03 PM | 10 Jun

Stream collective screening event

SEEING SOUND is a free 16mm film screening of experimental sound-image works from the 60’s and 70’s. Featuring beautiful, vibrant films by Norman McClaren, Guy Sherwin, Len Lye, Tony Conrad and more.

Inexpensive bar available too, so come join us for a beer or two. Free entry.

Friday June 20, doors open 6pm Kaleide Theatre RMIT City Campus, 360 Swanston St, Melbourne

SEEING SOUND is brought to you by Stream Collective in association with Otherfilm (Brisbane), and supported by RMIT Union Arts.

http://www.streamcollective.org http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=33617039504

03 PM | 10 Jun

Offbeat Guides: Build your own travel books

David Sifry, founder and former CEO of Technorati, has apparently had enough of new media and of blogs. His new venture is attacking a traditional business: printed travel guides. As of this writing, the site is in private beta.

Offbeat Guides is a service for printing customized travel books. When you go to the site, it asks you five basic questions: Your name, your destination, your trip’s dates, where you live, and where you’re staying (if you know). With that information, it scours various open sources (like Wikipedia, Wikitravel, and Eventful) as well as some licensed content providers, and builds a custom file for you about your destination.

Users can tweak the content: If you don’t know where you’re staying you can be sure the hotels section is included; if you already have a place, you can remove it and save some paper. You can include, or not, sections on food, events, history, transportation, etc. Books will always be customized for your travel dates and will be printed with the most recent weather forecasts (or historical weather data), exchange rates, and other relevant and timely information like fairs and festivals happening when you’re there.

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03 PM | 10 Jun

The Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics

CAPWIP and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UN/ISDR) are pleased to invite you to the Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance which will be held on October 19-22, 2008 at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines.  The theme of the congress is “Gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction.”

Overall Purpose: To provide a forum for policy advocates, legislators and decision-makers in national and local governments and leaders at all levels in formulating gender-responsive legislation and programs related to climate change and disaster risk reduction.

The full information sheet and registration form for this Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance from our website, <http://www.capwip.org/3rdglobalcongress.htm>

10 AM | 06 Jun

‘Are You the One’ Goes on a Serious Optical Joyride

The collaboration of award winning creatives Jonathan Zawada, Shane Sakkeus and Collider have created an innovative music video celebrating the launch of the new BMW 1 Series Range.

Alongside the release of The Presets “Are You The One” (Lifelike’s 1 Serious Remix) and with eye-popping images of the internationally popular new 1 Series woven into a psychedelic dreamscape of the video clip, this campaign will be featured across TV, online, radio and mobile over the coming weeks.

Zawada has been responsible for practically every piece of Presets artwork in existence to date, and steps it up to direct his first clip for the band, whilst production gurus Collider bring his cosmic fantasy world to life. The result is a technicoloured trip through crystal cities and swirling universes. This unique collaborative video is a snapshot straight from the mind’s eye of some of Australia’s premiere creative gurus.

Zawada explains, “Basically we really just wanted to explore what could be done with vehicles in a virtual space that we had complete control over. After the initial basic premise, the biggest part of the creative process was sort of an architectural one, designing environments that could be inundated with the thousands of moving vehicles and would facilitate and create interesting effects once the herds of cars were introduced. We really got inspired by a lot of old experimental architecture from the 60’s and 70’s for this, people like Superstudio and Massimo Scolari were big influences. We also really wanted to look at the physical impossibilities that working in an entirely digital environment could let us explore so we also spent a lot of time looking at 3d fantasy worlds, computer games and physics models so that it was really just a matter of combining all of these influences into one big mass. There’s a lot of stuff in there that you really don’t even end up noticing in the final video because it all goes past so quickly.”

“Luckily the technical problem of realising our ideas was left up to Collider. They spent a lot of time developing programmed particle systems that could realistically animate each one of the thousands of cars in each scene. Combining these particle cars with individually animated ‘hero’ cars to add character and personality gave us the full sense of a mass of individuals running through each scene. We didn’t really help Collider’s cause much by also requesting a bunch of time consuming visual elements like polarized paint jobs on the cars and the guys & gurls there spent some very late nights/early mornings in order to make it all happen in time.”

The video for the Presets “Are You The One” 1 Serious Remix can be viewed on line at www.areyouthe1.com.au or the track can be downloaded for free on www.modularpeople.com/thepresets1seriousremixwww.thepresets.com www.myspace.com/thepresets www.modularpeople.com

10 AM | 06 Jun

The Sleepers Salon Winter Series

With thanks to Copyright Agency Limited, Sleepers brings you, on Thursday evenings:

(12/6/08): Sophie Cunningham, the new editor of Meanjin, Australia’s oldest literary journal. The first edition under Sophie’s editorship is out about now, as is her long-awaited second novel, Bird.

19/6/08: Ramona Koval, who has been interviewing writers in Australia for the past couple of decades and she is well versed in the state of Australian fiction and the literary culture — how it is now and how it has been.

Where: The Glasshouse: 51 Gipps Street, Collingwood, Melbourne Time: 6pm Cost: $6 entry per person Proudly supported by Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)

www.sleeperspublishing.com