Better hurry, there aren't many left!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Final week! Machines now at The Thousands Shop
The final week of Insert Coin Here is finally here! OMG!
Featuring a second drop of work from Dell Stewart, Antuong Nguyen, Anita Cummins, Grant Nimmo, Lauren Brown + more. Thanks guys!
The Thousands Shop is located on Level 6, Curtin House, 252 Swanston Street.
Photos to follow soon... sit tight.
Thanks for coming to the opening!
We'd like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who came to the official opening for Insert Coin Here on Friday 12 March at 1000 £ Bend. It was great to see so many familiar faces (and fresh ones too!) and we hope you had a great night.
The vending machines sold out in a record 30 minutes, and if you managed to score some sweet goods, awesome! If not, hey don't worry as Insert Coin Here will be hanging around at The Thousands Shop in Curtin House, 252 Swanston Street, till the end of the month.
We're also super glad that Holly Fluxx from Melbourne Street Fashion came to the opening as she took some lovely photos as well as wrote a great article on the show (click here to read it). Thanks very much Holly, we really, really appreciate it!
Here are a few photos from the night as taken by Holly. When you're done perusing, make sure you visit Melbourne Street Fashion to view more images!
Photo credit: Holly Fluxx
Monday, March 15, 2010
3rd location: Alice Euphemia - now almost sold out!
The Insert Coin Here machines have now moved to their third location at Alice Euphemia where they will stay for the duration of LMFF (Sun 14 March to Sun 21 March).
This time round they've been separated with one machine at the front and another at the back.
We popped by this evening and there are a little over a dozen capsules left between the two, so act fast if you'd like to take one home!
By the way, if you miss out there's still a week and a bit left of the exhibition when the machines move to their fourth and final location at The Thousands Shop in Curtin House.
Guest blogging for Alice Euphemia
Over the next few days we'll be writing a few guest posts for the Alice Euphemia blog. What an honour!
More updates to follow soon!
Happy recepients!
Check out these updates from handmadelife, Nathan Gray and Estelle of curbside style. Click the images to go to their respective blogs.
It's always lovely to hear where the Insert Coin Here works have ended up, so do leave a comment on the blog to let the artists know!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Official opening party: Fri 12 March from 7-11pm at 1000 £ Bend
Special thanks to Luci Everett for her wonderful graphic design work.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Setting up at Captains
Nicholas Jones (left) and James Roberts.
To make an inappropriate pun using the word 'ball' would be beneath us, not to mention just way too easy!
Captains of Industry: 8 - 13 March
On Saturday afternoon we were supposed to move the vending machines to their next location at Captains of Industry, but the rain held us back. Here is an obligatory shot of the bad weather.
Check out the intense spot of hail on the left!
After that minor setback, the machines were moved on Tuesday morning and are now sitting pretty at Captains.
Not sure where or what or who Captains of Industry is?
Captains of Industry is a gentleman's outfitters and cafe. Run by two very dashing men, James Roberts & Thom Grogan, Captains is relatively new in town having only opened a few months ago. Step in from 8am-5pm from Monday to Thursday, 8am-8pm on Fridays and 10am-5pm on Saturdays to enjoy one of Melbourne's best coffees, a mug of homemade ginger beer (potent on an empty stomach) or perhaps a hearty sandwich for lunch. Heck, why not have it all!
In addition to food, James is also a skilled shoemaker whose classically designed bespoke shoes complement Thom's sharp tailoring. We also hear that there will be a barber moving in too! Now gentlemen across Melbourne have no excuse not to be well-groomed from head to toe.
Now the important part: directions!
To get to Captains, make your way down Little Bourke Street till you hit Elizabeth Street.
Keep going a little bit further... Captains is located in the first left off Lt Bourke on Somerset Place, just before RG Madden.
There you go!
Now turn left on to Somerset Place,
And there it is!
Make your way up the stairs. Don't forget to keep your fingers crossed that there'll still be some capsules left in the vending machines!
Insert Coin Here will be at Captains of Industry until Saturday 13 March.
