Matt Jones has set himself an audacious goal – to run a 25 kilometre circuit across seven Sydney bridges every day for seven days. I met Matt a few months ago at the relaunch of the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts and last night I saw him again, this time at an event hosted by [...]

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election tracker is a youth-run site that follows the Australian federal election. It’s been around since 2004. It’s great. Go and check it out. It’s full of stories from young Aussies that care about politics and that write about everything from why their mates don’t care to why they vote the way they do. The [...]

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In the spirit of Open Source, I present to you – Creating a video brief, part one – the initial questionnaire. As a communication problem (there’s a lot that could be communicated in a limited amount of time), gathering the basic information on the video subject before you begin is a good place to start. [...]

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Tom from Vibewire has asked me to help him with a project he’s had in mind for Vibewire – communicating the value of various Vibewire projects through video. The best case scenario is that there will be a mini video (between 30-60 seconds) for each of the following programs: Reelife Short Film Festival the sQuareOne [...]

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I’m sitting in the office of Vibewire on Harris St, Ultimo (Sydney). I haven’t blogged about Vibewire before, so I’ve dug up a few paragraphs that do a good job of explaining what Vibewire is and why it exists. These are from an internal document that the guys were happy for me to post: Vibewire [...]

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