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THIS BLOG IS NOW DEAD

2009-06-29T08:30:00.002+10:00

WE'VE REVAMPED THE WEBISTE SO WE CAN GIVE YOU EVERYTHING IN ONE LOCATION.

STAY UP TO DATE WITH WHATS GOING ON AT:

www.grapevinemagazine.com.au

DONT COME BACK TO THIS BLOG IT DIED OVER THE WEEKEND, THANKS TO OUR INTRANETWEB GURU TRIS PARKER, THANKS DUDE WE OWE YOU MASSIVELY.

...GRAPEVINE

Division Sale

2009-06-24T17:50:00.004+10:00

Our good friends at Division, Mona Vale are having a MASSIVE winter sale! Beat those winter blues with a fresh hoodie or for those out there filling there wetties with the sickly sweet warmth of urine to warn off the small bite in the water and have ruined the seal around the groin, get down to the corner of Bungan & Waratah St.

SoapBox Project

2009-06-13T15:47:00.001+10:00

SoapBox Project is an interactive multimedia and arts initiative with the goal of inspiring people to notice & share street art from around the city.

You find & photograph work that you like, share it with our Flickr group, & we'll publicly project it back onto Sydney streets.

- Find art and Share it with our Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/soapboxproject/
(or email it directly to other46dole@photos.flickr.com)

- View videos of our projections on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/soapboxproject

- Find out more about the project on our website: http://www.wix.com/soapboxproject/au

This is a group project from UTS Masters of Interactive Multimedia students.

Mint Sale

2009-06-13T15:42:00.002+10:00

You would be stupid not to go to this...

When we're not working...

2009-06-13T15:27:00.002+10:00

There's only a handful of places we'll be when not building the next issue. 1) At our full time jobs. 2) surfing. 3) Sleeping. 4) Eating. And at this place; The Mona Vale Beach Cafe & Bar on Darley street. We fucken love this place.

Car Lovers... and Haters Unite!

2009-06-12T11:45:00.003+10:00

If you like cars you'll like this. If you don't like cars you will like this. Ahhhhh, for the love of monetary freedom.

Your new favourite DJ

2009-06-05T07:35:00.002+10:00

Sampology from the sunny shores of Sydney-Town has been supporting acts like Dj Shadow and Cut Chemist in recent times. They're Over in New York Doing a bunch of shows with the Tom Tom Crew and then off to Ol'Blighty (aka London) doing a short string of club nights and the Edinbrugh Fringe Festival.

Have a gander below

Last week

2009-06-03T19:07:00.002+10:00

We are working so dont worry your little socks off.

Grapevine knows 39 countries, do you??

2009-06-02T19:31:00.003+10:00

Eat a fat flaccid cock "Peninsula Living" and "The Manly Daily" 530 people from 39 different countries visit our site a day! Staying for an average 0f 8.26mins... Minimal you might think but, 530 and 39 are pretty good.

Don't believe us go to:

www.grapevinemagazine.com.au

find your way to our blog and see the proof you cynical non believer. Suck a fart i bet you just read that shit and thought to yourself, "Im already there" wait, " Am i?".

Thats for not having faith. Dont worry we still like you

Its time to be heard. Council Meeting Monday 1st June 6:30pm

2009-05-30T10:54:00.002+10:00

Dear Residents

Council wishes to advise that submissions relating to Kitchener Park Draft Plan of Management have been reviewed and the document will be presented to Council for consideration of adoption on June 1, 2009. Should you wish to view the amendments to the draft plan, they are now available on Pittwater web site, under the Meeting's quick link.

The Council meeting will be held at Mona Vale Memorial Hall, Cnr Park Street and Pittwater Road, Mona Vale at 6.30 pm.

You are invited to attend the meeting and should you wish to address Council regarding this matter please contact council's Customer Service Centre on 9970 1111 or alternatively email your name and contact details, relationship (applicant, owner, objector) and the item number you wish to speak on to Pittwater_council@pittwater.nsw.gov.au

Yours faithfully

Jenny Cronan
Landscape Architect
PITTWATER COUNCIL

Come down on monday night to show the council why it should be built!!! 6:30pm Mona Vale Memorial Hall

Mad Decent

2009-05-20T09:32:00.004+10:00

Some fresh beats from one of the best record labels around. Mad Decent one of Diplos creations, carry's a whole lot of weight with the likes of Blaqstarr, Bonde Do Role, Crookers, Dj Sega and a shite load more on its roster.

