The amazing Vesna Pesic (aka Becha) has produced an exclusive piece of work for our advent.

Vesna’s work is featured on the behance network, and his own website. Becha is also featuring in our zine with a great interview and some beautiful work.

You may recall we recently released the first issue of the Forth Thread zine. ‘This ain’t digital’. We’ll we have now set up shop, and it is available for purchase here.

Featuring art and interviews from Neil Krug, David Thompson, Kareem Rizk, Becha, Brett Manning, The Yok, Craig Rochfort, Tom Hovey, Renee Anne, Natalie Sharp, Claire Cimbora, Rebecca Murphy, Natalie Perkins, and Chrissy Lau.

The zine is A5, colour with 48 pages filled with wonder art and interviews.
There is a limited edition of 1000, and each is hand numbered.

A big thank you to all artist involved, and to everyone who has supported us or been a part of Forth Thread in any way. Now get shopping!

Are you the type of person to say on a day of extreme heat, “Wow, friend, how hot is this weather!?”

Fuck you. What do you expect us to say? “Oh! Yes! Gosh! I had no idea how hot it actually was. In fact, now that you mention it, I’m sweating like a gerbil in a gaybar. Ice-cream?”

We like to call this question: ‘the fucking annoying question’. You’ll hear it a lot this summer. Don’t be that person.

You see, young and talented friends, that’s something we call advice. An incredible tool of communication everyone loves to receive, especially when wrapped in hilarity and spoken with prowess in front of a crowd of drink addled young-somethings.

Wednesday November 25 at 7pm Junior, a union for young creatives is hosting an event in Sydney, with 3 creative directors sharing advice, called ‘31 Things‘ , find out more details on their website.

Mikey Burton has produced gig posters for a number of bands including Wilco, Tom Waits, Spoon and many more. Commonly using the the dying letter press process, or screen printing. His typographic pieces beautifully hand made, each one unique, with its own personal texture and character.  This video shot and edited by Joshua Gerken, is a great insight into the process of letterpress. It looks like so much fun.

Mike is our current featured artist you can check out some of his work HERE

Music by : The Celebrity Pilots

Teeluxe has kindly supplied us with 5 copies of Beautiful Losers DVD to give-away. To go into the draw to win a copy, send a link to your favorite web site and your details to givaways@forththread.com

You can pre-order & purchase a copy from Teeluxe.com.au

Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation.

In the early 1990’s a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the “establishment” art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become a movement that has been transforming pop culture.

Starring a selection of artists who are considered leaders within this culture, Beautiful Losers focuses on the telling of personal stories. It speaks to themes of what happens when the outside becomes “in” as it explores the creative ethos connecting these artists and today’s youth.

Starring: Shepard Fairey, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, Stephen Powers, Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell

Director: Aaron Rose, Joshua Leonard • Run time: DVD: 1 hrs 30 mins • Rating: R 18+ • DVD Release: 21 October 2009 (Australia)

New work by Simon Degroot at The National Grid Gallery

Simon’s work is growing in popularity and with due cause ,with his Assemblage of character based street art and icons, his canvases jump with excitement and intrigue.

Opening Night: Friday 25th September 2009

Exhibition is open from 26th September until 16th October

Gallery opening hours, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Saturday 11am-3pm

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Happenstance Magazine is an independent Sydney-based print publication, which doesn’t forsake style for substance or substance for style. It’s all about making things happen; art, design ,music and the written word, as well as the people who create them.

What started as a bit of fun, has eventuated into an awesome independent magazine.

Happenstance recently launched their first issue, including stories on Sydney’s Independent galleries, bikes and a glimpse into the bedroom of Sydney artist James Jirat Patradoon.

It is a limited edition publication, with each issue individually numbered. And our friend Aaron, art director of Happenstance  has given us 5 copies to give away to 5 lucky winners.

To enter simply send your details (name and address) to givaways@forththread.com. The 5 winners will be notified by email next Friday. (18th Sept)

Pulp magazines of the 40’s and 50’s,  imaginative and expressive magazine titles which often depicted a futuristic interperatation of the world.  A time of science and new discoveries when the world was still a mystery to most, the half dressed damsel in distress always needed a hero to save the day. Pulps were printed on cheap wood pulp paper hence the name “pulp fiction” The cover art of these publications was the main selling point of pulp.  So important in fact that sometimes the cover would be produced before and the story and would be authored to match.  Cover artists such as Frank R. Paul, Virgil Finlay, Edd Cartier, Margaret Brundage and Norman Saunders became as popular as the authors and the stories.
Stay tuned for a little slice of Forththread Pulp….. Coming very soon

Hey readers,

We have had an amazing response from people around the world, and loads of great work sent for the Zine. Thanks a million for your submissions. We will be in contact with you soon for some Hi Res images and a “little piece of you” in words, or any other form you feel is appropriate. (Any thing carbon form is not appropriate unless its free gig tickets, artist prints to sell on your behalf or cool mags, thanks teeluxe ) .

If you havnt already contact us! Comment on a post or two, send us somthing that floats your boat, we are friendly and will reply. Alternatively send us a link to some work or pop some images on an email for us to look at.

You Can be a part of Forth Thread, to help it evolve,  grow and muster a longer reach.

From the Forth Thread team….

Martina Hoogland Ivanow – ‘Taken in Stockholm 2004 of my friend Åsa Cederqvist who at that time was part of a band I used to share a space with. This Polaroid inspired me to do another image of her but now a few years down the line I prefer this one.. painful but true.’

Camille Vivier - ‘This SX-70 polaroid was taken in 2002 during a trip to Spain. This polaroid is maybe the only one I have from a serie of horses I did at the time in 35mm, it is a nostalgic and unique object, it is a souvenir.’

Kenneth Cappello - ‘This is my friend Jamie Hince at my apartment in NYC a few days after The Kills’ North American tour ended supporting his new record Midnight Boom…friends, cigars and chichy…’

Andre Wolffe - ‘The photo is taken the summer of 2001 in my flat in Paris. It was one of these summers where everything was possible and anything could happen and it did…’

Dazed magazine did a feature recently on saving polaroid film as production has been discontinued. As part of a movement to bring polaroid back to life, Dazed and Confused Magazine has run a feature, inviting top visual artists to submit a polaroid and and a story about it. Check the save polaroid fickr group out aswell.