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Weblog | Events | Features | Gallery | Links | Consultants directory | Zine | About | Contact Weblog> November 2003 031128: Fri Random Play - special price of $27 for A Reserve tickets from Halftix.com.au Random Play looks like a great show to go to. Halftix are selling tickets for $27 for A Reserve seating for tonight and tomorrow's night performance. Tomorrow night's show is the last show. Ticketek are also selling the tickets but for the standard price of $39 for A Reserve tickets. (If you wanted different seating, you could go to ticketek and get Premium or B or C Reserve seating. If you're a student, it's actually cheaper to get tickets from Ticketek - $21 for A reserve etc). "Sydney Dance Company and NIDA Design join forces to present Random Play. Four choreographers from Sydney Dance Company collaborate with four set designers and four costume designers from NIDA Design to bring you Random Play - a program of four new contemporary dance works. Exploring universal themes from very individual perspectives, this diverse program delights in the distinctive movement language and innovative visual design of each work. Inspired by an eclectic mix of original and existing music, Random Play features Sydney Dance Company’s acclaimed troupe of seventeen dancers in an evening of dynamic physicality. Intimately presented at the magnificent Parade Theatre, Random Play is an opportunity to experience new works performed by Australia’s premier contemporary dance troupe." The Great International Lomography Snapshot Competition for BMW x3 This is a global competition. You can win great prizes including trips to the destination of your choice where you'll have a BMW waiting for you at the airport to drive and 3000 Euro to spend. The idea is that you then drive to your next destination from there and take heaps and heaps of photos of your road trip (Doesn't look like you get to keep the BMW but you get the trip which is pretty awesome! There are also heaps of other prizes including cameras, watches etc to be won). You just have to submit 4 photos of the following themes: 1. Your Tools, 2. Your Passengers, 3. Your Day, 4. Your favourite picture. Get the full fine print details of the competition at: http://www.lomography.com/bmwx3 and happy snapping. (thanks Evan for the link). 031127: Thu Upcoming Events Have updated the events page. For more info on the events listed below, go to: http://www.chaosgeneration.com/events.htm or click on the links below to go directly to the event website. Will be adding more events over the next few days. NOV 20-29: SYDNEY > RANDOM PLAY - Dance DEC 2-20: SYDNEY > TRIPOD - Comedy DEC 4, 8: SYDNEY > PHOTODOC 4: NOTHING SERIOUS! - Photography Talk DEC 6: SYDNEY > HOMEBAKE - Music DEC 13: SYDNEY > POWDERFINGER - Music DEC 16: MELBOURNE > INSIDE JAPANESE STORY - Film and Talk DEC 26-JAN17: TOURING > QUIKSILVER AUSTRALIAN SURF MOVIE FESTIVAL 2 - Films JAN 13, 14: SYDNEY > THE NEXT GENERATION: NEW DIRECTORS' FILM FESTIVAL - Films till JAN 18: SYDNEY > COLIN MCCAHON - Art Exhibition JAN 23: SYDNEY > BIG DAY OUT - Music till FEB 1: SYDNEY > MAX DUPAIN'S AUSTRALIANS - Photography Charlton Hill and Francis Ford Corolla at the Vanguard It was a great night! The Vanguard is a great music venue. It's a small, intimate space. Not that I've been to jazz clubs in New Orleans, but I imagined that it could be something like this, but in the heart of Newtown. Andy Lawler was great on vocals from Francis Ford Corolla. Loved the song 'Spinach Princess'. You can get their cassette titled 'Sonicfairy'. They'll have a website up soon too. In the meantime, you can be added to their email list by emailing them at sonicfairy@hotmail.com. Charlton Hill was great! His guitarist Tim also did a set before Charlton as the 2nd support act didn't show. They're all so talented - can play a range of instruments, sing, the whole lot. It's the first time I've heard Charlton sing live and he really has a great voice! It was a great night out!! 031125: Tue Charlton Hill Charlton Hill will be performing at the Vanguard in Newtown tonight! The Vanguard is a new live jazz, blues etc music venue at 42 King St, Newtown! Will be going to this gig tonight! off the map Bought a book titled 'off the map' about two girls' travel adventures/experiences from Jyoti who had a zine stall at the Newtown Festival recently. The book started off being distributed as a free zine and then it eventually got published by CrimethInc and sold for a small amount so that it could be continued to be distributed. Have just started reading it. Looks like it's going to be a