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 Sarah
Breen - interior designer
http://www.chaosgeneration.com/sarah_breen.htm
Sarah is an interior designer. Her designs include: the interior
of the Chocolate Factory apartments, cabinet furniture design and
concept cocoon screens. Her cocoon idea is based around the idea
of enveloping all your senses in design and how the design evokes
different emotions. Also check out her online
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Communication
Arts Interactive Annual 8
http://www.commarts.com/CA/interactive/cai02
This competition run by Communication Art magazine drew over
2000 entries world-wide. Entries included: websites, kiosks, cd-rom
projects and PDA's. 47 projects were selected as winners and showcased
in hardcopy in the September/October issue of the magazine as
well as being showcased online. Categories are: Advertising, Business,
Entertainment, Info Design and Self Promo. I usually find the
'Self Promo' ones particularly interesting as they tend to be
more experimental and innovative and are not constrained by client
briefs. You can also check out previous years' winners at http://www.commarts.com/CA/interactive
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A
World Without Water
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0234/otis.php
This
article discusses the limited water resources in the world, the
privatisation of water in some parts of the world and the implications
of this for a number of developing countries such as parts of
South Africa. This article reports that there are only
8.6 million cubic miles of fresh water left on earth and the UN
predicts that two-thirds of the world's population will live in
water-scarce regions by 2025.
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Alternative
energy technologies
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/gateway.taf?g=3&file=/materials/features/overviews/
articles/414332a0.html
This article reviews the various alternative energy sources
and looks at the opportunities and challenges each presents as
a viable energy source for the future. Energy sources reviewed
include: 'unconventional' fossil fuels such as tar sands, oil
shale and gas hydrates, nuclear energy, photovoltaics and solar
cells, hydrogen, and rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The article
reports that substantial improvements in materials are needed
to increase the efficiency in the generation, conversion, transmission
and use of energy. Overall, the article provides an excellent
overview of the current state of research and development into
various alternative energy sources. You need to register to view
this article. Registration to the site is free. The article also
appears in Nature 414, 332—337 (2001). It has been
written by M. S. Dresselhaus and I. L. Thomas.
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Young
squeezed out of inner city
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/29/1032734373987.html
This article discusses the Melbourne property market and that
young professionals want to live in the inner city suburbs of
Melbourne but can't afford to. They are being priced out of the
market by investors buying up these 'lifestyle' locations. The
Real Estate Institute of Victoria reported a 103% to 129% increase
in the median house price between June 1997 to June 2002 in suburbs
such as Fitzroy North and Richmond. REIV found that between 25-30%
of market sales were to investors.
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Clear
Channel Entertainment Artist Availability
http://www.clearchannelcollegeentertainment.com/SearchResults.asp?Artist=%25
Came across this site in the Yahoo Picks newsletter. This
site lists the booking price for some of the top music acts around
- mainly American. It's intended to be a guide for college gig
organisers to use this agency to book acts for college parties.
I found Yahoo's comment: "the
ladies of Destiny's Child will say your name for $250k" amusing.
You can book Coldplay for $50k, Garbage for $30k, Jamiroquai for
$35k, and Macy Gray for $35k for example. All prices in U.S. dollars.
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No
Time
http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53827,00.html
This 'Wired' magazine article features Karin Spitzer - a 27
year old from New York who has set up a business making bracelets,
mousepads etc based on the phrase 'No-time' eg "no time for
boys" and many other phrases. It's now a very successful
business. You can check out the products on her website at http://www.no-time.com.
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Save
Karyn
http://www.savekaryn.com
Came
across the
'Save Karyn' website on Memepool
a while ago. She had a $20K debt - used to have a dot.com type
job and bought heaps of expensive things and then lost the job
... She's set up a website to sell some of her items and to collect
donations from the public who wish to help her out. You can find
out how she saves money in her 'The Daily Buck' column. She writes
about saving money by buying 99c macaroni and cheese and not drinking
bottled water anymore but refilling the same water bottle. Her
writing style makes her column an entertaining read.
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Australian
Weblogs
http://australian.weblogs.com
I
tend to follow a few weblogs and read others every now and again.
I also like discovering new ones. They're
great as the weblog writers tend to surf sites and write about
whatever interests them. So if you happen to come across someone
who has some similar interests, you can read about stuff that
may interest you. For some reason, a few of the weblogs I follow
are from people living in Seattle. Now I've found an Australian
webloggers list and the site even tells you the ones which were
most recently updated. Have been checking some of these out and
have come across some entertaining ones such as Daniel Bowen's
'Diary
of an Average Australian'.
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November
4: Applications for Round 12 closes
Young Filmmakers Fund
The Young Filmmakers Fund (YFF) has given
support to sixty-seven projects by new and emerging filmmakers
in NSW. The YFF provides a unique opportunity for young talent
to break into the highly competitive film and television industry.
