Issue 2 now out

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64 PAGES OF PUNS, NOW WITH MORE CATS

Nah, we wish we could make a magazine that awesome! But the second issue of Happenstance comes pretty close, if we do say so ourselves. We’ve absorbed all the feedback from our inaugural issue, and crammed it all in to make the second Happenstance a bigger, badder media experience.

FAT IS BACK

Back fat, not so much. Happenstance is now a whopping 64 pages, filled with more of the things you loved. In this issue’s Bedroom Safari, local artist, printmaker and all-round nice girl Del Lumanta invites us into her prizewinning bedroom. Rough Pages is back due to popular demand, with sketchbook submissions from Luke Kopycinski, Jacob O. Rolfe, Rodrigo Luff and Evan Shipard. Meanwhile, Michael Bay’s slopfest Transformersgoes tête à tête with Stephen Sommers’ GI Joe in the latest Versus. But most importantly, we’ve kept it all homegrown, yet expanded our minds a little: most of our content is Sydney-sourced, but we’re keeping an eye out on a national scale.

ADDED GOODITIVES

Our second issue takes us into previously uncharted territory with new sections. We’ve bumped out a sweet little gallery section for you to ogle, treasure, rip out, stick up, or make origami out of: whatever floats your boat, it’ll be prettier with work from Rebecca Murphy, Sean Batchelor, qwux, Jessica Klingelfuss, Renee Anne, Megan Dell and Natalie Perkins. And we’ve fattened up on the fashion stakes, with a visual story highlighting some of Australia’s best and brightest clothes crafters, featuring Saint Augustine Academy, Pedro Garcia, Ellery and heaps more.

SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT

Like any good time, the feature stories in issue two are longer, stronger and more satisfying. Rebecca Leaver talks to Sydney-based street artist and mindbender Adam Norton to explore the effects of art attacks in public spaces, Oliver Downes turns off MTV to find out what’s happening with local independent music labels, while Henning Kirkeby ponders why a pretty young lady is cutting and stuffing dead rodents.

LEAN, MEAN AND GREEN

Have you pre-ordered your copy of issue 2? Because chances are it’ll show up at your place on the back of a bike. We’ve teamed up with the good folks at the Sydney Bicycle Film Festival to go green, and they’re very graciously delivering the first 25 pre-orders in Sydney via push bike this weekend (17th-18th October)… Nice!

WE STILL WANT YOU

Like our first issue, all our contributions, both written and visual, are sourced from local up-and-coming creative types. Do yourself a favour, and pick up Happenstance to see how you can get involved in celebrating a creative local culture. We’re here for you.

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