Melbourne street culture

When we were sixteen, my friend Katie and I decided to start a t-shirt design business. We went as far as bulk ordering some white t's from the internet and making one design (rainbow robots).  Then, like most other teenage endeavors, our entrepreneurial dreams dissipated in the wind as we tended to other adolescent distractions.

An exhibit at the National Gallery of Victoria featured thirty years of Melbourne t-shirt design and culture. It almost feels like the graphic t trend is more pervasive here in Australia than in the States (although quantity does not translate into quality).  T-shirts are probably one of the most democratic art forms--its affordability and accessibility is what gave my broke sixteen year old ass an opportunity to dabble in the medium. Like graffiti culture, t-shirts take the message to the streets --its (often involuntary) audience has direct access to their canvases, making it an effective vehicle for expression.

I was overcome with nostalgia at this exhibit--it reminded me of one of the few things that used to excite me. My most recent pursuit in t-shirt design consisted of a couple of Experimental Jet Set-inspired Knicks t-shirts that my sister and I wore to a game last year.

10,000 miles away from home but nothing feels too foreign #thanksglobalization&tehinternetz

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Saw A Place to Bury Strangers in Sydney today, where brooklyn at

Graffiti in the laneways of Melbourne

Mixed media

T-shirt exhibit

Eat pho, eat pho, errday, yeah

The Great Ocean Road in Melbourne

I call this one the "flan-wich"