CDC discovers source of swinflu

First images of likely human-pig contact/transfer have been released.
http://twitpic.com/44fzz

Have you ever been on the Tour of Beauty – squatfest request.

It’s been three and half years since SquatSpace first conducted their now infamous REDFERN-WATERLOO – TOUR OF BEAUTY.

The next tour on May 31st is part of the exhibition There Goes The Neighbourhood at Performance Space in The Carriageworks (Sydney).  Squatfest normally loathe to do a gallery piece about Redfern, which of course was the original impetus to instead take people around on the ground in Redfern.  However, in addition to a tour, Squatfest has come up with a great idea to create a giant photo mural from all the pics taken on the tour over the past few years!  Something like “A thousand pictures speak one word: Redfern”

So if you have been on any of the tours over the years, we are looking for your photos! They need your digital file and they’ll do the printing.

Please send by May 8th,  to info@squatspace. com, or upload them to Flickr, or other such online photo management and sharing applications, and send the link. Thanks!

Flu wiki

Flu Wiki is a database that anyone can edit http://flu.wikia.com/wiki/Flu_Wiki

5th edition of Cologne Online Film Festival

CologneOFF V – 5th edition of Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org is planned to be launched in November 2009 under 3 festival themes

1. On Violence
2. Taboo? – Taboo!
3. One Minute Films – on memory & identity

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Entry
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VideoChannel – video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org invites artists and directors for submitting videos/films, i.e. narratives and documentations (max 15 min.) experimenting with new concepts of transforming artistic contents into moving images, new forms of representing and new technologies

Deadline: 1 September  2009

All entry details and the submission form can be found on netEX – networked experience http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1030

Animania Festival

Australia’s largest anime and manga event, is a celebration and exploration of the spectacular world of Japanese pop culture!

The World Cosplay Summit is an annual international level Cosplay competition held in Nagoya, Japan and hosted by TV Aichi. The competition brings together contestants from all over the globe to showcase their prize-winning costumes. Some of the participating countries include Australia, Germany, France, Brazil, China and USA.

Saturday, September 05, 2009

Web Site:     www.animania.net.au/2009

the happy spacemen!

“It is impossible to crush this heroes’ force, our fire is powerful, we have dug the grave for the whelks”

As they say uranus is a really freaky place! …http://www.rathergood.com/spacemen

Content rating: very gay.

Polar Rose – photo app

Polar Rose detects and matches the faces in your flickr® photos – so you can easily name people and share photos with your Facebook friends.

http://www.polarrose.com/

Green score card for companies and businesses

Run through the checklist and see how sustainable and green your organisation really is.

The Green score card

10th Anniversary of the Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival

Enjoy 7 world premieres of 7 Short Films by 7 new Australian directors including directorial debuts by Deborah Mailman and Leah Purcell.

FREE public screenings, FREE live music,and a FREE photographic art exhibition. You will also have an opportunity to meet and talk with filmmakers after each session.

Sydney Opera House presents the 10th Message Sticks Festival, a program of film and performance celebrating the creativity of indigenous artists from Australia and overseas.

Runs May 7 – May 10th, 2009
Location:
The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney, Australia

Big Eye, Aboriginal Animations

Brisbane: An exhibition of the moving image, including stop-motion, 3D and other animation techniques, Big Eye showcases Aboriginal animations from Australia and Canada in a unique cross-tribal exchange of ideas and world views. Aboriginal Australian artists Aroha Groves, Frank McLeod & Aboriginal Nations, the Gunbalanya Community & Gozer Media, Christine Peacock, Rebekah Pitt & John Graham and artist/curator Jenny Fraser, are joined by Aboriginal Canadian artists Dark Thunder Productions, Raven Tales, Skawennati Tricia Fragnito & Abtech, Rabbit and Bear Paws, and The Healthy Aboriginal Network.

29 April to 15 May
The Block QUT Creative Industries Precinct
Cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Avenue
Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Australia

Check out: www.ciprecinct.qut.edu.au/shows/details.jsp?news-event-id=23115