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Talking with astro-inspired artist Pamela Bain about her newly formed cosmic nebulas.
Pamela Bain’s exploration of deep space phenomena is captured via photographic and digital processes that integrate with experimental methods of painting and paper sculpting. Her artforms currently investigate the potential to convey metaphor as well as deep space anatomy underpinning the materiality of cosmic nebulae.
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Also spotlighting the symposium ANAT SPECTRA where Pam, and sound designer Jeff Hannam, will be sharing the innerworkings of their project CELESTIAL RESONANCE.
ANAT SPECTRA - MULTIPLICITY
A multi-platform event, over six episodes. SPECTRAlive includes a symposium event hosted by the Science Gallery Melbourne asking artists, technologists, and scientists to imagine, experiment, and produce in ways which create fair, just and sustainable futures. Exhibition, film programs, talks, and discussions share and celebrate research, creative propositions, and artforms across multiple venues throughout Melbourne from April 21st – 23rd
Tickets to Spectralive – the onsite live event https://spectra.org.au/spectralive/#day-1
Tickets to Spectravision – the online event of 5 episodes running until May 6th https://spectra.org.au/spectravision/
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Join us for the The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney podcast part five
Catch up on each episode
Part one of our tour of The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
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Part two of our tour of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
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Part three of our tour of The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
https://eattmag.com/sydney-royal-botanic-gardens-podcast-part-3/?highlight=botanic%20gardens
Part four of our tour of The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
https://eattmag.com/australias-oldest-community-garden-part-4/
What's on The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney **A Flash of Red** **Visit The Calyx from Monday 25 April to see 'A Flash of Red ' Presented by artist Jean Dennis**
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**7 MAY - 22 MAY 2022** Botanic Endeavour: The Florilegium Society celebrates the Banks and Solander Collections https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/
Welcome back to party 4 of our botanical podcast here in Australia's oldest community garden. Where we discover the story of the lost New Zealand Kauri tree and look at the role of the new horticultural display centre and find out who was at botany bay with Captain James Cook in 1770
Branching out into the gardens with Paul we continue our conversation from part 1
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Where we began our tour standing on the original footprint of the 1816 Botanic gardens a small section of what was known as the Governor’s domain to start this botanic garden.
From there in part 2 https://eattmag.com/part-two-of-the-sydney-royal-botanic-gardens-podcast/
We hear how recently, archaeologists discovered a grinding stone from a place called Cuddie Springs, and that grinding stone had starch grains from kangaroo grass that was 32,000 years old.
How Vines introduced into the Colony of New South Wales.
Now in the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens Podcast Part 3 we learn of how Vines introduced into the Colony of New South Wales by James Busby Esq.
After a most delicious European tour in 1832 sent back on the Lady Harewood in 1832, an extensive collection of over 500 vine cuttings selected from the different vineyards of France.
The experimental garden
Charles Fraser and another early botanist, Alan Cunningham brought back seed and even seedlings of these trees and planted them in the experimental garden among others between 1824 and 1828. Looking to see how these trees would perform and how they could be used as timber trees.
Cedar
Red Cedar grew well and become one of the most valuable commodities coming out of the Australian colonies.
So well in fact Red Cedar can be found in many old town halls or in old buildings, both here but also in places like Manchester and London, and also in places in India.
Into the Palm house
Charles Moore whom was born in 1820, in Dundee Scotland.
Had arrived in Sydney on 14 January 1848 and took up the position of Director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, a position he held until 5 May 1896.
Where he had decided to start planting the palms out in the old experimental gardening 1862, and where we still have some of those original plantings.
Fern mania, had also started at a similar time among the Victorians as a kind of obsession like that of the great fondness for palms as well.
Find out more about Ferns at the Plant species in the woodland page on the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney website
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And discover the work that goes into maintaining the Gardens and learn from horticulture staff, taking direction from the team.
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During the second part of our tour we learn how Aboriginal people had been managing the landscape for more than 40,000 years.
Paul hunts out one of the many grasses at the botanic gardens known as the kangaroo grass.
One of the many birds having breakfast during our tour.
He explains enthusiastically that, kangaroo grass has a seed and that seed's been traditionally used and ground up to make a flour to make bread.
And now, recently, archaeologists discovered a grinding stone from a place called Cuddie Springs, and that grinding stone had starch grains from kangaroo grass that was 32,000 years old, which makes Aboriginal people the oldest continuous bread making culture on the planet by 15,000 years.
As we walk through the garden we find ourselves surrounded by plants brought out by the first fleet, and we have tobacco and mulberries and citrus and then directly opposite is that kangaroo grass just coming into seed at the moment.
We quickly learn that when first fleet arrived it was during an El Nino year.
El Niño is a climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean with a global impact on various weather patterns.
The cycle begins when warm water in the western tropical Pacific Ocean shifts and moves eastward along the equator towards the coast of South America.
Normally, this warm water pools near Indonesia and the Philippines.
