Create Social Storylines With Capzles

Capzles is a relatively new free site that lets you create entertaining Social Storylines very easily. You could call them slideshows, but really they are a whole level above the Flickr slideshows. The site has been running for about a year, and went public a few months back. Since then they’ve been adding capability to the product. It’s looking good. They even have a scanning service to convert all those old prints into a digital stream.

Cited MakeUseOf — http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-social-storylines-with-capzles/

Flash spider by one emotion

Kind of creepy… and you’re more than likely to get bored with this after about 2 minutes, but hey posted it cos of the thread, spider, web, get it?

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

The Melbourne Gypsy, Balkan (& Russki) Bash Too!

After touring internationals acts thru early January, UL returns to one of it’s favourite small venues, gypsy bar & creperie ‘Open Studio’ in Northcote (Melbourne) on Saturday Jan 31st, for an East European knees up disko! Ohpah!

After the November 08 party we presented, it was evident this particular tangent fitted well with the crowds and atmospheres of this fine cultural space. bP (Finnish sympathiser), Vulk Makedonski (Curse ov Dialect) & Russian Disko (Ang Fang) dropped party sets at the last one, and return alongside Vulgar Boatman from legendary act Vulgargrad to bring down the house with a stack of russki criminal songs to bring a tear or five to your eye, alongside the balkan bangers.

Aindrias de Staic brings his trans-european mix of beats, gypsy violin, irish-gaelic skat raps and general hyping of the crowd to the party. Ex-Brisbane flautist and clarinetist Kieran R drops dubby infused melodies and French vocals, alongside the Macedonian raps of the one and only Volk Mak. Percussionists and other musicians are sure to join this mad capped lineup!

Tune into Mondo Electrico on PBS 106.7FM this Friday Jan 30 from 10pm till midnight to hear preview sets and random ramblings from above artists and selectors…

The MELBOURNE GYPSY, BALKAN (& Russki!) BASH TOO!
When: Saturday January 31st 8pm till late
Where: Open Studio 204 High Street Northcote, Melbourne, Australia
How Much: $5 from when we decide we wanna start charging. So come early for crepes!
More info: http://www.uberlingua.com/gypsy

Gridplane – data visualization for social media

JD Hooge founded Gridplane to help clients bring their brand stories to life. Gridplane specializes in unifying practical user interaction with engaging design to craft unique and emotional experiences. …

As per the site’s project section …”I collaborated with Instrument to develop a series of data visualization concepts for Google. These interface sketches are are all based around a concept of aggregating and visualizing online media buzz across various social media outlets.

Working in tandem with Google Analytics, the Flash-based, interactive tools allow users to explore relationships and see the effects of blogs, as well as mainstream and social media over time.”

It’s pretty the way they visual data, so check it out.

Lava Rooms film and music night featuring HULA GIRLS

Tuesday Feb 3rd is a special night at Lava Rooms featuring movie screenings, music and discussions….
HULA GIRLS “Imagining Paradise”.

New York born, LA based, long time pacific island resident, film historian and journalist Ed Rampell will be dropping by Lava Rooms to screen this film, in which he features largely, and then presenting a discussion and Q / A.

Also on the bill ………
Mu-meson Archives’ Miss Death will be presenting an hour of vintage Hawaiian inspired footage saved from the scrap heap. Brian P will be spinning Hawaiian-esque tunes inspired by ukulele ladies, luaus, hula girls and more.
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The theme throughout the night will be the exploration of the non Pacifikan’s imaginary view of the pacific through film, art and music, presently and historically.

Lava Rooms has always unashamedly presented authentic Pacific art with the unauthentic and the kitsch, attempting at all times be respectful of the various rich artistic traditions and cultures of the vast pacific rim, while entertaining our inauthentic notions of the pacific, creating our own pacific inspired art and maintaining our culturally removed love of pacific arts.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 7:00pm
Location: Lava Rooms arts centre
Street: cnr Broadway and Wattle St, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Clan Analogue present LIQ kinky electro

Clan Analogue presents LIQ kinky electro trash party live with Bleepin J Squawkins and Lunar Module DJ’s Ravertron, Jezebel and Ant

Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 9:00pm
Location: The Forbes Hotel 
Street: 30 York st
City/Town: Sydney, Australia

The home of Australian Underground Electronic Music http://www.clananalogue.org/

Suicide Girls Book Launch – Melbourne

Polyester Books – Friday 13th Feb at 6pm The SG™ fly in to launch Suicide Girls: Beauty Redefined™ by Missy Suicide. The gals will be signing books & posing for photos. Get in quick before breathing space evaporates!

Polyester Books 330 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
www.polyesterbooks.com.au
03 94195223

MORE INFO AT: www.stickyinstitute.com & www.myspace.com/polyesterbooks

CultureTV

Although it is already 2009, we still remember very well the light and media art installation Spots 2007 in Berlin. Watch the impression of this one of the largest media facades. There is also the beautiful animation video ´London after the Rain’ by London based artist Ben Marzys. And discover how Australian photographer Keith Loutit created a Playmobile effect in his video, ‘Beached’ ™. French artist and film director Pierre Wayser has made a very special videomix. And last but not least a personal aesthetical black and white project of Maxim Zhestkov.
  
Enjoy the CULTURETV program!
http://www.culturetv.tv/

Lantern La Lumiere: Call for Animators – Adelaide

Lantern la Lumiere is a digital art project, which will see 16 South Australian animators create content for the Rundle Lantern. Each work will be approximately 60 seconds duration and will be narrative in style. These mini-stories on giant pixels will be created under the guidance of mentors and within the technical guidelines supplied by Fusion. During the workshops animators will create and edit their digital clips, culminating in a launch and then nightly screenings during the Fringe. Two FREE workshops will be held on the 31st of January and 1st February to provide animators with requirements and support to create their content. All content will be featured for the duration of the Fringe from the 26th February.
 
31 January and 1 February, 10am – 4pm
Media Resource Centre, Lion Arts Centre at 13 Morphett St, Adelaide
Entry is limited and competitive. 
 
For further information, visit the website at: http://www.mrc.org.au#lantern

Join the revolution – the films of Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg

Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg’s film collaboration Revolution (2008) was one of the highlights at the recent Sydney Biennale. Don’t miss your only Melbourne opportunity to view 4 of Moffatt’s most acclaimed films and hear Gary Hillberg talk about his collaboration with one of Australia’s most intriguing and controversial artists.
 
The latter two films were produced with Moffatt’s long-term collaborator Gary Hillberg. Hillberg will be at MGA to introduce the films and give an insight into the complex and extraordinary visual workings of Tracey Moffatt.

Visitors can view four of Moffatt’s short films:
2.30pm: Night cries (1989)
3.20pm: Heaven (1997)
3.55pm: Doomed (2007)
4.10pm: Revolution (2008) 
  
Date: 1 February
Time: 2:30 pm - 4:10 pm
Place: Monash Gallery of Art, 860 Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill, Victoria
For further information, contact: +61 3 9562 1569, or visit the website at: www.mga.org.au