Author Archive: Tara Kenny

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Stalkers, Shadows and Sympathy With Alan Wilkis

By Tara Kenny | May 10th, 2012 in Music | Locale:

The latest instalment in artist and producer Alan Wilkis’s PRINTS series of collaborative tracks, Shadow, mixes the rapping of Lyrics Born with the haunting, ethereal vocals of indie darling White Hinterland. It will make you feel unnerved, intrigued and a little bit like a creepy stalker all the way ’til the very end…

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Help The Hipsters

By Tara Kenny | May 10th, 2012 in Film | Locale:

Director Destin Daniel Cretton has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the contentiously titled film, I Am Not A Hipster.

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EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Sleep With Sumie Garcia

By Tara Kenny | May 3rd, 2012 in Film | Locale: ,

Director Sumie Garcia explores where our minds go when our bodies slumber through a fragmented journey in her latest short film, Simulacra.

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Too Old For Toys, Too Young For Boys: I Am Eleven

By Tara Kenny | April 24th, 2012 in Film | Locale:

Genevieve Bailey’s I Am Eleven explores a diverse snap shot of not quite children, not yet teenagers from around the globe who linger on the cusp of adulthood.

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Let Monsieur Chypre Seduce You

By Tara Kenny | April 12th, 2012 in Fashion | Locale:

Directorial duo Antoine Asseraf and Rene Habermacher’s ‘erotic fashion epic’ for Erotokritos casts the perfectly outfitted lady as prey to the animalistic Monsieur Chypre.

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Pocketto Magazine: Sweet As Pocky!

By Tara Kenny | April 9th, 2012 in Fashion | Locale:

Emma and Aimee prove to be just like their magazine, Pocketto – consistently surprising, forever humble and sweet as a Japanese strawberry flavoured Pocky stick

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The Top 10 Best Pop Culture Comebacks

By Tara Kenny | April 8th, 2012 in Culture

To celebrate the greatest comeback of them all, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we bring you the top 10 best pop culture comebacks.

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Portable’s Top Ten Flawed Beauties

By Tara Kenny | March 27th, 2012 in Culture

From Lily Allen’s third nipple to Regina Georgia’s cruel intentions, Portable presents The Top Ten Flawed Beauties—a mash up of physically scarred, emotionally evil and surprisingly imperfect individuals who remind us that while our parents were lying when they told us looks don’t count, their insistence that “nobody’s perfect” may just have been bang on.

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Sushi Dreaming

By Tara Kenny | March 21st, 2012 in Talks | Locale:

Filmmaker David Gelb’s documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi explores octogenarian chef Jiro Ono’s obsessive pursuit of the perfect piece of sushi.

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Marjane, The Monk And The Mistress

By Tara Kenny | March 21st, 2012 in Talks | Locale:

Director Chiara Clemente’s latest instalment in the Beginnings series presented by Nowness.com stars Iranian film director and cartoonist Marjane Satrapi in discussions about affairs, monks and politics, amongst other things.

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