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The Undergrowth Shop is a fair-trade online marketplace where the physical products of our artistic collective's sweat and toil are available for sale. We are a registered non-profit organisation and all profits from goods sold go back into the organisation to cover the costs of production and distribution, then to support the ongoing costs of Undergrowth itself. As a 'copyleft' organisation contributors retain full ownership of the material UNDERGROWTH hosts under the Creative Commons licenses.
How do you buy our creative artifacts and sustain our non-profit publishing house? It's easy! Cheques and money orders can be made out to:
Undergrowth Inc
37 Thomson St,
Northcote, 3070.
Alternatively, payment can be made directly through PAYPAL to sales@undergrowth.org
Please add $2.50 for postage and handling per item within Australia.
Current items for sale include:
Issue # 6 - Random Molecules (152 pages) $30.00 AUD
The new full colour book features art and writing about contemporary understandings of quantum mechanics and chaos theory, ecology, consciousness and other nodes of new edge science. Beware a premature definition of reality.
Featuring writing, comics, photography, painting, poetry and illustrations by Undergrowth artists from around Australia, including the work of Dan McKinlay, Rak Razam, Claire Wren, Tim Parish, Levin Daitschenko, Rebecca Fitzgibbons, Sean Walles, Oliver Dunlop, Arrow, Rod Baker, Hatstand Pincer Movement, Gerhard Hilmann, Antonia Green, Ben Mastwyk and more.
To browse some of the content click here
Issue #5 - The Human Ecology
$10.00 AUD
The Human Animal is out of control. It spreads across the earth like a virus, taking what it wants and always needing more. It builds machines to do its work and cities to congregate its masses away from the natural world it exploits. Oblivious to the fact it lives in a natural ecosystem, the Human Animal replaces energetics with economics, the real with the rationalised in a virtual web of globalisation. Yet, moving through its monoculture crowds, pockets of diversity and multiculturalism still thrive. The undergrowth is fertile with the coloured plumes of resistance, with strange and wonderful new forms that have mutated to survive a world out of balance. From office drones in their concrete archipelagos to dumpster divers in the backstreets of the Empire, the Human Ecology pulses with life. Feral communities celebrate on the edge of bush dancefloors. Urban pagans connect with nature under the eyes of satellite cameras. The children of the System are remembering the Sacred. The walls are coming tumbling down as the Human Animal starts to recognise itself and its place in the web of life...
:::Contents:::
cloudburst
spirits (1)
monkey tales
lovers
the tides of the sun
white man, do you have any sacred sites
bush flowers
after the fall
spirits (2)
taking a dive: confessions of a dumpster diver
pikatja story
future cities project
nepubunna to adelaide
god is an awesome god
river pilgrims
city of angels
monkey tales: yellow
mr history
hey newstart, thanks for the good times
windcurrents: an interview with peter adams
spirits (3)
monkey tales: blue
credits
Issue #4 DVD - 'Snapshots of the Resolution'
$15.00 AUD
Undergrowth DVD: "Snapshots of the Resolution" explores the power of independent media activism to discuss and speak out about themes of social, ecological and political issues. The compilation weaves together subject matter ranging from war to deforestation, alternative energy, street art, culture jamming, overpopulation, uranium mining, organic farming and the challenges of democracy in a fast paced collection of humourous, creative and politically charged short films, music videos, animations and documentaries.
Australian and international filmmakers featured include; Benjamin Ducroz, Joe Brumm, Heidi Douglas, Izzy Brown, Deepchild, Paul Baiguerra, Mutiny Media, Anto Skene, Freerange Graphics, Tim Parish, Nina Paley, Jean Poole and Adam Robb. Also featuring soundtracks by Combat Wombat, Deepchild, TZU, The Herd and Yum.
Issue #3 - Tales of the Simulacrum
$10.00 AUD
Credit on, plug in, drop out Join the Virtual Revolution...
Transcend the material world with 24 hour plug-n-play... you know you want to... Over a thousand interactive codeworlds. Be Anyone, Anywhere, with the exciting digital universe of the Simulacrum tm - where dreams become reality and reality is merely a dream. *Some conditions apply. Offer void where prohibited by law. Complete body and life maintenance available for full time users paying by direct debit on a minimum 24 month contract...
