Published in Treadlie Issue 1, December 2010
When Sydney bike gang the Feather Brigade held their first public event, HalloWheel, in October, co-founder Kathi Herricks wore a very fitting costume. ‘I went as a cult leader,’ she says, ‘which is kind of appropriate for the Feather Brigade because we’re trying to get people to join our [...]
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Edited version published in Frankie 37 (September/October 2010)
‘A good kiss is a mutual kiss,’ says Philip Thiel. ‘A good kiss is shared equally between the two people. You don’t have to debrief to know when you’ve had a perfect kiss based on that criteria, because it’s quite evident.’ And he should know. The Melbourne blogger [...]
Published in frankie 34 (March/April 2010)
Motorbikes: Simone Tops
While glass artist Simone Tops remembers always being obsessed with motorbikes, she only got her licence a few years ago. “It’s like one of those childhood dreams you have that might take you a while to achieve as an adult,” she says. “You realise that you’re not a [...]
Published in frankie 33 (January/February 2010)
Marie-Christin Grosse-Venhaus: unicycle
German high school exchange student Marie-Christin Grosse-Venhaus met her Canberran host father in 2008 in Denmark at UNICON, the world unicycling championships. Marie already knew she would be spending a year in Australia, so they kept in touch. “Then a day before Christmas I got an email from [...]
As told to Chloe Walker, published in frankie 33 (January/February 2010)
I’ve always known I was adopted. I’ve never felt resentful about it; unconditional love has been around me from day dot. But I’ve always known there was a possibility of people being out there. There’s always been a desire to meet up with my birth [...]
Published in frankie 31 (September/October 2009)
For a couple with a vineyard, two wine labels and two oenology PhDs between them, Col McBryde and Jen Gardner sure talk a lot about beer. The idea for their wine company, Some Young Punks, was conceived over a few brewskis with their business partner, Nic Bourke. So was the [...]
As told to Chloe Walker, published in frankie 27 (January/February 2009)
My father works for an airline, so when I was growing up we moved every three or four years. Through bad timing, we moved to Dhahran in northern Saudi Arabia a month before the Gulf War started. I was 10 years old.
Air raids [...]
Published in frankie 26 (November/December 2008)
Tom Chard
When Tom Chard arrived in Burma in September 2007 he had no idea he was stepping into a situation that was set to explode. For the previous month local monks had been staging peaceful demonstrations in the streets of Rangoon and Mandalay, calling for democracy and protesting against the [...]
As told to Chloe Walker, published in frankie 26 (November/December 2008)
The night of my 30th birthday I thought, I’ve had a rough 29 years, I’m just going to do something for myself. This will be a new beginning. It was like saying goodbye to those years, and good riddance. I went to a bar, enjoyed [...]
Published in frankie 25 (September/October 2008)
Jason Wilson: early video games
Last year Griffith University graduate Jason Wilson added ‘Dr’ to his name when he submitted his 90,000-word PhD – a critical history of video games from 1972 to 1985. Aside from academics, it was also a chance to pay homage to some old favourites, like Pong [...]