Are you currently trying to get your foot in the door of a competitive industry? Wanna know how you can stand out from the crowd and get ahead of the others all vying for the same position you are?
THE LOOP is an Australian-based job networking and folio building site for creative professionals. Creatives can promote themselves online by creating a FREE online profile; including portfolio, showreel and resume and gain access to tons of industry jobs. Some of Australia’s best companies are already signed up and searching through the profiles – including Frost Design, Moon Communications, Glue Society, Toko, Collider Collective, MTV Networks, XYZ Networks, Pacific Magazines, Discovery Networks, Animal Logic, frankie magazine, The White Agency, Fuel FX, Sixty40, Deepend and loads more.
The site launched last November and is fast becoming a fantastic platform for students to showcase their work and connect with industry insiders.
If you’re interested in finding out more and happen to be out and about in Sydney this Friday, The Loop are presenting a creative workshop with Pip Jamieson, who’ll be sharing her tips on how to create an online portfolio and leverage it to find that perfect job, client or collaborator.
Here’s another heads up for all the art fans out there. Ears has ‘War Paint’ on show this weekend on the 11th at Lo-Fi, head on over and check it out. More details after the break.
A talented graphic design artist, Tiana Vasiljev’s quirked the 26 letters of the alphabet into her own creation. Her Marbling Typeface was kindled by a visit in a museum somewhere in South Vietnam. Typography is an artistic approach of arraying texts or type. A typeface is a batch of one or many fonts in one or many sizes collaboratively styled to a coordinated set of characters or symbols.
So word on the street is Mamak is the bomb. My first thoughts were very doubtful as I’ve been to Indonesia and I’ve had some authentic Indo/Malay food and all of it was very mindblowing. So I wondered how good could it be? The only thing that has been deterring me from trying it out was the queue of people that line outside an hour before its even opened. So I took the opportunity to check it out with the missus one night.
After watching this clip, I simply felt like I was really missing few things. A year ago now, I traveled about Europe and toured around on my bicycle. After coming back to Sydney and months later purchasing a motorbike, I’ve felt a sudden feeling of missing Germany, Berlin in particular, and my poorly neglected bicycles. This clip is all in German – but hell, it just makes it that much better. Ken Bloomer of Independent Fabrications explains a brief run down of what cyclocross is about.
Arcade Fire released an online interactive film by Chris Milk featuring “We Used To Wait”. It’s pretty amazing. It’s an experimental project developed along side with some guys from Google. It triggered some of my past memories and made me feel something. With the ever growing world of the dot com, I think this is the first of something like it and I’m sure we’ll see much more digital media based “artworks” that incorporates HTML5. It’s beautiful in its own digital right. Enjoy.
Madlib is simply amazing. He continues to pump out these compilations under the name Medicine Show and to be honest its really hard to catch up. It’s not everyones cup of tea but if your a fan and you want to indulge in the mechanics of a musical genius be sure to check this out. I’m only up to Medicine Show # 7 titled High Jazz and it’s hard to grasp the idea of turning these jazz instrumentals into banging hip hop hits. With the spontaneous nature of the drums and the free flowing melodies, Madlib’s production is like solving a 1000 piece puzzle.
The whole idea of the Medicine Shows is also to pay homage to the greats. It’s inspiring when people who make the music, appreciate their predecessors who made it possible for them to be here and add on to the foundation. With Medicine Show #8 Advanced Jazz, Madlib pays respect to the originators (Herbie Hancock, Miles Davies, Steve Kuhn, John Coltrane just to name a few) that laid the groundwork. Above is a sampling of an 80-minute session that the Stones Throw representative has put together for your educational pleasure.
A couple of weeks ago, I found myself boarding a plane to Shanghai, China with fellow 13itches member Andrew and our friend Haily for a ten-day trip around China. A trip that revolved around plenty of shopping, eating, drinking, private jokes, arm-biting (??), random quotes, exploring and lots of sight-seeing! =)
Read on for a little recount of the first five days of the holiday where three Aussies took on the cities of Shanghai and Beijing with no idea of what they were in for!
This past Friday a few of us attended Kevin Tran’s solo exhibition – STROBE – at the China Heights Gallery in Sydney’s Surry Hills. Luckily we managed to get there early and take some happy snaps of his collection on show before the crowds piled in and covered our view!
With free booze and red bull on offer, the tiny gallery was packed early on in the evening with an eclectic mix of individuals enjoying the collection and ‘cause we knew the artist through a friend, we managed to catch Tran on the side for a few minutes of chit chat where he explained the concept of STROBE, acknowledging that it was inspired from “the last year… having fun with friends at festivals, and stuff like that”.
With 15 limited edition prints of each artwork design (7 in total), Tran created beautiful illustrations with mixed medium on cotton rag paper, using vibrant colours that really popped from the black backgrounds. You had to be there to really step up and pay close attention to the detail of each piece the artist put into his work, but all in all it was a great solo show for the twenty-something year old.
Hit the jump to see my faves from the STROBE collection: ‘Magic Karp’, ‘Kaleidoscope’, and ‘Rafiki, Baboon on the Moon’.
Being held on the banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China from the 1st of May 2010 until the 31st of October 2010, this edition of the World’s Fair is billed as the largest (some 5 sq. km. in area), the most expensive (depending on who you believe, this Expo cost anywhere from $4.2 billion USD to $55 billion USD) and the most visited (70-100 million visitors) in history. Those numbers are quite overwhelming and the opportunity to become just one of the 70 million expected visitors was something I could not pass on during a recent trip to China.
I’ll be the first to admit that prior to my trip to Shanghai, I did not know much about the Expo or the history behind this event, so I did my research and I was immediately drawn to the unique designs of each pavilion – in particular the United Kingdom, Iceland, Germany and China pavilions. The theme for the Shanghai Expo is “Better City, Better Life”, and the various exhibitions aim to showcase their respective cultures and lifestyles. With a clearer idea of what to expect at the Expo I started to really look forward to wandering the five square kilometre newly developed site. I guess this would be the closest chance I might have to visiting (almost) every country in the world within a few hours!
The original plan was to visit the Expo on a Sunday, however local advice that crowds would be insanely packed on a weekend was given and the visit was rescheduled for the following Friday. Despite this, crowds on a Friday were still immense – lining up to pay homage at the Australian pavilion lasted almost two hours and the intense humidity wasn’t comforting either.
