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Twitter user @comefindme has set up a new game on Twitter for people in Brisbane. The account will send messages every 48 hours – ten messages in total – telling you to take a photo of yourself at a certain place or in front of a certain object. You need to send the photo to twitter using Twitpic and send an @reply to @comefindme. (If you start the title of your photo with “@comefindme” (without the quotes) then it will automatically be sent as a reply.

If you send in ten correct photos, you’ll get a message telling you the correct location – and so will everyone else with ten correct photos. The person to get there first gets the prize.

This looks like fun, so I’m going to play. If you’re interested, I’ll see you while we’re looking for the final prize! Except, you won’t see me, because obviously I’ll be there hours before you, because A Winner Is Me!

Brisbane Storm photo by Flickr user dellvink

This photo of tonight’s storm just got put onto Flickr by dellvink. If you’re on twitter, you can follow dellvink’s updates here.

People on twitter have been using the hashtag #bnestorm for a while now to track what’s happening with storms in Brisbane. The Courier-Mail have done a clever mash-up on their website using the Cover It Live service, so that all the Twitter updates that have the phrase #bnestorm in them show up in their live rolling coverage. (Click on the “view live event” link to start watching what’s happening – but note that the times are an hour later than they should be). And if you’re not on Twitter, you can still add a comment directly via the Courier-Mail page.

(What the hell is a hashtag? Click here for more info).

If you’re on Twitter, a service that lets you find out what people are doing, you might want to follow the Brisbane Blog’s Twitter account and you’ll get updated every time there is a new story on the Brisbane Blog. Or if you want more, follow my personal account (David Jackmanson) and find out what I’m up to.

The Beenleigh Theatre Group has auditions for its production of Peter Pan coming up on Sunday, March 22nd. Further details are here, and you need to book – call 3200 8393 to make a booking.

Brisbane’s Big Gay Day is on again at the Wickham Hotel on Wickham St in Fortitude Valley this Sunday, March 15th. Tickets are $30 and all the details are at the website.

UPDATE: Flickr user veryphatic has a set of 50 photos from the 2009 Big Gay Day – click here to see the set.

These two videos by Brisbane YouTubers show off two of the big gigs from the weekend just gone. BabyWize uploaded a video of Grandmaster Flash and DJ Demo at the Future Music Festival, held on Saturday March 7th 2009:

And mysilentparts made this video of Coldplay perfoming their hit “Yellow” (lyrics – NO popups) at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Boondall, last night, Sunday March 8th 2009:

The Brisbane French Film Festival is on from Thursday March 19th to Sunday March 29th 2009. For some strange reason, though, they seem to think that “Asterix at the Olympic Games” is going to be only of interest to children.

Despite that odd decision, you can see the list of the other films that are in the festival here, and the program with ticket details and prices is here. And all films will have English subtitles, in case you were wondering.

["Kite Surfing" by m.maddo on Flickr]

This photo of someone kitesurfing in an unknown part of Brisbane’s bayside is by flickr user m.maddo. m.maddo has licenced this photo under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, which means you can use it for any reason you like as long as you give m.maddo credit and link to the page where the photo originally is.

I’ve just done a quick Google search and there are at least two companies in Brisbane that do kitesurfing: brisbanekiteboarding.com and Surf Connect. If you know of any other ways to kitesurf in Brisbane, let us know in the comments.

If you like the idea of Creative Commons, CC Australia are running a contest called “Pooling Ideas” until March 23rd 2009 where you can win prizes for creating an artwork based on Creative Commons-licenced material.

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Via the Brisbane Artists Development Co-Operative blog comes news that Brisbane artist Keith Armstrong will be talking about “Knowmore (House of Commons)”, an artwork he’s the Artistic Director of, at the State Library this Friday night, March 6 2009, at 5.30pm.

Knowmore (House of Commons) is a spinning tabletop with video images projected onto it. When you move around the edge of the artwork, you change the video images.

The talk is in the InfoZone on Level 1 (the ground floor) of the State Library, and it’s free. You can also see the artwork there. When you enter from the southern end of the library complex, the toilets are on your right and just after them is the InfoZone

Click here for a Google Map showing the State Library.

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