Monthly Archives: March 2012

SIT- Noir Nr.14

Posted on 9 March, 2012 by Justin Fox


Early last month I bought Nanami a SIT print, happy to say it’s now back from the framers, still wrapped in plastic, but once that’s off she’s ready to get on the wall!

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ALL STARS

Posted on 8 March, 2012 by Justin Fox


Logo design for ALL STARS, a car show we’re working on. More news soon!

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Infront Presents: Monster Children

Posted on 8 March, 2012 by Justin Fox


We had Mr. Campbell Milligan from Monster Children up on the stage last night.


Packed out crowd despite the rain!

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Field Trip

Posted on 6 March, 2012 by Justin Fox

Field Trip is a new conference from Australian Infront and Jacky Winter. We’re pretty damn excited about this!!! The first one is taking place this April the 20th at ACMI in Melbourne. It’s not your regular run of the mill conference either: Think live action, taking a brief on stage. IE: No portfolio slide shows here, 100% process process process! Head on over to http://www.thefieldtrip.com.au/ for artist info, tickets, schedules and more!

PS: I’d really personally appreciate it if you could spread the news on this one. It’s been a long time coming, and with your help we’re hoping it’ll be a huge success. :)

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ARC Forum Battle

Posted on 5 March, 2012 by Justin Fox


John and Tate at Pheasants Nest. 5am we were on the road, so fucked up!


Sergio had only 1hrs sleep last night trying to get his S15 onto the trailer (epic fail). He was running on these huge cans of red bull.


The red bull went through him fast, haha.


We saw a lot of flooding on the way, a couple of trucks had aquaplaned off the highway too.


Rob + John’s AW11 in convoy.


Tate was the designated driver, as John has recently lost his license (silly boy!).


Fuck fuel is expensive, why didn’t we just fly instead?!


The apartment Sean had put us up in was super new, nice and clean, what a relief.


What a pimp workshop. No rest for the wicked, we were off to the RTR meet before getting the chance to settle down.


Carbon doors hung up as art, yes.


We set up a little boot sale on the night which went really well.


Marty’s nugget! Marty from Mighty Car Mods was staying in the same apartment as us, he’s a champ. Was great to get to know the guy.


This Evo X caught my eye, what a great daily driver it would make.


Anth’s from Build Threads Dato, so amazing.


Reppin.


I’d wear that on my chest!


this MX-5 Clubman was so right. Makes me miss mine terribly.


Tough black on black Skoda representing VWGolf.net.au.


It was late, we didn’t want McDonalds (again) so we stopped at the nearest takeaway to the apartment (in Essendon). Pasta was AOK!


Ovi representing. Unfortunately Ovi had a huge crash, first out, first to smash into a wall too. :(


Amazing AW11, so hot! Fuuuu!


Yes!


Time Attack!!!!!


Big Red.


LHD MKIV Golf was tough, sounded amazing too.


Modified GTO, not something you see everyday.


Nigel’s S13, so hot.


Sergio and I snuck out for a spot of shopping on Chapel St. + lunch at Chapelli’s.


Rain rain go away.


We called a Maxi-Taxi to hit the town.


We failed to get into Chin Chin’s, too busy, so we settled for ribs at Beer DeLuxe, Fed Square instead.


Historic, Bathurst R32 replica, movement in groin area… amazing. Day #2 show and shine was great as the sun was out to play.


So clean.


So mean.


Nice green.


Loved this S14.


Old school Dato Skyline with an RB26 transplant took out best of show.


Cleaner than most modern cars at the show!


Zen Crew + Just Car girls.


Sean announcing winners and giving out prizes.


Marty from Mighty Car Mods walked away a winner.


Yes, it’s real. My fave car of the entire event.


Some of the locals suggested we dine at Nobel Greek Tavern, about 1km away from our apartment, for dinner. Food was great! Since it was our last night we wined on, good times!

Just got home from an epic drive back from Melbourne. Sergio did ALL the driving, he’s a trooper. I teleported most of the way (ie: I fell asleep, a LOT) but despite the sleep I’m still super exhausted!

Despite the weather dampening the first day of Forum Battle (hey that’s motorsport?!) the sun came out for Sunday’s Show & Shine and Melbourne brought out some rad cars. SAU took out the top forum display, never seen so many tough R34’s in the one place!

I doubt I’ll be in a hurry to drive from Sydney to Melbourne ever again. Not that I’m pimp or anything, but fuck me dead… plane next time for sure!!!

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Airtasker

Posted on 1 March, 2012 by Justin Fox


My task.


Hard yakka.

Some mates of mine have just launched a new business: Airtasker. The concept is pretty simple:

Airtasker is a community marketplace where people can outsource everyday tasks and errands to friendly and reliable people.

I decided to give it a go last week. Functionally, the site itself is crazy dynamic (not to mention it looks nice and friendly too). It’s one thing to be able to think of an idea for a site, but another to actually be able to go ahead and develop a custom solution to suit your needs and that’s exactly what these guys have done.

I put up a simple task to get someone to move a load of bricks out the front of Zen Garage (they were ugly!), to the back of the complex. Someone bid on the job in no time, and he was over, in the rain, to move the bricks pronto!

Visit: http://www.airtasker.com

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Smirnoff Start Pure Gallery

Posted on 1 March, 2012 by Justin Fox


Nana’s work on the outside of the building.


Drippy tubes and bags filled with paints were all a part of the interactive art making concept.


Science lab styles, punters were encouraged to make their own piece to hang on the wall.


Nana’s bottle design.


Brad’s bottle design.


Dedication, a work in progress on Photographer Josephine Ki’s arm.


Nana’s Octopuses. Left one’s finished, right one is a work in progress.


Some more of Nana’s work on display.


Both artists have drinks named after them, drinks are to be sold around Surry Hills bars over the next few months, pretty rad, right?


Artist Simon Lovelace owns Blank Space Gallery, he was in his man cave, tinkering with his bike… yeah! My kinda guy!

I managed to get invited to the media launch of the interactive Smirnoff Start Pure Gallery tonight. I’d checked it out earlier today as I was helping Nanami get her work to the gallery, but by launch time it was a completely different (rad!) set-up to what I’d seen earlier.

After 2 cocktails I was goneski’s so I hit the eject button before running the risk of not being able to drive home (Forum Battle tomorrow in Melbourne, road trip starts at 5am SHARP!).

The show officially launches tomorrow @ BLANK SPACE Gallery – Friday 2nd through to Thursday the 8th of March, 10am – 5pm 374 Crown Street, Surry Hills so be sure to check it out if you’re in the area!

PS: MUCH better photos at Gourmantic.com and mecho.

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Il Baretto

Posted on 1 March, 2012 by Justin Fox


Christina went for the Duck Ragu. Fresh pappardelle was great.


I always test a new Italian restaurant with a bolognese, but this time I went fot the home made gnocchi instead of spaghetti (sauce was great, would have been better with spaghetti though for sure, next time!).


Semifreddo was almost too naughty for my tummy/


Red + White wines in cups.

Christina and I caught up for dinner at Il Baretto – a lovely little Italian restaurant on Bourke St. Surry Hills. Pasta is fresh (yes!). I’ll be back!

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