Celebrate the winter solistice Sydney–style by taking a dawn yoga class on top of Sydney’s highest building, Sydney Tower. From Sydney Tower’s Observation Deck, yoga devotees will see the sun rise over the glittering Harbour city. If you have an aversion to early mornings don’t panic – dawn on this shortest day of the year – which last for nine hours and 53 minutes - breaks at 7am. If sunsets are more your thing head to the Tower for the 4.54pm sunset and watch the shortest day of the year disappear before your very eyes. By Lisa Evans.
OK, so the holidays are over, and just like your best friend, when you
ask us if those jeans make you look fat, we’ll say absolutely. And we
know, especially after a solid month of cooking, eating, baking,
eating, drinking and eating the last thing you want to do is figure out
what to have for dinner tonight. The nutrition and health professionals
at Eat Fit Food have
devised the perfect balance between diet and exercise by preparing low
fat, low carb meals and delivering them directly to you every day.
Naturally anyone can sign up for Eat Fit Food’s services, but those of
us who can hardly find time to eat three full meals each day and those
of us who are tempted to snack on whatever is around throughout the day
now have a beacon leading us to a world of healthful, nutritious food
options. Each program can be tailored to meet personal
preferences including increasing or decreasing portion size and special
dietary requirements. Just imagine sliding on your sexiest pair
of jeans and not even thinking twice about asking us how you look. By
Andrew J Weiner
(Eat Fit Food is only available in Sydney – mention The Cool Hunter and receive a 10% discount).
Consider it an antidote to the mass-produced “designer” fashions of
Target and Wal-Mart. CoLab, an eyewear accessory collaboration, hand
selects talented “street artists” from all over the world to become
CoLab professors. These wisemen of design infuse their artistic
aesthetic into the humble sunglass frame, creating a tantalizingly
unique summer accessory.
CoLab is a brand-new venture out of Sydney
with the aim of creating matchless art disguised as fashion. For the
Spring/Summer 2007 season, CoLab invited Perks and Mini (PAM) of
Australia, EBoy of Germany, Geoff McFetridge of the US, Rockin’
Jellybean of Japan, and Neasden Control Center of the UK into their
“Colaboratory” to create inspired eyewear. Each pair will be sold as a
limited edition, with no more than 1000 pairs of each design sold. Come
next season, CoLab will select an entirely different slew of artists.
Each artist has contributed anywhere from three to five designs,
culminating in a CoLab portfolio of 20 sunglass designs. Despite the
commerciality of fashioning art into sunglasses, the project is
inherently appealing to the underground artist as CoLab dictates:
“There is no constraint, no rules to follow, no target market to
appease.”
The designs intimately reflect this freedom, from blue goggle-shaped
“Eyes” frames by PAM, to decal-ridden EBoy shades, to vintage inspired
oglers by Rockin’ Jellybean.
The tragically hip lenses can be found through worldwide stockists,
most notably, Paris’s Colette, which became CoLab’s first global
stockist in January of this year.
In its distinctive pursuit, CoLab has created a brand without a brand –
a welcome respite to those beleagured by the choice: Ray-Bans or
absurdly-priced “designer” shades. By L. Harper
The beauty of the art of Origami has always been the tradition of which
its based on. The digital masters program at Sydney's University of
Technology has appropriated the very tradition with it's digital
origami. By asking students to study trends in parametric modeling,
digital fabrication and material science, the team created an
amazing display
which reflects on the beauty and tradition of the Japanese art but
delivers its aesthetics in a modern and current practice. The
digital Origami exhibition is a progressive display of re inventing
ancient traditions in digital parameters.
Using 3500 recycled cardboard molecules, University of Technology
design students, under the guidance of lecturer Chris
Bosse, examined various aspects of architectural foundations
through small elements of design.
The result is a cool installation which examines space and
the elements of design including arches, walls tunnels and traditional structures. The room full of Geometric paper
shapes, placed on top of one another and adhered to ceilings and
walls are brilliantly illuminated by expressive neon lighting
which further emphasizes the angular structure of the work itself.
Bosse cites the aim of the project as " testing the fitness of a
particular module, copied from nature, to generate architectural space,
with the assumption that the intelligence of the smallest unit
dictates the intelligence of the overall system. By Andy G. See alsoWALL ART
What was the best answer a kid gave you and what did you ask?
I loved all the answers, it would be to hard to select one. I asked
them all sorts of things from what it means to be a hero, what they
believe about God, what makes the stars twinkle and so on.
What are you loving right now?Who or what inspires you? Children inspire me, obviously and I am loving being an auntie to my four-month-old niece.
