The YouTube Screening Room
YouTube have launched The YouTube Screening Room, a new program that will connect short films and audiences in the world’s largest theater, not only providing filmmakers with a much-needed showcase, but also helping you find new high-quality content every two weeks.
While some of the selected films have played at film festivals around the world (like Rob Pearlstein’s “Our Time Is Up,” an Oscar-nominated short which played the Gen Art Film Festival in 2005), others will be showing to a wide audience for the first time in the The YouTube Screening Room. Translation: You’ll be able to to school your friends on the next big thing before it’s even a twinkle in most movie critics’ eyes. There will also be under the radar pieces from established indie icons that you know and love, like Miranda July.
envelop: kwodrent x farmwork
11 July – 23 August 2008
envelop features one of Asia’s most exciting young designers, Singapore based Grace Tan. After a successful career in fashion Grace started kwodrent in 2003 as a personal project to explore fashion and design in a new light. Since then kwodrent has emerged as a critically rigorous series of works that have been featured in exhibitions and publications all over the world.
Grace’s interpretation of form in fashion, and nature creates a world of rigorous, repetitive shapes, curled and furled into elegant pieces. They are numbered in a series that has evolved each year for the past five years. In envelop, she continues to blur the lines between fashion, fine art and architecture. Still working from the simple rectangle, she has developed her earlier experiments to give us meticulously crafted large-scale fabric sculptures that sit equally well on the body, as on the wall.
Interested in promoting a dialogue through design, Grace has invited Singapore architecture firm FARMWORK to interpret the gallery space and structure in response to kwodrent; to envelop kwodrent within a new spatial experience just as kwodrent envelops the body in new ways.
RMIT Gallery Website: www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery
Public Programs Friday 18 July, 3 pm Floor talk: Grace Tan and FARMWORK Wednesday 16 July, 10 am-12 pm State of Design: design culture lecture by architect William Lim Storey Hall followed by a visit to the exhibition
For more information visit www.kwodrent.com www.work.farm.sg
Heart disease amongst woman in Australia
To help raise awareness of the ramifications of heart disease amongst woman in Australia the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute will be holding its inaugural “Young at Heart” Hi-tea on Friday July 4, 2008, commemorating the 17th Anniversary of Dr Victor Chang’s tragic passing. The event will be held at The Tearoom, Queen Victoria Building, George Street, Sydney.
Victor Chang was a pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon, humanitarian, ambassador and researcher whose life was tragically taken in 1991. He was a gifted surgeon who devoted his life to saving others.
If you have any questions or want to make a donation contact (02) 8382 3415 or 0409 393 686 or electronically on v.muthanna@victorchang.edu.au
Mapping the violence
Sokwanele, a pro-democracy group based in Zimbabwe, has been using Google’s map feature to track election-related violence and direct people away from certain parts of town. They also have a blog called This is Zimbabwe where Tsvangirai recently posted a piece denying he wrote the Guardian article that appeared under his name.