In this month's article, Toni tells us how to grow "Fruit Salad Trees" in a pot to save space. "You can now actually grow up to 8 different types of fruit on the one tree. It's done through a technique of multi-grafting, where several different types of plants are grafted onto the one strong rootstock... There are a few restrictions because you need to keep all the stonefruit together, as with all the citrus, all the apples and all the pears..." Full article at: http://www.chaosgeneration.com/theveggielady/fruit_salad_pot.htm. Article will also appear in the May 2004 zine which will be published soon.
art, design, web culture, ideas, inspiration, community, lifestyle, environment
Saturday, May 8, 2004
Fruit Salad in a Pot by The Veggie Lady [Toni Salter]
In this month's article, Toni tells us how to grow "Fruit Salad Trees" in a pot to save space. "You can now actually grow up to 8 different types of fruit on the one tree. It's done through a technique of multi-grafting, where several different types of plants are grafted onto the one strong rootstock... There are a few restrictions because you need to keep all the stonefruit together, as with all the citrus, all the apples and all the pears..." Full article at: http://www.chaosgeneration.com/theveggielady/fruit_salad_pot.htm. Article will also appear in the May 2004 zine which will be published soon.
Friday, May 7, 2004
Version Magazine - Auckland, NZ arts publication online
"Winter issue - DEADLINE MONDAY 31ST MAY 2004
This is a call for contributors to a new arts and music publication. Feel free to forward this call to anyone you think may be interested...
VERSION MAGAZINE will profile established and emerging artists to bring coverage and context to a significant segment of the local arts scene which is under-represented. The print edition will direct people to the online edition. To be distributed in Auckland City and potentially Wellington, Melbourne etc...
The aim of the project is to create a forum for discussion, feedback and promotion, focussing on music, arts, theatre and literature - and various oddities that usually slip under the mainstream radar. It will contain previews, reviews, features, interviews, profiles, promotion and documentation, as well as a directory and events guide. The Version Magazine project will cover digital media and performance art - which presently receives scant attention. It will act as a bridge between the commercial/ formal establishments (e.g. Dealer Galleries, Fashion/Art/Lifestyle Magazines, Artscalendar.co.nz, NZMusic.com) and the more grassroots, DIY ventures (e.g. Artist run galleries, Eclective, Fleet FM, Foxymoron, Pelvic Trust, Databass) and serve as a critical index or definitive guide to local experimental culture with references to global movements.
VERSION is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting multidisciplinary artists and events based in Auckland City."
For more info go to: http://www.versionmag.com.
This is a call for contributors to a new arts and music publication. Feel free to forward this call to anyone you think may be interested...
VERSION MAGAZINE will profile established and emerging artists to bring coverage and context to a significant segment of the local arts scene which is under-represented. The print edition will direct people to the online edition. To be distributed in Auckland City and potentially Wellington, Melbourne etc...
The aim of the project is to create a forum for discussion, feedback and promotion, focussing on music, arts, theatre and literature - and various oddities that usually slip under the mainstream radar. It will contain previews, reviews, features, interviews, profiles, promotion and documentation, as well as a directory and events guide. The Version Magazine project will cover digital media and performance art - which presently receives scant attention. It will act as a bridge between the commercial/ formal establishments (e.g. Dealer Galleries, Fashion/Art/Lifestyle Magazines, Artscalendar.co.nz, NZMusic.com) and the more grassroots, DIY ventures (e.g. Artist run galleries, Eclective, Fleet FM, Foxymoron, Pelvic Trust, Databass) and serve as a critical index or definitive guide to local experimental culture with references to global movements.
VERSION is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting multidisciplinary artists and events based in Auckland City."
For more info go to: http://www.versionmag.com.
Thursday, May 6, 2004
Inasmuch by Jason Pitt - dance performance. 19-23 May
"Based on his short film made in 2002 with Metro Screen and the Australian Film Television and Radio School, acclaimed choreographer Jason Pitt returns to the Performance Space with a hybrid performance between dance and film. Inasmuchis a recording of a film and conceived more as a choreographic installation exploring the dark side of relationships."
