Month: October 2013

Brimblecombe Fox brings the multiverse home

Brimblecombe Fox brings the multiverse home

Posted by | Oct 18, 2013 | , , , , |

Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox and Alfonso Cuaron, the director of the recently released film Gravity starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, share a secret. Both believe in a multiverse as opposed to a universe it seems. In Cosmic Address, launched on Friday at New Farm’s Graydon Gallery, Kathryn juggles a spectrum of cosmic phenomena from time travel, super-earths, spacecraft, undiscovered horizons to post-apocalyptic calamities. Her collection of works, Eternity’s Breath and Galactic Horizons and Beyond for instance reflect her bold mythic vision and playfulness at times in an effective, simplified and colourful palette. About the context for the show she explains, ...

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Yellow Jersey ups the ante

Yellow Jersey ups the ante

Posted by | Oct 17, 2013 | , |

The Yellow Jersey Bike Shop has landed in Woollongabba, joining the highest density of cyclists in Queensland from Ipswich where it was awarded Australian bicycle retailer of the year last year. Opening last month in Stanley St, the shop caters for all road, mountain, triathlon, womens’, fitness and kids’ cycling needs for every budget. Onwer Troy Dobson aims for a family atmosphere that engender’s customer loyalty and creates a cycling hub for the inner-south. With competitors Bike Hub catering for serious cyclists just a stone throw’s away on Annerley Rd and Planet Cycles in the same suburb they will have to...

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Snow White in silent monochrome surprises

Snow White in silent monochrome surprises

Posted by | Oct 17, 2013 | , |

Blanca Nieves is a thorougly modern Snow White set in Spain a century ago and filmed in black and white without any speech. There are enough twists in the presentation of this story to provide an element of surprise and the film is so lushly made and the drama so finely presented that the audience remains captivate for nearly two hours. The masterful use of bald melodrama, familiar tropes and a well known plot allows writer and director, Pablo Berger a free hand to stage the story using the best techiques of a century of film-making. The modern camera...

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CSIRO reimagines the park

CSIRO reimagines the park

Posted by | Oct 17, 2013 | , |

Future Park: Imagining Tomorrow’s Urban Park is a new book by Brisbane-based landscape architect Amalie Wright. Her book deals with the challenge we face of living in cities – places where over half the world’s population now live. “My aim was to demonstrate how shifting populations require a lot from the urban spaces of our cities and how essential it is to re-imagine them accordingly,” Ms Wright said. Her book also examines spaces that have often been officially off-limits, so that we might picnic next to a sewage plant or enjoy the benefits of temporary pop-up city parks. Through art, politics and engineering innovation, “Future...

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Business groups get LinkedIn

Business groups get LinkedIn

Posted by | Oct 17, 2013 | , |

Described by some as “facebook with a tie”, Linked In is social media for business. It is flavour of the month in Brisbane this month, with Kenmore & District Chamber of Commerce and Cooper Networking both holding sessions with this as the major topic. This follows the emphasis on social media marketing at the Small Business Conference on July 25 in Southbank. See related story http://westender.com.au/mobile-media-future/ At its core of LinkedIn is a map of the connections between people, which offers a bit more sophistication than the single category of ‘friends’ that underpins facebook. LinkedIn adds sophisticated Resume functions...

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