This one via the delightful Belinda Suzette of Northcotia, who is featured on page 6. A new creative arts magazine with arty stuff from Tasmania to San Qose. Not sure if it’s going to hit the streets or only the screens… looks beautiful! You can scroll through the edition right here below.

Also via the editor: Yes Sweetheart: I like that design too!: Creative Lane Zine is ready!!.

Here’s a collection of some intriguing works from local Northside artist Lauren Simmonds, the Melbourne artist who works with paper, light & shadow. I love the way she’s got people wearing the art work.

‘Masked Series,’ 2011

Transfigure (2012)

Next step involves her wearing the art herself, and performing for her

Since i got my android phone, i’ve been loving the radio. Listen-when-you-want kind of radio, aka the PODCAST.

Woo. Here’s a couple of my favourites:

ONE) Elektrocast

This is from a podcast called Elektrokast which i really like (mp3).

Episode 45: “Torro Remote White Light mix”.

Actually it’s 2 years since they stopped broadcasting, but still good sounds.

Posting it here because i thought Tim might like it. DJ Tim, also known as DJ Fluff, runs a very excellent radio show out of Castlemaine called Sensoreum. (Did you have a faceboo page

From the punch: an interesting perspective on an awkward tv moment. I didn’t see Q&A last night but I’ll see it on iView now!! Amusing comparisons of greg combet with clark kent, and suggestions that sophie mirabella looked as though she may have poisoned her fellow presenter. Can’t wait to see it.

Here’s the video. Yikes. Mirabella received a pasting from the twitterati because of the way she recoiled in horror, but GetUp and others came to her defense:

Wendy Harmer was quoted as saying,

Okay this one got me.

An interesting take on anti-smoking ads.

No scare tactics.

I really enjoyed this interview with Wally de Becker (aka Gotye). Fascinating guy, and very softly spoken. Doesn’t sound like the whole experience is going to his head, which is nice.

Great anecdote about a singing fence in Queensland, which he used for one of the songs on this album.

Here’s the episode online. It’s taken from one of the NPR podcasts – World Cafe. Ah, i really like the way you can search all their channels for mention of any artist, for example search for Gotye.

Direct link to the mp3 interview here, which you can play or download.

I love this story. 40,000 people singing a children’s protest song from the sixties. A song about how we should all just get along and be nice to each other.

Thousands in Norway Sing Peace Song Children Of The Rainbow Against Right-Wing Terrorism Edited – YouTube.

Such an awful reason to be singing. So sad watching, you can feel the grief of the crowd.

77 people killed because a guy had very bad ideas in his head.

And it’s interesting listening to the people in the news story speak Norwegian. You have no idea what they’re actually saying, but at the same time, it’s really clear what they would be saying.

I’ve tracked down this recording of Emma Bathgate with the first chorus band of singers from the Fairfield Amphitheatre. It’s a pretty good recording i think. This was a hilarious day. We debated for some time about whether to perform because of the rain. During this song, the umbrellas all came out. Emma waved away an umbrella when it was offered.

Via Soundcloud: This Most Ancient Land – Ema & First Chorus Band of Singers by EMA..

Well that was fun.

Last night I sang with around 80 people in Stephen Taberner’s Bigmouth choir at the Northcote town hall.

We sang stephen’s arrangements of numbers like The Smiths’ “There is a light that never goes out”, and Garbage “Only happy when it rains.

Between choir pieces, he’d orchestrated performers like Dan Whitton of the Wikimen, and a group of singers from Princes Hill HS. These were all amazing and a delight to experience.

I feel bad for not inviting all my friends now. I’d only been to 3 rehearsals and there were around 10 songs so I kinda thought I wouldn’t even perform. But somehow managed to learn most of them in time. The last song i had to have lyrics on my phone, and sneak in a look.

Now here is a remarkable performance, for both dance and costume.

You’ve got Zoe and Bronwen and Priscilla dancing in Rebecca Mayo‘s mistletoe dress.

Looks like Some Kind of Art to me.

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I work with Zoe. She is an amazing person to have around the office. Really brightens your day.

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