great read so far. About the book: "A punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the anarchist travel story, Off the Map is narrated by two young women as they discard their maps, fears, and anything resembling a plan, and set off on the winds of the world. Without the smug cynicism that seems to permeate most modern radical tales, this story is told with genuine hope, and a voice that never loses its connection with the mysteries of life, even in the midst of everyday tragedies. Wandering across Europe, the dozens of vignettes are the details of the whole—a squatted castle surrounded by tourists on the Spanish coast, a philosophizing businessman on the highways of France, a plaça full of los crustos in Barcelona, a diseased foot in a Belgian train squat, a glow bug on the dew-covered grass of anywhere—a magical, novel-like folktale for the end of the world." The book is 146 pages long with a cover featuring original artwork by Nikki McClure CrimethInc Did a quick search on CrimethInc and found it to be a really cool website with links to independent media with a theme of anarchy and anti-establishment sentiment. The website says: "When was CrimethInc. started? What was its original goal? CrimethInc. began in the mid-1990's. I can't report on the original goals of all the participants, but I can trace my own initial intentions to a discussion among some friends about the revolutionary organization Winston joins in Orwell's 1984. The idea came up that it was actually a branch of the government... and from there, we began to consider what the opposite kind of organization would be (one that purported to be a part of the culture industry that rules today, while secretly undermining it), and how to form one. The irony, the margin-walking between contradictions, both were intrinsic to CrimethInc. from the beginning... and honestly, I can tell you no better now than I could have then whether we are just indulging reactionary desires by forming yet another "revolutionary organization," or heroically helping humanity to evolve past the despoticism of such a thing by detourning/deconstructing the idea of the revolutionary organization." Japanese Story Watched Japanese Story last Thursday night at the Dendy, Opera Quays. Toni Collette and Gotaro Tsunashima were both great in this film! Themes of this film seemed to be self-discovery, love and rediscovering a passion for life. From the 'Japanese Story' website: "Winners for the 2003 Lexus IF (Inside Film) Awards were announced in Sydney on 13 November at a prestigious event staged at Wharf 8 in Pyrmont. Hosted by Deborah Mailman, the live broadcast was followed by a celebratory party presented by Autore South Sea Pearls. Japanese Story collected four IF awards including Best Film, Best Direction, Best Actress and Best Cinematography." 031120: Thu The Surface is coming - virtual festival for "youth" over 25yrs "The Surface is a virtual festival for arts, new media, entertainment, and alternative culture. The Surface is different to other sub-culture websites, because it’s for "youth" over the age of 25! Have you ever been excited about the prospect of working on a new project, entering a competition, or showcasing your work at a festival, only to be told “Sorry, our age cut-off is 25 years.” or “You’re too old.” ??? This site exists to demonstrate that even though we’re over 25, we’re still young, still have a lot to offer, and still want the opportunity to share our talents with the world. To get involved, submit your work, or just want to know what the hell is going on here... email info@thesurface.net" [act-km] Invitation to NSW KM forum December dinner / meeting - 4th December 2003, Sydney "The NSW KM forum are heading out for dinner for our December meeting. This will be on the first Thursday of the month, as usual, so Thursday December 4th. We will start at 6pm. All are welcome. There will be no speakers, just a chance to chat and get to know each other and talk about the interesting things we are all doing. I have booked tables at the Regal Restaurant, 347-353 Sussex St, Sydney. This Chinese restaurant (big round tables and great food...) is close to Standards Australia, where our meetings are usually held. From Standards Australia walk south towards Chinatown for almost a block and a half along Sussex St, it’s on the right. Easy to find! Please RSVP to me (cristownley@optusnet.com.au) by Friday 28th November, since I need to get a better estimate of numbers to the restaurant. See you there, Cris Townley cristownley@optusnet.com.au 0414 635 361 / (02) 9712 5850 Eucalypt Consulting - connecting people to strategy