Performers: Marnie Palomares, Jason Lam
Video & Film Design: Jason Lam, Jason Pitt
Sound: Peter Minkov, Sigur Ros
Bookings: 9698 7235. Tix: $25 adult, $20 members of P Space, $15 conc.
Where: Performance Space, 199 Cleveland St, Redfern.
Website: http://www.performancespace.com.au.
Performers: Marnie Palomares, Jason Lam
Video & Film Design: Jason Lam, Jason Pitt
Sound: Peter Minkov, Sigur Ros
Bookings: 9698 7235. Tix: $25 adult, $20 members of P Space, $15 conc.
Where: Performance Space, 199 Cleveland St, Redfern.
Website: http://www.performancespace.com.au.
Recommended Viewing 2004: Tomorrows Film Today - VCA
RV04 is a national touring festival of Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television 2003 graduate works [Adam Elliot, creator Harvie Crumpet graduated from VCA in '96].
The films will screen in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and Sydney.
Sydney's screening dates are: Fri 28 and Sat 29 May.
For more info: http://www.vca.unimelb.edu.au/ftv/html/what.html
The films will screen in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and Sydney.
Sydney's screening dates are: Fri 28 and Sat 29 May.
For more info: http://www.vca.unimelb.edu.au/ftv/html/what.html
Introduction to the Ballet - Sydney Opera House
12 May & 24 November. Presenter: The Australian Ballet. Venue: Opera Theatre
"Enhance your enjoyment of ballet by attending this programme designed for audiences of all ages. The dancers are first seen in a shortened class, in which the logic behind the training is explained, then in a brief rehearsal to demonstrate the coaching process and finally in a performance featuring one of the ballets from the current repertoire."
12 May - Featuring an excerpt from Swan Lake
23 November - Featuring an excerpt from La Fille mal Gardée
DURATION: 90 minutes
SEASON
12 May and 24 November at 11.30am
PRICES
All Tickets $14
Special price available for school groups of 8 or more. Please contact the Box Office on 9250 7777 for more details.
To book go to: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/boxoffice then type in ballet into the keyword box.
"Enhance your enjoyment of ballet by attending this programme designed for audiences of all ages. The dancers are first seen in a shortened class, in which the logic behind the training is explained, then in a brief rehearsal to demonstrate the coaching process and finally in a performance featuring one of the ballets from the current repertoire."
12 May - Featuring an excerpt from Swan Lake
23 November - Featuring an excerpt from La Fille mal Gardée
DURATION: 90 minutes
SEASON
12 May and 24 November at 11.30am
PRICES
All Tickets $14
Special price available for school groups of 8 or more. Please contact the Box Office on 9250 7777 for more details.
To book go to: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/boxoffice then type in ballet into the keyword box.
Soya wanna be an artist competition for under 25's
"The Noise Festival has teamed up with Qantas to bring you its Spirit of Youth Awards - an invitation to young Australians (aged 25 and under) to submit their creative work, with the chance to win cash, flights and professional mentoring."
Categories are: Words, Photography, Pictures, Music, Fashion Design, Industrial Design and Moving Pictures.
More info: http://www.noise.net.au.
51st Sydney Film Festival launched 5th May
There are over 230 films that are going to be shown at the 51st Sydney Film Festival during 11-26 June 2004.
Go to: http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org to read through the program! There are some great films being shown!
Go to: http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org to read through the program! There are some great films being shown!
'Hero' will be shown at the Sydney Film Festival - Sat 12 June at 2.30pm at the State Theatre
Hero is a Zhang Yimou martial arts action film starring a who's who of Asian stars including: Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi, Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung! Will definitely try and catch this film!! I'm sure it will be awesome to watch! Have heard quite a bit about it. Can now get tix for it as the festival was launched May 5.
More info: http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org/main/?c=custom/sff&custom/sff_task=get_movie&id=5263&mode=1
Hero film website: http://www.herothemovie.com
There's also a 'Hong Kong Action' festival strand which features:
* Initmate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
* Cians of Intrigue
* Infernal Affairs II (prequel to Infernal Affairs I). (Want to catch this one too as I really enjoyed watching Infernal Affairs.
