The Powerhouse Youth Theatre website is a-live! Designed by Haline and put together with a mix bag of tables, div’s and iFrames by me.
I’ve learned that loading an external html page into a div layer is very handy.
Somethings brewing over at the Icon Factory. The countdown pixel animations are very funny in a geeky way.
John Inglis was a well respected man in the horse racing industry, he liked pigeons, poppies and horses. I had never heard of him before last Friday when a call came from the Director of the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre telling me that this person had passed away and the family wanted to put a mini exhibition together for his Wake. We had five days to do it. My role was to design the exhibtion panels that accompany all the photos and objects in this exhibition as well as setting the colour scheme. Here’s a short run down of a whirlwind 5 days.
Friday.
The call comes in from Kon late in the afternoon.
Saturday.
We go to the Inglis family home, compound would be a better word, as its massive, the whole street is basically theirs. Surrouned by horse stables and manicured lawns and hedges. They show us everything from old photos to trophies and a hand embroidered table clothe with a who’s who’s of famous people who have had dinner at the Inglis home. The exhibition/Wake will be held in the old NewMarket heritage listed stables toawrds the back of the Inglis home.
Sunday.
Mock up some test designs and colours
Monday.
Spent the day going back and forth finalising the panel designs and text with the family, writer and Kon. I decide to use John Inglis’s three favourite things as graphic symbols on the panels.
Tuesday.
Finalised design. The panels are A4 in size. Got them printed up at Office Works and dropped by the framers to pick up foamcore and spray adhesive. Spent the night with Haline mounting the prints onto foamcore and touching up the edges of the foamcore with thin 5mm paper strips so that the raw foam edge don’t show.
Wednesday.
Met up with the Casula Powerhouse team back at the Inglis stables around 8pm and we start work to assemble and hang all the pieces of memorabilia and photos, setting up the sound installation and video projections. We finished everything by 3am.
The only dissapointing thing out of all this is that it will only be up for one day during the Wake. It was totally worth doing though, the response from the family to this beautiful display was heartfelt.
I think the guys at Soap are behind this? I looked at the source code hehe. Maybe it was Ash’s photos.
Khoa’s latest movie, Footy Legends. Keep an eye out in the end credits for some dodgey Lowes ad that Haline help pootoshop while I watched on with Khoa (how’s that for obscure connection to a movie).
New advertising site by Haline and put together by me, been a while since I’ve put something together entirely in Flash. Warning: only for broadband people as the whole site is self contained, 8.5megs.
This looks like fun, art meets comedy meets crime thriller meets romantic comedy
Attended my first Semi-Permanent over the weekend. Overall it wasn’t too inspiring, with some of the speakers basically just showing and telling their work while not giving much more insight into their work than “Paris Hilton walking around naked on a photoshoot”. Then again, you’d be nervous too if you had to talk in front of 3000 people. The mix of speakers from different industries was good to see. Beci Opin and ABCK’s use of intro videos was cool.
I liked anyhow, Dumbo Feather, Paul Pope and Josh Davies because they offered more of a story behind the work and how they got to where they are now. Josh Davies has turned into a seasoned speaker at these things, from the first time I saw him at Fresh Hong Kong, still the crowd pleaser and showman that he is. Kate Bezar of Dumbo Feather really touched a chord with her talk about starting up a magazine and how the name came about, passi(t)on.
Some small observations from the talk, referencing old elements and making stuff dynamic seems to be the to-do thing right now. The amount of people wearing stripe shirts/jumpers out weighed people with spikey mohawk hair. Use of comedy really helps to get the crowd into the talk. Getting your hot girlfriend to run the slide show of your talk is a bad idea (if she has no idea how to run it).
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