Bluelist 1: Japan Country Profile
Bluelist is a fairly newish title from Lonely Planet. It collects the hottest travel trends from around the world, based on suggestions from LP readers, and extrapolates them into top-ten lists and...
View ArticleThe Perfect Day: Melbourne
‘The Perfect Day: Melbourne’ by Simon Sellars, published in The Perfect Day, Lonely Planet Publications, September 2006. Melbourne’s parks and gardens do the trick most times of the year, and the CBD...
View ArticleMelbourne Welcomes You
Station Pier (photo: Simon Sellars). There used to be a sign here saying ‘Melbourne Welcomes You’, the first thing we saw when we got off the boat, I imagine. by Simon Sellars Originally published on...
View ArticleSubterrain #2: Introduction
by Simon Sellars ‘Subterrain #2: An Introduction’ was originally published in Subterrain magazine #2, July 2007. Subterrain is a magazine that provides an opportunity for homeless and marginalised...
View ArticleWhere to Go When: Yap
Photo: Simon Sellars. This piece on the Micronesian island of Yap was published in Dorling Kindersley’s guide to year-round travel, Where to Go When, Craig Doyle (ed), London: Dorling Kindersley, 2007....
View ArticleSmall Tales and True: Short Film at the Melbourne International Film...
Still from The Boy Who Loved Rain. by Simon Sellars Originally published in RealTime issue #81 Oct-Nov 2007. RECENTLY IN REALTIME AND ELSEWHERE I’VE BEEN CRITICAL OF AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM AND...
View ArticleBallardcraft: Ballard/Lovecraft
ABOVE: Back cover from The Haunter of the Dark and Other Grotesque Visions, John Coulthart’s book of Lovecraft adaptations. Originally published on ballardian.com, 16 July 2008. I have been curious...
View ArticleCrown Casino: ‘A snarling, digitised mutilation’
Originally published on ballardian.com, 27 May 2009. by SIMON SELLARS & STEVEN from MELB PSY Soundwalk by MELANIE CHILIANIS; photography by Simon Sellars. “The consumer society is a kind of soft...
View ArticlePalau’s Archipelago: Lovely and Unique
WWII monument on Peleliu. Photo: Simon Sellars. Originally published in Dynasty, China Airlines’ inflight magazine, August 2009. Deep in the North Pacific ocean, 800km east of the Philippines and over...
View ArticlePostcards from the Edgelands (for Marion Shoard)
Photography by Simon Sellars. 37° 40′ 60S, 144° 56′ 60E Originally published in Infrastructure as Architecture: Designing Composite Networks, Katrina Stoll & Scott Lloyd (eds), Berlin: Jovis, 2010....
View ArticleCornerfold: Reinvigorating Web Writing
Cornerfold screenshot: I Am A Toaster: Courtney Collins/Allison Colpoys by Simon Sellars Originally published in RealTime magazine, no. 55 June–July 2003. The New York Times recently posited that only...
View ArticleThe Making of a Tasmanian Film Industry
by Simon Sellars ‘The Making of a Tasmanian Film Industry’. Originally published in RealTime magazine #61, Jun-Jul 2004. In RT58, I interviewed a group of Melbourne directors and producers about the...
View ArticleKingston Brio
Photo: Andrew Rowat. (More photos here.) Originally published in Dwell, May 2008. Aaron Roberts and Thomas Bailey, the young architects behind room11, teamed up to design a house for Aaron’s parents,...
View ArticleRealTime Archive Highlights: Animation
Originally published in RealTime magazine, September, 2009. I began writing about Australian animation in 2003, but only by default. I was in the queues for the Melbourne International Film Festival...
View ArticleIn Defence of the Virtual: A Secret History of Ballardian Film Adaptations
Originally published in the Norwegian-language magazine Vagant, May-August 2011, pp. 10-11. In 1986, Christian Bale, as a child actor, made his breakthrough in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun, a...
View ArticleRed Zone: the Regeneration of Christchurch
Christchurch Cathedral. Expanding on the theme of the 2011 SCAPE Biennial in Christchurch, Simon Sellars reports on the possibilities for regeneration in the city through art and architecture. ‘Only...
View ArticleIf You Want Blood, You’ve Got It: or, What’s the Point of Architecture...
A panel of four speakers convened on 23 July as part of Refuel Victoria’s Monday Night Talks for ’Blood-Sport or Boosterism?’, a discussion about the nature of architecture criticism. The impetus...
View ArticleRed-dirt Voodoo: Rebuilding Australia’s Northwest
Originally published in Architectural Review Asia-Pacific magazine #128: New Civic Realms. All photography by Simon Sellars unless stated otherwise. In my time as AR editor, I never imagined the job...
View ArticleWhere to Go When: Yap
Photo: Simon Sellars. Originally published in Dorling Kindersley’s guide to year-round travel, Where to Go When, Craig Doyle (ed), London: Dorling Kindersley, 2007. WHERE TO GO WHEN Yap – December...
View ArticleLiquid Architecture: In the Beginning
The first LA flyer, 2000 (designed by Daniel New) I was recently asked about my involvement in the Liquid Architecture festival, so I thought I’d explain it here. Liquid Architecture originated in 2000...
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