OzTaku , the Australian comics and anime community are running life drawing classes every second Wednesday at the FAD Bar gallery (14 Corrs Lane, Melbourne) at 7pm. The classes are nicely relaxed in the company of geeks and with models who are just mostly – but not entirely – naked. The session goes for around two hours and we usually have both a male and female model to draw. If ever you’ve wanted to try life drawing (and it’s an incredibly worthwhile exercise) this is probably the most comfortable and social way to do it.
The next session is happening this coming Wednesday on July 9th. The next few sessions are to be held on July 23rd, August 6th and August 20th. The cost is $10 for members and $15 for non-members. All it takes to be a member is to sign up on the OzTaku forums. Note that you should email and register beforehand and that there are usually some art supplies for sale. Lastly, OzTaku are always looking for people comfortable with modeling. As mentioned, the models aren’t completely naked – which means you get to keep your underwear.
The podcast finally returns in its monthly format and is…pretty much the same. Actually we do have a very interesting interview with Matt and Yug from Australian Gamer in which they talk about their levels of geeky-ness, video games and their perfect Sunday. But to get to that you’ll first have to sit through Kyle, Liam and Will blathering on about the flaws and failings of Grand Theft Auto IV and Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Banania is a fictional space opera radio show created myself, Toby, Robert and Dom for our sound and voice class at Deakin University. It tells the tale of an alien race who launches an invasion of planet Earth for our banana supplies – but unfortunately the story doesn’t have an ending.
While there is no episode three, this was almost going to be episode one. You see, a requirement of the assignment was that the show ran for exactly six minutes. When we assembled a rough edit we found that we recorded a nine minute show – you’ll see when you hear it how we edited it down. We plan on returning to the project to create that nine minute version next semester.
Also note that the show makes use of glorious stereophonic sound, owes much to the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy radio series and received top marks.
Ognam, Narration & David Attenborough by Dom Everyone else by Toby Sound tech stuff by Robert and Kyle.
Joss Whedon, creator such TV series as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly is well known for writing strong female characters and received an honour from Equality Now in 2006. Since then Equality Now have been running an annual charity event called Can’t Stop The Serenity where they screen the film Serenity and raise money and awareness.
There are several screenings happening across Australia this weekend in Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Launceston and Melbourne. The Brisbane screening is sure to particularly awesome as it’s been held at GenCon where Alan Tudyk will be attending.
This weekend in Brisbane is RivFur; the annual Queensland furmeet. The gathering of anthropomorphic geeks is taking place from Friday to the Saturday (July 4th to July 6th). In its second year of existence, RivFur is free to attend, aside from the costs of certain events held on the weekend, such as the lasertag.