:::Contents:::
1/ cover/ Steven Mann
6/ open sourcery/ tim parish
12/ an interview with shelly innocence/ undergrowth editorial
20/ under the skin/ rak razam
28/ nodes of conflict/ andrew lowenthal
38/ survival of the prettiest/ tom doig
46/ telefuck/ rak razam
52/ media jacking/ hugh mcginlay
57/ milky chewy bars/ sonicboy + james riches
66/ eat this information/ tim parish
77/ father joe/ joseph gelfer
80/ telestreets/ luther blisset
88/ escape from toxcity/ floyd davis
96/ mantra for an open universe/ rak razam
102/ we were in the bubble/ tim parish
Issue #2 - Terra Poetica
$10.00 AUD
In the early 21st Century the War on Terror was a billion dollar Spectacle conceived by the military-entertainment complex, which served to distract humanity from the more widespread and dangerous War on Terra. In the human zoo, we stand somewhere between monoculture and wilderness, shaping our mental ecologies from the debris of empire + revolution. Resisting the fictions broadcast by crude television satellites and saturated by tabloid media. On the streets, poetic terrorists paint the rumour of some new indigenous struggle. Earth magicians retrofit the urban ecology. New paradigms mingle with archaic lores in the interzones of the information war. We are all natives remembering the language of Terra Poetica.
:::Contents:::
1/ cover/ Meteor Mandala/ Gerhard Hillman
10/ the story so far/ Tim Parish
11/ My Darling Race/ Damien Huxtable
12/ I walk the narrow streets/ Tom Civil
14/ Land of the Long White Sock / Graham St John
24/ The tree/ Lou Smith
26/ In Earth's Defense / Jo Fairley
38/ WW3 is a Party/ Rak Razam
42 - 43/ Halska
44/ you are walking/ Tim Parish
47/ whose Land are you on?/ Nick Chesterfield
56/ Andrea's Anatomy/ Damien Huxtable
58/ Freedom/ Rak Razam
62/ the city, I/ Miles Allinson
71/ Walking and Wildlife, a photoessay / Tim Parish
82/ Creating Permanent Culture / David Holmgren interviewed by Adam Grubb
96/ mystic as a leaf/ Tim Parish
Issue #1 - Seed
$10.00 AUD
As planetary monoculture is enforced from above, thousands of counter-cultures are also sprouting from below, in organic networks that sustain and build a sense of community and unity in diversity. Powered by new technologies and an archaic revival of thought, a balance is being struck between the past and the future that may be our best hope for survival.
:::Contents:::
1 / cover/ paul kalemba
4 / contents
6 /editorial /
8 / the world of tommorrow // susan butcher and carol wood/
16 / oracle reading pt 1 / tim parish
18 / surfing the novelty wave / rak razam
24 / oracle pt. 2 / tim parish
26 / alternative visions / john kelly
36 / oracle reading pt. 3 / ecocities / tim parish/ paul downton
38 / i can see spirits / by dan(iel) mackinlay
56 / oracle pt. 4 / the synapse club
58 / fraud / rak razam
64 / oracle pt. 5 / the war on terra
68 / language as a virus/ jon carmichael
74 / oracle pt. 6 / the brainwash oracle / the brainwash
76 / the wizard of oz/ rak razam interviews richard neville
92 / twilight 2012 / tim parish
98 / art credits
100/ back cover dominic allen
Undergrowth eBook #1
'Psyence Fiction' by Rak Razam
(144pgs with photos and illustrations)
$10.00 AUD
The future has arrived, but there's something distinctly wrong with it. Robots that were meant to abolish human labour are creating mass unemployment because political systems aren't evolving as fast as our technology. Virtual gaming economies are outstripping the GDP of some small nations, telecommunications breakthroughs have brought us porn on our video phones, and Flash-Mobs roam the urban jungles, manifesting the sublime and shaking consumers from their retail addictions.
Psyence Fiction is a collection of fourteen short stories by Rak Razam that capture the spirit of the decade and the psychedelic, hi-tech future we live in. Illustrated by some of Australia's best underground artists and photographers, the book is a glimpse at the brave nu world around us and the bold characters that struggle to survive it.
To browse the online eBook click here
'REBIRTH' by Rak Razam (40pgs colour cover with photos and illustrations) $7.00 AUD
In 1943, Dr. Albert Hoffmann, a chemist based in Switzerland accidentally discovered LSD-25, the most powerful synthesised hallucinogenic known to man at the time. This little molecule went on to become famous and then infamous as it swept through the intelligentsia, artists, writers and cultural elite across the world and was seen as an essential 'ingredient' in the consciousness uprisings of the 1960's and 70's. Over 60 years later Albert Hoffmann celebrated his 100th birthday in Basel, Switzerland by holding a symposium titled 'LSD: Problem Child or Wonder Drug' to discuss the effects and possible future of his discovery.
"REBIRTH: The Psychedelic Movement Comes of Age" is a fully illustrated booklet reprinting the gonzo journal of Dr. Rak Razam, co-editor of Undergrowth as he explores the explosive history and contemporary state of psychedelic culture. (13,000 words).
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