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…
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…
‘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…
Federal Emissions Targets Are Totally Inadequate
Today the Federal government has announced that it will aim to cut carbon emissions by 26-28% of 2005 levels by 2030. With Julie Bishop heading to the COP21 Paris climate…
Hard Times: What Socialist Alternative Can Learn from Wrestling
The first thing you notice about the Socialist Alternative-led protest against cuts to Arts majors is that none of its speakers, despite their presumed experience, know how to cut a…
Short story: An Incident at the Glove Factory
Nosing at the Selangor canals in the industrial zone of Setia City, there is a large, grey, squat building of a dour aesthetic which one passer-by of no consequence to…
Railsea by China Miéville
An imaginative reworking of the classic tale of Moby Dick by a daring and experimental author, Railsea (2012) is a fantasy work steeped in false science and the drama of…
Gentlemen And Sledgers: A History of the Ashes in 100 Quotations and Confrontations by Rob Smyth
Some of the most stunning works of sport history in recent times have come not from historians but from the cabal of talented writers who have circled the offices of…