On the weekend as part of Australia’s leading independent arts festival This Is Not Art – which “is a supercharged convergence of writers, performers, thinkers, independent and industry musicians, creative researchers, electronic artists, dilettantes, and DIY culture makers in a showcase featuring over 400 local, national and international artists” – The Golden Stapler Awards for [...]

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Another beautiful day outside, another zine complete! Conversations with Punx: A Spiritual Dialogue limited edition zine #5/12 ‘Creativity’ is done. This issue is really special to me. The conversations in this zine are by far some of my all-time personal favourites. Each of the people I spoke to has had influence on my life, via [...]

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A little while back I posted about a new print zine I’ve made to compliment this blog ConversationsWithBianca.com. The first print run is now gone… thank you to all those that requested one, I am printing up some more in the next couple of days and will send them out to those of you that [...]

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Art by Jhonny Hobo I’ve noticed there’s been a lot more activity around here with lots of new people checking out ConversationsWithBianca.com thanks for finding me & welcome! If you’re not sure where to start maybe the below may be able to give you a little direction. From Problogger (via: themerchgirl), my attempt at the [...]

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It’s been a little quiter around here than I had planned. Sorry guys! My project Conversations With Punx: A Spiritual Dialogue has a home of it’s own now: http://conversationswithpunx.tumblr.com/ Please bookmark & share it. A date has also been set for the projects release, finally! Over at http://conversationswithpunx.tumblr.com/ I have started a 60-day punk rock [...]

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Dearest Friends! It’s been a long while between posts… my apologies! A lot has happened since I last wrote; there have been an interesting chain of events unfold in my life. I’ll give you the lowdown over a series of posts starting with this one. CONVERSATIONS WITH BIANCA is also now a print zine! Last [...]

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In honor of expanding on the adventure that is ConversationsWithBianca.com with the addition of ‘My Interviews’ and the wealth of knowledge stored there from some of the brightest, always-questioning, creative, thoughtful minds from the punk & hip hop community worldwide I give you one of my favourite installments (so far) of Adventure Time! Talking candies, [...]

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