One could mistake Sarah for a passionate youth arts enthusiast previously kicking around at Vibewire Youth Inc and TINA. However we here at The Edge have discovered her true passion: coffee. Roasting, brewing, grinding and percolating techniques are fervently discussed and argued by Sarah and The Edge team. You can count on Sarah to fb you and entrance you with her world of social media junkies. As The Edge’s Master of Facebook, Sarah guarantees loads of opportunities to chat and post on The Edge and connect with other Edge friends and fans.
3pm–5pm Sundays 11 April, 18 April, 25 April and 2 May 2010 Facilitator: Zenobia Frost (poetry), Chris Somerville (short stories), Benjamin Law (opinion) and Tiara the merch girl (zine making) Cost: $80 per person for the four workshops Bookings: www.expressmedia.com.au In this workshop series, Voiceworks magazine writers will take you on a mini publication ride. [...]
2–6pm Sunday 18 April 2010 (SOLD OUT!) Cost: $95 OR 2–6pm Sunday 30 May 2010 Cost: $95 Book: email The Edge Build your own robot and pitch it against other fighting machines in the ultimate DIY techno war. Think hyperactive, flame throwing bumper cars on a bad day in the apocalypse. The workshop cost includes [...]
Everyone loves something free, and that is exactly what GIMP is.
12pm–4pm Sunday 28 March 2010 Facilitator: Erica Bartle Cost: $55 Bookings: www.qwc.asn.au or 07 3842 9922 Lots of people have a blog, but how do you turn your blog into a vibrant online following? Erica Bartle, former Deputy Editor of Girlfriend magazine and editor of Girl With a Satchel, 2009 Bloggie winner of Australia’s Most [...]
4–6pm Saturday 7 April 2010 Facilitator: Stephen Stockwell Cost: free Bookings: email The Edge Everyone wants to be on the news, but have you ever thought about making it? Citizen journalism is the idea anyone can be a journalist (even you) and in this workshop Edge Catalyst Stephen Stockwell plans to bring you up to [...]
12–6pm Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 May 2010 Who: NICTA What: build your own micro-controller projects and share sensor data Cost: $95 Bookings: email The Edge (cut off date for workshop registrations is Sunday 18th of April) The city is full of information. NICTA is addressing the challenge of getting access to this information to [...]
Record your demo in 20 mins….. next!
4–6pm Saturday 27 March 2010 Who: Catalysts, pixel pushers, anyone who wants to join in What: visualists, VJs, sound, vision mixers, AV effects units, cameras and more Cost: FREE Plug n Play Brisbane has found a home at The Edge and is kicking off its first jam on Saturday 27 March at Show Pony. This [...]
2–4pm 21 March and 10 April 2010 Facilitator: Andrew Curnock Cost: Free Bookings: email The Edge If you’re thinking of breakfast cereal, it’s likely this article isn’t directed at you. No offence. This is a call to arms for all FL Studio users (the grown‑up name for the old‑school Fruity Loops music program) based in [...]
4–6pm Tuesday 23 March and Monday 29 March 2010 Facilitator: Sandra Landholt Cost: Free Book: email The Edge–places are limited to FIVE people only! Come play with Sandra the Catalyst‘s new and vintage wind-up toys. Check out the crowd playing with them at the first Show Pony: Show Pony Number 1 from The Edge on [...]
6–9pm Saturday 20 March 2010 Who: Sietta, The Belligerents, a third yet to be chosen What: R&B, soul, electro-rock Cost: FREE After last week’s Catalyst showcase, this week we’re playing host to musos from Musicadium: Melbourne R&B/soul act Sietta and Brisbane’s own The Belligerents playing their brand of electro-rock. A third act will be chosen [...]
4–6pm Saturday 13 March 2010 Who: The Edge’s new Catalysts What: quite a lot of showing off Cost: FREE Ride on down to The Edge this Saturday afternoon for the first ever Show Pony—The Edge’s own creative mash up. Check out some of the weird and wonderful things our Catalysts have been up to over [...]
and why the iPad isn’t a ‘Kindle killer’ The question on everyone’s keyboard lately has been whether the iPad is a ‘Kindle killer’. (Check out articles in the SMH, redherring, and The Melbourne Age.) It’s alliterative and dramatic. In other words, perfect to make people click on it or pick up the paper. It seems [...]
The digital age is often touted as being greener than the days of typewriters and faxes because it’s reduced the amount of paper we use. Being ‘green’, of course, is much more complicated than using less paper. Mobile phones and computers are made of plastics and metals. Plastics are extremely toxic to the environment. When [...]
Everything is version 2.0 at the moment: the internet, governments, journalism, Vegemite. Even though the tech industry has been talking about web 2.0 for over a decade, it’s a new concept for most of us, mostly because it’s only started influencing our daily lives in the last couple of years. Here’s a little background for [...]