Check out the labels latest clip below, real good tune and pretty fucken funny clip.

Ralph Steadman

2009-05-04T09:15:00.003+10:00

For the many of you who know Hunter S. Thompson, you should know his good friend and artist Ralph Steadman.

He was born in 1936. He started as a cartoonist and through the years diversified into many fields of creativity. He has illustrated such classics as "Alice in Wonderland", "Treasure Island" and "Animal Farm".

His own books include the lives of Sigmund Freud and Leonardo da Vinci and "The Big I Am", the story of God. With American writer Hunter S. Thompson he collaborated in the birth of GONZO journalism, the definitive book in the genre being "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", which was made into a feature film. He is also a printmaker. His prints include a series of etchings on writers from William Shakespeare to William Burroughs.

come of his works above but for load more of it hit his website:

www.ralphsteadman.com

Do you want? A State-Of-The-Art Skate Park!

2009-04-29T12:49:00.003+10:00

Its time to act!

click the image below to see it full sized. We've done a petition, Raised By Wolves have been pushing for this thing for two years! Its your turn, if you want this skate park built at Kitchener Park email the chick below with: Mona Vale Skate Park as the subject. and cut and paste this in:

Hi Jenny,

Yes we have seen the plans and we are desperate for a new skate park!

Raised By Wolves has been pushing this for two years and we who respect the opinions of both Grapevine Magazine and Raised By Wolves believe in this project! Please consider the plans very seriously.

Should they be approved you would soon see big international brands like DC,
Element, Emerica, Hurley ... ETC bringing in serious sponsorship dollars for contests
contestants and the local economy in the form of huge crowds needing
somewhere to stay, eat and play(Pubs, clubs, the new small bars springing up,
cinema.. etc)

Thanks for your time,

GET INVOLVED AND EMAIL JENNY AT:

jenny_cronan@pittwater.nsw.gov.au

Need to know where to get the coolest threads?

2009-04-20T15:58:00.002+10:00

WHAT THE FUCK IS JP'S FRESH BREAD?
we are website full of the latest and greatest street culture fashion news and entertainment. we update daily for your window shopping pleasure.

CAN I BUY THINGS OFF JP'S FRESH BREAD?
at the moment we are not a store we just like to help brands by promoting them on our site. we will soon have some merch which will be available from our site.

HOW DO I GET MY PRODUCTS ON JP'S FRESH BREAD?
email us promo pics and all information to jpsfreshbread@hotmail.com

Life After Deadline.

2009-04-20T15:44:00.002+10:00

When you own your own magazine its hard to find time to scratch your nuts let alone escape the city to score pits. But... When the mother eff-er of a thing is done and left in the capable hands of our publisher, scoring pits and scratching nuts is what usually ensues. South Coast joy, Sunday 19th of April.

Concrete Crayons Gallery/Grapevine Office: Issue 006

2009-04-08T10:01:00.004+10:00

Last night, with the help of a bunch of local roller deck dawgs, we finaly got the Skating for Issue 006 shot. Below is a very tiny piece of what went down. (not impressed? as if i'd spoil the issue by putting up the best of it!)

Sometimes the waves get pretty fucken big.

2009-04-02T08:36:00.008+11:00

Deciding whether to get out of the car and get my camera wet for the sake of hugemungous waves. Tp

Bungan.

Mona Vale: Look at the lines going into Warriewood!

Newport Reef.

Little Narrabeen: Again the lines rolling in!

Off the blow-hole at Warriewood.

Looking East up to Suicides: 10-12foot Barrel. At high tide you could have towed into this.

Dave Hubbard's DK Roll

2009-03-26T10:12:00.003+11:00

Yeah, this shit may have gone down a few seasons ago, but I never get tired of watching Dubb launch this freaky knee-up aeriel manoeuvre. Fuck knows how he landed it? Kid got skills.

Trent Needs More Stabs!

2009-03-24T15:30:00.004+11:00

Trent Mitchell's a ridiculously good photographer and a good friend of Grapevine's. He's competeing for a 12 month contract with Stab Magazine. Every other joe-blow wanting the job sucks! Hahah nah thats not fair ... but shit, Trent's who you should be voting for!