This can lead to Reduced rainfall.
The shift in rainfall away from the western Pacific, associated with El Niño, means that Australian rainfall is usually reduced through winter–spring, particularly across the eastern and northern parts of the continent. Nine of the ten driest winter–spring periods on record for eastern Australia occurred during El Niño years.
Learn more about what is El Niño and what might it mean for Australia?
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/updates/articles/a008-el-nino-and-australia.shtml
So, when the first fleet arrived it was a very dry period of time.
And also the soils here are very ancient and very low in nutrients, and the land proved difficult to clear.
They ended up sowing crops between fallen trees and stumps. Due to the low soil nutrition and because of the lack of water, the crop really failed, and they harvested less than they sowed.
And after these various experiments they found better land on the Hawkesbury River, the Parramatta river and the Hunter river, that agriculture really took off on the continent.
Many Scottish people also really built this garden between 1816 and the beginning of the 20th century.
So in this case though, this is a man whose name was Joseph Gerald and Joseph.
Gerald was transported as a convict, and he was convicted essentially of political crimes. He was campaigning for more democratic freedoms for the people of Scotland.
And not coincidentally, the first superintendent of these gardens, the first colonial botanist was also a Scott.
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Learn about the diverse history and culture of the Aboriginal people of the Sydney region with an Aboriginal guide in the heart of the city. Uncover the Royal Botanic Garden's rich Aboriginal heritage by exploring plant uses, culture, artefacts and tasting some bush foods.
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We begin our tour standing on the original footprint of the 1816 Botanic gardens.
Where in 1816 Governor Macquarie and his wife carved out a small section of what was known as the Governor's domain to start this botanic garden.
Among the chorus of sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) is a relatively large white cockatoo found in wooded habitats in Australia, Paul continues, our walk down the garden path below the parrots while looking out for a Rainbow Lorikeet.
Rainbow Lorikeets are Australia's fruity coloured birds. Brightly coloured blue, orange, yellow and green.
Our second stop is look back in time. And in this garden, what we're trying to do is really tell that early historical story through plants.
So, we're surrounded by grass trees, these remarkable Australian plants with long linear leaves and tall flower spikes covered in small creamy white flowers.A significant plant to the Gadigal people.
'Gal' means people, so the Gadigal literally means the people of Cadi.
The name Cadi comes from the grass tree species Xanthorrhoea, a native plant that local Aboriginal communities would make sections of spear shaft from the stems and glue together with the resin.
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Across the path, we can also see some bananas, coffee, and there's tea. And they were the plants brought out by the first fleet.
The kind of plants brought out by the first fleet were planted on this site around July 1788.
But where we're standing now, we're surrounded by the types of plants that grew here before European settlement.these are species of plants that we know grew here, thanks to our ecological department that map the traditional Flora of Australia.
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Our tour guide is Paul Nicholson a Senior Horticulturist
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Ross:
You can see across Hyde Park, the big some areas, cathedral.
Now it's the second version of it. They started one in 1821. Unfortunately, it burnt down soon afterward. So they started this one in 1868, but they didn't finish it until 16 years ago. So it's about 130 years to get it all built. They wanted it finished off for the 2000 Olympics.
A view across to the Cathedral with animal art making its way through the park
looking for an Ark.
Cullen:
Thanks for joining me, Cullen here, we are about to kick off in part two about our with Ross, from www.imfree.com.au and we're making our way now towards the cathedral.
And then we're going to swing around towards Hyde Park and the Greek mythological figures. And we learn a little bit there about Sydney's early convict beginnings.
And then from there, we end up in the most magnificent lookout point towards Sydney Harbour.
So let's jump straight into it.
Ross:
As this is all originally the edge of the township. This area was the site of the markets, but by 1898 they wanted something more formal and official for the market.
So they built this big grand Romanesque-style building, which you can see around us. The problem was the design of the building didn't work very well as a market. So right through its history, it had a number of different functions.
In one instance, it was proposed to be demolished entirely and replaced by car parking.
And thankfully that didn't happen in 1986, a Malaysian company took control of the building, restored it to what we can say to the state. That said, there are a few interesting and odd things around the building, in particular, the clocks.
So you might have noticed one as we came in, now hiding behind the sign. There's also a similar one, same spot down the other end of the building.
Ross:
It shows scenes some Australian history with, but this one shows scenes from British history.
So if you go up onto level two on the hour every hour, you can see beheadings of King Charles the first.
And the whole head rolls off and everything.
It's a bit weird. Also, on the second level in the middle is a letter from Queen Elizabeth the second to Sydneysiders, which is nice, but we haven't opened it yet, and we're not meant to open it until 2085.
So I don't like my chances of being around to hear that one read out and she could have written anything, but I get the feeling it's still going to be pretty........, but we'll have to wait and see …….
It was written in 1986 the idea is that it not be open for 99 years, so we get to keep waiting for me or that you can head around the corner here as we do
Look up at the dome above. It's really pretty.
