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Alex Becomes a Welcome Part of The Edge Family

Local artist Alex Jack is a familiar face here at The Edge, whether she is doing a workshop or refining her skills in Photoshop. I caught up with her on a sunny Easter Saturday in Brisbane as she relaxed in The Edge’s foyer space to find out what is it about The Edge that has [...]

The Edge Media Lab Tutorial Part 1

As Visitor Services Officers we often find that not all users of The Edge’s Lab 1 have had experience in using an Apple Mac Computer. Often it can be quite daunting to learn a new operating system when you have used others for many years. This can be compounded when for example you are here [...]

Goodbye!

Well everybody, the time has come for me to bid you all adieu! I have decided to pass the baton on to our fabulous new (ish) VSO Federico (pictured.) NB: I would also like to point out that had Josef Muller also been working today, the ceremonious baton passing would’ve included him. Thank you to [...]

Tinian’s Boy cut latest clip at The Edge

    You don’t have to look far to find new and interesting projects happening at the Edge. Our Screen and Sound Lab often has editors working on a variety of different things, including short films, documentaries and corporate work. Music clips are commonly being worked on as well, but not often do you see [...]

Upcoming Exhibition

It can sometimes be an uphill battle in terms of getting your artwork out there in the community and it has been a long road for Louis Leigh-Lucas, an artist who has been planning his solo exhibition since last year. Louis will drop into the Edge occasionally to say hello between working hard on getting [...]

I’ve got a problem with… (pt 1)

The Edge has been open since February 2010. In that time there have been a few things that have cropped up in the Screen and Sound Lab at The Edge, our Lab 1. Over the next few weeks I will be posting little tips and tricks that I have picked up from working at The [...]

Our Generation – Fundraiser Film Screening

Happiness runs in my family – The My Happiness Film Project

  When I overheard Matt Fallon (Edge promgrammer extraordinaire) discussing the My Happiness Film Project (Ideas Festival), I was intrigued. The concept of happiness and what that means to different people has always interested me but the idea of making a film to portray that seemed like a bit of a challenge. Then Matt suggested [...]

Edge User Completes First Film

Stephen Lewis walked through the doors of The Edge building midway through 2010 knowing one thing was for sure, he wanted to make a film.   Stephen mentioned to me he wanted to learn about film-making by experimenting on The Edge’s computers. He first started learning how to cut shots together based around his experimental [...]

Want more plug ins or free programs on the Lab1 Macs?

Then tell us what you’d like! We’re currently compiling a list of plug ins and free programs to look at getting installed shortly. We have a physical suggestion box (actually it’s an open stool, see below) in the temporary studio space or you can tell us right now by posting a comment below. Preferably let [...]