Author results: Nadia Saccardo
Keep Company
In the golden age of infomercials, Demtel would advertise a set of steak knives by cutting through a shoe. Tim Shaw also went nuts on tomatoes and a frozen box of broccoli. It really was an amazing offer. Now however, as Australian infomercials are dying a slow death due to the internet, it stands that vegetarian shoes should rise to avenge (and overthrow) their leather cousins.
Victorinox Swiss Memory 128
It's 1897 - and you are in the Swiss Army. Life isn't easy. While you get to wear a lofty beret and voluminous pants, your weaponry is limited to asix-foot spear-type thingy and incredibly sharp cheekbones.
This is all about to change with the invention of a top-secret blade. It's like nothing you've ever seen; a knife, corkscrew and tweezers all inone.
We're
Cairns is known for its barrier reef, its melting mercury and its cruise ships. It's definitely not known for progressive fashion, because, we imagine, everyone's too busy downing XXXX in string bikinis.
Damien and Lorena at We're believe that stinking weather shouldn't stifle style - and they have Keep Shoes, Life With Bird, Tiny Mammoth and Chronicles on their side.
Nooka watches
If you want to know the time there are two options - analogue or digital. Sundials look sweet but aren't that practical, and trying to chart the sun's axis makes for fried eyeballs.
In 1997, however,another mode of clocking time appeared. It all happened when designer Matthew Waldman was staring at a clock in a London hotel.
Special Kev, Chris Mckimmie
Blood nut is a funny noun. It’s both affectionate and slightly offensive. Special Kev is a blood nut (according to his Uncle Nobby, who reckons that they are ‘nearly extinct, like cassowaries’). Kev doesn’t seem to be too phased about this. He’s too busy tying Nicky Bathgate to a tree.
Spring Court Shoes
"They're turning kids into slaves, just to make cheaper sneakers. What's the real cost cause the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper? Why are we paying so much money for sneakers when they're made by little slave kids?" ‘Think About It' - Flight of The Concords.
NO MORE must we a) support child slavery b) pay so much money for sneakers.
Short
Along with sucking on Lego and counting down the Rocket Clock, defacinga humble colouring book was once a 4-year-old rite passage. A rite thatseems to have diminished in place of ‘interactive learning' anddefacing a screen with a mouse-controlled paintbrush.
This hit VA EditionsEditor Ed Davis, when he was looking for a gift for his two littlegirls.
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