Ross:
It was in this area, had our first official horse races.
You don't find horses here anymore.
It's a place for people to escape from this city. Have picnics and a place for the big white birds with the big white beaks.
They seem to be avoiding us a little bit at the moment.
The Australian white ibis (Threskiornis Molucca) is a wading bird of the ibis family.
In recent years has become an icon of popular culture, being regarded "with passion and wit,
You can see someone chasing one over there, uh, for them to steal your picnic.
So watch out for that one.
It's also, for part of our out and about art festival, which is on at the moment.
Ross:
it's all about getting art out into the streets rather than just in museums and galleries.
So that's what all the photographs we just wandered by.
They're all photographs that are meant to represent an Australian life, interesting elements of Australian life.
But there's an extension to that exhibition over in the diagonally opposite corner of Hyde Park, which is exactly the same all photographs about Australian life except they're taken by children. So it's cool to see their, uh, views on things.
But you can see across Hyde Park, the big St Mary's cathedral.
Now it's the second version of it. They started one in 1821. Unfortunately, it burnt down soon afterward.
So they started this one in 1868, but they didn't finish it until 16 years ago. It took them about 130 years to get it all built.
They wanted it finished off for the 2000 Olympics.
A view across to the Cathedral with animal art making its way through the park
looking for an Ark.
Ross:
If you're interested in cathedrals, that can be one to have a wander around inside shows a strong Irish Catholic heritage in the early colony. Other Way beside us, he can say he's fountain, which is known as the Archibald fountain.
Now the thing that confuses me about it is it's meant to show Australia and France's ties and connections during world war one, but the artist has used Greek mythological figures to show off this fact.
Nonetheless, it's a beautiful fountain, a popular place for wedding photographs.
The story behind the fountain is it was donated to Sydney by a man named JF Archibald.
So JF Archibald was a fairly important person here in Sydney as he created a popular current affairs magazine known as the bulletin.
He was, however, also a character. He was a Francophile.
He absolutely loved France so much, so he changed his name from John Feltham,
to Jules Francois, and he went with a Bere and French, mustache, and everything.
Ross:
Hence we end up with a fountain which is meant to show ties to the French, but whilst we're here in the quiet of Hyde park, I'll run through Sydney's history in six or seven minutes.
So tune in or out depending on your level of interest.
In 1770 the Englishman, a captain cook, sailed up the East coast of Australia.
The Dutch sailed up the West coast in 1616, but we'd like to forget about that part.
Around that time, London's jails were full of convicts and prisoners.
Art in the park dazzles in the daylight of the cranes among the trees in Hyde Park
The American war of independence meant they couldn't keep shipping them over there anymore.
They had to come up with somewhere new. So eventually, it was decided upon new South Wales or as it became Sydney.
So on the 26th of January, 1788, the first fleet of ships arrived here in Sydney with 700 convicts, 700 other people that said they only managed to beat a number of French ships by four days.
Ross:
So we could have had a completely different history.
The other thing was they thought the land was completely uninhabited.
In actual fact, it was inhabited by the Gadigal tribe of Australian native Aborigines.
They'd been around for at least the past 30,000 years. So at first, there was some curiosity and interest, but then there were violent attacks and outbreaks of disease, which largely decimated the Australian native Aboriginal population.
So much so, unfortunately, they only represent one and a half percent of Sydney's population to this day.
So during those first few years, the colonies started to grow as a convict colony.
A couple of years after Sydney was founded, 75% of the population were convicts, so you can understand it wasn't a very law-abiding society.
The other issue they had was that of food and famine. There were reliant on most of their food coming out on ships from England. These ships are very often wrecked or lost at sea.
Ross:
So in 1790 when a ship known as the Lady Juliana, came out with 220 women and not very much food, the largely male-dominated society at the time complained at this,
By 1792 free settlers started coming out here. Farming started to work. Sydney started to prosper by the 1840s they stopped sending convicts to the East coast of Australia. Guessing 150,000 was about enough.
Then by 1851, we had the first of a number of gold rushes, which really helped Sydney to prosper, but also helped Melbourne to prosper and hence sparked off the debate between the two cities as to who is more important, which hasn't finished yet.
So in 1901 the six States of Australia came together as a Federation under the coin. This was when the debate between the two cities was most aggressive because it had to be
decided who would be the capital of this new country Australia.
Ross:
Sydney was like, well, we're here first. We have the most heritage and old buildings.
Clearly, we should be the capital.
Melbourne was were young, were more hip, and European, where the biggest at the time where you should be the capital.
The two cities, we're both so stubborn. They fought so aggressively. They had to build a whole new city in between the two of them.
Canberra.
That said, Melbourne was the capital for the first 26 years because that's how long it took us to build Canberra.
But war has come to Sydney in the form of infiltrations and thinkings, but these days Sydney as a focus of world events, rugby world cup, Sydney Olympics, but I'll give you brains at rest, and we'll head this way out of Hyde Park.