Go to the link below and stab the dude!

http://stabmag.com/littleweeds/the-littleweeds/Trent-Mitchell

For more of his amazing work hit up:

www.tmphoto.com.au

Limited Edition: Alex Pardee Tee's only @ Glass Avenue, Newport

2009-03-24T14:50:00.002+11:00

Limited editions Alex Pardee tees only place in Sydney to get them is Glass Avenue at Newport.

Check out more on Alex Pardee http://www.myspace.com/alexpardee

Hurley: Walk The Walk USA

2009-03-24T14:39:00.003+11:00

Hurley: Walk The Walk happened in the states not to long ago and was a complete success for the 4th time.

After a performance from Hurley hip-hop artist Murs, judge Bar Refaeli and
Hurley pro surfer Rob Machado revealed the judges final decision for WTW OC
Champions: Fountain Valley High School!! Congratulations!!

The stage belonged completely to these students last night and we heard
their voices loud and clear. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed
to this inspiring night!! Walk the Walk truly puts the future of fashion in
the hands of the youth!

Stay tuned to Hurley.com for more photos, videos, and stories about Walk the
Walk....and if you missed the big announcement at the event, check out
http://www.microphoneforyouth.com to find out how YOU could design for
Hurley and win $5,000!!

For more photos, videos and the full run down on the show hit:

http://www.hurley.com/blog.cfm/aid/29039

filmclip genius

2009-03-20T12:54:00.004+11:00

This is possibly the greatest filmclip I've ever seen for a music video, besides The Prodigy's 'smack my bitch up' or Aphex Twin's other equally disturbing and masterful clip for 'come to daddy.' It has everything: merkins, umbrella-aided tap dancing routines, hot black girls sporting twisted interpretations of Richard D James' (aphex twin himself) face, unnecessary swearing, slow-mo champagne-soaked ass shaking and above all else; beautiful, intelligent, progressive and complex electronica.

Vu

2009-03-18T18:39:00.003+11:00

Our good friends at VU clothing are having a MASSIVE sale. Get online and buy some shit.

Acid Flash Backs or Amazing Time Lapse

2009-03-18T17:21:00.003+11:00

Keith Loutit is a Sydney based photographer. His photographs and short films were made in ordinary places, probably not too unlike where you live. Combining a variety of techniques including tilt-shift and time-lapse photography, his work aims to help people take a second look at places that are familiar to them.

If your partial to acid and can handle a flash back, Keiths tilt-shift time lapse photography should be right up your alley.

www.keithloutit.com

Mardi Gras from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Issue #006

2009-03-17T16:30:00.003+11:00

Art: Dan Raymond:

Fashion: The Cassette Society

Bodyboarding/Surf Photog: Lee Kelly

ffffound!

2009-03-17T16:05:00.006+11:00

Somewhat similar to Flickr but its by invitation only so you can imagine the quality of shots on there. A facebook of the image world but way, way, cooler and without nobs from primary school hitting you up to be friends.

http://ffffound.com/

2009-03-12T13:26:00.002+11:00

For the latest on whats happening in the Booger world and general shit that you should be in the know about, or if you just want to rain some shit down on the guy!

Hit up: http://www.followmemax.com/

2009-03-12T11:41:00.001+11:00

For your daily fix of amazing fashion photography.... and beautiful women hit up:

http://supremefreak.blogspot.com/

Concrete Crayons: Dan Crozier & Bree Haxell

2009-02-17T09:27:00.002+11:00

The next and probably most anticipated show at the Concrete Crayons Gallery is by Dan Crozier (Issue 004) and Bree Haxell. This Friday the 20th of February.

Do you want to be in the next Issue????

2009-01-29T20:08:00.000+11:00

So we've changed our minds about hunting down a grommie to jazz up our Facebook page, we're going to have a battle!

For the Versus department we need 2 people, preferably grommies from the beaches so we can get portraits and get you down to the office to vibe out... get your ugly mug in the mag for thousands to see..

What the battle will involve:

One of you will be on team Myspace the other will be on Team Facebook.

You will then be pitted against each other in a dual of momentous proportions...

*Gain as many friends as possible for the facebook group or Add as many friends as possible to the Myspace page.

*Who looks better in a swimsuit

*who can get the highest wall ride on the mini ramp

*who is most deserving of the sweet product pack you'll get if you win

*Plus any thing else we can think of in the the time it takes to choose the contenders

email me if you think you have what it takes to be apart of our team...

toby@grapevinemagazine.com.au

Go to this!

