Maybe you have a short attention span. Or maybe you'd like to know what we're eating, every time we eat. Join us on Twitter where we'll be. It's awesome for procrastination and sharing cool links, and finding out about celebrity deaths!

Posted by claire in Words

Tags: celebrity deaths, throwshapes, Twitter, what we eat

Hey! Are you into art, or films, or music or writing or theatre or photography? Or anything else? What about comics, or zines, or guerrilla craft, or underground cupcake restaurants?

Are you ok at putting sentences together heaps and saying stuff? Do you believe in the talents of the people of your town and prepared to go the extra mile to celebrate them? Or are you involved in something amazing that's changing the face of New Zealand, or have outstanding opinions on local creative production?

Is the answer yes to any or all of the above then you should get your typing pants on and become a contributor for Throwshapes. We're always looking for well-informed writers and photographers. Drop an email to info (at) throwshapes.co.nz and we'll let you know how to get started!

Posted by claire in Words

FREE HAMBURGER is a new kind of hi/lo-brow street press for Auckland. Issue #2 has just dropped out there so get your hands on it. Throwshapes caught up with the man behind the freeness for a couple of minutes this week:

Why photography?

I don't really know it just sort works for me. I don't usually try to take photos it kinda just happens.

Could you tell us about your concepts for 'Free Hamburger' and 'Chilli, Beef and Cheese' how did the idea come about to produce these publications?

The concepts behind Chilli be was just a insight into artist studios, bedroom and work spaces.

Free Hamburger is created by artists for the benefit of art and the street level consumer of art and fashion. It is committed to providing fresh and creative ideas, and exceptional content that is easily accessible to anyone and everyone.

The important focus of Free Hamburger is to reconstruct high level interpretations of fashion and art and release it at street level for no cost, and ultimately become a force for making creativity, art, and fashion more diegestible and relevant to the masses.

Posted by Erin in Fashion, Words

Tags: Art, being a tastemaker, Fashion, free hamburger

One good thing about the internet is that you don’t have to buy the magazines that exist on it to read them. Like CreatureMag. It’s just like any other awesome illustration/design mag only it is free and online and completely free of advertising.

Coming out of the UK, but awesome to people everywhere, CreatureMag is an assemblage of illustration and exhibitions around a central theme. This time, it’s FRIENDSHIP. Heart

Posted by claire in Art, Words

Tags: Art, Creaturemag, illustration, UK

Hey so when we were at the awesome, awesome, unbelievably cool Cross Street Zine Fair a while back we met the nice people who put together Potroast.

How many zine-makers are there really in New Zealand? Not tonnes. But the ones that we do have are amazing. Have you SEEN Neighbour Cats?

In other, vital Zine news, Potroast #4 is launching in Auckland early next week. This is the zine that will feature the winning drawing from the Zine Fair on the back of a macca’s fries bag. Totally can’t wait.

Check it out! Deets here.

Posted by claire in Art, Words

Tags: Cross Street, Maccas, Neighbour Cats, Potroast, Zines