SHE'S LIKE THE WIND BY DIVYA BALA AND LEVON BAIRD
Once, summer meant endless feverish days bookended by the briefest winks of velvet night; a humming cicada song over a metronomic percussion of ice cubes against sweating glass; salt waves that washed overhead like a pulse and the echo of heat from every side and from below.
IN HONOUR OF UNCELEBRATED LAST TIMES BY LAUREN BRUMLEY
When habits vary or trends fade, we’re not always aware of the change. Tastes may shift, but there is still a finality to them. We just may not notice the transition.
‘First Impressions’ by Melanie Mahony
In the age of Instagram, it’s more than likely anyone new you meet has either already seen your online persona, or will look you up afterwards.
Playing With Fire by Luke Shadbolt & Eli Murphy
All things begin, end and begin again in fire. From the earliest dawning of humankind’s consciousness, fire has represented the most powerful and unrelenting source of change known to us.
Remember This Feeling by Divya Bala
Possession is symbiotic, the things we have, have us. There’s an intimacy that binds, that is forged as they live with you, against your skin.
The Space Between Us (I hope you swipe what you’re looking for) by Noelle Faulkner
If love is a blanket of darkness that, despite dilated pupils, constricts our sight into a single-track tunnel, floods our brains with stress hormones and turns us into a dizzy mess of preoccupation and restlessness; then intimacy is the light switch.
The Language of Love by Matilda Dods
There is a sweet and sticky awkwardness of falling in love that never truly leaves, even after the days of high school and asking your parents’ permission to go out with your boyfriend. Like an ice cream melting down your fingers, sugary trails to be licked off hands and wrists, leaving behind a sticky residue.
Limits of Control: Memo from the Deep End by Noelle Faulkner
How do you know you’re alive? Heartbeats? Breath? Pain? Love? Fear? Moments? Evidence left on your flesh? Risk? G-force? Caffeine? Existential dread?
Alive
Edition N°2 ponders the vast notion of being ALIVE.
What it means to be ALIVE seems to be just as elusive as the meaning of life itself.
In This Day and Age by Tatiana Farley
Punk rock prodigy Patti Smith astutely observed, “Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself.”
Breath Becomes Air by Bree McDonald
We are, as Australians, intrepid by nature. Our location fuels our wanderlust, forcing our creative industries to be bold, to be heard. Our cultural isolation lending innovation and leading to world-class equivalence.
Swaying in the Winds: Rethinking Influence by Noelle Faulkner
Technology has changed the meaning of influence. Where it was once the verb of inspiration, the burst of wind that propels one into changing course, the strike of a match starting a fire otherwise un-tindered; influence is now a currency.
Influence
Edition N°1 launches with the theme, INFLUENCE. Read more about it here...