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We’re a little late getting this one off the rank (we’re running behind a bit after There’s More!) but if you haven’t seen it yet thencheck out issue #2 of the fantastic Knock Knock Magazine  below – oh, and check out Issue #1 if you haven’t seen it yet!

“Knock knock magazine profiles street level emerging and established Australian and international creatives doing their thing, and doing it well.”

This is the kind of shit we love.

You may have heard that along with a heap of other cool ‘heads we are helping to put on an event with the crew at Brunswicks Cocoa Jackson Studios at the end of March. It’ll be a massively rad weekend! We’ll have the full press release for it out next week, but, in the meantime, we’re after a couple of submissions for various parts of the event – namely, films, documentaries, short films and stickers – and it’s open to everyone!

Just a small smidgeon about “There’s More!” … and info for sticker freaks, marketeers and documentarians/filmographers below …

“An art event like no other ‘…There’s More!’ will bring some of the country’s best street and contemporary artists and DJs together to collaborate with projectionists, performance artists, poets, craftivists, designers and tech geeks to create an experience to remember. Over full four days Cocoa Jackson Studios will be transformed into a massive interactive art installation.”

Sticker Submissions

There’s More! is inviting you to be part of a large 3-day art event in Brunswick, Melbourne. We need YOUR stickers to be sent to us. We will slap them up on a giant sticker wall, as well as the surrounding area.

The event will be seen and recorded by some of Australia’s finest Street, Sticker and Graffiti artists. Anyone across the globe is welcome to send stickers, however DEADLINE IS BY MARCH 25. This isn’t long at all considering the shipping time!

This is a great chance for you to have your stickers in Melbourne!
We will post event photos online of the growing sticker wall,

Send ASAP to

c\o There’s More Stickers
Cocoa Jackson Studios,
32 Warburton Street,
Brunswick, Victoria, Australia
3056

Film Submissions

The 2012 THERE’S MORE FILM FESTIVAL is currently accepting Australian film from all genres (drama, documentary, animation, experimental, etc) with a focus on street art and graffiti. We encourage established and emerging filmmakers to submit their work for screening – DEADLINE MONDAY 12th MARCH 2012!

Entry Requirements

• Films from all genres will be accepted but must contain a central theme that focuses on Graffiti and Street Art.
• Films must be either made in Australia or by an Australian filmmaker
• Filmmaker must have copyright over music used in the film
• All films must be submitted by Monday 12th March 2012

Film Entry Costs: FREE!!

How to Submit:

• Print the ENTRY FORM – then fill it in and post it to us with a DVD copy (or online URL link) of your film.
• If you wish to enter more than one film, please submit separate entry forms for each film.

Our Postal Address:
PO Box 315
Seddon West
VIC 3011

Festival and Film Screening:

The film screening is a ticketed event, taking place Friday March 23rd, from 7pm at the Cocoa Jackson Studios, corner of Cocoa Jackson Lane + Warburton Street, Brunswick. This is a licenced event with food and refreshments available.

Please Note:

• We regret that we are unable to return preview DVDs.
• High Quality formats of successful entrants work will be requested for Festival Screening. (*Please contact us immediately if you are unable to provide a high quality format as DVD MPEGS are not acceptable for screening.)
• Photographic production stills will be requested for promotional purposes.

THe entire event will be a great showcase with a lot of Melbourne street art, and graffiti and other urban artists on board already. So, if you have stickers or films to send in to the event, get to it -  there’s no time to waste!!

Market Stalls

Alongside everything else, we will also be putting on some markets on the Sunday of the event!

CALL OUT FOR MARKET STALL HOLDERS

Sunday March 25th 1 – 6pm

$20 per stall, tables available, bring chairs. Art, zines, fashion, jewellery, anything handmade, vintage clothing, food, etc are welcome!!

Stalls to be outside or inside depending on the weather.

Contact Jackie at jackie.gwynne@gmail.com for more information and to register your interest in putting up a stall!

The news went out last Friday, Curvy is now open for submissions!

Sounds like they are planning an awesomely bumper issue for the next one, they’re teamed up with Semi-Permanent again and will be officially launching the next issue at this years SP in Sydney.

