Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents
Director: Don Hardy Jr. Starring: The Residents, Matt Groening, Les Claypool, Pen Gillette The Residents, for the uninitiated, are that band your weirdo friend tried to impress on you at…
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: SPEAKING TO MOANA PROJECT SPACE
Opened in November 2012, MOANA Project Space has established itself in the contemporary and emerging art sector as a venue for art that once did not have a dedicated platform…
What’s good on Netflix? Pelican helps plan your next binge
WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER: FIRST DAY OF CAMP Parody films are hard to do well, and often fall completely flat. Even well done parody films are rarely a commercial success,…
The New World Order
A quarter of a century ago on 2nd August 1990, the first major international crisis of the post-Cold War world began. After months of objections by Iraq for Kuwait to…
SkyNet Lives! An investigation of DARPA
When you think of giant, earth-ravaging existential threats these days, what comes to mind? A global health pandemic? Global warming? Terrorism? That super volcano beneath the Yellowstone National Park that…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 13: Only Pelican will deliver real results
To make up for our absence yesterday, we present to you a special BUMPER EDITION DUAL POST, in which Pelican’s two editors regale you with the stories from their weekends…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 11: Time to start unfollowing
Blackout period is OVER, Y’ALL! You might wanna switch over to Google + for the next couple of weeks – things are about to get horrifically real. Nobody is safe.…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 9: Suit and tie
My day was very pleasant, thank you for asking. What wasn’t so pleasant was my phone’s constant buzzing, signaling the arrival of the same photograph over and over again. I’ve…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 8: We’re being watched
I’ll begin by saying hello to our friends at the Federal Department of Parliamentary Services – who are apparently big fans of these posts, according to the Pelican website’s stat…
‘Tis But A Scratch: Getting Down with UWA’s Foremost Medieval Society
In an effort to discover more about one of it’s most iconic but esoteric campus clubs, Pelican hung out with the University of Western Australia’s branch of the International Society…