2009-01-29T18:03:00.002+11:00

Thanks for coming...

2008-12-23T10:26:00.004+11:00

Come Party With Us

2008-12-16T18:52:00.002+11:00

What To Look Out For This Week.

2008-12-13T08:08:00.003+11:00

Mona Vale Beach Cafe

2008-12-13T08:01:00.002+11:00

Conrete Crayons Gallery

2008-11-07T10:54:00.001+11:00

Everyone should come to this!!

More Amazing Images From James Brickwood

2008-10-13T20:46:00.003+11:00

THE MAN HIMSELF

More From Kane

2008-10-13T20:07:00.004+11:00

Grapevine Issue #004

2008-10-10T16:39:00.006+11:00

The NEW issue has hit the streets! Here's what to look for:

A MASSIVE THANK YOU! to all the people who took part in this issue and another MASSIVE THANK YOU! to those who helped us get it together for our biggest and sluttiest issue yet.

WAITlife (Parklife 2008)

2008-10-07T12:18:00.006+11:00

It had been a long while between festivals for your humble narrator and I was looking forward to the annual (and my first) Waitlife event. How stupid I was. I even opted to buy a ticket rather than risk the jump-in, as the caliber of acts were enough to justify the fairly expensive asking price of $139. I was considerably amped for the week prior to Waitlife, as I'm an avid Peaches and Dizzee fan, and not adverse to a slice of Soulwax or Paper Scissors or even a little Fake Blood. Suffice to say I was anticipating a good day, drug free and carefree to boot.
What a fucking hoax of a day I had.
We arrived at 1pm, and after last week's bust of 30 odd people at the Transmission rave thingy I think everyone had varying degrees of sniffer dog paranoia. I only saw one dog the entire day. Two entry points made for a hard sneak in, but that didn't stop my mate who slipped through undetected. The dude at the bag check-in barely even glanced at my shit, I could've been carrying chemical weapons quite comfortably into the park. Oh well. Once inside I got quite a shock. Fuck. Are you aware people are still wearing fluoro? And they're mostly wearing it on their feet, in the form of those slip on, reef-walker like synthetic numbers. Where do all these fucks come from? Do they hibernate in caves together, only emerging to attend dance festivals, subsequently lowering any steeze credibility Sydney might have? If that is their game then they are doing a thorough job of it. To ease my pain and embarassment I lined up to get some grogs. Waitlife had begun. It was early, like I said, and still I waited 20 minutes for drinks, which cost $40 for myself and my lady friends. Okay, I thought, I'm here to have fun and fun is what I'll have, but I need some alcohol to do so. There's no point in spilling tears over drink prices. We wandered around looking for a suitable spot to plonk our crimsons. Hmmm ... the lake stinks like fishy turds, the ground is coated in pointy, pointy bindies here, it's wet over there ... where the fuck were we going to chill? Eventually we found some green (soon to be trampled repeatedly to a brown death) grass and took five. Then five became 60 minutes, 60 minutes became an hour-and-a-half. We checked the timetable. Who was the first act we wanted to viddy? Paper Scissors, and they started at 4.55. Sick. Only 2 hours to go then. We drank as we waited and therefore had to piss intermittently. More Waitlife. There were two main sets of toilets and a twenty minute lag for use of the cunts. No point in trying to piss against the fences, I saw the security dudes shaking people as they tried to sneak in a quick tinkle thus spilling urine all over themselves. It was pretty funny. I also saw a chick (and not a rough-ass skanky bitch, either) pull down her undies near a tree (in broad daylight mind you) and piss as she sat down. She didn't even lift her rig off the grass! She pissed and like sat in it, so it looked as though she was just chilling. When she stood up her cut-off jean shorts were wet with piss. Gross!
It was case in point of how poorly organised Waitlife seemed to be. Had they anticipated less people? Surely not, they could gauge that shit from ticket sales and it didn't seem like a great number of peeps jumped the fences. I only saw three separate mad-dashes and all the dudes got caught. Security were onto it.
Finally the clock struck 4.45 and we cruised over to the small yellow (musical appreciation) stage to catch Paper Scissors. After opening with Yamanote Line to a less than enthusiastic crowd, they proceeded to go through the motions occasionally letting us know we were 'brilliant' and 'great'. Sarcasm? Why not. Why they were booked at a fucking house music dominated festival escapes me. I felt slightly sorry for them, and guilty that i wasn't singing along with the (apparently) necessary enthusiasm. We bailed from that scene as saxophone part of the Bandit stung my ears quite hectically. Ouch.
