Contributors

Fiona Stutz-Design Editor

Fiona loves nothing better than to relax with a chilled Verdelho wine in one hand and the TV remote in the other watching embarrassing yet highly entertaining shows on a week night after a tiresome day working as a journalist for an education union. On the weekends when she is not cleaning her Queenslander home in Moorooka or updating her Facebook status she can be found schmoozing with friends on her back deck or visiting her favourite restaurants in Brisbane where she almost always orders a creamy carbonara. Fiona loves to listen to classic 80s and 90s music, catchy dance tunes and bubblegum pop on her iPod touch and enjoys watching “high-class” comedies. Fiona also loves to read timeless books and discovering new authors, including Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief and Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire.
Fiona loves to travel and has her sights set on further exploring the great European countries of Germany and Switzerland , and continuing to visit her favourite Queensland settings including Rainbow Beach for relaxation and the Gold Coast and Sunshine Cost Hinterland for the fantastic food and wine on offer. Fiona married her beautiful husband, Matthew, in 2009 and would like to spend more time with him relaxing and travelling the world; Fiona realises the only way she can do this is to win the lotto.
Exhibiting a fabulous sense of humour, Fiona can laugh at herself, but prefers to laugh at others. Fiona would like more time to play the drums, to further develop her photography skills and one day dreams to write a clichéd novel and live off the profits.

1) Favourite vintage flick – Citizen Kane
2) Fav vintage object – An old butterfly brooch I borrowed for my wedding day that used to belong to a relative. Had to give it back to Mum though.
3) Fav vintage read – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
4) Fav vintage icon – Does Ron Burgundy count?
5) Fav vintage thing in the world – My 1980 ‘KISS’ band shirt or my vintage op shop find in the 90s of an old blue ADIDAS zip up jacket – love them!
6) Vintage is… old school beauty that brings back forgotten memories

Nick Holliday-Vintage Vehicle Writer

Vintage is.... remembering the first place you heard a Rolling Stones song, the first time you rode in a car with vinyl seats and the first time you were moved by a piece of writing.

Nick is a reformed lawyer in his late 20′s, now working as a union organiser and sometime writer.  He divides his time between suburban Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast hinterland and the Central Desert around Alice Springs. He loves the sound of an old V8 at night, the smell of freshly mown grass and the noise Cuban heels make on a polished floor. Nick found himself immersed in vintage life by accident, waking up one day to the realisation that he drove a 35 year old Fairlane, had bookshelves full of Maugham and Hemingway and a taste for pre-war blues and Whitlam-era politics. He spends his spare time restoring his motorcycle, driving his pickup truck and playing an acoustic guitar, all built before 1980.

1) Favourite vintage flick-Bullitt, starring a fastback ’67 Mustang and Steve McQueen – there’s no other movie for real car fans.
2) Fav vintage object-The Zippo lighter – Made unchanged in Bradford, Pennsylvania since 1932.
3) Fav vintage read-Our Man In Havana by Graham Greene – a novel-length character study of a man who can’t tell who he is any more.
4) Fav vintage icon-The tail fins on a candy-apple red ’57 Chevy – bold lines, lots of chrome, design for design’s sake. We’ll never see them again.
5) Fav vintage thing in the world-My 21st birthday present from my grandfather – his 150 year old black-powder Winchester shotgun. My forebears were using this before cars and before electric lights. You can hold it and feel history.
6) Fav vintage vinyl-Hard Again, Muddy Waters’ 1977 album, recorded in three days at Muscle Shoals in Alabama. When Muddy sings “I can never be satisfied…”, you believe him.
7) Vintage is remembering the first place you heard a Rolling Stones song, the first time you rode in a car with vinyl seats and the first time you were moved by a piece of writing.

Nick writes freelance for car and motorcycle magazines and dreams of the day he can quit his day job to write the Great Australian Novel. Until then, you can contact him at nholliday@qieu.asn.au or on 0439 790 819.

