Jodie Fried (Issue 6) has just been nominated for an AFI award for the amazing job she did as costume designer on the film ‘Romulus, My Father‘. ‘Romulus’ has been nominated in all 16 categories.

Last Tuesday evening in Melbourne we had our 3rd ever ‘Evening with Dumbo feather & friends’… We loved it, hope everyone who was there did too. Here are some of the things that made the night so special, and that you and people who came might want to find out more about

Photo by RTPeat
Okay so we’ve got you connecting online in our Facebook group (yes it’s true), but are keen to know if any of you have stories of having made connections in ‘real’ life through Dumbo feather. We’ll start the ball rolling shall we.
Our current train of thought was prompted by the following email we [...]

Matthew Bax (Issue Eleven) has a cocktail bar, it’s called Der Raum, and once again it’s been nominated for a record number of awards. To be named as a finalist in any national bar award is quite something, so four nominations has to be quite something else!
If you’re keen to see (drink?) what all [...]

Some of you might remember an article we published in Issue 8 titled ‘When Art meets Science’ which was about a number of artists using science, or scientists using art in their work. One of which was Christopher Lansell of Wolf Rayet who had built a to-scale model of the solar system in St Kilda, [...]

One of our subscribers, a Melbourne-based interior designer called Sally, has come up with the concept for a community project called ‘Loose Threads’. The idea is to get people from a small, rural community (Willaura - where she’s originally from) together to make a whole lot of things to refurbish a communal space. Sally’s having [...]