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Live electronica in Melbourne

illkinski will be playing live at the rooftop cinema alongside other bands on the 29th April.

Originally based in East London, now spread across Melbourne and London, illkinski consist of duo Adam Perry & Arash Lowni. They have spent the last 3 years writing and producing an extensive catalogue, remixing, and staging some electrifying live performances. Their debut album "Let's zoom in" is available now.

www.illkinski.com

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Streaming Festival Fragment program

Streaming Festival and Geborgen Kamers present:

Fragments

15 - 17 April 2009

Fragments brings together video work that in some way address the idea of fragmentation, whether through visual technique or concept. Several films in this selection focus on the object of the photograph -a reminiscent of a fraction of time and memory. Others are based on the structural elements of film making such as the close up shot and abstraction as the basis.

This selection is the curator's response the truly eclectic collection of works from three editions of Streaming Festival database. Therefore, the concept of Fragments becomes an ambiguous expression in this context simultaneously symbolising a fragment of the Streaming Festival collection as well a metaphor for fragmentation of images and ideas.

Streaming Festival is an online platform for artists and filmmakers. Its aim is to create an international showcase of work in high quality made possible by using streaming servers rather than download. The festival takes part once a year, and the 4th edition will be broadcasted from 20 to 30 November 2009.

Beginning in May 2009 Streaming Festival will screen a special online program for the duration of one month. Each month the program will change. To celebrate this development an offline screening of the first Special Program Fragments takes place in Geborgen Kamers, The Hague, Netherlands.

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Unpaid bills? Good luck starting future laptops

As wireless carriers begin to subsidize computers that come with wireless Internet access, they're faced with a quandary: What do they do if the buyer stops paying his bills?

The company can cut off the computer's wireless access, but the carrier would still be out a couple of hundred dollars. The buyer would be left with a computer that's fully usable except for cellular broadband.

LM Ericsson AB, the Swedish company that makes many of the modems that go into laptops, announced Tuesday that its new modem will deal with this issue by including a feature that's virtually a wireless repo man. If the carrier has the stomach to do so, it can send a signal that completely disables the computer, making it impossible to turn on.

"We call it a `kill pill,'" said Mats Norin, Ericsson's vice president of mobile broadband modules.

The module will work on AT&T Inc.'s U.S. third-generation network, and on many other 3G networks overseas.

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videobloggingweek2009 - day7 : New Plymouth Wind Wand

New Plymouth Wind Wand from kath on Vimeo

this is the New Plymouth foreshore - sunset and Len Lye's "Wind Wand" sculpture.

footage taken 06/02/2009 during a visit to New Plymouth, New Zealand for the weekend

#videobloggingweek
#videobloggingweek2009

day 7 - sunday

http://vimeo.com/4115679
http://blip.tv/file/1984144

blog entry @
http://www.aliak.com/content/videobloggingweek2009-day7-new-plymouth-win...

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videobloggingweek2009 - day6 : easter roast

easter roast from kath on Vimeo

my sister is visiting for Easter weekend and cooked a roast lamb. so there's food in the house! very tasty

trying final cut express too - the quality seems better but the file sizes are quite large. will test some more

11/04/2009
day 6 - saturday
#videobloggingweek
#videobloggingweek2009

blog post @ http://www.aliak.com/content/videobloggingweek2009-day6-easter-roast

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videobloggingweek2009 - day5 : UK on the move

UK - on the move from kath on Vimeo

last time I was in the UK - I always seem to be on the move though.. planes, trains & buses - London to Southampton

footage from 01/01/2008

#videobloggingweek
#videobloggingweek2009

day 5 - friday

http://vimeo.com/4116024
http://blip.tv/file/1984215

blog entry @
http://www.aliak.com/content/videobloggingweek2009-day5-uk-move

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videobloggingweek2009 - day4 : their memories

their memories from kath on Vimeo

their memories

music by brian eno & harold budd "their memories"

#videobloggingweek
#videobloggingweek2009
day4 - thursday
09/04/2009
parramatta, sydney

blog post @ http://www.aliak.com/content/videobloggingweek2009-day4-their-memories

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videobloggingweek2009 - day 3 : cabin crew be seated for landing

cabin crew be seated for landing from kath on Vimeo

cabin crew be seated for landing

auckland -> sydney flight

08/04/2009

#videobloggingweek wednesday
#videobloggingweek2009

http://vimeo.com/4060090
http://blip.tv/file/1970789

blog post @ http://www.aliak.com/content/videobloggingweek2009-day-3-cabin-crew-be-s...

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videobloggingweek2009 - day2 : hotel textures

hotel textures from kath on Vimeo

heritage hotel auckland - textures - these are short clips of different textures in the hotel - rooms & floors, furniture & wall dividers

07/04/2009 tuesday
auckland

#videobloggingweek
#videobloggingweek2009

http://vimeo.com/4060723
http://blip.tv/file/1971044

blog entry @ http://www.aliak.com/content/videobloggingweek2009-day2-hotel-textures

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Streaming Festival call for submissions - November 2009

The Streaming Festival is accepting submissions for its 4th edition in November 2009.

Deadline for submissions is 01 Ocotber 2009.
Accepted genres are documentary, animation, video art, flash and narrative.
No entry fee for submissions.

The Streaming Festival is an international audio visual festival on the internet. Films are presented full screen on streaming servers with high image quality.
The 4th edition will start in November 2009, and lasts 10 days. The Streaming Festival is based in the Netherlands but has no geographic boundaries.
Viewers can visit from any location in the world, at any given time and plug into one of the festival streams.

Online submission form : http://www.streamingfestival.com/submissions/
Website : http://www.streamingfestival.com

Streaming Festival 4th edition | call for entries | November 2009

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Custa's acid tech records stolen - pls help if u hear of any for sale

Custa's house was broken into and his record collection of acid tech records & other things including Mac computers with around 17000 photos (memories) were stolen from the Gold Coast. if anyone hears of them for sale pls post/contact him. or would anyone know any 2nd hand places that might be worth checking on the Gold Coast / Brisbane in case they show up?

Some labels are Acid test, bionic orange, Manx rippers, stay up forever, stay up forever remix, wah wah, skankadelic, BAWOP, headcase

he doesn't have a computer atm (stolen too) - but if you hear of any of these for sale, pls let him know via his facebook profile or let me know & I can pass onto him

pls pass on if you can
thanks for your help!

thanks
kath

I've started a google spreadsheet listing record stores / pawn stores on the gold coast in case they turn up at one of these. pls add to this if you know of some more to try!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pYEfA_ZJVzPK3NLtkXlCFAg

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Timaeus and Critias

Plato's "Timaeus and Critias" is mentioned a few times in the "Gnosis Now!" class I've been doing so I thought I'd try read it for some background details. according to Plato's wikipedia page, Plato (Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, "broad")[1] (428/427 BC[a] – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy.[2] Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was as much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death.

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life playlist

my itunes 'life' playlist created from search for 'life'. my itunes has less songs these days as I keep running out of disk space and have to delete albums. 22/03/2009

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chirps & tweets

Vanity Press Plus: The Tweetbook by James Bridle - James Bridle has extracted all his tweets from twitter and published them into a one-off hard copy book. I tried his script but it didn't work for me, though twitter seems to have changed from displaying a page at a time to using the 'more' button at the bottom of the page to display more pages + I don't have the api. since I don't have that many posts - comparatively speaking - I just hit 'more' until I could see all my posts. and then saved them to a file.

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