Sinead O’Connor, John Cale, Robert Lepage, Jack Charles, Hotel Pro Forma, Michael Clark Company, Thomas Adès, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Akram Khan Company, The Black Arm Band & Beck’s Festival Bar The 25th Melbourne Festival, and the second under the artistic direction of Brett Sheehy, announces a dynamic and emotive program of work from some of the finest creative [...]

During September in select cinemas around Australia, Madman presents REEL ANIME 2010, showcasing five of the freshest anime feature films this side of Tokyo. Following the sold-out success of the 2008 Showcase, which featured ‘The Girl Who Leapt Through Time’ and ‘Appleseed: Ex Machina’, this latest crop of films has something for everyone: from the [...]

AWARD, Australia’s pre-eminent creative industries body, has announced changes to its 2011 awards programme. AWARD, the Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association, counts some of the finest creative minds from Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia amongst its members. It is a non-political, non-profit organisation that aims to set standards of creative excellence, to promote creativity [...]

Comrad Couture (2009), ACMI: Berlin on Film 2010 The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, in association with the Goethe-Institut, presents - Berlin on Film Thursday 4 November – Monday 8 November 2010 To coincide with the Berlin Dayz cultural festival and the twentieth anniversary of the reunification of Germany, the Australian Centre for the Moving [...]

Semi‐Permanent a celebration of all things art and design is back in 2010 to inspire Melbourne’s thriving creative community yet again. While some may think it’s the forum where design nerds gather to fight against the evils of Comic Sans, Semi‐Permanent offers an eye‐opening insight into the broad streams of design, and where those varying crafts [...]

Directed by Special Problems, Produced by Special Problems, Live Action: Produced by Jett Steiger and Peter Brant for Team G, DP: Kevin Phillips, Costume Designer: Erica Frank, Post-production/animation/edit by Special Problems, Additional animation: Curtis Baigent, Commissioned by Warp Films A second single from Flying Lotus’ self-proclaimed “space opera” Cosmogramma, MmmHmm features renowned bassist Thundercat (Sa-Ra [...]

Design Capital State of Design Festival to explore the future of Victoria’s built environment, mobility systems and digital strategy The 2010 State of Design Festival’s business program, Design Capital, will focus on how three interrelated areas – the built environment, mobility systems and digital strategies, are helping businesses address the big issues they face in [...]

The fifth State of Design Festival is set to Change By Design this year, with new look website and a host of events across Victoria. Held 14 – 25 July, the 2010 Festival presents a broad program of exciting, revealing and informative events under the theme Change by Design. This year’s Festival boasts four major [...]

Semi-Permanent & Dosh Wallets, Sydney, 2010 Semi-Permanent and Dosh Wallets launch search to find the next generation Dosh designer. 12th March 2010: Semi-Permanent, Australia’s leading design festival, has partnered with forward thinking wallet brand, Dosh, to find the next generation Dosh designer. The competition is calling for artists to submit a piece of work which [...]

Semi-Permanent announces second raft of speakers for Sydney conference Semi-Permanent, Australia’s award winning design festival*, is pleased to announce additional speakers to its already awe-inspiring line up. Award winning filmmaker David Michôd, San Francisco based design community Fecal Face and Australia’s own frankie magazine, join this year’s event on the 19 and 20 March. Other [...]

Semi-Permanent, Sydney, 2010 March 2010 sees Australia’s design community come together for the 8th year for Semi-Permanent in Sydney. With a week-long celebration of all things aesthetic, Semi-Permanent goes above and beyond, bringing together the design community across a number of conferences, workshops, exhibitions and after parties. Not to be outdone by last year’s roll [...]

sixty40 – Battlestar Still from ‘Battlestar‘ – Harmonic 313, sixtyforty, 2009 New video shot for hip-hop artist, Harmonic 313 (Warp) by Australian studio sixty40. “The clip was shot with 2 x P2 cameras. Shot stereoscopically (i.e. on 2 identical cameras separated in space to mimic 2 eyes) the clip uses a flicking technique that was [...]

8-Bit Trip 8-Bit Trip, rymdreglage 1500 hours compressed to 3 minutes and 49 seconds of stop-motion animation using lego bricks.

Exploding Motor Car – Video for ‘New Years’ by Ohbijou Ohbijou – New Years from explodingmotorcar on Vimeo. Music video created by Toronto based art collective Exploding Motor Car. It utilizes stop-motion animation, combined with hand-made elements. Check out their other fabulous creations here.

Björk: Wanderlust in 3D Video for Björk‘s Wanderlust (directed by Encyclopedia Pictura), even more spectacular in 3D. Watch it here.