Ross:
You can see where we are standing where we started back at the town hall, the long thin queen Victoria building with all the little green dots on the roof.
Then we headed up pass Sydney tower, which pokes up above everything else there over into Hyde Park.
You can see the triangular area of greenery and grass.
That was the domain which I mentioned from the hospital hanging off the edge of the model is the new South Wales art gallery as well.
We headed down through Martin place past the round Australia square building and were now directly opposite this middle Wharf over the road, way behind in that little square building with two orange lines on the roof. That's custom house.
So from here, we'll head around into the rocks, which is the oldest surviving part of Sydney.
So the model obviously goes from the Harbor bridge, opera house, circular Quay, all they back down the other end to central station, but you can also see to this side, this area of water, which is known as Darling Harbor, which for want of a better way of explaining it. Sort of a touristy precinct has our wildlife, Sydney and sea life, Sydney aquarium, and the point beneath me here and directly across the water; you can see the curved roofs and the two walls of the national maritime museum as well.
Also, they have free fireworks in darling Harbor at 8:30 PM on Saturday nights. So it could be worth checking out tonight if you want to.
The other thing to mention about tonight's that our clock's jump forward by an hour tonight.
Date.
Yes. So you'll get one less hours late tonight — sorry guys.
Ross:
Um, but yeah, also, it can be kind of hard to photograph because of the reflection. If you really want a picture of it, they have three postcards, but we can continue back at down here.
Cullen:
And great to have you with us joining us are on that snapshot as we walked around Sydney on the most beautiful day and really giving some insights into that
tour.
And of course, you can get more details from I'm free. www.imfree.com.au, and you can tell we were there as we were going through the change of daylight savings. And so a lot of people had been out the night before. It was, yeah, it was kind of interesting.
Anyway, look, um, I guess one of the other things that it's important to know is that a really Ross and many of his guides are out there sort of rain, hail, thunder sun. The sun will shine and a really every day, and there's no need to book. Um, this is the perfect place where you can just turn up sort shortly, shortly before,
the tour starts, and you can find your local guide there in a bright green t-shirts.
So anyway, with that, we are also going to add in our memory test
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Cullen:
For those of our listeners want to test, test the memory,
And or there comprehension if English is your second language and you can get more details on more podcasts at eattmag.com
Thanks for joining us it's great to have you.
Thank you, everybody, for your four and five-star reviews on iTunes and Stitcher and Spreaker.
It's really a great, the whole team is very, um, wrapped whenever that happens.
We just wanted to say that. And of course, you can join us for our next podcast is we continue a journey around Australia.
And please don't forget to click the link inside this podcast so you can see the images that we took during the day as well. All right. We'll catch you in the next one, cheers.
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Join Cullen in part one of the I'm Free Sydney's Sight Seeing tour. Check out our new memory test below for this episode 2020.
Cullen and the team meet Ross at the beginning of an entertaining and informative tour in part one of our podcast tour through the center of Sydney.
The I'm Free walking tour is warmly primed with the best stories, insights, and tips throughout the heart of the city.
Enjoying the stories on The, I'm Free Tour Sydney Covering local transport, activities, restaurants, and bars to give you a sense of place in the same way the locals like Ross and his tour team do.
During the easy-walking 2½-3 hour tour, we uncover some of Sydney's hidden history and explore the sites of Australia's most famous city under the guiding light of our friendly tour guide.
The I'm Free Sydney tour guides give a series of well-crafted insights into the people, places, and events of this sun-blessed city.
Rain, Hail, thunder or Shine, Ross's I'm Free Tours walk every day.
Stories abound on the I'm Free Tour Sydney And with no need to book, this is the perfect place to turn up shortly after your arrival in Sydney and find your local guide in a bright green T-shirt.
Perfect for an update on upcoming events, art, restaurants, and of course, those hidden bars and noodle shops to help you better enjoy your time in Sydney just like a local.
Ross joins Cullen and the team this morning at Sydney's Town Hall with the opening of the tour, exploring Sydney's remarkable beginning and development.
Some of the convict colony stories might surprise you like the opening of the tour that digs deep beneath your feet of Sydney's Town Hall, revealing some of its hidden stories beneath the stonework.
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Cullen Pope finds out more about The Internet of Things among the trees in that #mostliveablestartupcity Melbourne, Australia.
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When I first heard about the idea of emailing trees, I must admit I did think it was a bit odd.
The whole idea of wanting to send another email for any reason whatsoever was undoubtedly a bit strange anyway.
I spend a significant amount of my time thinking about how I won’t send another email and search through a range of tools that will prevent me from doing so.
My number one tool at the moment is using the telephone, an ancient piece of technology traditionally used to convey ideas by voice.
However, at the time of writing this, I’m sure its primary function is now to send and receive emails.
I also spend some of my time thinking about how I won't look at another email. I can't read another email, will not drat another email, or even think about another email.
So what do I think of the idea of emailing a tree?.
Or emailing anyone or anything voluntarily for any reason does seem quite strange.
