The Whispers of Ovarian Cancer: Spread the word:
Spread the word I recently learned that there is a petition going around the internet to create an Ovarian Cancer Awareness Postage Stamp. Please visit this site and sign the petition. I think the OVCA commuity deserves a stamp don’t you???
Dear old friend of mine / survivor – please show support!
I’ve had my B. Obama fad; I like R Feingold; I could live with M Warner (I guess); NOT ANOTHER (H) CLINTON.
But why not give the man who actually won the 2000 election his seat at the White House?
No longer listening to pollsters and middle ground advisers, Gore interviews well, believes in something, opposes Iraq, illegal wiretapping and the Partiot Act, is funny, has name recognition and a hard-done-by history, and well, could emotionally erase the last 8 years for us by taking his rightful place as the leader of the free world.
Update: maybe it is possible. Read them all!
You’ll be happy to know that we’ve extended the deadline for the iCommons Summit bag awards to this Thursday, 9pm South African time.
Please send an email to your great designer friends – someone gets to go to the iCommons Summit in Rio if they win! that’s an awesome prize – we’re really wanting to empower at least one wonderful creator through this, so please send this on!
Best,
Heather.
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Heather Ford
Acting Executive Director: iCommons
www.icommons.org
We are hosting a contest to design the bag to used by delegates from around the world at the iCommons Summit to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from June 23-25, 2006.
If your design is selected as the winning design, you will be eligible to win a trip to Rio de Janeiro to attend the Summit.
To enter the contest, create an original design that reflects the theme of the Summit — “Towards a Global Digital Information Commons” – and its constituent workshops on open creativity, knowledge, science and innovation. You can learn more about the program here. …
A seemingly "in-crowd," jokey, gossipy, opinion and irony-based blog (with a few short, but well-thought out reviews in between – welcome to blog country), Art Heat is the new Cape Town-based group, online-publishing project for fine (and sometimes only relatively fine) art. They’ve been around a week or so and have a few bugs to work out (and I usually don’t write about things this early on), but I got a personal mail from the editor promising some "big things" soon; and there’s a naked Ed Young pic, so I thought, Why not?
Ed is mentioned in just about every other post, by the way. That guy works really hard and never gets any press, so this is the main reason I decided to feature Art Heat. (Oh look, irony.)
Glad to see another SA art voice – keep it up peops!
The press release (click on image for 3MB quicktime promo / feature – Aryan Kaganof’s v. v. fun work!):
“SMS Sugar Manâ€, the world’s first feature film shot on mobile phone cameras, launches its 1st promo.
Still: Grace (Leigh Graves) and Selene (Deja Bernhardt) Photo copyright: SMS Movies
“… in Johannesburg… on Christmas eve… bad things happen”
The world’s first feature film to be shot exclusively on Mobile phone cameras is launching its 1st promo at midnight, 5th May (GMT+1).
It will be available exclusively www.smssugarman.com.
The film is written and directed by Aryan Kaganof (www.kaganof.com),
Producer Michelle Wheatley: “We will also be placing the promo on Google, Yahoo and MySpace.com, and trying to reach a global audience.â€
The story, an original idea of Kaganof’s, takes place on Christmas Eve, and is a love triangle with a twist. A feel good story for the modern urban viewer.
The film will be distributed on a variety of media, on Mobile TV, the Internet, theatrical, television and DVD platforms, offering the public maximum access in innovative ways.
Contact:
Michelle Wheatley (SMS Movies)
T: +27-82-33-66-897
E: michelle [at] dv8 [dot] co [dot] za
SAartsEmerging has its first guest writer this month! Wits Alumnus and Negotiate co-curator Lester Adams takes a look at the work of Hannes Olivier.