SCOPE: New Media at The Sydney Film Festival: ? refocusing your visual landscape
Part of the 51st Sydney Film Festival program:
"Set your senses at stun for the hottest and freshest multi-faceted program of digital works from the world?s leading digital media practitioners. This exclusive presentation from Australia?s trailblazing dLux media arts, the UK?s onedotzero (the world?s first dedicated digital film festival) and Hong Kong?s Videotage combines to create SCOPE ? a four day festival that will explode your mind.
From dLux media arts, a program of creative screen-based media celebrating emerging talent accompanied by conversations about new directions and current practice.
From onedotzero five stunning programs:
wow + flutter 04 - animation, motion graphics and abstract experimentation
wavelength 04 - graphic and digitally processed music video
j-star 04 - the latest screen-work from Japan
lens flare 04 - computer game graphics meets the cinema
extended play 04 - ground-breaking graphic-fuelled short films
"the future's back. onedotzero, remains the premier destination for seekers of the cutting edge...death to analogue!" Guardian Guide
SCOPE will also present the latest pioneering works from German?s avant-garde artist/filmmaker Harun Farocki.
Scope ? where screen and popular culture collide in their most vibrant and elastic expression.
Dates: June 17 - 20
Presenter: The Studio at Sydney Opera House in association with Sydney Film
Festival.
Venue: The Studio at The Sydney Opera House
Source: http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org/files/scope_new_media.pdf
"Set your senses at stun for the hottest and freshest multi-faceted program of digital works from the world?s leading digital media practitioners. This exclusive presentation from Australia?s trailblazing dLux media arts, the UK?s onedotzero (the world?s first dedicated digital film festival) and Hong Kong?s Videotage combines to create SCOPE ? a four day festival that will explode your mind.
From dLux media arts, a program of creative screen-based media celebrating emerging talent accompanied by conversations about new directions and current practice.
From onedotzero five stunning programs:
wow + flutter 04 - animation, motion graphics and abstract experimentation
wavelength 04 - graphic and digitally processed music video
j-star 04 - the latest screen-work from Japan
lens flare 04 - computer game graphics meets the cinema
extended play 04 - ground-breaking graphic-fuelled short films
"the future's back. onedotzero, remains the premier destination for seekers of the cutting edge...death to analogue!" Guardian Guide
SCOPE will also present the latest pioneering works from German?s avant-garde artist/filmmaker Harun Farocki.
Scope ? where screen and popular culture collide in their most vibrant and elastic expression.
Dates: June 17 - 20
Presenter: The Studio at Sydney Opera House in association with Sydney Film
Festival.
Venue: The Studio at The Sydney Opera House
Source: http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org/files/scope_new_media.pdf
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
The Advance Party: After the Bubble - Contemporary Japanese Theatre (NSW)
WHEN Wednesday 12 May, 7.30pm sharp
WHERE Wharf 2 Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company
"A special Advance Party presentation. Over the last 40 years, huge changes have occurred in Japanese theatre. Affecting its theatre practitioners in every area of expertise, in both traditional and contemporary fields, it has set innumerable challenges for them to cope with in their working lives. In this special forum, presented with the support of The Japan Foundation, Dr Peter Eckersall (Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne and leading researcher in contemporary Japanese theatre) will take us through these changes, and identify some of the very real parallels for Australian theatre practitioners today.
THE ADVANCE PARTY is the bimonthly forum for playwrights, and those interested in the art of playwriting. Evening sessions are interactive, incorporating staged readings, guest speakers, and performance to provoke further discussion.
To reserve seats for THE ADVANCE PARTY (LIMITED tickets cost $5 each)
please contact Sydney Theatre Box Office on: (02) 9250 1777 or via email: blunetboxoffice@sydneytheatre.com.au and your request will be processed. Tickets can also be purchased on the day, depending on availability."
