The Thousands - Hobart

— AUTUMN / WINTER 2014 —

“Thousands Hobart was a special project run throughout Winter 2014. Browse the archive here.”

Bubble O'Bill print bike shorts

Emily Naismith

Bubble O'Bills are the greatest ice cream you can pull out of the milk bar freezer. Screw Magnums or Drumsticks, pink cowboy-shaped ice cream is where it...

Emily Naismith

If you're looking for a drink to define the summer, here it is in all its foamy glory. It's the 'Cider Spider'. Cider is best in summer. Ice ...

Garage Sale Trail 2014 registration now open

Ingrid Kesa

Trawling through other people's stuff that they own but no longer want to own — infinitely interesting. Miranda July wrote a book about it, Pierre Omidya...

Andrew Harper

Doughnuts made with love and stuffed with the most excellent, delicious options. Bounty, Mint Slice, apple crumble and pumpkin were on offer when we dropped ...

Katherine Faw Morris, 'Young God'

Tim Scott

In the opening pages of Young God, thirteen-year-old Nikki jumps off a cliff into a pool of water then watches her Mum die attempting the same feat. By the s...

Cracked and Spineless Books

Andrew Harper

Bookshops are either one thing or the other: they sell new books or they do second-hand, whether they’re a dealer in the rare and weird or a trader of romanc...

Tessa Little

South Arm is on the outskirts of Hobart, what locals say is a 35-minute drive (depending on the traffic), but you won’t be speeding through this kind of scen...

Hubert Duprat at MONA

Tessa Little

French artist Hubert Duprat has been working with the strange intersection between caddisfly larvae and precious stones and metals since the 1980s – a surpri...

Tom Alber

Like anyone who grew up well below the equator, I know the wrong sock choice at this time of year can lead to a very bad time. In my experience there are gen...

Tessa Little

The Standard doesn't do gourmet – you won't hear a whisper of Waygu, heirloom greens or designer doughs. Part owners Christian (from Tassie) and Sam...

Bruny Island Cheese Co store

Tom Alber

Bruny Island Cheese Co has a three-pronged approach. Firstly it draws you in with its fancy window display made up of neatly packed artisan products. Then it...

Tom Alber

It's a known fact that creative people have a knack for making the spaces they occupy beautiful. And as far as shining examples go, it doesn't get mu...

Moo Brew Brewery tour

Kane Daniel

Moo Brew is the largest Australian-owned brewery in Tasmania. Quite something, considering their 4-500,000 litre production is dwarfed by the tens of million...