Reflection :: 12 Moments of 2009 :: by Shakthi
2009 was a crazy, crazy year. Seriously. So much happened I’d happily retire right now with a lifetime full of memories. In an effort to process the year and, more importantly, share some of the amazing highlights, here are 12 moments from 2009 that stayed with me.
Reflection :: The Migrant Project :: by Shakthi
The Migrant Project was a snowball that at its peak, spun out of control.
Five years have passed since it started in 2005, around casual conversations in alleyways and beer gardens. I am now writing this in an office – running a company I founded, initially, as a way of coping with the project’s erratic and [...]
Tutorial :: 10 Websites for High-School Teachers (or anyone who loves to MAKE things)
CuriousWorks spends a lot of time in high-schools doing workshops that are an eclectic mix of art, theatre and multimedia exercises. These workshops are constantly evolving and changing and many are influenced by websites and artists who inspire us. We thought we’d share some of the websites that are the shoulders we stand on and [...]
Reflect :: The American At CuriousWorks :: by Morgan
I’ve always been afraid of two things – bodies of water (in which I cannot see the bottom) and heights. At 7, I was stung by a jellyfish while swimming. That same year, I fell off a rock face and into a crevice of fresh lava rock, gouging and slicing my flesh as I tumbled [...]
Reflect :: Great South Land :: by Aimee
What are they doing? Why are they heading for us? Do they want to warn us about something? Are we in danger?
Project :: reFILL 2008-2009 :: by Elias
When I think about reFILL, the pictures in my head begin on the M5 going west at 110 km/h. If late, 120. Taking the Liverpool exit and following the trucks down Hoxton Park Rd, arriving at Miller Technology High. So much changed during the 17 months we worked at Miller, only the drive stayed the [...]
Reflect :: Social Media :: by Peter
One of the organisations we worked with in Roebourne in 2008 was the Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation. The NAC is the formal organisation that represents the Ngarluma people who are one of the traditional owner groups in the Pilbara region. Roebourne is in the heart of Ngarluma country.
Reflect :: Rasa Unmasked :: by Shakthi
Think this planet’s oldest surviving art forms and latest technologies don’t mix? Think again.
Reflect :: Visiting a Sri Lankan refugee camp :: by Shakthi
The recent news about the surrender of the LTTE has thrown this otherwise largely unknown, 50 year struggle into the newspaper headlines. Of course, what you read in the media is only a small part of the story.
Tutorial :: Aimee’s Three Favourite Theatre Games
I am very lucky. I get to run the theatre components of CuriousWorks’ AllAroundYou program. I wish everyone got the chance to play as much as me. It is something very natural in us that is so often squashed or sadly forgot… So – I would like to share the game!
Here are my three favourite [...]
Reflect :: Things Aimee Knows After Drawing for 4 Weeks Straight
Last month, as CuriousWorks’ resident visual artist, I spent four weeks in Melbourne working with Shakthi on Overflow – a short animation work for Melbourne Fringe Festival that was projected onto one of the massive walls of the East shard building in Federation Square.
Article :: Espresso Publishing – Printing Books in a Digital World :: by Jo Lennan
The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported on the unveiling of a POD (print on demand) machine in a Melbourne Angus and Robertson bookshop, with other stores to get the machines soon. The machine is called an Espresso Book Machine, and was dubbed by Time Magazine “an ATM for books”. Now many out-of-print books and out-of-stock [...]
Guest Post :: Rebecca Sng
The Road To Hell…
Whitney once famously sang, (before rehab presumably), “I believe the children are our future”. Well, I believe the children are the present. I’m certainly not alone in believing that how we look after our children is one of the central indicators of the health of our society.
Guest Post :: Andrew Dowding
I live in Roebourne, a small town in the North West of Western Australia. Our town is about 90% Aboriginal so it’s easy to imagine the reputation we have, in fact our reputation is known all over this state.
Reflect :: Fed Ex vs Adreesson: Ways to Embrace the Online Future :: by Shakthi
Today I had to post a 30 second digital video file to Malaysia. By Fed Ex. On a CD. I had already uploaded the full quality file to the internet through Mega Upload’s free service, but our client in Malaysia associated internet downloads with bad quality and refused to accept the product that way. Later [...]