COLOUR

HEY EVERYBODY
This month we challenge you to express yourself in colour by entering our first colouring in competition.

COLOUR THIS

INSTRUCTIONS
1. You can use photoshop (or any other graphics application) or download the image and colour in by hand.
2. You must use between two and four colours to colour in the image
3. To download image click on the image and drag it onto your desktop
4. Email entries to

corkysaintclair@gmail.com
(please use the subject heading "Colour"
5. Mail phyiscal entries to


Corky Saint Clair
Shop 3 Degraves Street Subway
Melbourne
3000
6. Competition not open to Corky Saint Clair employees or their families
7. You can enter as many times as you want
8. Contest ends May 24th 2010. Winners announced 1st June 2010.
9. Good luck! 

PRIZES

First Prize: Batsu Sterling Silver Necklace
Second Prize: Wooden Skull brooch or necklace
Third Prize: Moses Hippo Wooden brooch
Fourth Prize: Moses Perspex brooch

WINNER

Hi Everybody
Here are this month's prize winners. Congratulations, your awesome prizes (a wooden tree brooch) awaits you at the shop. If you live interstate or can not pick up your prize please contact us and we will mail your prize to you. Thanks to everyone who entered. This month's competition has a stunning sterling silver batsu necklace as a prize so make sure you enter!


MAY WINNERS
Hilary Molinia
Glen Miller
"Nikky"
Shelly Scarborough
Alison Maddox

POKE

I love these needlepoint cushions made by Brigid Berlin. They are so funny - especially the one of Keith Richards in the top photo.


Berlin was a socialite and one of Andy Warhol's 'Superstars'. Wikipedia reports: "After several years as a reluctant debutante and a failed marriage, Brigid Berlin met Andy Warhol in 1964 and quickly became a central member of his entourage. After moving to Hotel Chelsea, she took on the nickname Brigid Polk because of her habit of giving out 'pokes', injections of Vitamin B and amphetamines."


It's good to see that in her later years she's turned her hand to a more lasting kind of 'needlework'. Though it seems like she'd need some 'pokes' to finish the intricate work on these smart cushion-y odes to pop culture.

LOST

Alot of the fun jewellery I make is one off stuff that you never see again. Like this zombie hand that Elwyn and I made on Xmas eve 07. It was so much fun designing and making it on the spot.

The other piece I would love to see again is the legs wearing stilletos silver necklace I made for Rhys from that TV show "So You Think You Can Dance?".  It was so cool the legs moved so they looked like they were walking.

I only had a day to make it and ran out of time. I ran out of time to even photograph it.

OMG

We are currently designing a new range of cards to be screen printed.

Check out these old designs that never made it to print....

AXE

Sterling Silver axe charm
Available from Corky Saint Clair $59au

KILN

Check out the new Corky Saint Clair kiln which we finally got to our studio.
Top photo some porcelain discs with Mcneill's drawings on them.

LETTER

Love letters are so huge right now. Everyone is writing them. Apparently the latest trend is to write them by hand and physically mail them. I like to write mine on 'onionskin paper' in invisible ink that only becomes legible when held over the naked flame of a candle. Tres Romantic, huh?

If you don't have time to get to the post office you can still get yourself a piece of that love letter pie with these new Sterling Silver studs by local designer Victoria Mason.

Available from Corky Saint Clair $65Au

PLANE

Super cute sterling silver paper plane charm by Victoria Mason.

Available from Corky Saint Clair
$65Au

APPLE

Sterling silver apple charm by Victoria Mason

Available from Corky Saint Clair
$65Au

SALEM

SALEM - DIRT from ACEPHALE on Vimeo.

This is horrible and messy - like David Lynch doing zombie porn. Totally NSFW but so funny. And the track kicks ass.

PS. The music doesn't start until 1.02. press pause and let it load for awhile....

FONT

We got our first font CorkyBlack laser cut out of wood. It looks fontastic. Made some cool necklaces which Louis is modelling in the top pics and some inspirational visual merchandising messages for our customers.

CRAYONS

MANIFEST

 

Manifest everything you want. 

Believe it, receive it. 

Visualise that shit.

Sterling Silver 'Manifest' Necklace on an 82cm trace chain.

$100au from Corky Saint Clair

SWORD

Silver sword necklace. Available from Corky Saint Clair $89au

KRAKEN

1. POEM
The Kraken by By Alfred Tennyson


Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides: above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die


2. JEWELLERY
Karloff Necklace by Corky

3. MP3

THE WRESTLE BY FRIGHTENED RABBIT

4. YOUTUBE

''THE CRAKEN" CLASH OF THE TITANS

MALCOLM

RIP Malcom McClaren. I was going to post Madame Butterfly but this is cuter and more Corky.

HTDW

Enjoy the fuzzy beauty of How To Dress Well. This combines all my favourite reference points - flat, lo fi production, lion king-esque vocals and fuzzy synthesizers - this makes yearning sound cool.

My friend Jack wrote: "If you could run nostalgia through some cheap reverb pedals, and piggy-back it on some clattery thuds and tickity bin-snares, it would probably sound a lot like this"

decisions feat. yüksel arslan by howtodresswell



HOW TO DRESS WELL - "Decisions" (feat. Yüksel Arslan) from Jamie Harley on Vimeo.

TREES

TREES

 

New at Corky Saint Clair - Corky Brand™Magic Trees. Just add water and watch the mystical beauty spring forth from these stunning flowering trees.

Available from Corky Saint Clair $19au

PAPER

How beautiful are these papercut greeting cards by famed illustrator Rob Ryan? If you loved his book "This is for you", you'll love this range.

Available at Corky Saint Clair $6 Au

KEYS

What could be a better 21st present than a super cute vintage style key charm? We have two sterling silver versions in the shop.

The top key is by Red Cloud Design.

The bottom key is on a cool 80cm sterling silver chain.

Both key charms available from Corky Saint Clair. Top key $59Au. Bottom key $69Au.

FREE

Dear Readers + Customers

We have a special giveaway for April - A red wooden tree shaped brooch by local jewellers ELK. There are five brooches to be won. 

Just send us an email with your name to corkysaintclair@gmail.com with the subject headline "RED TREE". Our random generator will choose five winners. Entries close April 24th.

1. One entry per customer
2. Entry not open to Corky Saint Clair employees or their families.

EASTER

HARSH