NO VACANCY ART MARKET – Melbourne

NO VACANCY ART MARKET – MELBOURNE
20 ARTISTS STALLS
No Vacancy Art Market – 24 April – 17 May

No Vacancy Art Gallery is hosting a unique and inspiring collection of local Melbourne artists for the inaugural No Vacancy Art Market. Twenty stalls presenting emerging and established local talent will pop-up in the Gallery’s inner-city space at QV over four weeks. Illustrators, artists, jewellers, designers, animators, rare booksellers and an eclectic mix of hand-picked others will come together to showcase their wares and offer a rare opportunity to collect original work. Come and join us from Friday 24 April to take advantage of late trading hours and the opportunity to gain an insight into the artists’ methods and pick up affordable gems by local artists.

What: No Vacancy Art Market

Where: No Vacancy Gallery, 27-33 Red Cape Lane (QV Building), Melbourne

When: 24 April – 17 May
Times: Thu-Fri – 11am – 9pm, Tues-Wed, Sat-Sun – 11am to 5pm

How Much: A dollar a kilo
Enquiries to the Gallery – email info@no-vacancy.com.au or phone (03) 9663 3798.

Stay posted at www.no-vacancy.com.au/market.html

Create a Dickens URL

The opposite of TinyURL: DickensURL.com converts long URLs into even longer quotes from Charles Dickens! Here’s mine…

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

http://dickensurl.com/703d/I_revere_the_memory_of_Mr_F_as_an_estimable_man_and_most_indulgent_husband
_only_necessary_to_mention_Asparagus_and_it_appeared_or_to_hint_at_any_little_delicate
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comfort

Six word memoirs

Everyone has a story. Can you tell yours in six words? Submit yours to be considered for SMITH’s next six-word memoir book.

Smith MAG website

Running Short Story Contest on Twitter inspired by Ernest Hemmingway.

Ernest Hemmingway won a short story contest with this entry: “For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.”

Why not run a similar contest on Twitter? Rules are:

1)Story can’t be longer than 1 Tweet.
2) No shortened URLs
3) Original content only

DM or RT  @globalcopywrite with your entry.

Winner gets RT. No prizes. No auto anything. Just fun.

#shortstorycontest

PhD scholarship at RMIT

RMIT University, School of Applied Communication (Melbourne) are seeking a communication/interaction designer who is familiar with social networks and networked media environments to work on an ARC Linkage project with Parks Victoria. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the project’s objectives and to collaborate with a PhD candidate in the field of geospatial information interventions for geoplaced knowledge management. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with the School of Mathematics and Geospatial Science at RMIT.

This research is aligned with the RMIT Design Research Insitute’s Geoplaced Knowledge Program. Applications are sought for either Masters or PhD investigations.

The associated researchers include Adrian Miles, Jeremy Yuille, Dr Brian Morris, Assoc. Professor Laurene Vaughan, Assoc. Professor Colin Arrowsmith and Professor Bill Cartwright.

If interested please send an outline of your interest/experience and a brief CV to:  laurene dot vaughan at rmit dot edu dot au and cc it to adrian dot miles at rmit dot edu dot au

PhD Scholarship, full time (approx. AUD22k per annum tax free).

human mirror

15 pairs of twins create a human mirror on a New York subway car. It’s pretty freaky but shows you some people have a lot of time on their hands! Be sure to click “watch in high quality”!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MBBr-a2KnM

PaCo Autonomous Poetry Generating Robot

It seems to look like a very stiff Stephen Hawking in a wheelchair. Not sure if this bard will do it for you, but hey bring it on oh mighty metal wordsmith!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybfAQBuFgw4&e

Read more at http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/vida10/paginas/v7/epaco.html

Twitter users – not sticking around

More than 60 per cent of Twitter users have stopped using the micro-blogging service a month after joining, according to Nielsen Online research released this week.

“Twitter has enjoyed a nice ride over the last few months, but it will not be able to sustain its meteoric rise without establishing a higher level of user loyalty,” said David Martin, Nielsen Online’s vice president for primary research.

Martin, in a post on the company blog, said that more than 60 per cent of Twitter users fail to return the following month.

“Or in other words, Twitter’s audience retention rate, or the percentage of a given month’s users who come back the following month, is currently about 40 per cent,” he said.

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Brain Pickings – a curious mind at large.

Picking culture’s collective brain for innovation, inspiration & brilliant ideas.

Check out Maria’s Wordle of every TED talk ever = 9,306 hours of culture’s biggest brain cloud, condensed into a tiny word cloud.

Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, a curious mind at large with a passion for behavioral psychology, innovation, design and good conversation.

Brain Pickings is about picking culture’s collective brain for tidbits of stuff that inspires, revolutionizes, or simply makes us think. It’s about innovation and authenticity and all those other things that have become fluff phrases but don’t have to be.

Source: www.brainpickings.org