Friday February 3, 11.30am. The KickstART Youth Festival is a week-long event run by Propel Arts in celebration of National Youth Week. There will be workshops and performances at the new KickstART Youth Hub, plus live music, incredible art and a kick-ass arts market. It all goes down on Saturday April 21 and Propel are looking for young artists and designers to sell their original or vintage products and wares at the Markets. If this is you, you can apply online here (just make sure you do it before March 7!)
Monday 30 January, 4.00pm. The Ursa Art Foundation is a contemporary art institution based in Brisbane. The Ursa Prize was created to enable the projects of young and emerging artists from Australia and New Zealand by offering up an annual award of 2000 big ones (AUD) to an individual who has demonstrated excellence in their creative practice. Entries are now open for the 2012 Ursa Prize. If you are a photographer, painter, illustrator, graphic designer, digital artist, sculptor, jeweller, textile designer, fashion designer, potter, glassblower, or printmaker AND you are under 30 by the closing date for entries (9am, Monday 16 July) we think you should enter! For more info, check out their website, Facebook, or Twitter.
Employer:
Right Angle Studio
Position:
The Thousands Perth Associate Editor
Where:
Perth, now
Apply:
By 5pm Thu Feb 2. Send a resume, a 180 word sample Thousands article and 25 words-or-less on why you are the brain for the job to rachel@rightanglestudio.com.au with the subject line ‘The Thousands Perth Associate Editor Application’
The Thousands Perth is looking for a new Associate Editor. Tim’s done an amazing job, but now he’s gone off to be a big shot audiologist. So… do you love Perth? Enough to see the beauty in the most unhygienic drinking environments? Enough to go see some bands play in someone’s back yard, even if you don’t know whose house it is? Enough to drive all the way out to Mundaring for a decent slice of pizza? Can you multi-task like a MacBook Pro and pull entertaining adjectives, (ahem, similes) out of thin air?
If you answered ‘yes’ to the above, you could be the next The Thousands Perth Associate Editor. Under the direction of the The Thousands Perth Editor, your main role will be to assist in the delivery of high-quality editorial and ensure the smooth production of each issue of The Thousands Perth. In doing so, you will be required to work two days a week from our office in Northbridge and support related events out of hours.
Now here is the serious part.
Potential candidates must have:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Industry experience in copy-writing and editing
- Self motivation in spades
- Ideas, coupled with the ability to think laterally
- The fervor to embrace and grow the publication
- An individual voice (how else do we say this: a personality!)
- (Preferably) An involvement within the wider Perth creative community
The Thousands Perth Associate Editor’s responsibilities include:
- Working closely with the editor to generate content
- Working collaboratively with contributors and internal staff at Right Angle Studio
- Writing on a range of topics each week, to a deadline
- Editing copy to a style sheet
- Managing and operating a content management system
- Organising and supporting events and connecting The Thousands Perth within the offline community
- Using software such as Photoshop
- Acting professionally, most of the time
Monday, January 2, 10.26am. We’re love reading on her blog about the mini-projects the owner of Mr Sparrow in Subiaco busies herself with: hand-stitched cards, flower-arranging, plant gift boxes… now Mr Sparrow is welcoming us into the nest to learn, offering a series of summer ‘how-to’ workshops! The first Make Your Own Terrarium workshop has already sold out, but a second workshop has been announced on Sunday, February 5. There is also a Make Your Own Kokedama workshop on Sunday, January 29. Each workshop has materials included and comes with afternoon tea and a Mr Sparrow goodie bag! Bookings essential – sign up on Mr Sparrow’s website or email info@mrsparrow.com.au. Get busy with moss!
Thursday December 22, 4.20pm. Ladies, there’s someone special you’ve forgotten to buy a present for. That someone is… you! DRESS UP didn’t forget. They’re giving all you special ladies 30% off all items in their web store, but only until December 31! If you are feeling special on January 1 it will be too late.
Thursday 15 December, 11.23am. It’s simple: Mens Alpha tees, two for $80. Buy ‘em online at www.alpha60.com.au
Among science fiction blog nerds, Star Trek is often credited with the invention of the flip phone and the tablet/iPad. They predicted the future by matching their current technology with human desire, and then some very smart people raided the prop department and turned their ideas into a reality.
What we know is that before you can predict the future, you must understand the present. So, as The Thousands continues to think about how we can make our content more convenient and mobile, we want to understand what mobile means to you. And, that’s what our Mobile Survey is all about.
In the survey there are only 12 multiple-choice questions that are so quick to answer you might even go back in time. We are also dangling the proverbial carrot with an iPad 2 to give away to one lucky survey taker. The draw is random and we’ll announce the winner on Twitter and Facebook next Wednesday. It’s simple, all you need to do is click here.
Wednesday 23 November, 7.24pm. BLAM! Today Jon Ronson released a short report on real-life superheroes. KAPOW! Proper superheroes (goodwill and justice mean nothing without costumes). BATANG! The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones and the Less Amazing Adventures of Some Other Real-life Superheroes follows Phoenix Jones and his band of masked vigilantes as they sweep the streets of thugs and crackheads. BAMF! Ronson gets under their latex skins, uncovering an underground network of wardens of the night. SHAZAM! It’s available on Amazon for peanuts ($2.99). PEANUTS! Digital only, because paperbacks just weigh down your cape. Jon: you are our superhero.
Tuesday 22 November, 11.57pm. I’m starting to suspect that Dave Cutbush has a superpower which allows him to tap directly into the musical zeitgeist to find out exactly which bands Perth’s music aficionados are just clamoring to see. Deerhoof, Kurt Vile, Thee Oh Sees, Death Grips; it reads as a who’s who from every drunken, backyard ‘so what bands do you you really want to see right now?’ conversations of the last six months. When I heard Cutter was bringing Wooden Shjips and Boris to Perth in March I was like ‘How did he know?’. Think I’m going to check my room for bugs. 
Saturday 19 November, 11.07pm. My mum has mad beef against Maylands. Every time Maylands is mentioned Mum responds with the phrase “It’s full of druggies”. If she could see past the double-homicides, Mum would start to realise that Maylands is a suburb on the up and up. It’s got a couple of the best cafes in Perth, our favourite hardcore venue (a big call we know) and from Wed Nov 30 – Sun Dec 4, Maylands also plays host to a pop-up vintage store organised by 20th Century Vintage, Material Girl and Pack Rat Vintage Goods. From 9am-5pm each day they’ll be hocking all manner of kitsch collectibles, classic fabrics, retro furniture and antique accessories from their temporary storefront at 200B Whatley Crescent. I might pop down and buy Mum something a little bit special, at least then she’ll have to admit that Maylands is full of great vintage stuff as well as druggies.
