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Adrian Fernand  |  535 posts


Adrian Fernand is an Australian writer born in Melbourne. He has spent close to a decade in the communications and event management industries; working as an event manager for leading luxury goods brand, Louis Vuitton and as director of a marketing, events and online strategy consultancy. He has in excess of 90 pairs of shoes.

Confessions of a Master Forger: Our Talk with Tony Tetro

Confessions of a Master Forger: Our Talk with Tony Tetro

→  May 22, 2012 1

He’s been heralded as the world’s greatest living art forger, he’s copied everything from Dalí to Rembrandt to Rothko, and has even forged a 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa (of which only two were ever made)—from scratch. Now he’s taken on Warhol and has been commissioned to fake nine works by the famed pop artist by the Art [...]

Bye Bye “Beer Fairies”: John Cleese on Booze, Style and Hipsters

Bye Bye “Beer Fairies”: John Cleese on Booze, Style and Hipsters

→  May 17, 2012 1

He’s played a range of characters: from brusque hotelier, to medieval madman and even Lucy Liu’s father in Charlie’s Angels 2: Full Throttle, one of the best worst movies ever made (Hello, Demi in mink and lingerie!). His career spans five decades, in which he walked sillily, made fun of the French and generally stood [...]

Be Serenaded Awake with Uniqlo’s Wake Up App

Be Serenaded Awake with Uniqlo’s Wake Up App

→  May 9, 2012 2

Have you ever woken up and felt like an inkjet printer? No, you say? Well give this a listen and let me convince you otherwise: Yes it’s a strange comparison, but there are days when the magenta cartridge runs out and you can’t help but feel a bit greige. That’s grey plus beige, in case [...]

The Chivalry of Champagne: G.H.MUMM’s Gentlemanly Education

The Chivalry of Champagne: G.H.MUMM’s Gentlemanly Education

→  May 4, 2012 1

When I was an infant, I suspect I was weaned on champagne. While I wasn’t allowed Coca-Cola because it would rot my teeth, I suspect a piccolo of the good stuff was upturned, a rubber teat attached and a mild sprinkling tested on my mother’s wrist. While I’m hesitant to admit the holes in my [...]

High-Style Hippies: Kriss & Jules Jewellery

High-Style Hippies: Kriss & Jules Jewellery

→  May 3, 2012 2

If you’re a bit of a hippy in a fur coat like me, it’s likely that you will have meddled with a bit of crystal in your past. No, not that kind of crystal, Jason Russell (allegedly), I’m talking about that agate that you find exclusively at wooOOOOOOooooooo stores as my grandmother liked to call [...]

Learn Your Dating Shortcomings with WotWentWrong

Learn Your Dating Shortcomings with WotWentWrong

→  April 26, 2012 2

How would you like me to tell you that you were terrible in bed, had halitosis worse than a crack-addicted garlic farmer and your choice in footwear was less than desirable? Didn’t think so. Now what if someone who you once dated, no matter to what extent of humiliation could do the same and do [...]

Light Reading: House Brick Bookends

Light Reading: House Brick Bookends

→  April 24, 2012 Comments Off

If you live in a rough area, chances are you know the versatility of the humble house brick. Informal coffee table? No problem. Home protection device? Excellent. A way of extracting the rent out of an irresponsible housemate? Perfect! Now you can add bookend to its list of uses. Made in Melbourne from the discarded [...]

Ain’t Nuttin But a Gangsta Party: Snoop Dogg’s Smokeable Book

Ain’t Nuttin But a Gangsta Party: Snoop Dogg’s Smokeable Book

→  April 19, 2012 1

As if the Internet wasn’t already ablaze with talk of Tupac Shakur’s holographic resurrection (gotta love an estate prepared to pimp out their deceased loved ones) at Coachella, 90s hiphop hype is at fever pitch. But what about poor old Snoop? His co-performance of the egregiously-spelt ”2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted” (Though, this came from a [...]

Look, Mum, No Hands! Tokyoflash Japan’s Fun But Confusing Timepieces

Look, Mum, No Hands! Tokyoflash Japan’s Fun But Confusing Timepieces

→  April 18, 2012 Comments Off

Have you ever noticed what a bad wrap wolves have received in folklore? In the Three Little Pigs, the poor asthmatic wolf huffed and puffed his way into a cauldron wolf soup, which The Guardian has cleared up as an insurance scam by the pigs themselves. In Little Red Riding Hood the poor old wolf was so hungry he had to [...]

Get the Ice Cream Truck of Love on the Road and Help Us Change the World

Get the Ice Cream Truck of Love on the Road and Help Us Change the World

→  April 11, 2012 Comments Off

On I Do Believe I Came with a Hat we talk about the refined things in life and from time to time, weddings. While we aim to be exclusive, our stance is not the same concerning marriage. You see, for too long now only a certain portion of the community has been able to get [...]