Daniel Peut-Photographer

Vintage is remembering the past as you look towards the future.

Daniel was born and raised in Goondiwindi, out amongst the cotton fields in south-western Queensland. He packed up and moved to the bright lights of Brisbane a few years ago, although he’s still a country boy at heart. Photography is something Daniel has always enjoyed, right from a young age. He can still remember the day his Poppie gave him an old Pentax SLR and a roll of film. Try as he might, Daniel couldn’t quite understand aperture and shutter speed and ASA speed of film, but those humble beginnings planted a seed that he hasn’t forgotten.Daniel is proud to never have enjoyed a song recorded after he was born (way back in ’86) and loves to rock out on an old-school Fender/Marshall guitar rig. He enjoys a range of other manly pursuits, and is known for his obsession with racing driver Dick Johnson and his danger-fraught motorcycle riding career. When he’s not taking photos, he enjoys trying new boutique beers, driving his Falcon and exploring the nooks and crannies of Brisbane city.

1) Fav vintage flick-The Great Escape. Steve McQueen, classic true storyline, enough said.
2) Fav vintage object-General Dynamics F-111, circa 1963. One of the fastest planes in the sky for over 40 years.
3) Fav vintage read-Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale – The first in the James Bond series.
4) Fav vintage icon-Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of US Marines raising the American flag at Iwo Jima in 1945.
5) Fav vintage thing in the world-My Fender Telecaster, designed back in 1950 and still awesome today.
6) Fav vintage vinyl-Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon – The only album you can sit down and listen to from start to finish without skipping a track.
7) Vintage is remembering the past as you look towards the future.

Dan does freelance photography for magazines, galleries, corporate events and weddings. You can view his gallery at http://peuty.redbubble.com and contact him at danpeut@hotmail.com

Christina Ong-Vintage Vinyl Writer

Vintage is... wishing you had a Dolorean to be at that first Beatles concert, Woodstock , Sunbury...

Christina is a pop culture tragic who can tell you irrelevant details about Kate Winslet’s childhood and successfully debate that Dave Grohl looks better in a black shirt than a white one.  When she’s not lamenting that it is no longer 1995, Christina is busy defending the rights of her fellow worker and slowly completing her PhD on the teenage girl’s love of vampires. Despite her devotion to Apple products, Christina grew up with a 1970s black and white TV in her room and still takes notes with paper and pen after drawing a margin.  Her love of all things vintage emerged from an odd mix of 1800s-era antique furniture, 60s mod dresses, Bing Crosby, Vera Lynn, Led Zeppelin and 80s Oz rock.  Her passion for music is complemented by her antique violin and Roland synth on which she aims to replicate the sounds of Spandau Ballet and Simple Minds. Christina would like to visit Russia and India, do a cooking tour of Vietnam and climb the Inca trail, but only after she’s been back to Disneyland.  Her passion for travelling fuels her love of vintage; her best vintage finds have been in San Francisco , London and Paddington (the one in Brisbane ).  Addicted to film adaptations of books, Christina would like to pen that Award winning script, release a hit song and use the profits to travel the world. Again.

1) Favourite vintage flick – His Girl Friday – Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant and a newspaper.  Brilliant!
2) Fav vintage object –  My original hand held 1983 Donkey Kong Jnr video game.  It still works!
3) Fav vintage read – To Kill a Mockingbird.  Nothing beats Atticus.
4) Fav vintage icon –  too many!  Today it’s clothes from the 1970s and Ita Buttrose.
5) Fav vintage thing in the world – Clothes Contact.  It’s a vintage clothing store in San Francisco that sells clothes by the pound!  Have had some amazing finds there.
6) Vintage vinyl –  She’s So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper. She was 30 when she released this debut and you can’t go past “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “Time After Time”.  There’s hope for me yet!
7) Vintage is… wishing you had a Dolorean to be at that first Beatles concert, Woodstock, Sunbury…