Then again, perhaps I could send a tree a small collection of my emails, ones that I’ve never sent, ones that I’ve dreamt of writing, the kind of emails you only think about in your wildest dreams.
Or perhaps I could just send one email, one email to rule them all, that summed it all up. Somehow I could email the tree the last email.
However, on reflection, I realize that the ultimate email wasn’t about me or what I thought about anything; it was all about the trees.
Suddenly I’m thinking very, very deeply.
What did I want to say in appreciation to any particular tree or trees within our magnificent city and suddenly I’m speechless.
But then I thought, I do know some of those trees.
So I could email them, I have met them before.
When I used to smoke, I’m sure I inhaled my cigars underneath them at some point. I certainly know of at least one tree I have cried under. Then there is a whole collection of trees. I like to walk under in the autumn. There is another group of trees I like to wiz under on my bike, but what are my favorite trees? I began to wonder.
My favorite trees I like the most are the ones I run to when running away from my computer.
Sometimes I run to the gym, but it’s painfully obvious that that doesn’t happen too frequently. More often than not, I run into the trees. I walk through them, or I sit under them with my scrapbook and my colored pens.
Scribbling away at my latest ideas on automation, podcasting potential processes, education in the 2020's and the many possible pathways taken by artists and entrepreneurs to get where they want to and how I could help at least some of them.
Trees are a defining part of Melbourne.
We live in the world’s most liveable city, and our parks, gardens, green spaces and tree-lined streets contribute enormously to this status. Melbourne’s urban forest is facing two significant future challenges: climate extremes and urban growth.
One of the things I loved recently was when I ran into the trees after a massive storm.
I noticed the banks of the river, and I could see how much rain we had recently; the rising water had flooded the river suddenly risen up the banks reaching the trees further up.
How refreshing that must have been for those trees to get all that dust washed from the leaves. Dead limbs were blown away in the ferocity of the wind, and the roots washed by the warm water of the summer storm.
Then there are the trees that I like just to watch and see the wind gently blowing through the branches and leaves for some reason.
I have always enjoyed that, and I have always found it to be relaxing. I’m not even sure why.
Perhaps when I am not looking at the computer screen, or I am outside
not connected to a device: I'm not plugged in
I'm not sending
Not receiving
Not producing
Not consuming
Posting or creating
I’m not even having a timeout,
I’m just hanging out,
Just enjoying my time with the trees,
I am suddenly just being as the tree is, just being.
The first time I ever heard of anybody emailing trees was in a meet up put together by Charlie Woolford for MUDM on urban design, and I must confess I didn’t know what I was walking into. It just looked like fun, and it involved landscaping, and so you can now tell that I never entirely read the full details of some emails.
So I signed up and arrived late as usual to the meetup.
To be greeted by a room filled with smiling and enthusiastic faces and the remaining pizza and a cold beer at the Collective Campus.
Yvonne Lynch was presenting a part of the City of Melbourne’s urban forestry strategy document, which aims to make a great city greener. While giving it a solid sustainable foundation for the future communities of Melbourne.
Yvonne was also joined by Urban Forester Tania MacLeod and Consulting Arborist Matt Sauvarin.
Melbourne, was in view at our latest Canopy Green Roof Forum event.
The 66-page document gives a fantastic outline of the principles and strategies, including case studies along with some of the issues and challenges that arise in the urban forest.
Heat islands are just one of the challenges to contend with, and other principal strategies include,
Reducing the urban heat island effect Creating healthy ecosystems Positioning Melbourne as a leader open urban forestry
The mayor said recently, "We often think of the trees as the lungs of our city, but they ought also in some ways are our heart and soul."
Heat the biggest killer.
With heat as the biggest natural killer in Australia on a hot day, and the city can be up to seven degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside. At this time, the most recent reports are that Australian heatwaves are becoming hotter and longer. They are occurring more often and starting earlier in the season.
The effects of this are compounded in the city.
And have led to a compelling and urgent need to cool the city and to protect vulnerable populations.
Part of the Urban Forest Strategy program’s goals includes cooling the city by 4°C using green infrastructure to mitigate the predicted future increases in hot weather and the Urban Heat Island effect.
Reducing the landscape’s vulnerability to drought by increasing the city’s stormwater harvesting capacity.
Other goals also include providing a visualization of the life expectancy of the city’s trees. This allows for tree populations in decline to be identified and for long-term responses to be developed.
Cullen Pope, Cullen Pope in the #mostliveablestartupcity talking trees and IoT
The City of Melbourne runs an email a tree service through their Urban Forest Visual website: http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/ The interactive website allows people to learn about our urban forest and join the conversation about how the city manages its trees. Councillor Arron Wood recently stated, “An unintended but positive consequence was that instead of reporting problems with trees, people began writing letters about how much they love individual trees in the city.” Interesting facts include damage to older trees can occur, for example, if a truck reversing into a tree causes branches to break.
