

Intimate in-residence with a highly creative, expressive and talented couple.

20.04.2024 // ART

In Conversation with Karlee Mackie KATE MIDDELEER
The home studio of one of the best. Aliens, mould, exhibitions, surf, vaginas. With added joyful insight from Karlee’s son Koda.

10.02.2024 // ART

Immortal Soil

SCOUT O’DONOGHUE

In the home of two unsuspectingly bold creatives that instal incredible large-scale organic-matter sculptures.

12.05.2024 // ART
The Art Exhibition That Commemorated our LaunchMIICA BALINT AND KATE MIDDELEER

A look into twelve artists in our region. We figured there is no more apt a launch to a collaborative magazine than by way of a group art exhibition.

22.05.2024 // ART

Photo Series of Muckware LAUREN AROYAN
Ceramicist Grace Chaplin captured in her Newrybar studio.

______________________________________ Literature

27.10.2024 // LIT

On Windows, Writer’s Block, and SteinbeckKATE MIDDELEER

A little less force, a little more give.
Cannery Row helps us fight writer’s block.

29.09.2024 // LIT

A Lonely Girl Is A Dangerous Thing

LITERATURE CLUB WITH CHARLIE TRENERRY

An unapologetic look into the gruesome and beautiful guilt of female desire.
Jessie Tu.

04.08.2024 // LIT

The Laying On Of HandsLITERATURE CLUB WITH CHARLIE TRENERRY

Charlie replaces food money for books this week. Alan Bennett.

06.06.2024 // LIT

Let Us Compare Mythologies LITERATURE CLUB WITH CHARLIE TRENERRY

Each word and letter and line of illustration belongs where it lays on the page. And they will absolutely break your heart because of it. Leonard Cohen. Achingly beautiful and raw with youth, accompanied with Freda Guttman’s illustration.

9.05.2024 // LIT

Street Haunting and other Essays LITERATURE CLUB WITH CHARLIE TRENERRY

I begin my second column by promising you, dear reader, that they won’t all be on obscure little pieces by well-known authors of other things. Virginia Woolf.

12.02.2024 // LIT

Letters to a Young Poet LITERATURE CLUB WITH CHARLIE TRENERRY
One of those little books that may change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke.

Music _____________________________________________

The Azure KingfisherMIICA BALINT AND PHOTOGRAPHY JILL BONTEMPO

Watch birds, volunteer your time, go to therapy.

05.07.2024 // MUSIC

Tinariwen MIICA BALINT AND PHOTOGRAPHY JILL BONTEMPO

The pioneers of soul-rectifying desert blues.
This is a love letter of sorts, to a band, to a story of rebellion, to a photographer.

24.05.2024 // MUSIC

I shaved my armpits for Nic Munnelly. MIICA BALINT
I did. I also ate two boiled eggs and was on my second coffee, black, by the time I met Jill and Nic at ten am.

05.06.2024 // MUSIC

Red Belly Records

KATE MIDDELEER
Cows, four fingers, and a music festival.

15.02.2024 // MUSIC

Between Translations and Timezones with Laure Briard KATE MIDDELEER
Did Francois Hardy sing bossa nova at the Bangalow Bowlo?

______________________________________________ Surf

10.02.2024 // THE REST

In conversation with Holly Wawn

MIICA BALINT

Probing on puny details and making average poems out of it

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Wispy Dreads SouthMIICA BALINT, FILM MCTAVISH, PHOTOGRAPHY JILL BONTEMPO
Wispy speaks to the secluded breaks of our mountainous Antarctic-nearing relative.

Travel ____________________________________________

04.08.2024 // THE REST

Il Dolce Far Niente (The Sweetness of Doing Nothing)SABASTIAN FARDELL

Panarea Island in pursuit of nothing.

25.06.2024 // THE REST

Diary of the Northeast Side SCOUT O’DONOGHUE
A guppy in brackish water. Scout tells of her transition to life in London.

14.06.2024 // THE REST

Quantum Organica Part TwoDANE HARRISON
More on quantum physics and carp ponds in Indonesia.

14.06.2024 // THE REST

Quanta Organica Part One DANE HARRISON

Quantum physics and carp ponds in Indonesia. One fifth philosophy, three fifths fiction, one fifth quantum physics

__________________________________________ The rest

27.10.2024 // THE REST

Cass, the Maids, and the SaintsMIICA BALINT, PHOTOGRAPHY MONTANTA COOPER
A regenerative farming tangent, a conversation with the owner of the duo of Bruns--Old Maids and Saint Maries-- an exploration of belonging, learning and experimenting

29.09.2024 // THE REST

Time To Grow Down

ASHER PACKMAN PHOTOGRAPHY MARTA FDZ
A TedX talk at the height of the pandemic, grief, milk, and a roadside pickup.

29.09.2024 // THE REST

A Wound the size of a dinner plateELILA-ROSE MKANANZI
A placenta within the earth that we three now walk upon with joy.

19.07.2024 // THE REST

In PreparationKATE MIDDELEER
A personal essay on cause and effect and Joan Didion.

20.06.2024 // THE REST

Joel of Blanc

KATE MIDDELEER

Story first. They can wear garments with their stories.

21.06.2024 // THE RESTBayou’s Charlie and Tom
MIICA BALINT

Running a film lab from the other side of the world with one employee.

20.06.2024 // THE REST

Joel of Blanc

KATE MIDDELEER

Story first. They can wear garments with their stories.

21.06.2024 // THE REST

Bayou’s Charlie and Tom
MIICA BALINT
Running a film lab from the other side of the world with one employee.

02.02.2024 THROUGH 21.04.2024 // THE REST

The Doorway and other prose

ELILA-ROSE MKAKANZ

I Three equally impactful, raw, and deeply beautiful

prose on motherhood.

17.02.2024 // THE REST

The Little Poet Book Store TEAGAN KRUSE
Nights of motorbikes with tap dancers. Mosh pits, with biscuits and dip. Nudity and art classes. Music ranging from death metal to classical, jazz to grunge, and poetry to hardcore.

25.04.2024 // THE REST

Balance and Breath
KATE MIDDELEER
I sit in on a class in the Bangalow Pagoda on a Tuesday afternoon. The group of students and teacher become a powerful bridge between singular meditation and a synchronized dance.

04.03.2024 // THE REST

People You Should Know: Maeve
KATE MIDDELEER
A lady who is not dictated by any job, but does many, really well.

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