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For Sydney Design 08 the organisers have decided that their mascot will be a bucket. And not just any bucket, one with a hole in it. Not just a well-designed piece of humour the buckets are part of a project to encourage discussion on good design, There’s A Hole In My Bucket.

20 Sydney designers have been given a bucket each to go and photograph in a spot they think has been poorly designed. But you don’t have to be a whiz on Creative Suite to get involved, there are buckets to be picked up all around town so that you can have a say too. Just pick one up, take it somewhere useless and snap it. Submit your shot online and it’ll be uploaded to the photo gallery.

Buckets with holes in them can be picked up from:

BEAUTIFUL ON THE INSIDE, 45/322 BOURKE ST, SURRY HILLS
PIGEON GROUND, 102 SALISBURY RD, CAMPERDOWN
VIA ALLEY, SHOP 2, 289 LIVERPOOL ST, DARLINGHURST
JUST SHOOT, 16 ELIZABETH ST, PADDINGTON
OUR MISH MASH, 11 CURLEWIS ST, BONDI
DOBRY DEN, 326 CROWN ST, SURRY HILLS
TWOTHOUSAND STUDIO, 16 - 28 FOSTER ST, SURRY HILLS

After almost 8 long months of sleep. We're back with new works and a new website!

EVERYWHERE WE SHOOT!
http://www.everywhereweshoot.com

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Oh and happy "888" Olympics. :-)

Kanye West's blog is one of my favourites. I love it because it scans the world for the most cutting edge in music, fashion, architecture and design in one quick daily dose.
Today was no exception when I found myself overwhelmingly proud and inspired when stumbling across a recent post on the surf/fashion Aussie label Insight51 and it’s most recent (?) advertising campaign. Captured by the highly creative photographer Dustin Humphrey, I am in love with each frame’s crazy mix of Alice in Wonderland/ Diane Arbus -esque surrealism, and good old Aussie surf and street culture all in one deep and dark underworld (or at least that’s what I’m getting). Kudous to Insight51 for having such imagination!

Where have you been, if you don't know who the "The Selby" is? This is the shit, the egg, the egg Toddy's new plog (or photo blog). Everybody is raving about it: - It's the Cobra Snake of interiors! And with thousands of hits a day (yeez, me jealous), it sure is proven;
The Selby has landed! I just love this plog, its so beautiful and interesting, it's like snooping in peoples houses without ever being caught. My favorite is Meryl Smith house, with loads of wonderful and curios things in it. But there is so many more. Cindy Green, Tom Wolfe, Lesley Arfin, Adam Wallacavage, Erin Wasson, William Eadon to name a few.
So what are you waiting for? Go snoop, snoopy dog!

'Here, the scenery becomes the character and relates contemporary tales and legends laced with sophisticated seductions, like a latter-day Cecil Beaton, Lewis Carroll or J.M. Barrie.' These are the words of French designer Christian Lacroix and curator du jour of one of the greatest photography festivals in Europe Les Rencontres d’Arles about British fashion photographer Tim Walker. This man is a kind of a wizard : he grows cupcakes trees, breeds some pink and green cats and his bathroom looks like a garden. Dreamy craftsman, this regular contributor to all the high-class fashion magazines insists on the fact that there is no digital manipulation in his pictures. His Wonderland is to visit at the moment in Arles, France or in London at the Design Museum.

New York photographer Todd Selby loves photographing people and their possesions in their environment take a look here

Billboards. Posters. Flyers. Train stations. Shop fronts. Adshels. Bus stops. The sides of buses. The backs of buses. The backs of cabs. The backs of toilet doors. Is there no place sacred anymore?

If you’ve ever felt completely overwhelmed by the lack of visual quiet-space in the big smoke, consider a trip to São Paulo, Brazil, where outdoor advertising has been banned outright. The “Clean City” law was passed in 2006 by the city’s right-wing mayor Gilberto Kassab in an attempt to tackle the “visual pollution” problem, but it takes a bit of time to pull down over 8000 billboard sites and it’s only now that the full effect of the policy can be appreciated.

Photographer Tony de Marco has been documenting the metamorphosis from Blade-Runner-metropolis to an urban environment that some (i.e. advertisers) have described as a ‘bland concrete jungle reminiscent of communist Eastern Europe’ and others consider “a rare victory of the public interest over private, of order over disorder, aesthetics over ugliness, of cleanliness over trash.”

If the biggest city in the southern hemisphere can do this, then surely there’s a chance we could rid Brisbane of all those vile yellow “Nasal Delivery Technology” billboards?