Cullen Pope, Cullen Pope in the #mostliveablestartupcity, talking trees and IoT A healthy tree supporting one of the city’s many and varied sporting groups
The emails now show Melburnians know and understand the importance of the trees in reducing heat in the city. For example, one email came in from workers who watered a tree outside the State Library so that the tree survived the drought.
The email service began in May 2013, and the Urban Forest team receives several emails a week about the individual health of trees within the city, and there is no cost for the email initiative. Councillor Arron Wood also said, “While there are other cities that map their tree populations, as far as we are aware, we are the only city to provide a visualization of the life expectancy of our trees. This allows for tree population decline to be identified and for long-term responses to be developed.”
The #mostliveablestartupcity talking trees and IoT Biodiversity a key part of the new inner-city plantings.
THE URBAN FOREST VISUALISATION Was a response to a series of community engagement where several people had asked for the council to share their forest maps. The team felt that an online interactive map which visualized the data in a creative and interesting manner was an ideal way in which to share the data with the public. In case you’re wondering what kind of email I plan to send the tree or the trees in the City of Melbourne, there is no need you have just read it, this article is the email I am sending, then again you could write your own by visiting the website above.
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Join us in part two for our Barangaroo delivery podcast where Tim continues his tour with us of the Barangaroo Reserve.
To catch up on our tour through Barangaroo gardens in Sydney, please go back to part one of our podcast,
https://eattmag.com/podcasts/how-to-get-to-barangaroo-gardens-in-sydney/
Tim tells us how there are over 75,000 plants, trees, and shrubs at Barangaroo gardens. One of his favorite trees is called the Casuarina in which he describes its protective nature and characteristics.
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Photo: Infrastructure NSW, an Aerial image of just some of the plantings at Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney
Jactare Looking up into the tall Sandstone monuments at Barangaroo, they feature the essence of an Australian landscape with rocks jutting up sharply against the greenery of gum trees.
Photo: Cullen Pope, Canon Canon EOS 550D ƒ/81/ 4000 70mm ISO3200
Nico Water splashes across the square human-made blocks that protrude out into the dark and deep blue waters of Sydney harbour. The waves besiege the rock sculpture which, over time, have been shaped and softened by the sea.
Photo: Cullen Pope, ƒ/8 1/4000 208mm ISO3200
Zelda Native Australian trees
Bright colors explode from each tree and shrub in the mid-afternoon sun, making this a one-stop-shop for photographers wanting to challenge themselves with the many aspects of the varied landscape. The curves and crevices of the enigmatic Barangaroo formations in any light pops, sings and sparkles with the hot tropical colored flora posing magnificently.
Photo: Cullen Pope, ƒ/81/1600250mmISO3200ƒ/8 1/1600 250mm ISO3200
Cannon Barangaroo, Sydney
Colors contrast in their retrospective shapes that harmoniously highlight the human-made when juxtaposed with natural forms of the surrounding vegetation. Offering hard lines and soft, with colors that grab the eye, this is a photographer's dream as it offers so many enticing and exciting compositional options.
Photo: Cullen Pope, ƒ/8 1/1250 55mm ISO3200
Peter Walker is the American designer of Barangaroo Reserve, one of the most foremost designers in the world. Along with the Partners Landscape Architecture (PWP), in association with Sydney-based Johnson Pilton Walker Architects and Landscape Architects, they delivered the design project as a collaborative effort.
Barangaroo from the air
Photo: Infrastructure NSW, Barangaroo from the air in this early Aerial 2015
Moving through the gardens, we come across the Burrawang steps which are positioned at one of the entrances. Burrawang is the aboriginal name for a local Cycad plant which was known as a poisonous plant known to the local people who knew how to extract the poison. The plant was used to make starch which involved soaking it in saltwater directly before eating. This process possibly took up to two days.
Le Bokeh Dianella Shot at ƒ/8
Photo: Cullen Pope, ƒ/8 1/640 90mm ISO3200
In the gardens of Barangaroo beautiful flowers abound throughout the year signalling various times to harvest: such as when certain species of fish are ripe for the gathering. Plants and trees also provide both shelter and shade for these activities.
This bokeh image grasps the full extent of its beauty.
When Cullen asks about the kinds of visitors to the reserve, Tim replies
"We've had lots of schools, we've had lots of corporates, and we've had a few VIP days - we've had all types. Mainly locals, but we cater for everyone. We are part of the school curriculum. So we cover the curriculum from K from kindergarten to year 12.
Salmon Flush Hues of Salmon
A rainbow of color sequences from yellows and purples to mossy greens transition down to the sea line and become a feature of the unique human-made tessellations.
Such an unexpected vision is a photographer's delight against the blue of the sea.
Photo: Cullen Pope, ƒ/8 1/2500 179mm ISO3200
That can also include a geography class.which has to do with the sustainable urban renewal also connecting that with the sustainability of aboriginal culture."
Excavating the cove uncovered a lot of artifacts.