www.eucalyptconsulting.com" Matrix Revolutions No doubt almost everyone's seen the last instalment. My quick thought about it: they should have stopped at the first one! There were no expectations of the first film whatsoever and it appeared on our screens and it was such a nice surprise to see such a cool film. They threw money at the second one and there were some nice effects but it's literally impossible to blow people away with the second one as they already have a set of expectations and have all the imagery of the first one still in their minds. Also, trying to continue a story when the first one was kind of self-contained is pretty difficult. The third one got a bit visually mind-numbing - lots of scenes similar to what you see in a video game except you watch and don't get to play. After a couple of minutes of seeing the octopus-like objects made out of metal casing cords etc, you kind of get the picture of the scale of the battle. I kind of missed the amount of kung-fu action in the previous ones. Anyway, having said that, I still absolutely loved the first one and would've seen the next two or however many they ended up making in the series regardless. Weblogger meetup? Turned up at the Weblogger meeting last night to find no-one there? The people at the cafe didn't know of any Weblogger meetup. Got there about 20mins late so not sure if they decided to go somewhere else or whether people just decided to just not turn up at the last minute. [Australian Idol finals were on that night as well so maybe that was a factor ;-) ]. But waited another 20mins outside then decided to go get some dinner and to finally watch the Matrix Revolutions with a friend of mine. 031118: Tue Newtown Festival - uploaded full sized images Have optimised the thumbnail and full sized photos I took at the Newtown Festival now. Photos are at: They're at http://www.chaosgeneration.com/gallery/kirsten/newtown_festival if you want to have a look. Added 3 new weblogs to the links page Have also added the following weblogs I visit to the links page: Creativity Machine - Jean Burgess' creativity, technology and culture weblog - graduate research student in cultural studies at the University of Queensland, Australia Heymarvin.com - weblog of Marvin Morales, chef living and working in Sydney. He takes photos of what he cooks at work, and his chef colleagues working etc. Jeansnow.net - weblog of Jean Snow - Tokyo resident and Jesper Larsson - Swedish blogger, they blog cool design things, events, life in Tokyo and Sweden, lots of photos of cool things and surroundings etc Will add some more sections and links to the links page soon. 031116: Sun UTS 2003 Design & Architecture Degree Shows 17 Nov - 18 Dec 2003 See the Graduate students' work from the Design and Architecture departments of UTS. Show 1 - Visual Communication 17 Nov- 20 Nov Show 2 - Interior Design 24 Nov- 27 Nov Show 3 - Fashion 2 Dec- 4 Dec Show 4 - Industrial Design 8 Dec- 11 Dec Show 5 - Architecture 15 Nov- 18 Nov Show 6 - Furniture 29 Jan- Closes early Feb The UTS Gallery is situated at the University of Technology, 702 Harris St, Ultimo. The gallery is located on level 4 of the Peter Johnson Building (Bldg 6), in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building (DAB). Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 12 - 6pm. Enquiries: 02 9514 8913 http://www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au/exhibitions/exhibition_upcoming.php Metroscreen: Online Filmmaking Intensive course 29-30 November, 2003 Metroscreen located in Paddington, Sydney - run training courses in film and video making, tv production, and digital media and more. The Online Filmmaking Intensive course sounds pretty interesting! Online Filmmaking Intensive "If you have a short film you want to put online or want to make online docos for the web, this is the workshop for you! Find out about compression + decompression software, tricks of the trade in shooting for the web, shortcuts around common problems, posting material online from the field, streaming issues [quality-v-speed], file sizes + much more." For more info: http://www.metroscreen.com.au/training.htm 031115: Sat Belladonna DIY Fest 27-29 November 2003 Belladonna is a 3 day festival held in Wollongong - an hour's drive from Sydney. They'll be over 15 bands performing and the following workshops/forums will take place at the festival. They'll also be heaps of zines available at the Zine Fair. Jyoti - photographed further below at the Newtown Festival can be contacted for more info about getting a zine table there or for info about getting your zine distributed at the festival. Sounds