Source: IF newsletter. Original post: http://www.if.com.au/events/2004/05/05.html#item6992
WHERE Wharf 2 Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company
"A special Advance Party presentation. Over the last 40 years, huge changes have occurred in Japanese theatre. Affecting its theatre practitioners in every area of expertise, in both traditional and contemporary fields, it has set innumerable challenges for them to cope with in their working lives. In this special forum, presented with the support of The Japan Foundation, Dr Peter Eckersall (Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne and leading researcher in contemporary Japanese theatre) will take us through these changes, and identify some of the very real parallels for Australian theatre practitioners today.
THE ADVANCE PARTY is the bimonthly forum for playwrights, and those interested in the art of playwriting. Evening sessions are interactive, incorporating staged readings, guest speakers, and performance to provoke further discussion.
To reserve seats for THE ADVANCE PARTY (LIMITED tickets cost $5 each)
please contact Sydney Theatre Box Office on: (02) 9250 1777 or via email: blunetboxoffice@sydneytheatre.com.au and your request will be processed. Tickets can also be purchased on the day, depending on availability."
Source: IF newsletter. Original post: http://www.if.com.au/events/2004/05/05.html#item6992
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
Surry Hills Festival
On Saturday 15th May 2004, 9am-6pm. Food and wine stalls, live music, DJs... Crown St between Foveaux St and Devonshire St will be closed to traffic for the festival.
A splendid take on the funny peculiar
Interesting article on Harvey Pekar of 'American Splendor' in the SMH. May try and get to the American Splendor screening at the Dendy Opera Quays as Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, Danielle Batone ie his wife and daughter are going to be there for a Q+A session after the screening! [on May 23, 11am-1pm. Bookings: 9247 3800. Tix are $15/$18]. This is an event of the Sydney Writer's Festival.
Sydney Writer's Festival
It's on from May 17-23, 2004. Website is: http://www.swf.org.au.
Highlights include:
* SALAM PAX. He lives in Baghdad. His book, The Baghdad Blog, was first published as a diary on the internet from September 2002. It was written at great risk and in complete secrecy. (Salam Pax is a pseudonym.)
* HARVEY PEKAR. He became a cult hero when the film American Splendor, based on his self-published autobiographical comic books, was released. Pekar lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
You can catch both Salam (pseudonym) and Harvey at Alternative Media talk on Saturday, May 22 2004, 13:30 - 14:30, at the Sydney Dance Company 2/3.
Salam will also be speaking at the 'The Blogger from Baghdad' and the 'Iraq - Who's Winning, Who's Losing?' sessions.
Harvey will also be speaking at the 'Comics for Big Kids', 'American Splendor - talk' and the 'American Splendor - Screening' sessions.
Highlights include:
* SALAM PAX. He lives in Baghdad. His book, The Baghdad Blog, was first published as a diary on the internet from September 2002. It was written at great risk and in complete secrecy. (Salam Pax is a pseudonym.)
* HARVEY PEKAR. He became a cult hero when the film American Splendor, based on his self-published autobiographical comic books, was released. Pekar lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
You can catch both Salam (pseudonym) and Harvey at Alternative Media talk on Saturday, May 22 2004, 13:30 - 14:30, at the Sydney Dance Company 2/3.
Salam will also be speaking at the 'The Blogger from Baghdad' and the 'Iraq - Who's Winning, Who's Losing?' sessions.
Harvey will also be speaking at the 'Comics for Big Kids', 'American Splendor - talk' and the 'American Splendor - Screening' sessions.
Sydney Italian Festival
The Sydney Italian Festival is on from May 11 - June 11, 2004. The festival includes: Food and wine events, Italian Design Week, Italian movies, Italian art and culture, and National Day Celebrations on May 30.
The blurb for the Italian Design Week says: "To celebrate the official opening of Space Furniture's new Sydney showroom, Space and the ICCI will host a week long festival of Italian design, culture and innovation. Talks, architecture tours and design workshops involving international and local designers are scheduled along with exhibitions including Murano glass. Where: 84 O'Riordan St, Alexandria. When: May 11-16.
For more info go to: http://www.lifeinistyle.com.au.
The blurb for the Italian Design Week says: "To celebrate the official opening of Space Furniture's new Sydney showroom, Space and the ICCI will host a week long festival of Italian design, culture and innovation. Talks, architecture tours and design workshops involving international and local designers are scheduled along with exhibitions including Murano glass. Where: 84 O'Riordan St, Alexandria. When: May 11-16.
