Monday May 21, 12:49 pm If you’re a street artist or a designer or an urban planner or any combination thereof, City of Vincent would like to talk to you about Beaufort Street. They’re chasing ‘suitably qualified artists and/or creative design teams to submit quotations for the development of new public art work in selected locations along the section of Beaufort Street’.
Now, the City of Vincent have given ol’ Beaufort a pretty comprehensive autopsy: they want artists who know how the street works, and who’ll be able to deck out the street with all kinds of art. They’ve made it clear it’s not about money or popular rhetoric, it’s about turning Beaufort street into something Australia-famous. Maybe even world-famous. You’ve still got about three weeks to get your pitch together, it’s all due in on Thursday June 14. Did we mention there’s a bucketload of cash involved? Nope, because that’s not really what it’s about, although successful pitches will be rewarded in kind. Details on the Beaufort Street Public Art Commission here.
Tuesday May 15, 10.43 am Life is Noise are buzzing about This Is Nowhere. At the moment, it’s nothing more than a website plus some Facebook and Twitter leads, but the LIN folk know how to cause a ruckus, so get excited. Something is a-brewin’.
Monday May 14, 1.13pm. The British Council wants to send you to the UK armed with $10K to work with people who’re clever, just like you. Whatever you do - from visual art to publishing, film to fashion, design to digital media – if you’re good, you could win. Watch the video here and then head here to enter. Good luck!
Wednesday April 25, 1.34pm Do you have a scratchily-recorded bootleg recording or an undercoated canvass lying around in your loungeroom? Do you wanna be a band manager, but are shackled by the banal reality of having to pay the rent? The Seed gives you money to help with making that fundamental move from being an amateur to a professional artist, musician, or band manager. Ok, so there are some strings attached, but as they put it: ‘the Seed aims to help Australian artists from any background, creating art and music across any genre, to establish themselves as self-sustained, professional artists‘. Hey, that could be you! Take a look here.
Tuesday April 24, 5.19pm Magnets! How do they work? Who knows. Anyways, they’re awesome for sticking recipes, to-do lists, pizza vouchers and unpaid parking fines to your fridge door. OnWilliam are releasing their 2012 magnet collection at the Perth Cultural Centre’s ‘O’ Day this Sunday. Designed by local scribbler Amok Island, each member of the collective gets their own magnet: between the sum of them, you’ve a pretty neat map of almost everything on William Street.
Friday 20 April, 10am. The only thing better than going to a garage sale is conducting a garage sale. Because you make money, not slough it off on records you’ll never listen to. Knowing this, don’t you think you should register for the national Garage Sale Trail? One hot day in May (Saturday 5 May to be exact) when thousands (literally, thousands) of makers, creators and people who just plain want to offload some shit unite in a celebration of community, sustainability and micro-enteprise. Well, micro-enterpriser, you only have (as of this moment) 14 days left to register your sale. We like the whole thing so much we are a media partner so we’ll probably be there taking photos of you and your old washing machine, you guys look great BTW.
Wednesday 28 March, 4.38pm. A megathrust earthquake hit Japan a little over a year ago. I knew that! Well of course you did. It’s all we talked about at the time. Now we don’t talk about it so much, but that doesn’t mean the Japanese people are out of the thick of it. Things are still being cleared, rebuilt and relocated. Remember Japan is a set of well-designed t-shirts, posters and soon tote bags that want us to remember March 2011. All proceeds go to CRASH Japan and all items (where possible) are made via locally sourced workmanship and environmentally friendly materials. Everything is available online from here.
Saturday March 24, 5.14pm A callout to photosmiths: Youthless are holding a DIY photocopy exhibition at The Bird on April 21st, and they want to plaster your work all over the bar. Literally. They’re taking as many images as they can fit, and they’re not fussed about charging for venue hire or framing. It’s an exhibition for anyone with a camera. Submission details here, deadline’s Tuesday, April 10th.
Wednesday March 21, 2.53pm. New music hounds, get salivating -Tura’s dropped their 2012 program. Tura have spent the last twenty-five years making sure WA’s best new musicians find their way to a stage, and they’ve got a monster of a schedule this year, including Decibal bringing John Cage to life at Scale Variable, raw talent at Club Zho, and the Reef 2012 Tour AKA the Aus Chamber Orchestra take their violins on safari round the state’s far north. Head to TURA’s website for more: http://www.tura.com.au/
Monday 12 March, 12.02pm. It doesn’t seem very long since the first issue was attacked by man fingers in our office but Smith Journal volume 02 is out today. We have just read it and can recommend the interview with half-crazypants half-genius Japanese inventor Dr Nakamatsu, the short essays by Dave Eggers and Christos Tsiolkas, the profile on Tokuhiko Kise (Tok) of TRUCK furniture, the spreads on cold war spy gadgets, the history of pinball machines, Henry Rollins’s bookshelf and the lovely/shitty car that Tait just bought. Smith are also doing a reader survey and the prize draw for respondents includes a carton of Stone & Wood beer delivered to your door once a month for 10 months, or one of five Herschel backpacks. Go here to enter. We cannot compete with that but we do have a copy of volume 02 to give away. To enter, email win@thethousands.com.au with the subject ‘I invented the floppy disk’.