like it's going be a great event to go to! Workshops/Forums Stencilling - bekka Homeopathy - genna pyewacket Zine Forum - jyoti roy/daniel stewart/ianto ware Making Music For Beginners (Womyn Only) - kylie(bitchcraft)/jacqui(terror firma)/rebecca(baby machine) Screenprinting - yama panda DIY Guitar/Drum/Bass Tech - lachie The Finer Arts of Dumpster Diving - emma ahimsa/bart Distro/Label Forum - dave spazz/tom deplorable/bek duke Radical Cheerleading - carolyn How To Book Shows - kylie purr The Comrade With The Gun Holds The Floor/Struggle and (Dis)Organisation - dave antagonsim Puppet Construction - matt kocher Experimental Guitar Noise - scotti coxon A Men's discussion on Seuxuality (aka Patriarchy effects us all!) Bike Repair Workshop - matt Stretching Workshop - dom Bookbinding Workshop - sarah Graffiti Discussion - dave w. Colin McCahon Exhibit: A Question of Faith - NZ artist Exhibition on at the Art Gallery of NSW: 15 November 2003 - 18 January 2004 "Colin McCahon (Timaru 1919 - Auckland 1987, New Zealand) is the most extraordinary artist in the Southern Hemisphere and certainly the most ambitious and radical of his time. New Zealand's first painter of major importance, his impact on the arts in that country is such that it is impossible to be an artist there without taking his work into account. Since his death in 1987 his work and life as a painter, teacher and museum curator have become the subject of much discussion and research. Organised by Dr Marja Bloem of the Stedelijk Museum in Holland, the exhibition Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith presents more than 70 works by this major modernist painter and concludes its international tour in Sydney. The exhibition will be on view at The Art Gallery of New South Wales from 15 November 2003 to 18 January 2004. Central to McCahon's oeuvre is the investigation of the true nature of faith and his own spiritual experience and development. Covering all periods of his career from the late 1930s to the early 1980s, the included works are on loan from public and private collections in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. " For more info on the exhibition: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/current/colin_mccahon For more info on Colin McCahon's work and to view his works online go to: http://www.mccahon.co.nz Dont give up your day job: an economic study of professional artists in Australia The Australia Council for the Arts helped fund research into the economic circumstances of professional artists in Australia. It's the 4th survey done in the past 20 years at Macquarie University. The survey was undertaken in 2002 and covered the 2000-01 financial year. 1063 practicing professional artists were surveyed for this report. The report is titled: Dont give up your day job: an economic study of professional artists in Australia. Authors: David Throsby & Virginia Hollister. The report found that "Almost two-thirds of all artists work at more than one job- 56 per cent hold two jobs and seven per cent hold three jobs. Overall, 43 per cent of artists are engaged in some work in an arts related field, and one-third do some work in an area not related to the arts..." and that "Half of the artists in the survey had an creative income of less than $7,300 in the 2000-01 financial year. (The unusual distribution of artists creative incomes with many low incomes and few high incomes resulted in a mean creative income of just over $17,000.)" If you want to read the documents you can download the document or the commentary in pdf format. Entire document in pdf format Commentary in pdf format 031112: Wed Chaos TV - program on Community TV Station Channel 31 Chaos TV is a community TV program that is "made for young people by young people" and it is broadcast on Channel 31. They had a stall at the Newtown Festival. Channel 31 recently relocated their transmitter to the top of the ABC transmission tower so should be able to get better reception for it. Have just got my TV tuned so now I get Channel 31! Great! What Do I Charge? How to Set Your Hourly Rate If you're a freelancer starting out and you're wondering how to work out what to charge, then this article titled 'What Do I Charge? How to Set Your Hourly Rate' is worth a read. It's written by Robert Gerrish of the Flying Solo website. Desktop magazine: The 'Freelance' issue Got the latest Desktop magazine today. This is the 'Freelance' issue. It features interviews with freelance designers and their experiences of working as a freelancer. 