Grants of up to $30,000 are available to NSW
residents aged eighteen to thirty-five for production or post-production
costs. There is no restriction on format or type of film and the
YFF has funded short dramas, documentaries, animation and experimental
film projects.
Contact: P: 1300 556 386 or 61 2 9264 6400, E:
fto@fto.nsw.gov.au
URL: http://www.fto.nsw.gov.au/fund.asp?id=48
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October
3-5: Sydney
Digit 2002
DiGit is a design event featuring a 3 day conference, workshops
and an exhibition. Conference session topics include: Effective
Brand Design: Branding is so much more than just a logo - how
do you keep your designs pure for different mediums?, Designing
great brands - keeping brand identity - what makes a brand design
effective?; Design Project Management: How to handle design projects
and the workflow that they produce - projects from start to finish
- project application - problem solving - meeting objectives successfully;
Getting animated: Web animation is rapidly developing in both
style and content - DiGiT gets down and dirty and explains what's
hot and what's not, Designing great web animation - inspirational
ideas - trends and much more.
Where: Darling Harbour, Sydney
Contact: Key Media. P: 612 9439 4566, F: 612 9439 4599
URL: http://www.digitexpo.com
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October
16-21: Sydney, Oct 30-Nov4: Melbourne, Oct 24-27: Brisbane
Japanime 2002
Director's statement: During a year of listening
to simplistic rhetoric on the nature of good and evil it has been
refreshing to immerse myself in the world of anime, where good
and evil are acknowledged as complex, complimentary, integral
and often ambiguous elements of human existence.
Japanime 02 is the largest screening of animated
feature films in Australia and explores a wider territory than
its predecessor by including showcases of shorts and independents
as well as the oft overlooked area of television animation where
the Japanese have long excelled. Highlights of the program include
premieres of the latest features such as Satoshi Kon's beautiful
narrative on love and memory, Millennium Actress, Takashi Nakamura's
stunning animated fantasy A Tree of Palme, the irrepressibly entertaining
Cowboy Bebop the Movie, the gender bending Adolescence of Utena,
anime classics such as Masaki Mori's semi autobiographical Barefoot
Gen, Gisaburo Sugii's epic tale of love and intrigue A Tale of
Genji and the delightful children's film Catnapped plus showcases
of the work of two of Japan's leading independent animation directors
Taku Furakawa and Koji Yamamura.
Where: Sydney: Dendy Opera Keys, Melbourne: Kino Collins
Place Cinemas, Brisbane: Dendy Brisbane
URL: http://www.japanime.com.au
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October
17 : Sydney
Patrick Clifford
Thursday night lectures at the University of Sydney Faculty
of Architecture..
Speaker: Patrick Clifford - award winning architect, co-founder
of Architectus.
Talking about his own past and current architectural work.
Introduction: Lindsay and Kerry Clare
Where: Architecture lecture Theatre 1, level 2, Wilkinson
Building, 148 City Rd.
When: 6.00-7.30pm.
URL: http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/nwfa/whats_on/archive/tnl_current.html
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October
17-20: Sydney
WOW 2002 - International Film Festival: A World of Women's
Cinema
WOW will be themed what 'women want' to provoke debate, celebrate
and highlight the diversity of womens lives. You can apply to
have your film screened at this festival. Entries are welcomed
from any genre, with a variety of production values, from aspiring
and professional filmmakers. WOW is presented by Women in Film
and Television NSW a non-profit member based organisation committed
to improving the status of women, both on and off the screen,
by supporting and advancing women working in the film, television
and related screen industries.
Contact: P: 61 2 9332 2408, F: 61 2 9380 4311. E: info@wift.org
URL: http://www.wift.org
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October
20: Sydney
Lantana
- Movies @ Macquarie
- FREE
Movies @ Macquarie is an innovative concept that provides movie-goers
with fascinating revelations about their favourite films. Viewers
who come along to the FREE screenings get to watch a Hollywood
blockbuster on the big screen, then grill Macquarie University
experts about whether the film belongs in the realm of fact or
fiction.
Where:
Macquarie Theatre, Macquarie University. 7pm.
Contact: E: publicrelations@mq.edu.au,
P: +61 2 9850 7309
URL: http://www.pr.mq.edu.au/mqmovies
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November
20 - December 3: Melbourne
Oppositionality
This exhibition - Oppositionalities - showcases designs from the
first group to emerge from a new Interior Architecture degree
at Monash University, Melbourne. The eleven aspiring practitioners
will be displaying full-scale furniture pieces and samples of
the extraordinary environments they have created as part of their
final-year design theses. The work is bold, directional, and executed
with a sophisticated technical understanding
unusual in fresh graduates.
Where: Building G, Monash University Caulfield Campus,
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East.
Contact: E: Katharine
Koesoemadi
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