Homesense: Every Home has a Story to Tell #geekgirl

Homesense is an open research project collaboration between Tinker London and EDF R&D. Bringing open collaboration methods of online communities to physical infrastructures in the home selected households will create their own smart homes and live with the technologies that they have developed themselves without any prior technical expertise.

Source: Interactive Architecture

An overview of robots in art #geekgirl

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Senster – a website devoted to Edward Ihnatowicz, cybernetic sculptor.
Also loving this site!!! – Interactive Architecture

You were in my Dream – online interactive artwork #geekgirl

You were in my Dream – online interactive artwork

You Were In My Dream is an online interactive artwork that invites you to leap and cavort with some crazy characters in a bizarre ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ animation. Turn on your webcam for some seriously hysterical identity theft!

Work by Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine

The Marxist Matrix – How to make sense of all those dreams-within-dreams in Inception.

The Marxist Matrix
How to make sense of all those dreams-within-dreams in Inception.
By Jonah Weiner for Slate

About halfway through Inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Arthur lifts an assault rifle and tries, unsuccessfully, to take out a group of attackers firing on him from a nearby rooftop. Arthur’s teammate Eames nudges him to one side and tells him, with an audible smirk, “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” He produces an enormous grenade launcher, takes aim, and gets the job done. As with many moments in Christopher Nolan’s new blockbuster, this one requires some parsing. It seems that Eames conjures up his gargantuan gun on the spot, at his whim.

Editor’s note: As I’m off to see Inception this w/knd I steeled myself from reading more…

Source: Slate

Crap at My Parents House #fun #geekgirl

Crap at My Parents House

The goal of Crap At My Parents House is to pay homage to all of the weird crap that everyone’s parents have. Please help in this project by submitting anything you deem funny, weird, odd, unique, strange, absurd, ridiculous or just plain terrifying.

http://crapatmyparentshouse.com/

Life In A Day a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you #geekgirl

One World. 24 Hours. 6 Billion Perspectives
Saturday July 24, 2010
www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday

Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you. On Saturday July 24 you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Gladiator) and directed by Kevin MacDonald (The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void).

The film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and on YouTube. If your footage makes it into the finished film, you’ll be credited with as a co-directors and you could be one of 20 contributors heading to Sundance for the premiere.

#Melbourne #Juggling Convention 2010: Call out!

This is the 4th year of the Melbourne Juggling Convention, which brings with it an innovative new structure integrating workshops, forums and shows to form the  MJC 2010 Act Devising Program

The essence of this year’s convention is performance art, where we wish to empower convention participants in creating a performance within the depths of juggling, object manipulation and circus arts. The Act Devising Program, free to anyone attending the convention, is designed to assist people with a passion for performance, inviting them to create and ultimately showcase their new piece of work on the dedicated ‘works-in-progress’ Creative Edge show.

‘Clown’, ‘comedy’, ‘voice’ and ‘improvisation’ are a small number of the specialisation areas showcasing as part of the act devising program, bringing in leading practitioners in their field to facilitate them. In addition to our 5 headlining guests, another 15+ Melbourne-based guest artists have been invited to help run the forums and workshops as part of this program. Places are limited and already filling up, any person interested in taking part in the Act Devising Program is urged to go to the convention website to register their expression of interest.

MELBOURNE JUGGLING CONVENTION 2010
17-20 September, 2010
Collingwood College, Melbourne
Website: www.mjc.juggling.net.au
E-mail: mjcinfo@gmail.com
Early-bird 4-day passes:
On sale now, until 31st July. Cost: $90 (+ bf). Price increases from 1st August.
The BIG Show:
Date: Saturday 18th September (2pm & 8pm). Cost: $20 (+ bf)
Juggling Olympics:
Date: Monday 20th September (11am-1pm). Free event

Source: Artshub

Wagwords a new multi-media wordgame and fiction adventure by Philip Redhead

Australian first, author, Philip Redhead, has launched an all-new multi-media wordgame and fiction adventure featuring Wagwords™ – a tongue-in-cheek story with the challenge of solving missing words which also go in a luxury crossword, combined with an eclectic mix of humour – making it a perfect gift on any occasion.

Grizbut and the Amazonians is the hilarious and witty tale of Grizbut, a hip Amazonian woman with supreme perception and power. By following Grizbut’s adventures, the reader will also have the additional challenge in solving the Wagwords™ along the way, and enjoying Phil Redhead’s satirical sense of humour as well.

For a sneak peak, take a look at www.wagwords.com

Some people are gay. Get over it!

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Drive-In to the #Melbourne International Film Festival #MIFF #geekgirl #zombies

Friday July 30 & Saturday July 31
Shed 4, North Wharf Road
Victoria Harbour, Docklands, Melbourne

Open Channel have joined forces with MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival) to present two nights of Drive-In Cinema at Shed 4. Rev up your engines, lay down the front seat and head for the Docklands end of Bourke Street.

Friday July 30, 9.15pm
Machete Maidens Unleashed! + For Yr Height Only
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Machete Maidens Unleashed!
(Mark Hartley, Australia, 2009, 85 mins)
Admission 18+

Busty babes, mutated monsters and midget secret agents, the Filipino genre films of the 70s and 80s had it all. Saturating drive-ins around the world, the Philippines became a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers with cheap labour, exotic scenery and non-existent health and safety regulations!

The all-too often overlooked world of Filipino exploitation flicks gets the Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood) treatment in Machete Maidens Unleashed! Featuring interviews with Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Eddie Romero and a host of filmmakers, actors and critics, each with a story about a genre with no scruples, no scripts, no boundaries and – more often than not – no clothes.

Screens with For Y’r Height Only (Eddie Nickart, Philippines, 1981, 93 mins)

This Filipino heightsploitation classic starring 2″9′ action hero Weng Weng is a satire of the James Bond series that – while featuring a hero short in stature – doesn’t fail to measure up in the cheesy action department.

Saturday July 31, 9.15pm
Survival of the Dead + Down Terrace
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Survival of the Dead
(George A Romero, USA, 2009, 90 mins)
Admission 18+

The sixth film in the Dead series from zombie king George A. Romero.

Offering up the flesh-chomping effects enthusiasts have come to know and love, Romero’s franchise continues with a pulpy Western-influenced tale that follows Sarge (a minor character from Diary of the Dead) and his deserter band of soldiers.

After stumbling across an exiled Irishman called O’Flynn, Sarge and his militia head to the remote outpost of Plum Island. What they encounter is a stand-off between O’Flynn and a rival clan over whether the zombies should be annihilated or confined until a cure is found. As the conflict escalates, Sarge’s band find themselves fighting to survive.

screens with: Down Terrace (Ben Wheatley, UK, 2009, 89 mins). Admission 18+

This black suburban comedy slickly marries family drama to crime-flick to produce a cross-genre gem.

Father-and-son gangster duo Bill and Karl, released from a four-month stint in a Brighton prison, settle back into a routine of drinking, pot-smoking and crime. But there’s a snitch in their midst, and the dysfunctional family of thugs are set to explode with violence.

Brimming with menace, Down Terrace stars co-writer Robin Hill alongside his real-life wife and father, and features a chilling crime clan matriarch that puts Jacki Weaver’s performance in Animal Kingdom to shame.