ANIMATORS – another gathering in Jozi tonight!! 3 AUG.
Get animating, get it out there! This month we have more goodies to get you fired up and creating: Dave has managed to get a hold of Stash 07 and 08 – more slick work to be seen! Phil has sourced some interesting tidbits for our viewing pleasure as well as some showreels. Matt has a copy of “Kung Fu Hustle” from which we will show some selected scenes containing really incred…ible effects work! Denise from VideoLab will be bringing an award-winning short film entitled ‘Le Building’, recently released at Annecy. Show us what you’re up to. Even if you have some wireframe captures, we’re keen to see them! As usual, there will be some beers, wine , snacks and lots of good company. Come along and bring a friend to: The Convent, Wits Digital Arts 3 August Be there by 6.30pm!...
Remember the postings on XENOPHOBIA? It’s your time.
REMEMBER this posting on police XENOPHOBIA experienced first-hand by Represent readers living in Johannesburg – watch this weeks SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT that EXPOSES all, ‘Kwere Kwere’ 13 September 2005 SABC3 21:30 On Special Assignment this Tuesday, we investigate allegations of abuse, xenophobia and assault by the Booysens police. Following our expose of extortion and bribery by …the Booysens police last week, we now look at the experience of a Congolese woman who was allegedly beaten with a wheel spanner by the Booysens “raiding squad”. The woman received ten stitches after the alleged assault. When Special Assignment arrived at her house about two hours after the event, she was still covered in blood. There were several witnesses who described in detail what had happened. The Congolese woman and her Nigerian partner live in Rosettenville. One Sunday morning in July, the Booysens raiding squad stormed into their house. Without identifying themselves, they demanded to see the refugee papers of two people who were visiting them at the time. The police looked at the papers, threw them aside, called them kwere-kwere (foreigners) and allegedly beat the woman with wheel spanner. Her partner was then arrested for allegedly interfering with a police investigation. A pistol was allegedly pointed at him. Both people claim that the police warned them not to attempt to lay a charge as they would “get back at them”. The husband was locked up for the night. When the woman went to the Booysens Police Station to complain and to find out what had happened to him, she was again told not to bother to lay a charge as it would not be investigated. Special Assignment has spoken to various other immigrants who also allege abuse and assault. From our investigation a clear pattern of xenophobia on the part of the Booysens police has emerged. ************************************************** 1 August Our EXPOSE BAD/GOOD ATTITUDE posting, is the forum for people to complain about bad service, driving, attitudes, racism, sexism, bad manners, bad smells… you name the charge, we publish it. In the name of Ying and Yang we decided to extend this posting to also highlight GOOD ATTITUDE – so if you have some good service experience let us know! Represent reader “TRUTH” tells us about her bad experience when it comes to dating a foreigner: I have just read an article posted on your sight by an angry “South African” whose partner was arrested at Hillbrow Police station and had to bribe a police office to let him out. Unfortunately this sort of abuse happens to so many of us (South Africans with foreign partners). I too had the misfortune of such...
Things that make you go WOW – read this book!!!!
WOW NEW BOOK BLINK The Power of Thinking Without Thinking! Thanks to Mich for the tip – this is the MUST-READ book that all business leaders are reading at the moment … so if you’re someone that likes to follow the trends of ‘-must-reads’ or want to get ahead in your career or your life, read about those ‘blink moments’. ONG From the WEBSITE: “It’s a book about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time, or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few sentences of a book, your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions. Well, “Blink” is a book about those two seconds, because I think those instant conclusions that we reach are really powerful and really important and, occasionally, really good. It’s on sale at Exclusives for R154. ——————————————————————- 24 August 2005 This is a new Represent feature – thanks to Stoffel for the idea – THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO WOW. This posting will feature anything that we come across that cheers us up, inpires us, touches us in some way or simply makes us go WOW. We start with a great book. Are you having a BLUE MOMENT in your life or are you simply in need of a little help in your quest to gain PERSONAL FREEDOM? Go and buy ‘The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz’ – that’s if you don’t have it already. It’s been on the New York Times best seller list for 2 years. We’re a little cynical and tend not to overdo the esoteric book shelves, particularly when it comes to pseudo Indian American imagery, but this book made it through our cynicism net and comes with HIGHLY RECOMMENDED stamped all over it. You can probably read it in a day, although it’s the kind of book you want to keep with you for a quick reread in times of downers. It gives you four simple agreements to follow that can help you find personal freedom. The one that we like the most is ‘Never take anything personally’ – whatever someone says or does to you, it’s generally about their own issues and their own problems and has very little to do with you. So next time someone tells you you look fat in it, don’t believe them. They feel fat. Thanks to KHANYI for the recommendation. THE FOUR AGREEMENTS DON MIGUEL...