Soulwax started at 5.30 but I had to piss again. Fuck you sunlight! I couldn't find any darkened corners to expel yellow so again I lined up with the twitchy, impatient throng in front of the toilet. Why didn't I push in? I don't really know. Maybe cause I wasn't high. Maybe I was bored and needed to do something, anything, even stand in a queue. Fuck, I don't know.
I watched approximately ten minutes of Soulwax until I realised I didn't like them. Back to the grass between the two large stages at the front. Great spot. The minimal techno from the left stage and the dance funk from Soulwax bounced right where we sat and began causing mild psychosis in my weary brain. Errrhhh ... fuck this. How was I going to survive this day? Peaches was how. She was the sleazy light at the end of the tunnel, and I only had an hour to go now. After drinking, smoking and waiting we walked over to the blue (air) stage to catch my bitch doing her thing. We were positioned front-right and the sound was horrible. There was basically no low-end to Peaches' set, and her electroclash numbers seemed to blow away with the slight breeze. The set structure was almost identical to her Big Day Out performance two years ago, except for some new tunes from her yet-to-be-released latest album. Fuck! Her one saving grace, for me, was the live version of Set It Off, a fast-paced punk thrash out of a basic electro tune. Eeewww! Highlight of the day right there. I wanted to watch Fake Blood but Peaches ran till 8.15 and Dizzee Dizz was slated for a 8.30 start. I wasn't missing the rude boy, that's 50% of why I was there so I brushed Fake Blood (It didn't seem to matter, I heard Fake Blood's Mars tune four times that day, the original three times, once as a remix). Over to the tent on the hill for Dizzee we went. By now the hill was basically a mud slippery dip, and people (particularly girls) were falling down it like bowling pins. Haha! Mates told me later that they spent a good portion of their day watching punters eat shit down it.
We squashed into the sweaty, manic tent to take in Grime's greatest. Opening with
I Love You had a drastic effect as more and more people piled in. They were like flies to a fucking bug zapper and we were getting squashed so dramatically it reached a point of an inability to enjoy Dizzee. We weathered the gnarly crush for two tunes, and then I gave up. I couldn't deal with it anymore. I led us out of the frothing, bug-eyed, four pills deep crowd and we plonked our defeated selves down next to the lake.
2manydj's were doing their thing on the blue (air) stage in the background, but they were mixing shitloads of minimal and driving house numbers. What the fuck? They did drop an obligatory Nirvana tune towards the end, and some fucking early 90's hip hop tune. By this stage I had stopped listening or caring what was going on so I can't recall how they ended their set.
The day, for me, was nine hours long. In that nine hours I saw probably two hours of music. I heard a shitload of minimal techno, even if I tried not to. I waited around two hours total for a piss (that's only six toilet trips at a 20 minute wait each, I'm sure there were more) and an hour, give or take, for beers etc. I waited four hours to see anyone relevant to my enjoyment. That's a grand, sad total of seven hours of nothingness. I saw one girl OD'd or something, and hundreds more that looked like they were one pill away from doing the same. I smoked 20 or more cigarettes and spent (after buying a ticket) $300 on a shitty, disappointing day.
But this is just my experience. All my friends had an awesome day, as I was enthusiastically told. I think the thing was, and I've realised this afterwards, I am now too old for this shit. I can't ignore sweaty arms and elbows, expensive prices, a lack of facilities anymore. I can't let go, basically. I wont attend another electronic music dominated festival, nor will I let myself get my hopes up for live acts. Next time I do something remotely similar to attending a music event I'm going without any pretence or expectations, and I will never, never go to Waitlife again.
-Venes

Hurley

2008-09-19T15:50:00.005+10:00

Get there, everyones doing it!

Element

2008-09-19T15:50:00.003+10:00

Everyone should go to this.

Concrete Crayons hosts: Issue 20 and Still Poor. Photos from Monster Children's Chris Searl

2008-09-02T08:26:00.004+10:00

Mural By RadDan For our Office

2008-08-28T11:37:00.007+10:00

Concrete Crayons Gallery

2008-08-17T15:37:00.003+10:00

The next event at The Concrete Crayons Gallery see's Chris Searl of the Monster Children clan show casing Images from the last 5 years. CHECK THE FLYER FOR FULL DETAILS.

