Blog: What's on in the pool?

Featured Contributor: ozideas

posted by Sherre DeLys on 18.08.08

Who says uploading to Pool is only for digital natives?

One of our most recent text contributions comes from 79 year old Val Yule, aka ozideas.

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Featured Contribution by Yingiya Guyula.
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posted by Sherre DeLys on 18.08.08

Big Catch is a video by Yingiya Guyula, a Liya-dhalinymirr elder living in East Arnhem Land.

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Featured contributor: Strobey

posted by John Jacobs on 18.08.08

Strobey has contributed some very precise portraits into Pool. His licensing choices are quite precise as well. Some works are submitted under Creative Commons licensing for sharing and others, like this image of John, have ‘All Rights Reserved’. The artist's statement raises interesting questions about photographing people and sharing images.

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Featured contributor: Jim Denley

posted by Gretchen Miller on 15.08.08

Jim Denley’s audio recording Alone at Undara is full of breath and physicality. Jim’s own breath weaves in and out of the visceral buzzing of insects, a muffled heartbeat fading in and out as if recorded as a byproduct of holding a microphone too tight .

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Featured contributor: elke

posted by Kate Gauld on 14.08.08

We've had some great My Street contributions from elke, one person with two very different streets. There's the permanency of her well established Far North Queensland community, and then there's her temporary street in a Pilbara town where “you can pick up a recycled household for a song”.

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Letter Vox

posted by Gretchen Miller on 31.07.08

"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings" – so said poet, George Santayana. We at Pool ask, do these thousand meanings only occur on the page? What do you hear in your minds ear, when you read and when you write?

Radio National’s Book Show producer, Sarah LEstrange is calling for readers and writers to put their thoughts and word experiences down, not on paper, but on tape:

Contribute to ABC Radio National’s Book Show online audio documentary project ‘Letter Vox’.

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Flickr's Stewart Butterfield talks at ABC

posted by Kate Gauld on 30.07.08

Yesterday we heard Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr speak at the ABC. Here’s the lowdown:

Where did the idea for Flickr come from? At his grandma’s 80th, with family from all over the world milling around old photo albums, commenting on the photos.

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Hong Kong Agent on a remix mission

posted by Sherre DeLys on 28.07.08

There are some amazing artists already working in Pool, and someone we’d like to showcase today is Robert Iolini. He's just posted some great content for you to remix.

Robert's pitch? An agent from Hong Kong has been assigned to Pool, his mission is to provoke Pool citizens to investigate the city and its' inhabitants.

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My Street surges forward

posted by dogfoil on 20.07.08

Street Stories is asking you to tell the story of your street, in an exciting project called My Street. Share the stories behind your street with the Pool community to win the chance to work with

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Featured work: Toying with text

posted by dogfoil on 18.07.08

Text can be a really great medium to work in creatively. At Pool, we’ve been realising the hidden potential of text and having a bit of fun with it.

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