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Yeah, we know we’ve been pretty quiet in the last couple of days. It would’ve been very un-Australian of us to do any work yesterday  and not be recovering today. We’re pretty sure you lot didn’t blog yesterday, either, okay?

Anyway, 13th Witness, a professional photographer and videographer from NYC is out to show the haters that Instagram is actually used by ‘amateurs’ and pros alike, by publishing a book of some of his Instagram pics. Having said that, 13^th Witness doesn’t really take photos of food, booze, girls or animals so he’s probably a bit better than most of us. It’s available now at his webstore. 

Shot exclusively for Girls Got Kicks, Lori Lobenstine and Amanda Lopez’s definitive tome of women in sneaker culture, Cheech Sanchez presents a series of her photography work used in the book. In the portraits, Sanchez “juxtaposes feminine curves against the graffiti-laden laneways and back streets of Fitzroy and St Kilda, the exhibition is set to throw a bright spotlight on an otherwise elusive group of uniquely Melbournian women.”

Hosted by DJ and sneaker queen, M.A.F.I.A, the Girls Got Kicks Australian book launch, and Sanchez’s exhibition, will go down at The Vic from Thursday 2^nd February.

Girls Got Kicks Book Launch & Exhibition
The Vic Bar 281 Victoria St Abbotsford
02 February – 29 February
Opening night 02 Februrary from 5pm

Many of you are staring at the clock right now as tomorrow is a Public Holiday here in Oz and for Australia Day no less. A day which finds us sinking our body weights in tinnies, eating anything that walks and listening to the top 100 songs we wish we’d never hear again in a communal setting.

 Well fuck that last part! We had Sydney DJ and Heaps Decent head honcho Levins (as featured in our latest issue on AUSTRALIA, I love a good tie in) put together a mix of Aussie indie classics that hark back to a time when banjos, ‘quirky’ breathy female vocals and corny, watered down hip-hop with guitar riffs didn’t dominate the airwaves. We talking the days Recovery, Regurgitator and when Daniel Johns didn’t make dance music and talk funny. Behold….

 LEVINS - TURN UP YOUR STEREO! | AUSTRALIA DAY MIX FOR ACCLAIM

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?7k8qexe5ldl9k9g

Here’s a few words from the man himself, as well as a full track listing:

Happy Australia Day! I've been feeling fairly un-patriotic ever since my final laser session removed all traces of the Southern Cross tattoos on my neck, lower back and left buttock so I thought I'd put something super Oztrayan together to re-pledge my allegiance.

One of Australia’s most in-demand artists, Anthony Lister, will be opening a new show at LA’s New Image Art Gallery next month. The new works definitely have the ‘Anthony Lister aesthetic’, but there’s a really lovely, delicate feel to his portrayal of the female form. Love it to bits.