The Start Of Issue #004

2008-07-25T16:48:00.001+10:00

Pierre grills the guys providing us with their horror story for the upcoming issue.

RAD DAN

2008-07-17T15:50:00.002+10:00

Twenty minutes with the despairingly dynamic artist we’ve featured in the current issue.

Grapevine: Who are you really, Rad Dan?

Rad: My real name is Daniel Watkins, most people know me as Rad Dan.

Grapevine: Where did ‘Rad’ come from and would you consider yourself ‘Rad’?

Rad: (laughs) I would not have a clue. Nah… not one bit.

Grapevine: I can smell your brushed teeth, dude.

Rad: Rad teeth.

Grapevine: What was your first experience with art? I mean like, when did you start getting involved in that creative process of making something entirely your own?

Rad: First time I made something my own… I’ve always been heaps into it. I guess you start off doing stuff and you’re unaware that you’re doing it. I used to like, draw maps of my house and stuff when I was really young like, six or something. I used to draw all these cool images that I wished were part of the house, like monsters under the house and all this stuff. Like blueprints. I guess that’s where I started, trying to make my house better.

Grapevine: Any aspirations to become an architect then?

Rad: Nah. I moved on from that and started drawing on walls.

Grapevine: The first time I heard of you was after I spotted the local groms with some interesting art slapped on the bottom of their surfboards. Was that the starting point for you in getting your name out there?

Rad: Yeah I guess… I was always doing stuff on my own boards and then I had a few dudes asking me to do their boards so I did some of those and then I ended up at Hayden Shapes spraying boards fulltime. It ended up people were asking me to do their board graphics and I was loving it like ‘fuck yeah’.

Grapevine: So you’re working for Insight now. What’s your job title?

Rad: Shit-kicker (laughs). Nah I’ve got a job as Marketing Designer. I work a lot helping with ads, a couple of Tee prints and stuff. Hopefully moving in the direction of more art related stuff, Tees and installations. I’ve got a Tee design coming out in the next range, Summer or something.

Grapevine: Can you give us any sneaky hints on your design?

Rad: It’s collage style. Like the stuff you’ve seen. Kind of a collage but I got heaps into doing images, sort’ve surrealist style, and I was into all those 50’s style images of women with the full hourglass figures. I was morphing the images and adding industrial elements like pipes for heads, anchors for legs.

Grapevine: Your art works on a lot of different mediums. How would you describe your style?

Rad: I have a really short attention span. I can’t stick with the one thing for too long or I get really, really bored. So I move onto something else pretty quickly or I get bored with my own art. I’m always doing illustrations, I love painting and drawing, but then I’ll have to add bits or mix things into whatever I’m doing to keep me excited.

Grapevine: Is there any particular band or style of music you listen to when your painting or drawing or whatevs?

Rad: Yeah, you go through a lot of different music but the thing I keep coming back to is Jazz instrumental stuff. I can’t get enough of Miles Davis, that sort of thing. I used to think like, ‘why would anyone want to listen to a douche playing a trumpet?’ but then I got into it and now I’m like, fuck yeah!

Grapevine: Your installations, prints, board graphics, paintings and everything else you do seem to carry this friendly meets industrial, cartoonish vibe. Is this a theme you are conscious of when designing or is it just a product of your twisted subconscious?

Rad: Yeah… It’s just the way things turn out. I guess some shit you just can’t escape. Your mind runs too fast. I start off drawing something and thinking ‘oh yeah this looks cool’ then the next thing I’ve got layers going on and there’s another one of those thing looking up, and then I get bored and add more and then there’s 400 layers put together. A big pile of shit. It just turns out however, really.

Grapevine: How do you know when to stop, if a piece is made of multiple layers? Do you have a definite idea or do you have to tell yourself to settle down and leave it?

Rad: Yeah, I gotta give myself a slap on the wrist sometimes. I have done a couple of things that should’ve been more simplistic. But I don’t know when to stop. When I run out of room, I guess.

Grapevine: We’re loving the cover you did for us, that shit is unique, to say the least. Is that layered look the kind of vibe you went with when you designing it?

Rad: I was just trying to get some of that shit out of my head… when I was doing the cover I thought about the mag, and it’s got a bit of everything in there, I do a bit of everything, so I put a bunch of shit on my kitchen bench and took a picture of it.

