The 7th Annual Webby Awards Winners
http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html
The Webby Awards are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for the world's best web sites. The results came out on June 5th. Find out the judges and the people's choice for each award category. Categories are: Activism, Best Practices, Broadband, Commerce, Education, Fashion, Film, Finance, Games, Government + Law, Health, Humor, and Living.

The Local Economy
http://www.orionsociety.org/pages/om/archive_om/Berry/Local_Economy.html
This is a very thoughtful and well written article by Wendell Berry that urges us to take direct action and responsibility for our world's future environmental, social, economic and political well being. It discusses our belief in the 'free market' economy, and how working for the abstract notion of a 'corporation' removes us from seeing and experiencing the impact our actions have on the economies of developing countries. He argues for the idea of community and for the developing countries to look after their own local economy and to be self-sufficient and sustainable within their own communities first, so that they're not at the mercy of the corporations of the 'developed' countries. The article really makes you stop and think about what we want our world's future to be like and what we want to do about it.

The Skateboard, The City, and Socio-Spatial Censorship
http://skateboarddirectory.com/articles/481885_the_skateboard_the_city_and.html
In this article Iain Borden offers a view of skateboarders as a group who shun the conventions of urban life and the capitalist society through their use of public space. The author views the skateboarders as redefining what 'production' might mean. He suggests that their labour produces no 'products' and their actions may be perceived as a waste of time and effort. He argues that this view is "itself a reduction of life to mere survival. Skateboarding, in contrast, undertakes a release of energy that either creates or modifies space, espousing play, art and festival.
Iain Borden is Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Univeristy College of London

No-Contact Jacket
http://www.no-contact.com
   The No-Contact Jacket developed by Adam Whiton and Yolita Nugent is designed to protect a woman wearing the jacket from direct body contact by an attacker. When the jacket is activated by the wearer, "80,000 volts of low amperage electric current pulses just below the surface shell of the entire jacket. This exo-electric armor prevents any person from unauthorized contact with the wearer's body. If an assailant were to grab hold of the wearer the high voltage shocking exterior would interrupt their neurological impulses which control voluntary muscle movement" and cause disorientation and pain to the assailant, therefore giving the woman an opportunity to escape.
   The flipside is that as with everything else, the attacker can also buy a jacket...

Entries close July 19
The Sydney Morning Herald Young Designer of the Year Award
http://www.smh.com.au/youngdesigner/SMHYoungDesignerBrief2003.pdf
   This year's theme is 'Chill out in white'. There's a quote on the page that says:
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
~Chinese Proverb
   The aim is outlined as: "Using the colour white as a starting point, design an object, environment, implement or piece of furniture that would enhance rest and relaxation within the domestic environment." Entries close at noon on Saturday July 19.
   "If chosen as a finalist your design will go on display at the Powerhouse Museum during The Sydney Morning Herald Design Week 2003, August 7-17, 2003. The winner will receive a return economy flight from Sydney to Milan for 2 people. It must be taken within 12 months of winning prize."

Entries close September 30: Australia
Digital Wallpaper Design Competition - Prize: $5000 Cash
http://www.flash.com.au/images/entry.pdf
   Flash Photobition is running a competition, supported by Indesign magazine, to find Australia’s best Digital Wallpaper design. Whilst Digital Wallpaper is produced straight from a digital file, entries do not have to be designed digitally. Paintings, sketches or etchings can also be submitted, once they have been scanned at high resolution. The Digital Wallpaper design should be joined side to side, top to bottom, making it a repetitive pattern. We encourage anyone to enter. You don’t have to be an artist or have had any artistic experience.
   The winner will receive a cash prize of $5,000. Runners up will have their wallpaper designs printed. The judging panel will consist of leading design industry professionals including Tom Williams (IdeaWorks), Clayton Andrews (Landini Associates), Marcus Lui (The Principals), Ray Parslow (EVD) and Dan Cooper (FutureBrand). The winner will be announced at an exhibition featuring leading entries.
Enquiries contact: Jillian Nalty, Marketing and Public Relations, Flash Photobition,
E: jillian.nalty@flash.com.au