For more info go to: http://www.lifeinistyle.com.au.
Natural Selection online magazine
"Natural Selection is an art reviews magazine edited by Gwynneth Porter and Dan Arps, and based in Auckland, New Zealand, city of snails. It is designed by Warren Olds.
We encourage writers to interpret the "Australasian art reviews" brief loosely if they wish, and to not back off being nepotistic, poetic, fictional, theoretical, obfuscatory, uncertain, epic, lyric, curt, microscopic, myopic - pseudonyms and writing about oneself are all acceptable also; especially artists' writing...
The next deadline is late April 2004, approximately (not officially set yet). Guest editor for Natural Selection #2 is Melbourne artist James Lynch."
Website for Natural Selection is: http://www.naturalselection.co.nz. Thanks Lucas for the link.
Spanish Film Festival 2004
Sydney: 5-16 May, Melbourne 13-23 May. Website for more info: http://www.spanishfilmfestival.com.
Pages: Mysterious Ways May Issue #5
Pages is an online fashion magazine produced in Bondi Junction, Sydney. You can 'turn' the pages of this magazine and some of the pages feature animation and movement eg a beetle moving across a page on one spread, and transitions through a few frames on another spread to convey a sense of movement and story. You can go it at: http://www.pagesonline.it. First came across this magazine on Jean Snow's site.
Young Guns seminar review
Went to the Young Guns talk organised by AGDA tonight. It was really great! Don't know why but there were around 20 people there only. Definitely should've been a full house!
I once saw this really innovative, beautiful time lapse photography fashion feature which was basically two horizontal strips on top of each other, each with a different perspective of the a male and a female model and the bottom strip had the position of the bottom half of the models 'moved along' conveying a sense of movement. I have loved that image for years and kept the magazine. It was featured in 'Mu' magazine which was done by Deanne Cheuk. Tonight the image was beamed up onto the big screen and I found out that it was Anthony Geernaert's work! That is so cool!
Also heard Tin Nguyen speak. He is such a charismatic, creative, funny guy! Love his work! He and his friend Ed formed a design company called Tin and Ed. They did 12 covers of Lucky magazine. I have collected all of those issues. I remember seeing them in the record shops etc, and the covers were always so innovative and out there, different, cool. He's a great presenter and tells great stories! He also designed the 100 page guide to the 2004 Next Wave Festival: Unpopular Culture. 18-30 May 2004.
Kasia and Michael's talk was really interesting as well!
I once saw this really innovative, beautiful time lapse photography fashion feature which was basically two horizontal strips on top of each other, each with a different perspective of the a male and a female model and the bottom strip had the position of the bottom half of the models 'moved along' conveying a sense of movement. I have loved that image for years and kept the magazine. It was featured in 'Mu' magazine which was done by Deanne Cheuk. Tonight the image was beamed up onto the big screen and I found out that it was Anthony Geernaert's work! That is so cool!
Also heard Tin Nguyen speak. He is such a charismatic, creative, funny guy! Love his work! He and his friend Ed formed a design company called Tin and Ed. They did 12 covers of Lucky magazine. I have collected all of those issues. I remember seeing them in the record shops etc, and the covers were always so innovative and out there, different, cool. He's a great presenter and tells great stories! He also designed the 100 page guide to the 2004 Next Wave Festival: Unpopular Culture. 18-30 May 2004.
Kasia and Michael's talk was really interesting as well!
Sunday, May 2, 2004
Updated the Events page
Go to: http://www.chaosgeneration.com/events.htm for lots more events
MAY 3: SYDNEY: DESIGNERS' TALK
YOUNG GUNS - AGDA NSW N+B SEMINAR
Fresh blood. Check out the next generation, how they see the world and how they're making their way through the design industry. Fresh faces with fresh ideas, and all part of the crowd of young creatives pushing through. Technology advances, culture changes and each upcoming generation brings about new ideas and methodology.
Anthony Geernaert - photographer, Kasia Wydrowski - senior designer at EVD, Michael Gracey - film director at Babyfoot Productions and Tin Nguyen - illustrator.