Többi Sandstone in time
Sandstone glistens and gleams when wet and worn wonderfully by the elements of earth, wind, and water which reveals the remnants of time over 200 million years ago. Cratered and weather-worn these structures evoke notions of histories and peoples who have walked across this ancient rockscape.
Photo: Cullen Pope, 550D ƒ/8 1/4000 90mm ISO3200
Tim adds, "Part of the colonial history also discovered, was when they even dug up the first boat launching slipway in Australian history. So you can actually see 1827 concrete. And that's where the boat launching was happening. It's called Munns slipway."
Nectarous
Some sandstone blocks almost look like the Eastern dessert, halva, with its layered sediment lines sweeping through the structures.
Brilliant browns, deep reds, and fiery Ochre - hues that have been created over time by the wind.
Photo: Cullen Pope, ƒ/8 1/2500 55mm ISO3200
"Entering the cutaway, we learn of its 18,000 square meters in area, including 6,500 meters of floor space. 93% of the sandstone we can see at the reserve came from underneath here that appears around the park. And there's two levels of car parking - 300 car park spaces and another level of a storage water tank, and a basement system, which recycles water from as caught from the 90,000-liter rain tanks of each of those towers."
Opening Day
Photo: Infrastructure NSW, Barangaroo Reserve Opening Day 2015
Later on during our tour of Barangaroo Reserve
Tim also alludes to the shared paths for the bikes and scooters.
Barangaroo fast become known as another great place to exercise and is now one of Sydney's favorite outdoor exercise parks for sports enthusiasts. The unmatched views of Sydney from this angle make Barangaroo Reserve a great place to enjoy outdoor space close to the city but away from the crowds to get your body moving.
For students looking for a great place to get some exercise we have outlined a few points to remember
Photo: Infrastructure NSW
Studies show regular exercise can increase student's self-esteem and can make you feel happier.
The importance of exercise for students during study breaks:
After a good 12 weeks of long, hard study, the summer break is a great time to improve your mental and physical health.
During the semester, it is a real challenge to get an intensive exercise program going with upcoming exams; however, the study break is a great time to get back in shape and get moving with or without the help of your devices.
Sandstone at Barangaroo Reserve
Photo: Infrastructure NSW, Sandstone at Barangaroo Reserve
Exercise can also help prevent excess weight gain that may have occurred during the semester or help maintain weight loss.
Remember, however, when you engage in most physical activities, you burn calories, and this also helps you to clear your mind and improve your cognitive functions. Physical movement also helps to boost your energy levels, and regular exercise can improve your muscle strength and increase your endurance. Exercise and training deliver oxygen and nutrients to your tissues and helps your cardiovascular system work more efficiently. Overall activity is an excellent way to get in shape and also get your mind and energy levels ready for the next semester.
Studies show regular exercise can increase student's self-esteem and can make you feel happier.
Dukes Pier and Nawi Cove
Photo: Infrastructure NSW, Dukes Pier and Nawi Cove at Barangaroo Reserve
Exercise has been shown to improve your mood and decrease feelings of depression, anxiety, and stress. It produces changes in the parts of the brain that regulate stress and anxiety. It can also increase brain sensitivity to the hormones serotonin and norepinephrine, which relieve feelings of depression. Additionally, exercise can increase the production of endorphins, which are known to help produce positive feelings and reduce the perception of pain. Furthermore, exercise has been shown to reduce symptoms in people suffering from anxiety. It can also help them to be more aware of their mental state and act as a distraction from their fears.
Bridge Lawn at Barangaroo Reserve
Photo: Infrastructure NSW, looking out from Bridge Lawn at Barangaroo Reserve
Interestingly, it doesn't matter how intense your workout is. It seems that your mood can benefit from exercise no matter the intensity of the physical activity. This can be evidenced in a study by Elizabeth Anderson and Geetha Shivakumar On the Effects of Exercise and Physical Activity on Anxiety https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3632802/
Where can students get more exercise tips Students have many great resources to get exercise tips. If you want to start gymming, then having a great gym app is the right place to start.
Here is a list of some great apps to get started. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/702-best-workout-apps.html
Barangaroo Reserve Aeria
Photo: Infrastructure NSW Barangaroo Aerial 2015 looking out across the piers, Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and North Sydney towards the heads
As you can see for the photographs, Barangaroo is a perfect place to go for a run, stroll, or a bike ride.
Join teams or clubs If you don't want to exercise alone or don't have a structured exercise plan, then joining a club or sports team is a great way to meet people and bond with them.
Team sports lead to great stories and social interaction—from bowling to rugby, you'll meet and work together with 10 or more people. Team sports also will have you committing to a whole season of exercise and physical activity. Pick a game that's right for you, check out local community centers, and find yourself a team to play for.