June 15 - 25: Sydney
Life and Debt - film
http://www.valhallacinemas.com.au
"Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact."
This movie has one to two sessions screening each day during the dates listed above.
Where: Valhalla Cinemas, 166 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, Sydney
Contact: P: 02 9660 8050
Film URL: http://www.lifeanddebt.org

June 16 - 20: Sydney
Bic Runga
http://www.thebasement.com.au
Bic Runga - pop, acoustic, folk singer from NZ will be performing 5 live shows at The Basement. Find out more about her or check out her music at: http://www.bicrunga.com or http://www.sonymusic.com.au/artists/bicrunga/home/main.do
Where: The Basement, 29 Reiby Place, Sydney, Circular Quay
Contact: The Basement P: 9251 2797
Cost: $30

June 24: Sydney
Slidenight 1.10 3 on 1 - 2nd year UNSW Studio
http://www.sydneyarchitecture.org/slide
"What do you get when you combine a baker, a cartographer, a bather and a bunch of 2nd year architects and throw them into an oven? Sound Kinky? Well IT IS.
End of Semester One exhibition, drinks, presentation [by students of the best dozen submissions]. Find out what students are getting their heads around these days, what they're wearing, what they talk about when they're drunk and so on. All welcome"
Organiser: SuperbSolid, DiasPositivas & Sydney Architecture Walks,
E: slidenight@mail.com
Where: Level 3 Spanish Club (enter via lift), 88 Liverpool Street (near the George Street cinemas), Sydney (get off at Town Hall Station)
Time: 18.30 drinks, 19.30 talk starts
Cost: $5/$3 students. No need to rsvp. Just turn up.

June 19: Sydney
Charlton Hill
Rock singer/musician based in Sydney. He's recently released a CD 'Waterline'. His website is at: http://www.charltonhill.com
Where: Bar Broadway, Broadway, Sydney

June 24-29: Melbourne
The Melbourne International Animation Festival 2003
http://www.miaf.net/index2.htm
   MIAF is a 6 day celebration of the very best of international and Australian animation showcasing the painstaking, amazing work of artists and filmmakers who have discovered that in this medium they can go anywhere their imagination leads them. The work can be funny, poignant, beautiful, exquisite or startlingly simple and is made frame by frame with everything from pieces of string to million dollar computer programs.
   Special programs include Betty Boop in all her sassy glory, a focus on the remarkable tradition of animation from The Czech Republic, a Korean feature animation 'My Beautiful Girl - Mari, a retrospective of Paul Driessen, master Dutch animator, the sublime Art and animation featuring films by Jan Svankmayer, Pritt Parn, Georges Schwizgebel and more), a feature film, 2 kids’ sessions (all tix $5), a computer animation session, an Australian panorama, and the festival will wrap up on the final night with the best of the festival.
Organiser: The Animation Posse
Where: Australian Centre for the Moving Image at Federation Square, Melbourne
Info line: 03 8663 2200
Box Office: 03 8663 2583

June 26: Sydney
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher is a world famous architect based in Frankfurt. He designed the famous Infobox project in Berlin. His website is: http://www.schneider-schumacher.com.
Organiser: RAIA (Royal Australian Institute of Architects) NSW Chapter
Where: Tusculum, 3 Manning St, Potts Point
Time: 6pm
Cost: Members $11, Non-members $15, Students $0
RSVP: Please phone 9356 2955 to leave your name on a list. (Refreshments are served after the Talk).
URL: http://www.raia.com.au (note: event was listed in newsletter, but isn't on the website)