Grapevine: Have you got a favourite material you like working with?

Rad: The thing I use the most is a black, felt tip pen. I probably use one 90% of my day. I couldn’t really get by without one, I use them for everything except you can’t really colour in huge blocks of space with them. I spend a lot of time on the bus getting to and from work, so I use whatever is portable, and I learned to love the little 0.5 black pen.

Grapevine: What is the ‘Bogus Book of Radicals’?

Rad: That was a little book I made about six months ago, I’d just finished my course and had a lot of spare time and I wanted to see if I could make a proper book. I made this bound booklet of radicals. It’s pretty much is what it is – a book full of radical shit.

Grapevine: Enough of the relevant questions. I want to ask you some shorter questions that require less brain power. Firstly, what are you going to do to our office wall? You’ve got free reign on that thing.

Rad: It’s gunna be pretty sick. I’m thinking….. a big, giant dick? Nah – a bit of paint, a bit of….

Grapevine: Actually I don’t want to know. I wanna just walk in and see it. Now, you were unaware of the Boosh until we told you about it.

Rad: (nodding) Fuck me! Yeah!

Grapevine: Who is your favourite Boosh character?

Rad: I like the moon.

Grapevine: Everyone likes the moon. I hate the fucking moon, except when he calls himself a vanilla rapist.

Rad: (laughing) Yeah. If I had to pick someone else, probably Bob Fossil.

Grapevine: Do you use Myspace or Facebook?

Rad: Yeah I use a bit of both, and I’ve been put onto this other one called Verg (I had trouble hearing this on the dicataphone, maybe I’ve misspelt it – venes) some dude told me to use it, to use his site. It’s pretty sick.

Grapevine: Any plans to travel, to see the world abroad?

Rad: Fuck yeah. The place I wanna go to is Japan. I just want to go to their Disneyland and hear Mickey Mouse say something in Japanese.

Grapevine: That’s a recurring character in your drawings, isn’t it? The mouse?

Rad: Yeah. Lately I’ve been using the Cat In The Hat and the Monopoly Man. They’re really fun to draw.

Grapevine: Does surfing have an influence on your art?

Rad: I have dabbled with doing the odd surf image. I loved Mambo, I used to draw that stuff all the time. Copying that shit was fun, those images were funny. I’d love to get Reg Mombassa in a room and get him to show me how he does that like, that sick airbrush/paintbrush style. I’d pull out that part of his brain and keep it.

Grapevine: A few people consider your art very similar to that whole Ksubi/Ozzie/mess thing that was going on a few years back, what response would you give to those who say you’re steez-biting?

Rad: Don’t look at it (laughing). Yeah you can get that a bit, there’s so much shit out there and you can draw something and not even realise that it might be a bit like something else. I guess you eventually move into your own area, keep doing what you’re doing and one day people will be saying ‘oh yeah, you’re copying Rad Dan’.

Grapevine: If you were me, sitting here interviewing you, what question would you ask yourself?

Rad: Why did you brush your teeth before coming here? Now you can’t have a beer.

Scratching The Surface

2008-07-12T13:24:00.004+10:00

We here at Grapevine like to support the people that support us. Our first ever mag featured the works of a good friend Phil Harkness and the logo that you're so familiar with was designed by Phil.

Above is a flyer to his latest escapade, Scratching The Surface. Get off the beaches and get involved for shits sake!

GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE #003

2008-06-30T14:42:00.006+10:00

GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE ISSUE #003

It's been three months solid, but issue three is about to befall all of y'all. We've woven a wierd and wonderful magazine, chock full of eye-pleasing treats and smelly goodness. Since last ish, we have moved into a sweet gallery space, so cut us some slack for the delay. Grapevine Magazine is now produced from the comfy confines of the Concrete Crayons Gallery, Mona Vale. Issue three contains all of the following, plus bonus other shit: ART by Rad Dan. MUSIC focus with fRew. SKATING the Concrete Crayons ramp with Trav & Shorty. FASHION brought to you by Spacejunk. And 'cause it's winter, we've even got SNOWBOARDING with Nate J. Oh yeah, we need SURFING in there, we're all waxies like Dave V, aren't we? It's important to mantain balance, and with that in mind we have BOOGERING with madmen Hani & B.N. I'm forgetting something... ummm... Oh yeah! A CRAZY STORY from our world weary mate, FatMike. There's a bonus little article in there too, and if you entered any comps last ish keep your eyes open, you might have won something. All the usual shit is in there aswell.
ISSUE 003 IS OUT NOW!GO FORTH AND FIND YOURSELF A COPY!IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS!DO A JIG!ISSUE 003 IS OUT NOW!