Any websites you read on a regular basis? I'm obsessed with Postsecret.com
What TV shows do you love? The
West Wing, The Office and Entourage. I watch them on DVD though, so I
tend to watch episode after episode, very addictive and time consuming.
Who are you listening to on your IPOD? Random songs, anything from Roy Orbison to Mike Hudson, Nivarna to Madonna.
If you could fill your wardrobe with the collection of any fashion designer in the world, who would it be?
Any fashion designer that felt even the slightest inclination to fill
my wardrobe with their collection would be more than fine by me.
Anything that meant I didn't have to shop for clothes would be also be
ideal.
In your opinion what are the powerful brands in the world right now? Any brand that has a monopoly and influence on the media.
What's the most interesting place you've visited in the last 12 months? Wilson's Promontory in Victoria, it's stunning.
What 3 places are a must for those visiting Sydney?
The walk from Circular Quay through the Botanic Gardens to Lady
Macquaries Chair, and then maybe catch a ferry to Watsons Bay or Manly.
The Bondi to Bronte walk or anything to do with the beaches or the
Harbour is also great, but it's hard to choose because Sydney is an
amazing city.
What can't you live without? May I never find out.
What's your fav city in the world and why?
Other than Sydney, New York and Milan because they are the cities I
have spent the most time in and they hold such amazing memories.
What can we do to become more socially conscious of our environment? I
think the best thing we can do is to educate ourselves and make
ourselves aware of the issues that are facing our environment. For
example, watching a movie like An Inconvenient Truth is a good start. And with this awareness, we should look to be making the changes necessary on a daily basis.
Do you have any words of wisdom? Write to someone who inspires you
What TV shows are you into? Seinfeld, Family Guy, the Simpsons
Who are you listening to on your IPOD? Bjork.
In your opinion what are the powerful brands in the world right now? I think Microsoft and General Electrics, they're going to eat the world for breakfast soon.
What's the most interesting place you've visited in the last 12 months?
I was in an island in Fiji called Nananu-i-ra, it had great snorkelling
and it had the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen. It will soon be
taken over by a famous hotel chain.
What can't you live without? Dancing like an electro-chemical android and my iPod
Charlie Huveneers. Age 26. Originally from Belgium but has been living in Sydney for 4 years
What do you do? I'm a Marine Biologist. What do you specialize in? Shark biology and ecology.
Any close encounters we should know about?
My work involves lots of work on or under water. I have dived with and
studied a large variety of shark species, including basking sharks in
England, lemon sharks in the Bahamas, white sharks in South Africa,
whales, tiger sharks and hammerheads in Australia, bull sharks in Fiji
and focused research on wobbegong sharks in NSW which are commercially
targeted for 'flake'. Some of the underwater work includes tagging
sharks with a modified hand-spear to attach acoustic tags around the
shark's first dorsal fins. The shark's reaction is varied and ranges
from no reaction to charging at you.
What are you loving right now? Aussie BBQs (nothing better than a good feed with some chilled beverages and your close mates)
What inspires you? I'm enjoying the Australian lifestyle and being close to the ocean.
What do you love about Bondi?
I find it great that so many people get up early and do some kind of
sports on the beach in the morning. It gets crowded but it's good to
see that people make an effort
What book are you currently reading? Just finished "Eddie Would Go", biography of a famous Hawaiian surfer who died prematurely
Do you read magazines/newspapers, if so, which? Mostly Scuba-diving magazines and Surfing World. Any websites you read on a regular basis? Aquabumps and Swellnet
What TV shows do you enjoy watching? None, they're mostly all American shit or trashy Aussie soaps
Who are you listening to on your iPod? Chris Cornell, Muse, Cake, Foo Fighters.
In your opinion what are the powerful brands in the world right now? Shell or any petrol company.
What 3 cool things should someone do when visiting Sydney? Dive with the sharks at the Manly Aquarium to
realize sharks are not the deadly eating machines people usually
picture them as. Do the Bondi to Coogee walk to get an idea of Sydney's
amazing coastal landscape. Have a barbie (BBQ) in Bronte, kick the ball
around and try out surfing.
Have you ever auditioned for a reality TV show? Nope and I reckon I'd be the first one kicked out of Big Brother, as I'd be having fun annoying everybody.
What's the most interesting place you've visited in the last 12 months. Just been to Fiji and did some work with the Bull sharks which was fun, shame it was flat though
What's your fav city in the world and why? Any remote town with good beaches to get away from the big cities when you need a break. Port Stephens can be great although I might get bored if lived there.
By the year 2010, you will what/where? Having fun somewhere
Which is the coolest surfing brand on the planet? Good question, but the short of it is they're all too expensive!