July 3-13: Melbourne
The Melbourne Underground Film Festival [MUFF]
http://www.muff.com.au
   "The Melbourne Underground Film Festival [MUFF] is an independent and non-profit organisation that showcases a diversity of film and video based works in the areas of underground, independent, guerrilla and exploitation. MUFF presents both new features and shorts, as well as presenting an innovative selection of curated programs and retrospectives."
   This year's theme is politics. "We have Jonas Mekas mixed in with Bam Margera, we have the Church of Stop Shopping and the 70’s misanthrope classic “Punishment Park’, we have conspiracy theories of the left and right, we have eroticism and horror, bound to strike shock and awe in the viewer. We also have great new Oz guerrilla cinema like Shannon Young’s out-there “Razor Eaters” and Bill Mousoulis’ reflective “Lovesick”, plus a visual assault of shorts of ‘mass distraction’ and cutting edge doco’s that will enlighten, empower and enrage."
Contact: Melbourne Underground Film Festival, E: info@muff.com.au
Where: George Cinemas, Loop, Bughouse Omniplex (the Loft) and other venues.

July 4-6: Sydney
Channel 9 Money Expo in association with Australian Stock Exchange
http://pub1.ninemsn.com.au/MoneyExpo/sydney/article7.htm
Speakers and topics include: Paul Clitheroe on Opportunities in Dangerous Times, John McGrath on Property 2003, Noel Whittaker on Creating Wealth & Saving Tax, Margaret Lomas on Positive Cashflow Property Investing and heaps more. The ASX is also running an investment seminar series with lots of speakers.
Organiser: Channel 9 and Australian Stock Exchange
Where: Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney
Time: Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 10am-5pm
URLS: Channel 9's list of speakers and topics: http://pub1.ninemsn.com.au/MoneyExpo/sydney/article7.htm and ASX's program:
http://pub1.ninemsn.com.au/MoneyExpo/sydney/ASX%20Seminar%20Prog-Syd.pdf

July 19: Sydney
Sydney InDesign Showrooms Tour
http://www.saturday.indesign.com.au/saturday/index.html
Saturday in Design is an organised, but flexible tour of Sydney's leading showrooms who, for one heady day, will play host to everyone interested in the best in design. You are invited! And for your convenience, free shuttle buses will run on carefully planned routes linking all the showrooms. And to cap off our day of celebrating Sydney's design community, Saturday in Design is hosting a party with thousands of dollars worth of door prizes, great food, delicious wine and an atmosphere to match the products which have wetted your appetite during the day.
Organiser/Contact: InDesign. Raj. P: 02 9368 0150, E: raj@indesign.com.au
Where: Various showrooms
Time: 9.30am - 6.00pm

July 14-18: Sydney
Sourgrapes Screenings and Workshops - FREE
http://www.sourgrapes.com.au
There will be screenings of up to 80 shorts during this time + industry talks for aspiring filmmakers. "The chats provide insight into the feature film world covering topics such as scripting all the way through to sales and distribution. We discovered in past festivals that many 'creative' film makers, writers, producers etc. are well educated in filmmaking but a little less versed in the BUSINESS of film. We are going to be drilling the speakers about the nuts and bolts of the film market and expose more pitfalls and traps encountered along the way. Let's face it... film making MUST have a commercial viability to keep you making more films... we are gonna be uncovering these vital elements for you. Attend an indepth, 'no holds barred' insight, into the commercial realities of this crazy and often misunderstood business... just like we did last year FOR FREE!!"
Organiser/Contact: Sourgrapes, E: info@sourgrapes.com.au, Register your details on their site for event updates.
Where: Comedy Store, Fox Studios
Time: 6.30 - 9.30pm
Cost: Free for the Sourgrapes events

July 19: Sydney
Sourgrapes Finals Film Festival Screening - FREE
http://www.sourgrapes.com.au
The finalists of the Sourgrapes short film festival entries will be show at the Horden Pavillion. "We welcome film buffs, filmmakers, professionals, amateurs, couch potatoes, critics, writers, actors and anyone else interested in the world of filmed entertainment. If you have a heart beat... you're invited! Registration will be open a little closer to the event, so check back to the Sourgrapes site or enter your email address to be informed via the Sour Grape Vine.
Organiser/Contact: Sourgrapes, E: info@sourgrapes.com.au, Register your details on their site for event updates.
Where: Horden Pavilion, Sydney
Cost: Free

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