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TROPIC • TRENDS

What’s hot and what’s not on
T r opic
Tropic’s radar right now.

WHAT’S HOT

INDOOR PLANTS
Yes, it’s been a thing for a while now,
but iso life has fuelled an even more
passionate deep dive into greening our
homes and apartments. Forget buying
plants from Bunnings – convenience
shouldn’t rule over supporting awesome
locally owned plant purveyors. We love
retail stores like The Palms, Succuliving
and Limberlost and Facebook sellers
like Aces Plants, Northern Jungle Co.
and Dan The Plant Man. You can also
pick up cool little desk plants from our
TROPIC SHOP READ, WATCH, LISTEN very own tropicshop.com.au
We love it. You can buy it. That’s You might be just a little bit done
the vibe at our brand-new online with sitting around in your home
marketplace, called Tropic Shop. This bingeing on entertainment in all its
online store brings together a curated forms, but we think you can never
collection of local products we use and get enough great art, whether it’s a
recommend to you. From super cool novel, a movie or an album. So, if you
art on skateboards you can hang on haven’t consumed the following yet,
your wall by Tropic Studio designer we highly recommend: streaming all
Catherine Clark to our favourite locally three series of Killing Eve and Oscar
roasted coffee beans, Tropic Shop is winning film Parasite, our editor Gavin
your spot for all the cool stuff. Jump on King recommends reading The Plague by
and grab some gear: tropicshop.com.au Albert Camus and Jane Harper’s books,
while we’ve loved repeat listens of WHAT’S NOT
Unlocked by Denzel Curry/Kenny Beats,
Fetch the Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple and
the new album by the legendary Bob
Dylan. THE ECONOMY
LEARNING LESSONS Australia has done a remarkable
If you haven’t used this enforced job at containing the health crisis
downtime to expand your horizons, posed by COVID-19. But we’re in
what have you been doing? No, Netflix danger of swinging the pendulum
and social media scrolling doesn’t too far away from the economic
cut it. We know it’s been a period of crisis, particularly here in the Far
rollercoaster emotions and a struggle North. Yes, we need to continue to
to maintain motivation (we’ve been be vigilant on the health front, but
there too), but this is the ideal time to we also need to get back to business.
do that thing you’ve always wanted to Mixed messaging over border
do. Whether it’s an online course, a new closures and continued restrictions
hobby or something out of your comfort could cause much longer-term
zone - it’s not too late to give it a shot. damage to our economy and, in
Like that famous shoe brand slogan turn, our collective well-being.
says: “Just do it”.

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