Curvy is a great place for emerging and established female artists to be seen by many, many people and has already featured a whole range of great artists. – so if you think your work is awesome (which we’re sure it is) then get a submission in before it closes on Friday February the 17th at 5pm.

You can find all of the information on how to submit here on the Curvy website.

 
(Courtney Brims)

Who: Open to all
What: Curvy Magazine Artwork Submissions
Where: Check the Curvy website for more details.
When: You have until February 17th, 5pm to send something through.

Well, it’s been a huge year for us here at Invurt, but its holiday, beers, sun and chill time now so we wanted to wish you all the best for Christmas and New Years on this warm Melbourne day!

We wont be completely shutting shop but our regular event updates and Transmissions will be on hold over the Xmas period – we will be continuing to do some Snapshots as well the rest of our Top 10s for the year; and one or two other special features ;)

2011 saw us accomplish a whole heap of goals that we set for ourselves at the start of the year. We got our new website up and running, we moved into the fantastic Rival Revolution studios in Prahran and continue to do a whole bunch of events and live art stuff with the artists and crew there, we got up to Outpost Project which was absolutely fantastic, we started our Revurt community painting project (check out a really cool article Broadsheet did on it here), we saw a heap of amazing shows and read about even more, met and spoke to some amazing artists, did and saw a hell of a lot of street art and just generally had a ball working on the site. It’s been hard work at times, and some really late nights but its all been totally worth it – all the amazing responses and support we’ve received from all of you have made that so.

What’s next for 2011? We’ll be working on expanding the website with a bunch of new features as well as partnering up with a bunch of cool people to bring you a whole slew of intriguing content. However the big one for us next year, is that we’ll be making our first forays into print! We’ve been planning it all for some time and we’re really excited about it – fingers crossed all goes to plan! Of course, we’ll also continuing to talk to and find out about the best underground, illustrative, graffiti and street artists that Australian and New Zealand has to offer!

So for now, enjoy the Snapshots and other short posts over the holiday period (Blender Xmas photos up tomorrow!) and we’ll be back with our regular event updates come January the 9th. Have an amazing holiday and thank you so very much for all your support through 2011 – here’s to 2012 and huge things!

What the hell? Since when was this week named "lets all make some cool ass videos and release them right before Xmas week?" – because this is, by far, the biggest Transmissions yet – and we have said that at least three or four times already this year! So, watch on for this weeks picks of the online videos and all the cool bits – there’s some fantastic stuff around right now, so, in no particular order …

 
(Mishap, Union Lane, Prahran)

First is a wrap up video of Outpost Festival from ArtSeries Hotels – lots of great highlights from the entire event, much worth seeing!

You might have seen it already, but these next two videos … you just have to watch them. Fuck we love Lush haha.

JESUS VS SATAN ROUND 1 from Zonk Vision on Vimeo.

… and part 2 of the whole take-down, from the live event at the Lush opening of his "Another Shithouse Artshow" last week. Haha. Holy shit haha.

And, the guys who put together the Zonk videos also have another cool short out – here’s Tagging 101…

TAGGIN 101 from Zonk Vision on Vimeo.

A weekend of two ago, a bunch of us who do walls with the ReVurt project were invited down to another laneway in Prahran alongside a slew of other artists by Wayne Tindall to paint up – great day, great artists.

Another great video of Suki from Melbourne Street Art – theres just something about watching pasting done in the rain …

Suki also caught up with Barek for some collab work whilst she was up in Brisbane.

Lost At E-Minor sponsored a wall by Umpel in Newcastle recently, which was put together by Simone Sheridan, who is doing great things with SAW up there.

Artillery issue 5 is released this week! And you just have to love a good fire extinguisher throwup…

Steen Jones painted up a wall at Marmalade in Prahran last week as well – nice!

SJ x MACBETH x MARMALADE BAR from Melissa Findley on Vimeo.

Last but not least, three videos were released covering the Self Est event in Sydney the other week – Dmote, Roid and Horfe in Sydney – awesome.

SELF EST. Part One- DMOTE, ROID, HORFÉ @ Kind Of – Gallery from Marty Routledge on Vimeo.

