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Are you partial to the odd long neck but have always wondered what to do with their ubiquitous brown paper bag? Well, artist Erin Forsyth had the right idea; at her recent solo show she had an entire wall filled illustrations made on longneck bags and now it appears the folks at Tooheys have followed suit. TED696 is a collaboration between street artists (those who can be most typically found in possession of a traveller) and Tooheys Extra Dry. Local artists DMOTE and Luca Ionescu together with Studio Number One/ Shepard Fairy have each created a limited edition brown paper bag that will be available in bottle shops soon. To celebrate, Tooheys are inviting YOU to create the fourth; head here to find out how you could score a Mac Book Pro and see your work published, exhibited and reproduced.

A phone-cover shaped like a banana - you know I want one.

The other day I was in my local news agents when I spied a new issue of ID magazine. Did it contain gratuitous amount of booby? Yes. Did it carry the correct quota of largely unwearable Gareth Pugh outfits? Probably. What set this issue apart from it's predessecors was the fact that it was the Agyness Deyn issue. That's right; Agyness Deyn gussied up, Agyness Deyn sans-make-up, Agyness Deyn as a child, Agyness Deyn with her equally cool boyfriend and testimonials on Agyness Deyn from the likes of Henry Holland an Vivienne Westwood. The entire issue was dedicated to fashions face of the moment. Here's something else they could have stuck in there; Agyness Dean the singer. Above is the video for "who' the new single from New York band, Five O'Clock Heroes, which happens to feature the vocal talents of one Miss Deyn. What do you think?

I need to whinge and whinge I will! The media make me sick to my stomach. Hopefully most of you are aware that in excess of 25 000 people have been killed (more than half of this amount are said to be children) by a horrendous cyclone in Burma. Incidentally, the day this story broke, Grant Hackett's 'pot belly' story also emerged. When deciding upon what story to put on the front page of most Newspapers - The Hackett saga won.
1. Grant doesn't have a gut you imbeciles. If you knew anything about sport and training, you'd know that your stomach can inflate from carb overload (i.e. the poor guy needs energy!).
2. 25 000 + people have died!! In excess of thousands upon thousands are left homeless, starving and in extreme despair over losing family and friends - but the people of Australia would rather criticise Hackett and his 'gut' (or, so the newspaper editor's believe)
3. If a bus blows up on the street in Afghanistan and kills 55 people, it'll barely receive a five line article on page 18 in the newspaper. But if a bus was blown up in down-town Sydney or London or New York, it would make front page for 10 days in a row and we'd be forced to relive every gruesome detail of the event for the next five years to come!
4. The last point I would like to make is... why is it, that when going to check the news on a particular news site the other day - the headlining homepage story read something along the lines of ' Corey causes a stir in the BB house'?!!
Again, 25 000 + people have died in Burma, but our media is clearly more interested in Corey, the party-boy-brat, who's been glorified by being put into a house full of dead-set drop kicks.
I am so angry at the world today - but hey, at least I got it off my chest!
Thoughts?

Like cats? Like stuffed animals? Well your childish and slightly strange fetishes have come together courtesy of Cat Rabbit. Get yourself down to Ruban Rat in Newtown this Friday at 7pm and indulge in cute overload at an exhibition of stuffed felines, zombies and illustrations. These babies are hand-sewn with love, and don't tell me you can resist their little stiched arteries!
The Evolution of Cat Rabbit takes place from the 9th to the 29th of May at Ruban Rat, 423 King Street Newtown.
Check out www.catrabbit.com.au for more details.

Avalon based sustainable fashion boutique, LOVETHREADS, has today launched an online store - making it easier for everyone to dress stylishly and ethically. As everyone should know by now, the quality, style and trend- friendly design of sustainable fashion has advanced significantly and labels like Beau Soleil (by ex- Marc Jacobs designer, Anne Salvatore), Edun, Skin and Threads and the award winning Ciel are proof of this. LOVETHREADS not only stocks clothing from the aforementioned labels but accessories and children's-wear too!

Like coffee? Like free stuff? Well May 3-18 is Fairtrade Fortnight and Starbucks have come on board by offering customers a complimentary cup of fair trade Joe. Head into your local outlet between 9 am - 11 am (just in time for morning tea!) tomorrow, May 8, to be treated to a tall size Cafe Estima blend coffee; a fair trade certified brew that contains a blend of Latin American and African beans. Nom nom nom. Co-ordinated by the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (FTAANZ), Fair Trade fortnight aims to increase community awareness and support for fair trade products to guarantee a fairer deal for disadvantaged Third World producers. For more info, head here.