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About Me



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FOR MORE ART AND FULL RANGE OF ARE/WHY? CLOTHING SEE WWW.ARE-WHY.COM.
All are/why? designs are created by Adelaide artist and animator, Ry Wilkin (Currently based in Newcastle). Below is are/why?'s most recent animated installation as seen at this years This Is Not Art Festival in Newcastle, Does This Animation Look Big On Me?

Life In A Spotlight - a filmclip for Sydonia's beautiful track, Taste More. If you haven't seen these guys yet do yourself a favour and do so.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Dead or alive ... Michel Foucault, Swoon, Stanley Kubrick, Brad Bird, Judith Butler, Os Gemeos, Frank Miller, Totoro, the person who invented World Free Comic Book Day, you (if you're nice, that is).

My Blog

World Take Over Warning (& Gilles St Markets)

are/why? wishes to advise that it plans to take over the world this Sunday, April 5th, using the Gilles St Markets as its platform and fab jewellery and vintage clothing label Dark Eyes as its accompl...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:25:00 GMT

The year that was 2008

The dawn before Christmas and it is suddenly clear that we have not written an official myspace blog in a whole year. Albeit tempting to embark on a critique of the phenomenon that appears to have gro...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:09:00 GMT

Black holes and revelations

The end of the year is fast approaching (although, we agree, it may not feel this way when you are standing in line at Target waiting for a price check on a Thomas the Tank Engine DVD that your nephew...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:43:00 GMT

Tori Amos and her Posse

She's coming back, and she's bringing her American Doll Posse with her. We at the are/why? HQ are feeling very excited about seeing Ms Amos perform at Thebbie with her band in September. (Those tix a...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:04:00 GMT

Events, Pilgrimages and Tool

Hello all   To fill you in on a few slightly major occurrences in the are/why? world:   (1)   We have moved! After a great launch on the Sunshine Coast, it was time to head South...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:11:00 GMT

News and other useless info

We hope that 2007 has gotten off to a fine start for you and that the recovery from the festive season is in its dying stages &   We have big plans for this year, and have already started puttin...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:52:00 GMT

Naughty or Nice

3 nights before Christmas and the are/why? team is feeling very excited indeed. The lights are on, the tinsel is draped across the living room in a dodgy fashion and are/why? t-shirts are being wrappe...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:12:00 GMT

Quote of the Month

Quote of the month:   It's like drawing a circle and having everyone say, hey, that's a really nice square   - brotherofsam are/why? artistic director 
Posted by on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:54:00 GMT

are/why? takes off

In case you haven't heard (if you're one of the lucky ones who didn't receive one of those annoying texts from us after we'd had a few bubblies last night), are/why? officially launched yesterday. ww...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:47:00 GMT

Launching 15 November

For those of you have not heard ... due to circumstances beyond our control (fear not, I haven't stabbed myself with a needle), we have had to postpone our launch until Wednesday 15 November. The webs...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:36:00 GMT