Earthsharing Film Competition

Entries are now open for Earthsharing Australia’s 2009 film competition entitled “I Want to Live Here: The war on creativity.” Artists and film makers are asked to respond to issues of gentrification and the difficulty creative communities have when rent increases cause them to move onto cheaper suburbs.

Entries close 4 November

For more information visit http://iwanttolivehere.org.au/

The Melbourne Bicycle Film Festival x

To promote Melbourne as a city for cyclists, The Melbourne Bicycle Film Festival are looking for films up to 1 minute long that promote road harmony between all users. The films must contain a recognisable City of Melbourne location, feature cyclists wearing helmets, using a bell and contain one of eight scenarios that represent barriers to road harmony.

First prize is $1000 and a $250 voucher from Open Channel and the use of the clip by the City of Melbourne as part of their safe cycling campaign. Short listed entries will be screened before Bicycle Film Festival sessions at the Palace Kino Cinemas 26 – 28 November.

Visit www.ambiguoushorse.com for more information.

AFTRS in conjunction with the IGDA Sydney are running GameJam 09

Intense show’n’tells, pitches, discussions and lots of interaction!

An interactive event by gamers for gamers – a day of playing, learning about and making games. Come be a spectator, play to win, or get involved in the creative jam session. This free one day event features gaming competitions, seminars, networking and creative activities. The JAM starts with a gaming forum where anyone can register to be a presenter – share YOUR latest discoveries, opinions & ideas for games and virtual worlds. The JAM ends with a workshop & competition – where creative teams engage in a battle of ideas & rapid game-design, with prizes for best pitch!

Register to come along and/or participate – online at: http://www.gamejam.org.au

Show everyone YOUR latest ideas for games and virtual worlds

If you want to present for around 10-15 mins please book yourself a talk slot by checking out the GameJam wiki site

ADMISSION: Free!
LOCATION: AFTRS building at the Entertainment Quarter, 130 Bent St. Moore Park (next door to Fox Studios) Syd, AUS
WHEN: Saturday 10th October 2009
WHO: YOU’RE the stars, but we will have some cool folk like Dan Graf (Dr D Studios) & Ian Brown (Unity & CG creator)

OPEN TALKS & SCHEDULE
The talks will be about anything to do with
1 developing for or playing with console, pc games, alternate reality games, augmented reality, smart mobiles, serious games
2 offline, online games or creating and using virtual worlds
3 games, film cross-over, machinima, writing, artificial intelligence, social games
5 educational, fun or just plain ‘wtf’!.
6 The user or creator angle is fine (in otherwords talk us through one of your must play games!) – just make sure it is not too geeky or too fanzy!

Demos around the areas: big screen displays, play new games and demos.

Call For Entries. Australian Positive Poster Design Competition

Positive Posters is an international poster campaign open to graphic design students and professionals. The project aims to publish positive posters around city walls that will challenge/inspire people to make a positive change in their lives.

The Positive Posters design competition asks students and industry professionals to come up with posters that respond to themes that will hopefully inspire a positive social change in our community.

30 shortlisted entries will be shown in an exhibition at the Rooftop Bar (Curtin House) in November, with the winning entry bill posted with around 1000 prints around Melbourne. This poster will then go on a world tour, through the positive posters network.

This is a great opportunity to gain exposure for young talented designers, as well as allowing them to positively contribute to the current social fabric through their work.

For more information, design requirements and to submit a poster please visit:

www.positive-posters.com

On twitter.com :
www.twitter.com/positiveposters

Applications close: Friday, October 16, 2009

International Design Competition, Think Outside the Parking Box

C A L L – F O R – E N T R I E S
designboom international graphic design competition.
Participation is open to applicants from every country in the world,
to professionals, students, and design-enthusiasts.
Free registration required.

In search of cutting edge design to challenge conventional urban parking to be tougher and stylish.

Qashqai is a resilient urban vehicle with distinct style. It is capable to take on whatever the city throws at it – Qashqai is ‘Urbanproof’. We are looking for ideas around Nissan’s tough and stylish Qashqai. Designs may challenge any element of urban parking (underground, exterior, interior, multi-layer, ground level, shape, colors, material, smell, sound, ramps, signage, limits, etc.). Urban parking is in need of a renovation. Ideas must challenge current perceptions of urban parking and offer a tougher, sleeker, or even playful rendering of it.