In the meantime, do have a look at James and Thom's respective websites:
The interior of Captains of Industry
RRR
Yesterday we made our way down to Triple R 102.7FM where we were invited to talk about Insert Coin Here on the Room with a View program. Presented by RMIT Media Arts Students, Room with a View is an hour long segment that is on every Monday from 12-1pm.
We were interviewed by the very lovely Laura and Hoon - thank you very much for having us guys! It was great!
We hope you managed to catch the interview and if not, we'll figure out a way to post a sound clip here soon (technology willing).
Laura and Hoon
Triple R's foyer
Monday, March 1, 2010
Day 1: A sell out show at Craft Victoria in 6 hours!
At 10am this morning the vending machines were wheeled out and filled with their allotted amount of capsules for their week at Craft Victoria - all 130 of them!
By lunchtime there was a bit of a crowd gathering...
Lots of lovely people dropped by to check out the machines and buy a couple of capsules, including Insert Coin Here artists Kyoko Imazu, Dawn Tan, Gavin Bell, Dylan Martorell, Simon MacEwan (pictured below with the lovely Karen Rieschieck, owner of Alice Euphemia) and Simon Zoric.
Simon MacEwan & Karen Rieschieck (holding work by Grant Nimmo, and Michael Pham and Dani Maugeri respectively) - the vending machines will be at Alice Euphemia during Fashion Week!
By 4pm there weren't many left at all. In fact there were none...
And after this lovely gentleman did us the honour of purchasing the last capsules, while wearing one of Beck Jobson's David Lee Rocks necklaces of course, it was time to hang out the 'Sold out!' signs:
A sell out show at our first location in 6 hours! What a record!
For everyone who's missed out, don't worry as the machines will be replenished weekly to ensure that each venue gets their moment in the spotlight. The machines will be moving to Captains of Industry on Tuesday 9 March where they will be for the remainder of the week. They will be refilled with 150 capsules, so fingers crossed you'll be able to get your hands on one of them.
Captains is located on Level 1, 2 Somerset Place (off Little Bourke Street, past Elizabeth Street) and we hear James makes one of the best coffees in Melbourne. In fact, we can attest to this! Hopefully they'll have some homemade ginger beer on offer as well as some delicious pear & blue cheese sandwiches available during lunch. Yum! Looking forward to seeing you there!
In the meantime, why not bide your time by looking through what's on offer. It'll give you time to start plotting ad strategising the best move to get you what you want... and please, no shaking of the machines!
PS, when you check out the machines, you'll notice a black box to the side labelled capsule collection box. Please drop off your unwanted capsules in this box so that we may reuse them to refill the machines. Thank you!
The first turn of the day
Our first turn of the day was courtesy of a very nice lady who patiently waited outside Craft Victoria's door from 9.45am until Kim gathered her muscle (ahem, Beck Jobson) and moved to the machines to their spot outside Craft Victoria.
Inside was Sarah McNeil's Little Black Robin! What a treat! As the saying goes, the super keen art enthusiast gets the adorable paper bird brooch.
Insert Coin Here: featured on The Design Files & handmadelife!
We couldn't have asked for, or expected, a warmer welcome by two of Melbourne's best craft & design blogs - The Design Files and handmadelife.
What better way to usher in the first day of Insert Coin Here than with two wonderful feature posts! A big thank you to the always lovely Lucy Feagins at The Design Files, and Beck Jobson & Ramona Barry at handmadelife - thank you ladies! You really made our day!
To visit their blogs, click the image/link below.
Click here to check out our feature on handmadelife (who are also contributing their Craft Emergency Kits to the show!)
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Insert Coin Here
Insert Coin Here comprises of two vending machines strategically placed in public spaces around the Melbourne CBD. Containing limited edition 'fashion objects' produced by over 60 Melbourne-based artists, the vending machines are activated when a member of the public inserts a $2 coin. The exhibition explores alternative interfaces of exchange for fashion, the mechanised system as a form of 'fashion dialogue'. More broadly, it thinks through discourses around public space and the role that fashion might play in it.
1 - 31 March 2010
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