Brisbane Firemen: Autopro Fire in Moorooka, March 13 2008
Back on March 13 2008, there was a fire at the AutoPro warehouse in Baldock St, Moorooka (click here for a Google Map).
This YouTube video by exoto66, has six minutes of footage from the fire, showing Queensland Fire and Rescue Service crews at work.
Brisbane Festivals – Paniyiri Greek Festival 2008 THIS WEEKEND, May 17-18
Admission is $7 for people 13+, $2 for pensioners and children are free. The festival starts at 2pm on Saturday and 10pm on Sunday.
If you’d like to see photos from last year’s Paniyiri, you can click here for food, here for people and here for the Greek Dancing with the Stars contest, hosted by Effie. You can buy a book of photos from last year’s Paniyiri here at Brisbane Books, and this is a video I made last year of the Greek Dancing with the Stars contest, and some great belly dancing:
Brisbane Shore Leave – USS Cleveland docked at Brisbane
This photo by flickr user cindytoo shows the USS Cleveland (LPD-7), an Austin-class amphibious transport dock docked in Brisbane (at the cruise ship terminal in Hamilton, just off Kingsford-Smith Drive). The Cleveland is in Brisbane until Thursday, May 15th, and members of the crew took part in the anniversary ceremony to remember the 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea.
For more information see this article in the Brisbane Times.
Brisbane Creative Commons: FREE Conference June 24th, State Library.
Creative Commons Australia is putting on a FREE conference on June 24th at the State Library. The conference is called “Building an Australasian Commons – click here for details and to see the conference program.
Creative Commons is all about letting people use your work legally without paying for it. The idea is that this helps people to be creative and makes our culture richer. You can choose different Creative Commons licences for your work – you can let people use your work as long as they give you credit, or you can let people use your work for non-commercial uses only, or you can tell people that they can’t change your work.
You can download the registration form if you click here (it’s a PDF file). And if you find Adobe Reader a very slow and clunky way to read your PDF files, you might want to check out the free Foxit Reader, which is much smaller and faster.
Brisbane Billycarts – Billycart Championships, Sunday May 18
The Brisbane Billycart Championships are on next Sunday, May 18th, in Carindale.
Brisbane Billycart Championships is back! Brisbane’s biggest
billycart championships are held on a grass track and kids of all ages
(including adults) from all over Brisbane are invited to make and race
their own billycart.
- Prizes will be awarded for:
- Fastest Billycart
- Winners of Age Categories
- Most Imaginative Design
- Best Stack
- And of course, the return of the hugely successful Mascot Race.
Don’t have a billycart?
Don’t worry! You can come along and watch the race, stay for lunch and a jammed pack day of entertainment.
- Who will be this year’s Billycart Champion?
- Who will win the Mascot Race?
- You’ll only know if you go!
Admission is FREE!
Registration from 9.00am, racing, food stalls and entertainment 10.00am to 3.00pm
Brisbane Otaku – Animania Festival Video
YouTube user supremeneil made this video. It’s from the Animania festival held the Brisbane Holiday Inn on Saturday, May 10th. The main feature of the video is all the cosplay from the festival.
There’s a report of the festival at OzTAKU.com, and if you’re into this, you might want to have a look at the Queensland Cosplay Meetup forum.
The Animania Festival will return to Brisbane on September 20th this year.
Squall Cosplay by ~Jessie04104 on deviantART
Brisbane Politics: Anonymous Anti-Scientology Rally May 10 2008
Brisbane Anonymous, the Brisbane branch of the worldwide movement dedicated to exposing the activities of the “Church” of Scientology, held a rally and march today in Brisbane City. The protestors wore their trademark masks, to hide their identity from the “Church”, so they could avoid retribution.
The marchers gathered in Post Office Square, and marched to Brisbane Square, along Queen, Edward, Elizabeth and George Streets. At Brisbane Square they handed out leaflets and showbags to the public and spoke out against the actions of the “Church of Scientology”.
The theme of today’s rally was “Fair Game Stop”, which highlights the “Church” of Scientology’s “Fair Game” policy, which means active members of the “Church” are encouraged to harass the “Church”‘s opponents by any means deemed necessary. This has included forging bomb threats so that they appeared to come from Paulette Cooper, a journalist hostile to the “Church”, as part of “Operation Freakout”. Cooper’s book “The Scandal of Scientology” can be read here.
Speakers at the rally told of the abuse that some members of the “Church” of Scientology have suffered.
For more information on Brisbane Anonymous, click here. If you’d like to see the photos I used to make the above video, click here to see the photoset at Zooomr. And by the way, the shirt this guy is wearing is available if you click here (and no, I’m not making any money off this link, it’s just so damn cool I had to pass it on)
For more information on why Rick Astley is better than the Church of Scientology, click here.
Free Brisbane Movies – 80′s Movie Marathon, Southbank, Tomorrow Sat May 10th
There’s an 80s movie marathon tomorrow, Saturday May 10th, at Southbank from 1pm onwards. The program is:
1pm: The NeverEnding Story
3pm: ET
5pm: Back To The Future
7pm: Channel 9′s World Expo 88 documentary
This is part of South Bank Celebrates 88, which is lots of events to commemorate the 1988 World Expo held at Brisbane’s South Bank.
The films are at the Suncorp Piazza (click here for a Google Map).
Brisbane Music – The Red Paintings
This is The Red Paintings latest clip, “We Belong In The Sea”. You can see 18 more of their videos at their official YouTube channel if you click here. If you click here you can hear 6 of their songs at their MySpace page, and find out where they are playing next, and you can visit their official website if you click here.
Brisbane Music – Aczim
This YouTube clip uploaded by AllDefWreckerz is Brisbane-based hip-hop artist Aczim performing “What Is It” at Rosie’s Bar, 18 Little Edward St, Spring Hill (Click here for a Google Map)
You can hear more of Aczim’s tracks if you click here and visit his MySpace page, and there is a link there to buy his “Outspoken” EP for A$13.
You can also see Aczim here at Triple J’s Unearthed site, and here at SoundClick.