2003 Japanese Film Festival in Sydney Highlight will be the FREE SEMINAR with Visiting Filmmakers Jiro and Kaze Shindo. Email received from the people behind the Sydney Asia Pacific Film Festival included here: "Dear Friends of the Sydney Asia Pacific Film Festival This year, SAPFF is assisting the Japan Foundation in presenting the 2003 Japanese Film Festival in Sydney. The Festival opens in JUST TWO weeks, with the Gala Opening Night on Tuesday 25 November at Dendy Opera Quays, and with tickets available for all sessions from Wednesday 26 November - Friday 28 November. A highlight of the Festival is the FREE SEMINAR with Visiting Filmmakers Jiro and Kaze Shindo. See the following information for further details on the Seminar and the Festival program. We hope to see you there. Regards Paul de Carvalho Festival Director Sydney Asia Pacific Film Festival *************************************** AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKERS TO OPEN 2003 JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL IN SYDNEY Award winning Japanese director Ms Kaze Shindo and her producer father Jiro Shindo will open the 2003 Japanese Film Festival in Sydney at a special Gala Opening Night at Dendy Opera Quays Cinemas on Tuesday 25 November. Kaze Shindo's film LOVE/JUICE (Best New Director, Berlin International Film Festival 2001) will be screening at the Festival. Kaze is the grand-daughter of iconic Independent Japanese Director Kaneto Shindo, who at 91 recently completed his latest film THE OWL (Best Actress, Moscow International Film Festival 2003). THE OWL (produced by Jiro Shindo) and one of Kaneto Shindo's classic films from the 1960s, THE ISLAND, will also screen at the Festival. Other films at the Festival include the Sydney Premiere of the delightful comedy WATERBOYS, the Australian Premiere of the 1954 classic Twenty-Four Eyes (Best Foreign Film, Golden Globe Awards 1955) and the return of the Academy Award-winning Animation SPIRITED AWAY. A major highlight of the Festival will be the FREE SEMINAR with Kaze and Jiro Shindo and Australian directors and producers, exploring the work of Kaneto Shindo and perspectives of Independent Filmmaking in Japan and Australia. This Free Seminar will be held at Dendy Opera Quays Cinemas at 5.00pm on Thursday November 27. Ticket prices start at only $7.00 per session. Full details are available at the Japan Foundation website at www.jpf.org.au The 2003 Japanese Film Festival in Sydney is presented by the Japan Foundation in association with the Sydney Asia Pacific Film Festival." Reminder: International Blog Meetup Day Looks like if it goes ahead it'll be at: Aristotle's Coffee Lounge, 31 Oxford, Sydney on Wednesday, November 19 @ 7pm. Click on the image or go to: http://blog.meetup.com for more info. Agenda for the Meetup is: 1. Promoting your blog and 2. Searching blogs. 031109: Sun Newtown Festival Spent some time at the Newtown Festival today! Met Karl and Shani from Vox Populis and a couple of girls from a zine distro in Wollongong. It's Jyoti on the right in the second pic. Got immersed in looking at the zines. Ended up spending over $50 on various zines. I ended up staying at the festival for over 4 hours. I enjoyed walking around the stalls, taking photos, enjoying the music and tried a mango ice crush drink - yum! There were literally crowds and crowds of people. Got v. sunburnt as well. My arms are pretty red right now. Will digest the zines over the next few weeks and maybe scan some covers and do some reviews of them later. If you want to check out some of the other photos from the day, go to: http://www.chaosgeneration.com/gallery/kirsten/newtown_festival. I've only had time to put the thumbnails in which will link to a larger sized pic soon. Also haven't had a chance to optimise the thumbnail images yet. Will do so real soon! It was a great day out!! Photographic gallery of Hugh Ballantyne's work coming soon Been scanning some of Hugh Ballantyne's photographic works to go into the gallery section of CG soon! He's a short film maker - he directs and writes the scripts, he's an architect, and he's a photographer. Will also post up an interview with Hugh. So watch this space! Upcoming events I've got heaps of events to write up and post up onto the Events page. Will try and get it done over the next few days. Working on the next email newsletter of Chaos Generation. Also getting material together for the next hard copy zine. 031105: Wed Experimenta.org Experimenta.org publish a fortnightly e-bulletin which lists lots of events, call for entries and other interesting items. You can go to their website and subscribe to the e-bulletin for free! Unfortunately, they don't seem to publish the contents of the e-bulletin online. So