The urban parking challenge is open to innovative designers with a bold and daring vision. Design is an innovative field with an ever-growing number of mediums to create this parking renovation: graphic, video, urban, industrial, lighting, motion and more.
Ideas may be delivered as videos, objects or illustrations.

More at designboom

Future shots, sustainability film challenge for young Victorians

Future Shots is a short film challenge to all young people living in Victoria.

Tackling one of the most important issues affecting the world today: SUSTAINABLITY

The challenge is to make a film of three minutes or less, of any type or genre that addresses the key question:

Sustainability: What’s it all about?

Future Shots is looking for creativity, inspiration, discussions and solutions.

You are encouraged to explore, interpret, and then commit to film your personal ideas about sustainability, what it means to you and your community and how you think it can be achieved.

Films entered into Future Shots by the 21 September, 2009 will be placed in the draw to win either a Sony HandyCam or an Ipod Touch.

If you have already completed a short film under three minutes on sustainability don’t miss this opportunity to be in the draw for another great prize.

Read the Future Shots guidelines to make sure your film meets the requirements, and enter.

More info at Future Shots. And yeah you should be under 21 years of age…;)

Freezly: Automatically Aggregating Giveaways

Do you spend hours trawling through the net looking for free stuff? If yes, then how about giving the Israeli web-based start-up Freezly a whirl. Freezly searches Twitter for free items or competition-giveaways: they seem to do a reasonable job of finding a large range of items:

“In general, Freezly monitors new tweets as they come in, analyzes their content, and filters out unwanted tweets using a proprietary algorithm. Once the system determines a valid giveaway, it is added to our database…Our method is not fool-proof, but we’re constantly working to improve our algorithm and deliver you legitimate content only. And hey, we’re still in Beta… please give us a chance!”

Open Call – New Life Happening

Propose a happening or event for 10.000 participants in Copenhagen during the UN Climate Conference. Your concept should involve collective action and will be implemented alongside New Life Happenings by artist groups Superflex (DK) and Signa (DK/A) among others. The Submission deadline is October 1st 2009. The official Opening of New Happenings is December 7th 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. To submit, please visit: www.wooloo.org.

World record guitar speed

Supersonic flight of the bumble bee performed by Brazilian guitarist Tiago Della Vega.

For more of his videos, check out YouTube or visit: www.tiagodellavega.net and www.myspace.com/tdellavega for his Bio.

MySchoolAct is an Australian first for online high school music competitions

A school assignment like never before!

Do you want to be the next world famous music star, but just don’t know where to begin?  Now launched MySchoolAct – is Australia’s first ever online high school music and creative talent competition…and they are calling for YOUR submissions!

Hosted by ex-Idol host James Mathison and supported by Sony Music Australia, the comp allows high school students to showcase their talent via an interactive Web site – www.myschoolact.com

What’s more, they’re not just looking for music acts – MySchoolAct is searching for talented ‘behind the scenes’ creatives such as video producers, managers and songwriters.  There is more than $150,000 in prizes up for grabs, including:

• A recording deal, commercial album release and music video from the team at Sony Music Australia

• Two full scholarships for a Diploma in Audio Engineering or Film making at any of the 6 SAE Institute campuses in Australia and a Diploma in Graphic Design at any of the 3 Qantm College Campuses in Australia

• $15,000 publishing deal with Sony ATV for the best original songwriter

MySchoolAct’s Music Director, John O’Donnell is the man responsible for helping young Aussie artists such as Missy Higgins, Operator Please, Silverchair and Jebediah on their rise from the classroom to the top of the charts, and he’s back on the hunt for the next big thing.  “Whether you’re an aspiring rock star, singer/songwriter, hip hop stylist or music video director, MySchoolAct provides the opportunity to share and develop your talents in a digital forum. I can’t wait to see what Australia’s youth have to offer.”

Put yourself in the running for the ultimate career kickstart, log onto www.myschoolact.com and get your act together!