Archive for August, 2004
Friday, August 20th, 2004
Return of the Crowds: How to Make Your Own Orc Army
by Miles Merrill
Published in association with The Program
“Battalions of Orcs of the Eye and countless companies of men of a new sort that we have not met before… The numbers…could not be guessed in the darkness…fear…had scarcely overcounted…dark with their marching companies…Busy as ants, hurrying orcs were digging…just out of bowshot.”
– JRR Tolkien, Return of […]
No Comments » - Posted in Features, Animation by Miles Merrill
Tuesday, August 17th, 2004
Wayne Mammone: His Nerfball Is In Tatters
Interview by Symon Brando
Wayne & Shandeece in happier times
The now-defunct sport of Nerfball always suffered image problems. The fact that it was played with a kid’s soft toy didn’t help. A Nerf ball is a round foam ball, designed in the 1970s for kids to play with indoors – without smashing any of mum and […]
No Comments » - Posted in Sport, Melbourne, Interviews by Symon Brando
Monday, August 2nd, 2004
Slipped Moccasin
Part One of the “Suburban Condition” series…
by Beatka Provis
The cars pass by and I wait for a break to cross the road.
The traffic is relentless today.
Oh – a chance!
I stumble on the gutter and my grey moccasin slips off.
There is no time to save it, so I watch it from the other side of the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Poetry, Melbourne by Beatka Provis
Sunday, August 1st, 2004
Listening to the Mind
review by Andres Vaccari
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One of the most exciting things about the digital age is the close collaboration of art and science in areas like the visual arts, animation, architecture and music. It is true that art and science have always been sisters (look at Leonardo DaVinci, for example). But with the arrival of the modern […]
