Kat Cameron (Team Kitten)

Brisbane-based illustrator, Kat Cameron, shifts dramatically between cutesy Hello Kitty styled vector and darker sexually based themes with her Team Kitten work. Her quirky take on girls and cuddly creatures utlises a minimalist colour palette yet her characters seem strangely at ease within their rather incongruous surrounds. Cameron has done editorial work for a number of magazines in Australia including Yen and Stu and is …

SXSW: A Scanner Darkly Sneak Preview

Fifteen years ago, Richard Linklater irreversibly altered the course of American cinema when he made Slacker, a movie that defined a generation and precipitated the indie film movement. Now, with A Scanner Darkly, his animated adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi novel about a drug-ravaged society, it looks like Linklater’s off in uncharted territory once again. At SXSW yesterday, Cool Hunting was among the first …

Talking with Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Drummers, those guys sitting in the back of the stage behind a wall of cymbals and amplifiers, often complain about being overlooked, and they usually have a point. Add an extravagant lead singer with a penchant for causing havoc on stage into the mix, and you’re likely to feel downright invisible. But that doesn’t bother Brian Chase, drummer for the Amazon.) Interview, Gold Lion music …