Brisbane Otaku - Animania Festival Video

YouTube user supremeneil made this video. It's from the Animania festival held the Brisbane Holiday Inn on Saturday, May 10th. The main feature of the video is all the cosplay from the festival.

There's a report of the festival at OzTAKU.com, and if you're into this, you might want to have a look at the Queensland Cosplay Meetup forum.

The Animania Festival will return to Brisbane on September 20th this year.

Squall Cosplay by ~Jessie04104 on deviantART

Brisbane Politics: Anonymous Anti-Scientology Rally May 10 2008

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Report on the "Anonymous" anti-Church Of Scientology "Fair Game Stop" rally and march held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on May 10 2008.

Formats available: Windows Media (.wmv)

Brisbane Anonymous, the Brisbane branch of the worldwide movement dedicated to exposing the activities of the "Church" of Scientology, held a rally and march today in Brisbane City. The protestors wore their trademark masks, to hide their identity from the "Church", so they could avoid retribution.



The marchers gathered in Post Office Square, and marched to Brisbane Square, along Queen, Edward, Elizabeth and George Streets. At Brisbane Square they handed out leaflets and showbags to the public and spoke out against the actions of the "Church of Scientology".



The theme of today's rally was "Fair Game Stop", which highlights the "Church" of Scientology's "Fair Game" policy, which means active members of the "Church" are encouraged to harass the "Church"'s opponents by any means deemed necessary. This has included forging bomb threats so that they appeared to come from Paulette Cooper, a journalist hostile to the "Church", as part of "Operation Freakout". Cooper's book "The Scandal of Scientology" can be read here.



Speakers at the rally told of the abuse that some members of the "Church" of Scientology have suffered.



For more information on Brisbane Anonymous, click here. If you'd like to see the photos I used to make the above video, click here to see the photoset at Zooomr. And by the way, the shirt this guy is wearing is available if you click here (and no, I'm not making any money off this link, it's just so damn cool I had to pass it on)



For more information on why Rick Astley is better than the Church of Scientology, click here.

Free Brisbane Movies - 80's Movie Marathon, Southbank, Tomorrow Sat May 10th

Via Four Thousand:

There's an 80s movie marathon tomorrow, Saturday May 10th, at Southbank from 1pm onwards. The program is:

1pm: The NeverEnding Story
3pm: ET
5pm: Back To The Future
7pm: Channel 9's World Expo 88 documentary

This is part of South Bank Celebrates 88, which is lots of events to commemorate the 1988 World Expo held at Brisbane's South Bank.

The films are at the Suncorp Piazza (click here for a Google Map).

Brisbane Music - The Red Paintings

Brisbane art-rock band The Red Paintings is touring in the USA at the moment.

This is The Red Paintings latest clip, "We Belong In The Sea". You can see 18 more of their videos at their official YouTube channel if you click here. If you click here you can hear 6 of their songs at their MySpace page, and find out where they are playing next, and you can visit their official website if you click here.

Brisbane Music - Aczim

This YouTube clip uploaded by AllDefWreckerz is Brisbane-based hip-hop artist Aczim performing "What Is It" at Rosie's Bar, 18 Little Edward St, Spring Hill (Click here for a Google Map)

You can hear more of Aczim's tracks if you click here and visit his MySpace page, and there is a link there to buy his "Outspoken" EP for A$13.

You can also see Aczim here at Triple J's Unearthed site, and here at SoundClick.

Brisbane Paste Ups - West End

westend paste by ~batsbats on deviantART

Brisbane Graffiti - Another Grey Box

Another Grey Box by ~simonehudson on deviantART

This graffito is on the side of a building being put up on the corner of Adelaide and George Streets, in the city.