Brisbane Lightning: Photo of 3rd December storm #bnestorm

Lightning, originally uploaded by jaredbazley.

This great photo of lightning from Mt Coot-tha was taken by flickr user jaredbazley

Brisbane Creatives: Pecha Kucha videos from December 3 #pechakucha

Well, I went to Pecha Kucha Brisbane volume 8 last night and it was a very inspiring time. I got to meet some people from Twitter that I've only ever met online before *waves* and got to make videos of most of speakers.

Unfortunately, I ran out of videophone memory before I got to Randall Breen of Jugglers Art Space, because he gave what was my favourite presentation of the night. Jugglers Art Space is an artist-run gallery that concentrates on emerging artists and doesn't have a commercial focus. This means they are able to concentrate on creativity instead of having to constantly think about what's going to sell.

But I did manage to make videos of 8 of the speakers. I've got two of them here. First up is Robert Riddel of RA Riddel Architecture whose speech was all about how we are going to fit half a million extra people into the Brisbane inner city area, but the phone ran out of memory with about a minute to go :(

Elliott Bledsoe from Creative Commons Australia also talked about Creative Commons and how the idea of sharing your creative work is giving a kick-start to creativity:

And here are links to the other six videos of people who spoke last night:

Graphic designer and Shillington College lecturer Tanya Ruxton

Bamboo artists Matt Hughes and Luke Prendegast

Architect John Mainwaring

Fashion Designer George Wu

Photograper Adam Sebastian West

Designer of stylish/fashionable hi-fi systems Jesse Costelloe

The next Pecha Kucha Brisbane is going to be on February 11th 2009. I'm certainly going to be there.

Brisbane Creativity: Heading to Pecha Kulcha Brisbane tonight

I'm going to head on down to the Powerhouse at New Farm Park this evening at 8.20 to catch Pecha Kucha Brisbane. Pecha Kucha "is an event where any designer, artist, architect, interactive media or alike, are given the soapbox to present their designs, thoughts and ideas." They get to speak, and while they speak show 20 slides for 20 seconds each - so each speech is 6 minutes 40 seconds. Which suits my attention span just fine.

The video above shows what went on at the last Pecha Kucha Brisbane,  from this story from the Monkwhy blog.

Brisbane Street Art: David Caruso sticker on Ipswich Rd

ipswich road , originally uploaded by openhammer.

This photo of a sticker of David Caruso looking enigmatic (he has any *other* expression?) was taken on Ipswich Road by flickr user openhammer. Openhammer has hundreds of photos of stickers - just click here to see the rest.

Brisbane Music: I Heart Hiroshima

This vid is Brisbane indie band I Heart Hiroshima performing their track "Punks" at the Brisbane Powerhouse last week.

If you like what you hear, you can find more vids of I Heart Hiroshima at YOuTube if you click here, or you can listen to more of their music at the I Heart Hiroshima myspace page if you click here, or listen to them free at Last.fm if you click here. And click here for the official I Heart HIroshima website.

Tenda McFly's Poem "A List of Things I Want To Talk About"

This poem by Tenda McFly was performed at last week's ICon Creative Summit at the Brisbane Powerhouse.

Moon Smiley photo

Here's my photo of tonight's Moon Smiley...anyone else got any? And in the name of superstition, what exactly is this a good omen for?