SELF EST. Part Three – Dmote, Horfé, Roid, Sofles, Jeff Canham from Marty Routledge on Vimeo.

Aight, thats all we have for this week, hope you enjoyed our roundup!

Leeloo – an online design store and blog – has put the call out for Aussie artists wishing to showcase their styles for an upcoming exhibition. The show will be held in conjunction with The Finders Keepers December Sydney Market “the bi-annual market which supports independent design, art and music with attendance in the thousands”.

“After the success of last year’s exhibition this year we present another instalment of On The Wall!! The artworks will be displayed at CarriageWorks within the foyer for the duration of the markets and will celebrate our ongoing mission to support independent Australian artists.  Artwork will be for sale during the exhibition and there may be the possibility of selling prints of the artworks.

Submissions will be open from…October 18th 2011, for two weeks, with the closing date being November 1st, 2011 with no exceptions.”

Check out the Submissions Page of the LeeLoo website for all the criteria and contact deets and Good Luck with your entries … stay tuned right here for an article on the exhibition soon!

Who: YOU
What: On The Wall – Exhibition Submissions
Where: onthewall@leeloo.com.au
When: Entries close November 1st

Check out their fine Facebook for more info!

“The rah collective is a small group of artists working together to help forge our own place in the art world. Working almost exclusively on paper, the six artists that currently make up the rah collective all have a strong focus on the creation of their work, either drawing, printing, cutting or folding their work by hand.”

Artists who will be right along side you in the pages of this stylin publication are Qwux, Luke Burcher, Jessica Minervini-Eringa, Kirst Ohh,  Jess Cally, Thom Bransdon and Kara Nissen.

Rah Collective will be taking submissions for their new art book  from anyone who fits the following criteria:

• australian born OR australian based
• student OR emerging artist (that is, within the first 5 years of your creative career)

To get your submission in, simply email: book2@rahcollective.com

By popular demand submissions have been extended to 31st of October 2011, so if you want your art on the book shelf – get working, and get it in soon!

Who: qwux, luke burcher, jessica minervini-eringa, kirst ohh,  jess cally, thom bransdon, kara nissen and YOU
What: Ra Collective Art Book Submissions
Where: book2@rahcollective.com
When: Entry by 31st October 2011

Check out the Rah Collective website for more info.

“ARE YOU AN ASPIRING ARTIST? A roar goes out to all designers, illustrators, photographers, painters and graffiti artists – Tiger Beer invites you to enter Tiger Translate 2011. Tiger Translate competitions are run annually around the world to celebrate the talents of emerging artists.

THE COMPETITION: Entries open from August 8th 2011 through till September 20th 2011. Open to all Australian residents over the age of 18. Submissions are to be entered through Tiger Beer’s Facebook fan page, at www.facebook.com/tigerbeerau and elements for your artwork can be downloaded at www.tigerbeer.com.au

THE PRIZE: Winner notified October 6 before being announced at Sydney’s exclusive VIP Tiger Translate party in November featuring an explosive mix of DJs, live art and street artists. You will fly to Asia in 2012 to collaborate with other Tiger Translate winners from around the globe, beckoning international exposure.

YOUR ARTWORK: Tiger Translates Australian theme in 2011 will showcase the artist’s interpretation of ‘GROWTH.’ Capture what ‘GROWTH’ means to you as an artistic visionary in an A@ size artwork. See the Facebook fan page for more details – www.facebook.com/tigerbeerau”

Calling all aerosol artists! It’s you, and your crew, against the rest of the world! Break out the Ironlak cans and get ya game on, the prize is worth is weight in paint. All your rule and regulations, stipulations and reservations are below -  put this at the top of you list of things to do this year! Werd!

Information regarding the competitions rules and regulations was posted up by Ironlak the other week, and are as are follows.

"Regions:
1. Australia/New Zealand
2. North/ South America
3. UK/Europe
4. Asia.

Entries will be judged on quality of pieces and letter styles, overall theme and composition, background elements, characters and originality. All entries will be judged by The Ironlak Family.

