Brisbane Art: X Show open now
I'm at Juggler's Art Space at 106 Brunswick Street in the Valley at the opening of the X Show. If you're in the area for the next few hours, come on down!
Brisbane Politics: Anti Internet Censorship Rally SATURDAY 11am Brisbane Square #nocleanfeed
Just a quick reminder: The rally against the Government’s plans to censor the Internet is on at 11am TOMORROW, Saturday December 13th, at Brisbane Square (the open space across George St from the end of the Queen St Mall, outside the new city council building where the great big metal balls are – click here for a Google Map)
For more info about the rally click here (and if you’re in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide or Perth there’s info there about your rallies), or click here if you’re on Facebook.
Brisbane Parties: Creative Commons Christmas Party, Tue December 16th
Via fellow Brisbane blog Four Thousand comes news of the Creative Commons Australia Christmas party.
Creative Commons is a way for you to let other people use your work – it’s an alternative to copyright. You can decide to let other people use your work in any way they want as long as they tell people that you did it, or you can let people only use your work for non-commercial purposes, or you can let people republish your work as long as they don’t change it.
Creative Commons is helping an explosion of creativity happen. Their Christmas party starts at 6.30pm on Tuesday December 16th at Lock N Load, 142 Boundary St, West End (Click here for a Google Map).
Brisbane Music: boymongoose’s new song "Single Girls"
Boymongoose is an Indian living in Brisbane who creates new versions of Christmas carols and releases them with great video clips. Two years ago he and his band released 12 Days of Christmas, which now has over three million views on YouTube. And a month ago boymongoose released this year’s Christmas hit, “Single Girls”, based on Jingle Bells:
My favourite bit is the guy playing “Sitar Hero” :D
Brisbane Photos: Cannon Firing at Fort Lytton
This photo shows a cannon firing at Fort Lytton, an old fortress built in the late 19th century when people were scared that the Russian Empire might invade Queensland.
The photo was taken by flickr user Mr_Magoo_ICU. If you’d like to know more about visiting Fort Lytton, you can click here or here.
Brisbane Music: 2 Hot 4 Mt Isa
This vid is by Brisbane band The Hotties. The song’s called 2 Hot 4 Mt Isa, and it picks up on some ignorant comments earlier this year by Mt Isa Mayor John Moloney.
Brisbane Style: BrisStyle Christmas Markets, Saturday 13th December
BrisStyle is a group of Brisbane craftspeople who sell what they make on etsy.com, a big site where all sorts of people sell handmade goods.
The markets are at the Hamilton Hall, this Saturday, December 13th from 9am to 4pm. The Hamilton Hall is on the corner of Racecourse Rd and Rossiter Pde, Hamilton. (Click here to see a Google Map).
Brisbane Music: 4ZzZ’s Eternally Ours (Best of Brisbane Bands)
TSSS has pubished 4 editions so far, but keep an eye on the blog as there will be more.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Brisbane Art: Jugglers Art Space X Show opens this Friday
Jugglers Art Space, at 103 Brunswick St in Fortitude Valley, is putting on its end-of-year show, the X-Show, this week. It starts on Friday December 12th at 6pm.
Jugglers Art Space concentrates on emerging and mid-career artists, and the gallery is set up to concentrate on creativity rather than commercial artwork. The show will have work from about 30 artists. It’s on the bit of Brunswick St that is to the north-west of the Valley Fiveways – between the main part of the Valley and the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in Herston. Click here for a Google Map.
Brisbane Weird Photos: Grey St and Melbourne St, South Brisbane
This photo is really weird. I mean it’s a fairly mundane scene, but at first glance it looks like a photo of a model train set or something like that. I had to have a close look to be convinced that it was a photo of a real scene (and I pass through this part of town a lot).
It’s by flickr user Robzter83
EDIT: I’ve just found out from the photographer that this technique is called “Tilt-Shift”. You can find out more about it at Wikipedia, or there’s a tutorial about how to do it in Photoshop if you click here.