Australian Penthouse

Congratulations to our winner – Marie Pohnetalova of Bondi Junction, NSW.

Thanks to Shock, we have ONE prize pack of miscellaneous WWE merchandise, valued at more than $100, to give away to a lucky pro wrestling fan. It includes:

* DVD copies of WrestleMania XXVI—featuring such classic bouts as Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels and Bret ‘Hit Man’ Hart vs Mr McMahon—as well as Over the Limit, which sees John Cena going toe to toe with ‘The Animal’ Batista

* A John Cena Series 1 action figure

* A beer-tastic John Cena glass stein, AND

* Official WWE carry straps for your bag and mobile phone.

Your Name
 

Your Email address
 

Your home address

Question: “Why do you deserve some WWE lovin’?”

COMPETITION CLOSED

TERMS & CONDITIONS: Game of Skill

Competition commences on 08/09/10 and concludes on 06/10/10 at 12:00pm. Entry is open to all residents of Australia, but excludes all employees of Australian Penthouse. Entrants must provide their contact details and an answer to the question, “Why do you deserve some WWE lovin’?” in 25 words or less. This is a Game of Skill which contains no element of chance, and which will be judged by members of the Australian Penthouse staff on 06/10/10. The winner will receive one prize pack, as specified above. The items will be mailed to the winner at the address nominated in their entry. The promoter takes no responsibility for lost or misdirected entries, and no correspondence will be entered into.

Party Girl

Seductive Sydney model, Madison Ashton, says she loves a light spanking, punishing bad boys, and working on her site: www.sydneypartygirls.com
PHOTOGRAPHY: RICK BENSON Continue reading “Web Special Babe, January 2010, Madison” »

Animal Kingdom
Director:  David Michod
Star:  Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver
Madman Entertainment

Animal Kingdom centres around a Melbourne family of drug dealers—a popular topic post-Underbelly—and the extended family’s rapidly escalating violence with the police.

The viewer sees events unfold through the eyes of the film’s protagonist and youngest family member, 17-year-old Joshua (James Frecheville), an adolescent wrestling with his allegiance to his family and his conscious.

Written and directed by David Michod, what is so different about Animal Kingdom compared with many other Melbourne underworld movies and TV series of late, is that it doesn’t glorify the drug trade, or life “in the business”.

There are no dramatic gun scenes, no wads of money counted, no mountains of cocaine piled on table-tops. The movie instead focuses on the cascading errors in judgement shown by the family, coupled with the audience’s underlying belief that no good will come of the deaths and drug use—primarily via the expressive-yet-passive narration of Joshua throughout the film.

Ben Mendelsohn steals the show as the increasingly psychotic ‘Uncle Pope’, a man who delves deeper into paranoia, and eventually insanity, due to the mounting death-toll surrounding him and his trigger-happy, drug-taking antics. Winner of the 2010 Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Drama at Sundance, Animal Kingdom presents Australian story-telling in a new light, and is definitely worth watching.

Animal Kingdom opens in cinemas nationally on June 3.

There’s been six bond’s all up – Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and the very handsome Daniel Craig. These actors were all kicking baddies’ butts with the latest gadgets and secret weapons, were all sleeping with the hottest female film stars in Hollywood, and all, let’s face it, extremely good looking guys. However who was the best 007? Continue reading “Web Poll: Who is the best James Bond?” »

REALITY BITES

Australian artist Ben Frost creates art that entertains as much as it aggravates.  And that suits him just fine…

Interview:  Kate Hutchinson

What inspired you to become an artist?
“It’s better than a normal job—and I can nap whenever I feel like it.”

What would you do for a buck if you couldn’t make art?
“I would probably be the guy in the factory who tests disposable lighters.”

What’s behind the style of art you create?
“I believe that any creative endeavour is about trying to process and figure out the world around us. I’m still trying to come to terms with how saturated we all are with advertising, television, the media, and what this means for our society. I don’t pretend that I’ve come up with any answers, but being able to critically assess how we live and why we’re so obsessed with ridiculous things like Britney Spears and Fly-Buys, is my main motivation.”

What have you been working on recently?
“Lately I’ve been working a lot with artists on Stupidkrap.com, the art portal I run.  It’s always funny when I call  a new supplier or client, and say: “Hi, I’m calling from Stupidkrap..”, the irony is quite delicious. We make prints and help promote Australian artists in exhibitions and projects, mostly out of Sydney, but also in other States as well.”

How do you stay inspired?
“I spend a lot of time trawling the Internet and in second-hand book stores looking for bizarre images that I can find new ways to subvert.  In my art practice, I’m only as good as the images I can find to work with,  so I have to be constantly updating my library of pictures to keep it fresh.