Prizes:
GLOBAL WINNER: 800 cans of Ironlak.

GOLD PRIZE: 500 cans of Ironlak.*
SILVER PRIZE: 240 cans of Ironlak.*
ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD: 48 cans of Ironlak.
*ONE GOLD and ONE SILVER will be awarded for EACH REGION – TOTAL 8 regional prizes)

HOW TO ENTER:

Grab a bunch of Ironlak, get together with some friends (1-5 people) and rock a fresh production wall.
Email a large photograph of your finished production AND photographs of your used cans in front of the wall (compulsory) to: competition@ironlak.com

Pieces must be painted with 100% Ironlak paint
(roll/ buff paint is allowed as a base).
Enter as many times as you like. Be sure to include the names of the artists involved plus the city and country where the wall was painted.

COMPETITION CLOSES 30th NOVEMBER, SO DON’T SLEEP!
Keep a close eye on the blog for regular updates…
To view last year’s winners click here."

This looks like a great competition, and we can’t wait to see all the pics that will be coming out of the competition entrants, and, of course, cheering on all those involved! Game on!

Image: The 2010 WINNER of Category 1 – BEST PRODUCTION in AUSTRALIA/ NEW ZEALAND: RASE, DV8TE and ASKM – Melbourne, Australia.

Who: The general public
What: Ironlak Graffiti Competition
Where: World wide
When: Entries close November 30th 2011

For Further info check out the Ironlak official website.

Along with a massive amount of shows (it seems that August is just That Time Everyone Does Shit), it feels like there have been a huge amount of videos released this week as well! Is this the biggest Transmissions yet? I really cant be bothered counting, but here’s ten amazing videos to get you through your lunchtime!

The Kiwi contingent have been at it again, this time with a doco teaser from Karl Sheridan – if this is just one part of it, we can’t wait to see the rest, the camera work is amazing.

Doco Teaser 01 – Tree Adventures Mural (ungraded) from Karl Sheridan on Vimeo.

ThinkMaven put up another really cool exposé on Melbourne artist and all round legend, M.P. Fikaris – loving these ThinkMaven pieces!

Fikaris from ThinkMaven on Vimeo.

Last weekend we went down to check out the Body Canvas promo event, lots of graff and absolutely gorgeous girls painted into the walls – loved it – this video rocks.

Stupidkraps Ben Frost interviewed Simon Lovelace not long ago, great little interview!

Mark Zed did this great video time lapse of one of Fredrocks pieces.

Here’s a fun filled video from Dabs Myla that is promoting their show, The Best Of Times that just opened up over in the States. Love these twos work!

Dabs Myla – The Best of Times from Corbett Jones on Vimeo.

We saw this next one over at the cool Six Years Later magazine, Kill Pixie with a really nice animated short!

white out from Mark Whalen on Vimeo.

I think we didn’t see this video last week of Beastman doing a piece at the Look See show in Newcastle, so here it is!

Beastman – Look See Exhibition from Beastman on Vimeo.

Another video from Look See is this Secret Wars side battle between Malade and Houl/Sprinkles! So much fun!

Coming up pretty soon is the Ill Logic event down here in Melbourne – this is one of the videos, check here for more.

Untitled from ILL Logic on Vimeo.

Whew. Okay, thats more than enough for this week! If you have videos, make sure you lets us know about them!

The wonderful Look See exhibition, a part of the Look Hear design and art event in Newcastle, returns again this year at the Watt Space Gallery – and we’re excited to see a bunch of great art getting up in the city …

“After an amazing show last year featuring some of the best artists and designers, the Look See exhibition is back to give Newcastle an experience to remember."

As a part of the Look See event, which is “Part conference, part club house, part playground, and total design geek out” the look See event has a great line up.

"Last year we were lucky enough to feature the fantastic works of Beci Orpin, WeBuyYourKids, and Paul White alongside some of our local up and coming designers and illustrators. We’re aiming to make this year bigger and better, with a new gallery space, more artists and an exciting live art battle planned to kick off our opening night thanks to our friends at Secret Wars.”