Concrete Crayons Gallery opening

2008-06-10T20:16:00.006+10:00

The first of many shows.

The view from the Grapevine office.

Outside looking in. Tp too drunk to hold the camera straight.

For a full review check Grapevine Issue 003. Out soon!

Shameless Plug

2008-05-31T17:44:00.000+10:00

Yes, we are working! Here's a sneek peek...

2008-05-29T18:14:00.004+10:00

From the top to the bottom of it, GV 003 is in the works. This Issue....

Art: RadDan
Tunes: fRew
Surfing: Dave Vlug
Snowboarding: Nate Johnstone
Words: Smuggled - Tibet The Hard Way

LOADS MORE...

Concrete Crayon Gallery: Coming Soon
fRew: Featuring Issue 003
Carly Townsend: Fresh Meet Issue 003

The New Office

2008-05-13T07:56:00.004+10:00

Down Time

2008-04-14T18:43:00.009+10:00

In between issues the Grapevine staff like to unwind. Mellow out. Chillax. And slam some motherfucking alley oops. Smithy winds up and delivers.

Grapevine Cover Issue #002

2008-03-22T14:51:00.002+11:00

This is what the cover of the new issue looks like. It'll be staring up at you from a shop floor longingly, hopefully, desperate to be held, bent and read with enthusiasm. The inside is similar to the outside. Paper, but like, thinner. It has some text and photos stamped across it. That's for you to enjoy. "You too can be part of Grapevine, I guess... if you want to. Can you? I'll be your best friend. I've got features on Nathan Smith. Radiophobia. Tp getting bashed by girls. Toms shoe drop. Hezzy & VU. A new skatepark. The sequel to Alone, Hungry, Locked in a Cell and all the regular shit plus event reviews. Read the fanny out of me... oooh yeah......." - that's the magazine talking. It has a voice like that guy who told everyone to 'leave Britney alone!' That guy was wierd, man.

ISSUE 2 OUT MARCH!!! ISSUE 2 OUT MARCH!!! ISSUE 2 OUT MARCH!!!

Microwave Postman

2008-03-21T16:55:00.004+11:00

I think I should give you the background on our letter box. It was (and still is) a functioning microwave. It's rough in the ghetto, we gotta improvise. Survival of the craftiest, motherfucker. Eventually we upgraded the white microwave of doom to a sweet black number for the kitchen and the white one became our letterbox. To make sure the white oven was worthy of becoming the letterbox we had a shot-put competition with it in the backyard, poured a tin of house paint over it and made like Mr. Scribble, scratching our number on it and planting the thing on top of a crate out the front of the house. It then stayed there for over six months in the gnarly ass rain we had over our so called 'Summer'. It did a fantastic job acquiring our mail, until the kitchen microwave decided to blow up leaving us without a method of cooking a quick feast. We went without instantaneous hot meals for like three weeks until a genius idea struck: why don't we try the one out the front? We plugged her in and what do you know... it friggen worked! We decided to see what the postman would make of our new letter box so we penned a letter, stuck it in the new box and left a pen and paper for the postie to respond.

Had A Little Giggle At This

2008-03-21T16:50:00.000+11:00

Grapevine's Launch @ Cerutis 23-3-08

2008-03-03T21:37:00.005+11:00

art: Dan Crozier

art: Dan Raymond art: Phil Harkness

Thankyou all you beautiful, sweaty people who made last Saturday a huge success. We know - the mag came out in December but you try organise shit over the holiday period. Tah to the dawgs from Radiophobia who rocked the shit out of the front room, Gabe for his "lyricism", Busy T, Blain and DJ Shoe In for vibing out the back room and fuck those who threw ice at us when we were unloading three boxes of free merch thanks to Insight, Hurley and VU. Snaps to our good friends and creative maestros for their art: Dan Crozier, Dan Raymond, Marnie C, Phil Harkness and Rad Dan. It warmed our collective hearts seeing so many friends and foes supporting but it could've just been the beer and 38 degree temp that had us swooning. And to the mum who notified the police that her son (who would've been 18+) had a syringe stamped on his arm: hahahahahaha.