“I have boxes and boxes of strange old magazines I bought on Ebay and scraps of packaging I found on the street somewhere.  I love going through the supermarket aisles and buying products based entirely on the merit of its packaging design–it’s totally inspiring. The packaging on the Ratsak box is my favourite; I always look at it when I visit the supermarket, even though I don’t have rodent problems.”

Do you have other interests, outside of art?
“I sing in a punk band when we have time to rehearse and do gigs.  I also like watching really bad movies.”

What can we expect from you this year?
“More exhibitions closer to home. I have shows planned in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. You can get updates on my exhibitions by joining the mailing list at my website: www.benfrostisdead.com”

What do you think makes your work popular?

“I make Pop Art, so there’s heavy use of popular imagery in my work that most people can instantly recognise. I think people also enjoy seeing their favourite—or least favourite—icons and logos manipulated and subverted to create new dialogues that you [otherwise] wouldn’t get to see.

“Pop Art [offers] a way to ‘take the power back’, because you can have some control over the images that companies and the media are always  ramming down our throats.  You can take these images and characters and alter them to show the kind of twisted things they probably do behind the scene—like Astroboy giving you the finger, Pluto and Goofy doing it doggy-style, or Bambi giving birth to a stream of baby Bambis.”

Didn’t some guy slash one of your paintings at a recent exhibition?
“I’ve made a few paintings that speak too directly for some people to be able to process.  I did a painting of two children preparing to shoot up drugs in an idyllic setting, with an aeroplane crashing in the background.  The piece was displayed in an area of Brisbane where there was a marked increase in the use of intravenous drugs by younger people, and it caused some controversy but at the same time it also created healthy discussion about the context of what [the painting] means and [why] it was displayed [there].

“I think many people are frightened of the reality of their own environment, and rather than try to do something to change it, they compensate by being overly critical of people who are trying to express what is staring them in the face.”

Is there a specific piece that you are especially proud of?
“I’ve always really liked the painting ‘Kmart After Dark’.  It was one of the first paintings I made when I returned [to Australia, in 2005] after living in Tokyo, and I feel like it captures the frenetic and fluoro energy of what it’s like to walk through Shibuya—or Kmart, for that matter.”

Do you have a favourite gallery to exhibit your work?
“The solo show I did at Brooklynite Gallery in New York [in June 2009], is definitely my favourite. It’s in this intense section of Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, and there’s this great grassed area out the back where DJs play and you can continue [viewing] artwork from the gallery space inside through to the outdoors.”

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
“Hopefully, I will have made the ultimate painting that will end world hunger, prompt world peace, and help Brad and Angelina work out any difficulties with Jennifer Aniston.”

See more of Ben’s work at: http://www.benfrostisdead.com

The following 3 winners receive a Darksiders pack, including 1 x Xbox 360 copy of Darksiders game + a figurine of game character WAR.

WINNERS:

J. Klotz, Balwyn North, Vic
R. Caldwell, Klemzig, S.A.
R. Wilson, Middle Camberwell, Vic

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PREPARE FOR HELL TO BREAK LOOSE!!  WIN A DARKSIDERS PACK!

Developed by Vigil Games—including founding member and legendary comic-book artist Joe Madureira (X-Men)—new action/adventure videogame Darksiders provides players the opportunity to become WAR, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Continue reading “WINNERS: Darksiders XBOX 360 game pack” »

With her amazing blue eyes, perfect blonde hair, sweet smile and perky breasts, every male teenager in the world wished that Sandy Olsson was an exchange student at their school when Grease came out in 1978.
By Kate Hutchinson Continue reading “Past Perfect: Olivia Newton-John” »

TRYING to select stick flicks from the slew we receive each month can be a bit of an arduous task (not really), but sometimes the planets align and one movie begs to be reviewed. How could anyone possibly resist such a cryptic and thought-provoking title?

Continue reading “Private Specials #29: 6 Sluts in Uniform Take it up the Ass” »

Wine and food... an excellent combination (see end of article for image credit)

TV chefs pour wine into cooking pots all the time. But does alcohol improve the average dinner recipe? Is it a waste of good plonk or a secret ingredient that makes a good meat meal great?
By Ben Canaider Continue reading “Last Call: Cooking with booze” »

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Hat-trick Hottie

This is Melbourne model Jaime Mackenzie’s third shoot for Australian Penthouse. First was leather, then satin, and now a penthouse suite. How appropriate…
Photography: Mark Goldberg

Continue reading “February 2010 Pet of the Month, Jaime Mackenzie” »