Look See bring you not only, live art, inspiring designs and guest speakers throughout there residency at Watt Space Gallery but also Look Hear Afterglow sessions…

“Because we find it hard to say goodbye, we’re stretching the Look Hear nights out a bit longer with the Afterglow Sessions. The Afterglow Sessions give you a chance to have a bite to eat and a drink with the Look Hear speakers. Tickets are $10 which includes entry to the Afterglow to be held at The Silo Bar, on Newcastle’s Honeysuckle harbour.”

Also, the wonderful crew from SAW will also be a part of the line up!

If you didn’t get the chance to visit this magical land of Look See’s art and design now is your chance to experience something out of your everyday world. The crew are back with very special guests Secret Wars, whow ill be premiering a live art battle in Newie with Malade vs Houl and Sprinkles.

We know what we’d love to check out come August!

Who: Webuyyourkids, Bec Winnel, Beci Orpin, Beastman, Numskull
The Hungry Workshop,  Zookraft,  Mike Watt, Deb, Sarah Larnach, Trevor Dickinson, Alexander Zeeman, Jessica Brennan, Okay Boss, Carl Morgan, Lara Schubert, Carli Hyland, Wayne Thompson, Rod Smith, Aaron Craig, Tez, Jo Dyer, Graham Wilson, Erin Farrugia, Blair Howard, Stu Mcdonald, Saw (Street Art Walking), Rebecca Holmes, Libby De Souza, Boony Laohajaroefornyot, Victoria Lobregat, Barbie Procobis
Kwaku Atuahene, Kelly Mcintosh, Nick Mccosker, Leesa Mealing, Sarah Mould Josh Boaz, Dale Menegazzo, Lachlan Heywood, Marcus Dixon, Ben Mitchell, Malade, Michael Sungaila, Mitch Chadban, Alan Parry, Carlo Delos Santos, Michael Langenegger
What: Look See (A part of the Look Hear festival)
Where – Watt Space Gallery, Laman Street, Newcastle
When: Event opens on Friday 5th August at 6:30pm and runs til August 21st.

Check out the Look Hear website, and the facebook page for more info.

Fancy a wander through the burgeoning art laden streets of Newcastle, with accompanied talks by artists who have done work in the city? Well, heres your chance.

Through the wonderful efforts of the people at SAW (Street Art Walking) and the amazing Renew Newcastle movement, residents and visitors will have the opportunity this coming Friday to do just that, with the Winter Wander event. It looks like a lot of fun, and informative to boot.

“Your invitation to rug up and get toasty walking the city streets together: be the first to hear about the latest Renew Newcastle projects, and discover a little more about the creative culture which is enlivening the city.

It’s free, everyone’s invited and tasty warming winter treats (ie. hot chocolate, mulled wine, sticky date pudding, birthday cake & more) are on offer along the way!”

The tour will include:

• New project preview at The Woods gallery & studio
  Street Art Walking hot chocolates & artist talks by Ben Foster & Tez. 5.45pm-6.30pm
• Make Space serving mulled wine & apple pie & beginners knitting tips at the Warm Fuzzy crochet club from 5pm
• Celebrate ARThive’s 2nd Birthday as an artist-run gallery with cake, fizzy drink, music by Tailings & The Mermaids. And your last chance to catch Eddie Botha’s Teasing the Taught exhibition. from 6pm
• Odditorium – Dearly Beloved dead things dress-ups & polaroid portraits, music by Kira Puru & Geordie Malone, and Objet Trouvees by Naomi Saunders. from 6pm
• Tipsy Orchestra eco-eccentric fashion studio commits Cold Murder opening an exhibition by Colleen Hoad, with music by Tommy 9 Fingers. from 6pm
• … and we’ll be kept warm along the way with fire by L!vesites Winter Heat

We love this kind of thing, and if you’re anywhere in the area or within driving distance this Friday, you shouldn’t miss it!

 
Who: Tez, Ben Foster & a lot more …
What: SAW Winter Wander street art tour
Where: Renew Newcastle HQ, 3 Morgan Street, Newcastle
When: Friday 1st July, 5:30pm til 6:30pm

Check out the facebook event page, as well as the Renew Newcastle website and SAW facebook page.