make sure you subscribe! Blurb from the Experimenta.org website: "Experimenta is where creativity and technology meet. Experimenta presents innovative exhibitions and events in new media arts, film, video, sound and performance. Featuring the work of emerging and established artists, Experimenta screenings, installations and performances are held in cinemas, in galleries, online and in a variety of less conventional exhibition contexts. By encouraging a convergence across a range of disciplines including interactive technologies, multimedia, digital music, virtual reality, animation and visual effects, Experimenta fosters artistic experimentation that extends the aesthetic and conceptual potential of art." Noise: Zines Vox Populis will send out this zine to you for free! It's one of the projects from the Noise.net.au initiative. Vox Populis' review: Noise : Zines FREE : 50g : A4 : 16pp "AWESOME PUBLICATION! Reviews of almost 70 Australian zines plus zine making tips and hints for getting your zine ‘out there’." I've just received it and it really is a great zine! It also features interviews with some of the zine makers. Vox Populis will be at the Newtown Festival this Sunday so check out their stall and have a look at all the cool zines on offer, and buy a few to support the zine makers who put their heart and soul into producing these cool zines! 031104: Tue Heymarvin.com Heymarvin.com is the site of Marvin Morales, a chef in Sydney. He takes photos of his work kitchen and the people he works with, and posts them onto his blog with captions. It's great to be able to see and read about his adventures. Jeansnow.net Nej from Jeansnow.net now has his friend Jesper Larsson from Sweden blogging on his blog as well. Larsson's blog entries have the logo reading 'Next Century Modern Blog' at the top of each post. The blog has been really interesting to read and now it's got even more interesting stuff to read. So you can now read about the design and other happenings in Japan and Sweden. Great! The Creatives' Last Thursday Club "The Creatives' Last Thursday Club is a monthly networking meeting for Sydney's creatives and their clients. Paul started the club to help fellow writers, graphic and web designers, marketers, and film/TV people meet each other, network, discuss ideas, and keep their finger on the industry's pulse. High-profile guest speakers also add an educational component." 031102: Sun Brainsnacks The Nov/Dec/Jan 2003/4 issue of Brainsnacks is now available online. Tagline: 'A quick look at the world of new ideas and trends.' Sydney Esquisse - 27-30 November 2003 in Surry Hills and Redfern "In November this year, Sydney Esquisse will open its doors for the first time. The aim is to show how art and design contribute to everyday life in our city. You will see product design, furniture, graphics, fashion, photography, interiors, video, sound, architecture, sculpture, painting and endless ideas. This festival will transform Sydney’s areas of Surry Hills and Redfern into a multiple-site show case. It will be the first of its kind in Australia and will feature more than 50 Australian and International designers and artists, involve over 30 venues (including a central venue, the “Launch Pad”), and host many awards, competitions, parties and auctions. Sydney Esquisse is not a design-for-designers event, but rather an attempt to communicate to both the creative community and the wider public audience how creativity relates, explores and contributes to the culture in which we live. This event will provide designers and artists with a platform to develop and grow ideas, relationships and discussion and to evolve the cultural landscape of Sydney and Australia. Sydney Esquisse is everyone’s opportunity to experience design and art beyond the usual functional and commercial rules of the game. We invite all participants to play with - not within - the rules of design, art and our city." For more info, go to the Sydney Esquisse website. Matrix magic gets Sydney gala finale The SMH has an article on Keanu and other members of the 'Matrix' cast attending the Sydney premiere of 'Matrix Revolutions' at Opera House. Google's plans to float The SMH has an article titled 'Seek and ye shall find - a great deal of wealth' about Google's plans to float. Weblog Index October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 December 2002 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 July 2002 June 2002 May 2002 March 2002 February 2002 January 2002 December 2001 November 2001 October 2001 September 2001 August 2001 July 2001 June 2001

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