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish – Words from the man at Apple
WE HAD TO PUT THIS BACK AT THE TOP OF THE SITE – it’s got a lot of people thinking…. Thanks to Cath for this piece of mindfood…. It’s a long read but so worth it. It’s some awesome insights into life from the CEO of APPLE himself. Here’s a bit of background on this visionary creature – how inspiring. “In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and … began attending meetings of the “Homebrew Computer Club” with Steve Wozniak. He took a job at Atari, a manufacturer of popular video games, as a technician. During this time, it was discovered that a slightly modified toy whistle included in every box of Cap’n Crunch breakfast cereal was able to reproduce the 2600 Hz supervision tone used by the AT&T long distance telephone system. Jobs and Wozniak went into business briefly in 1974 to build “blue boxes” based on the idea that allowed for free long distance calls. In 1976, Jobs, then 21, and Wozniak, 26, founded Apple Computer Co. in the Jobs family garage. The first personal computer Jobs and Wozniak introduced was called the Apple I. It sold for $666.66, in reference to the phone number of Wozniak’s Dial-A-Joke machine, which ended in -6666.” This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My...
Feeling bored? Take a surf on this wave…
SEND IN YOUR FAVOURITE SITES!!! Thanks to our resident Internet trawlers WILLIS, STOFFEL and DAWN for their tips on websites that blow their hair back! Just click on the orange! Dawn kindly points us to SITES that ‘excel at random’. Well put. You excel Dawn! Thanks for this chicca, we vote your listing of WILDMOODSWI… NGS as one of the hottest portals yet! It’s a classic – pick your mood and be transported into some INCREDIBLE websites. We clicked on ‘badly dressed’ – it took us straight to UGLYDRESS.com and we’re still laughing. Just do it. Then there’s a site for all of us that love CHINA COOL. If you don’t know yet, China is the next WORLD POWER, so take the time to check out URBAN LIFE IN CHINA. ******************************** STOFFEL is a big influence on our lives at Represent, he often fills us in on what’s going down on the net that we should know about but are too busy to find ourselves. Sharp Bru! He told us about GOOGLE EARTH a long time ago and we’ve been meaning to share it with you… sorry for the delay. But it’s so worth it. Hope you heard it from us first. Simply put GOOGLE EARTH is a ‘A 3D interface to the planet ‘. Yes, that’s right – Google Earth allows you to zoom in from satellite photos out in space right down into your continent, then your country, even your town and if you live in the West, even to your street and house… It’s a free download and a mind-blowing concept. Unfortunately their content on Africa is a lot less impressive than that of the States or Europe, but we’re sure they’ll get onto it soon. Next from Stoffel is a foray into Internet Reality content the MTV UK STARZINE site… takes a while to load but it’s worth it. Basically it’s an MTV magazine that gives you a chance at stardom… they’re looking for content – you create your own content and then readers vote for the STARS. They’re also have a SNAP, SEND and WIN site with a call for photo’s around a specific topic, this month it’s BAD HAIRDO’s – anyone from TRIOMF SHOPPING CENTRE online? FASHIONISTA’S LISTEN UP: His third offering is a fascinating fashion concept and site called 360degree Fashion, it’s a NOKIA sponsored LIFEBLOG software site – read all about it – thanks to MOCONET for the explanation: “Nokia is promoting its LifeBlog software through the 360 degrees of Fashion project, or on WAP(http://micro.anina.net). The eight participants were given a weblog (Typepad solution from Six Apart) and a Nokia telephone...
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