Call for Entries - Bicycle Film Festival

How many bikes are there in Melbourne? Think about it. Without even realising it, you probably see at least 20 bikes a day. Probably 100 if you work in the city. They are everywhere. Darting down the street. Tied up to poles. Fallen over like drunk people waiting helplessly for someone to come and pick them up. Bikes are everywhere, yet they need you to bring them to life. And this is what we are asking of you right now. The entries for local content in the 2008 Bicycle Film Festival close at the end of this month. We are looking for ANY KIND of film that involves a bike in ANY KIND of way. The film can be anything from 1 minute to 1 hour long (shorts are preferred) and you could be in the running to win some AWESOME BIKE RELATED PRIZES. So all you gotta do is look at your bike in a new way. It has a story. It just needs you to tell it. Download the entry form for the 2008 Bicycle Film Festival.

Teenagers are cool man. Who else could come up with such a descriptive interpretation of the effect of mass-manufacturing processes on the earth and it’s inhabitants? This image is one of many that were generated in the first edition of the 2008 Don’t Sweat Shop workshops. The workshops teach young people about the realities of mass-manufacturing while giving them the opportunity to make their own garment from existing materials. We are looking for sponsors to support a permanent program of these workshops in 2009 and beyond. We are also pleased to be cantering on up to Sydney, with a re-staging of the ‘There’s a Hole in my Bucket’ project as part of the Sydney Design Festival. All part of the Ambiguous Horse training program to be fit and ready for a spring racing carnival… Stay tuned.

Having a special fondness for any organisation that provides support and opportunity to creative people, it is our pleasure to be working with local gallery and jewellers workshop, Pieces of Eight. Showcasing some of Australia’s most exciting contemporary jewellers, the gallery provides one of Melbourne’s best reasons for catching the 112. Co-ordinating publicity for this amazing destination for jewellery lovers is as simple as advising you all to go. Soon.

Growing up i was always struck by the inability of tomorrow to ever take place, because by the time tomorrow comes, it was actually today. Tomorrow was left to live only in our imaginations. We can’t escape the present, but we can travel to the Land that time Forgot. In New York City, you gotta be someone. Thankfully, i had that covered. And a lot of bicycles to keep me entertained. Back in Northcote - the present will soon be arriving on a local street corner, and just in time to do something with it.  Having dusted the cobwebs off the desk, we have a winter full of future-flavoured goodies for you to carbo-load on these quickly darkening cold winter nights. Download the Don’t Sweat Shop registration form to find out more, or subscribe to stay in the loop.

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There’s nothing quite like a bit of rain to remind you of the simple things in life - warm soup, woolly jumpers and the precise location of the holes in your roof. During these changes of season, we find the best way to stave off the latest mutant flu virus is to expose ourselves to as much creative energy as possible. This is what the pharmaceutical companies don’t want you to find out, for real. To truly transcend the snotty nose and all-over body ache however, one must ACTIVELY participate in the creation of said creative energy. In short, the ONLY prescription for your ills this coming month is to MAKE A FILM for the upcoming Melbourne Bicycle Film Festival. Download the 2008 Melbourne BFF entry fom. And put that hanky away it’s grossing us out!

Sometimes when you are a small business owner the line between sanity and insanity is a blurry one. Take for instance the number of phone calls you must make in any one day to stay on top of the seventeen million accounts you are managing at any one time (seventeen million is my preferred exaggeration number). This room was actually completely white before I got in there and confused the ether with over-worked brain waves. I dont’ even know what half of these things mean. To save me going completely batty (some of you might suggest it’s too late for that) we have harnessed the mystical powers of the interweb to allow me to communicate with a lot of you all at once. It’s called a newsletter. We call it The Horses Mouth. And you can subscribe to it here.

From skateboarding to tagging, hip hop to clubbing to underground art, URBANology brings together creative practices that hover just outside the radar of the established art world. Staged at Arts House, the program will feature artforms including contemporary dance, performance, break dancing, hip hop, Le Parkour, skateboarding and flatland BMX. All boast local practitioners of urban artforms at the top of their game, internationally recognised as pioneers in their field. Ambiguous Horse is proud to be helping URBANology give expression to the melting pot of cultures, movements and adaptation of international forms that our city allows.

Having been well and truly sucked in to the excitement of So You Think You Can Dance (who doesn’t love to scream at the television on a Sunday night?) we are more than pleased to be working as part of the team for the first ever Melbourne edition of the Australian Dance Awards. The Awards are being staged in this fine city for 2008, 2009 and the eerily futuristic sounding 2010. We’ve been helping out Ausdance Victoria on securing sponsors for the dance industries Night of Nights, and look forward to an amazing event.