ALSO: The 82nd Art Directors Club Award show exhibition is being hosted by Billy Blue and will be open for viewing during the drinks after talk. The exhibition will be open 10am to 8pm until 15 May 2004.
Where: Billy Blue Auditorium, Level 9, Northpoint, North Sydney
W: http://www.agda.asn.au/eventsnews/nsw/events/2004/YoungG.html
MAY 5-20: TOURING AUSTRALIA, SYD DATE: MAY 20
SCOTT STOWELL, DESIGNER - TALK
Scott Stowell will be speaking around Australia as part of the 5th AGDA International Speaker Tour.
Don't miss out on Scott Stowell's presentation of the work and philosophy at Open, his New York design studio where they "help people figure out what they need to say-and use design to say it in ways that surprise, engage and inform." Scott worked as senior designer for Tibor Kalman's M&Co, and art director for Bennetton's Colours magazine before starting Open in 1998, teaching at Yale and recently serving as Vice-president of AIGA New York.
Open Studio's website: http://notclosed.com
For further details of the talk in each city, go to: http://www.agda.asn.au/eventsnews/national/events/2004/Bookin.html
JUN 3: SYDNEY: FILMS
MIYAZAKI FESTIVAL OF JAPANIME
5 Feature films by the Academy award winning director of Spirited Away.
Where: Valhalla Cinemas, Glebe
W: http://www.valhallacinemas.com.au/coming_soon.php
MAY 3: SYDNEY: DESIGNERS' TALK
YOUNG GUNS - AGDA NSW N+B SEMINAR
Fresh blood. Check out the next generation, how they see the world and how they're making their way through the design industry. Fresh faces with fresh ideas, and all part of the crowd of young creatives pushing through. Technology advances, culture changes and each upcoming generation brings about new ideas and methodology.
Anthony Geernaert - photographer, Kasia Wydrowski - senior designer at EVD, Michael Gracey - film director at Babyfoot Productions and Tin Nguyen - illustrator.
ALSO: The 82nd Art Directors Club Award show exhibition is being hosted by Billy Blue and will be open for viewing during the drinks after talk. The exhibition will be open 10am to 8pm until 15 May 2004.
Where: Billy Blue Auditorium, Level 9, Northpoint, North Sydney
W: http://www.agda.asn.au/eventsnews/nsw/events/2004/YoungG.html
MAY 5-20: TOURING AUSTRALIA, SYD DATE: MAY 20
SCOTT STOWELL, DESIGNER - TALK
Scott Stowell will be speaking around Australia as part of the 5th AGDA International Speaker Tour.
Don't miss out on Scott Stowell's presentation of the work and philosophy at Open, his New York design studio where they "help people figure out what they need to say-and use design to say it in ways that surprise, engage and inform." Scott worked as senior designer for Tibor Kalman's M&Co, and art director for Bennetton's Colours magazine before starting Open in 1998, teaching at Yale and recently serving as Vice-president of AIGA New York.
Open Studio's website: http://notclosed.com
For further details of the talk in each city, go to: http://www.agda.asn.au/eventsnews/national/events/2004/Bookin.html
JUN 3: SYDNEY: FILMS
MIYAZAKI FESTIVAL OF JAPANIME
5 Feature films by the Academy award winning director of Spirited Away.
Where: Valhalla Cinemas, Glebe
W: http://www.valhallacinemas.com.au/coming_soon.php
Wildlife sightings - spiders, lizards...
Was in Petersham Friday night for some Greek food at Peramas. Came back to the car and saw a huge black spider the size of my palm attached to the passenger side mirror. Then this morning there was a long lizard basking in the sun on the concrete floor of the kitchen. Then went to Piccolo in Balmain for some lunch and sat at a table in the courtyard. Above the next table there was a biggish sized black spider in its web and the the web was bouncing in the wind. A couple of weeks ago, there was a huge huntsman in my letterbox. I put my hand to get the mail and it quickly ran to the other side of the envelope. I saw its claw over the edge and let go of the mail. Maybe it's the time of year or something...
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