Saturday 13 December 2014

Australians May Get Their Own SOPA

Filmed between 2011 and 2014 in Sydney, Melbourne, Berlin and New York 'Cutback' includes interviews with Australian artists discussing their work, motivations and frustrations.
More interviews and material
HERE
I went to see this great film last night at the world premiere (Sydney doesn't count.)
My thanks to Rachel and the Invurt crew for the invite

Friday 12 December 2014

Cutback

Filmed between 2011 and 2014, the CUTBACK documentary project features interviews with more than 40 Australian artists as they discuss their addiction - which is street art and graffiti. Artists discuss their approach to their work, artistic motivations, and frustrations.
CUTBACK is a multi-platform web and feature documentary produced by Rachel Bentley, exploring street art and graffiti in the urban environment
Off to check this out...

Silver X & Allstars - Let's Stand Together

Silver X is a 26-year-old South Sudanese musician who wrote the song "Let's Stand Together." He was displaced from his home in Torrit, South Sudan with his family in 2000. Four years ago he returned to his birthplace from a refugee camp in Uganda to launch his music career and help jumpstart South Sudan's burgeoning music industry

An Oral History of the First Cyberfeminists

Seconded

"Worse still is the whole TED talks phenomenon, which offers the intellectual equivalent of diets in which someone can lose 10 pounds in two weeks without giving up ice cream sundaes or pizza. In just 18 minutes, a person can be exposed to breathlessly earnest genius -- a slickly marketed brand of chicken nuggets for the brain. The talks enable non-scientists and non-technologists to feel smart, but that is not the same as actually being smart or, alternatively, feeling dumb in the way that hard ideas sometimes make you feel -- and should -- when you first encounter them."

- David Rothkopf

Oh the hypocrisy of Abbott

“Oh the irony of Tony Abbott playing a gender card. He spent three years criticising Julia Gillard for speaking about women’s issues and the treatment of women, condemning her for talking about the treatment of women, and then he plays the gender card. The longer you stay in and around politics the less you’re surprised about the way the wheel turns.” - Craig Emerson

Would he have attacked Julia Gillard if her name was spelled J-U-L-I-A-N?