Photo: Infrastructure NSW, Barangaroo Aerial 2015 image of sandstone stretching out into the harbour
Photo: Infrastructure NSW, Barangaroo Aerial 2015 image of sandstone stretching out into the harbour
You can also find meetup's and join any club or fitness groups that match your needs and your goals. https://www.meetup.com/find/sports-fitness/?allMeetups=false&radius=5&userFreeform=Sydney+cbd&gcResults=Sydney+NSW%2C+Australia%3AAU%3ANew+South+Wales%3Anull%3Anull%3Anull%3Anull%3A-33.8688197%3A151.20929550000005&change=yes&sort=default
Car Parking at Barangaroo Reserve
Wilson Parking - Barangaroo Reserve
Parking garage in Barangaroo, New South Wales, Australia
Wilson Parking does offer affordable & secure parking at Barangaroo Reserve Car Park, which is located at Barangaroo Point, Sydney CBD North - with early bird, hourly, night and weekend parking
https://www.wilsonparking.com.au/park/2266_Barangaroo-Reserve-Car-Park_Towns-Place-Sydney
All Wilson parking stations and their rates can be found here;
https://www.wilsonparking.com.au/book-a-bay
Barangaroo Facts Barangaroo Reserve's Birthday
Photo: Infrastructure NSW Barangaroo Reserve's First Birthday 2016
Barangaroo Reserve park is constructed from 10,000 sandstone blocks excavated and cut on the site.
Some 6,500 blocks were placed to create the foreshore. More than 42,000 tonnes of rough stone and a further 30,000 tonnes of crushed stone was also used during the construction of the park.
Additionally, some 75,000 native trees, plants and shrubs have been used to landscape Barangaroo Reserve. A selection 84 species were chosen, 79 of which are native to Sydney Harbour. Many of the species are not to be found in commercial nurseries, so seeds and cuttings were collected from wild sites around Sydney Harbour and the Hawkesbury River.
http://www.bundanoonsandstone.com.au/pdfjs/web/LAM_11Nov2016_Barangaroo_Peter_Walkers_Point.pdf
Sydney Metro Maximus The International Towers
Photo: Cullen Pope, ƒ/8 1/500 55mm ISO3200
The pop-art effect of the intensely bright colors in this image blast shocks of light that ricochet off the metallic rust-colored reds of the iron curvations: all the while looking out into the Warhol infused halo of the International Towers of an international city.
Sydney at Midday - a shot taken in all of Sydney's vibrant technicolored glory.
More details of tours can be found at,
https://www.barangaroo.com/see-and-do/things-to-do/
Schools and corporates can also ring Barangaroo
Special thanks to: Tim for his time during the interview
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Images by, Daniel Boud
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Executive Director, Community Engagement
Access PR
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To the suburb of Barangaroo 11 min round trip, 5 minutes by train and 7 mins walking
To the Barangaroo reserve from the suburb of Barangaroo is an easily accessible 12 to 14 min walk
DETAILS BY TRIAN:
From Sydney central station to the suburb of Barangaroo From Central station the suburb of Barangaroo Take the T1, T3 or T8 train lines to Wynyard station which takes about 5 mins by train. At Wynyard station Take exit 4, Clarence St and then walk the 500 to 600 meters via Exit 4, Clarence St Walk north on Clarence St towards York Ln Turn left onto Margaret St Continue onto Napoleon St Turn right onto Hickson Rd then continue onto the Barangaroo reserve along Hickson Rd and turn left into Nawi cove Find more details the transport trip planner https://transportnsw.info/trip#/
BY FERRY
From Circular Quay, Wharf No. 5 to Pyrmont Bay via Barangaroo Take the Barangaroo & Darling Harbour Ferry via Milsons Point Mcmahons Point Balmain East Barangaroo Visit beyond the wharf for you Barangaroo Ferry details http://www.beyondthewharf.com.au/route/barangaroo/
Join us on our podcast tour of Barangaroo gardens in Sydney with Tim Gray our Tour Guide. Tim is our knowledgeable guide with Infrastructure NSW guiding us on our way across the ancient sandstone structures that form the Barangaroo garden Reserve. Colorful stories abound and come to life in the seaside gardens here at Barangaroo reserve located on the north-western edge of the Sydney CBD.
TAKE A BREAK TO BARANGAROO SYDNEY:
Barangaroo is the land of the Gadigal people who were the traditional owners of the area who used it for fishing and hunting. In the podcast today, we have Tim Gray. Tim is our knowledgeable guide with the Barangaroo Delivery AuthorityInfrastructure NSW. Tim acknowledges the Gadigal people and their land. Tim’s tribes are Gumbaynggirr and Wiradjuri and Bidgigal.
Along with Cullen Pope, our podcast host and the editor of the EATT Magazine travel podcast. As Tim says, Barangaroo is right next to Sydney’s CBD’, however, it provides a considerable contrast to the bustling city center. Which can be found at Barangaroo is a beautiful, peaceful park with wildlife, an abundance of sandstone and 75,000 native plants, trees and shrubs. So if you are looking for a great place to relax, take an Aboriginal cultural tour or enjoy Sydney’s exceptionally curated food precinct. Furthermore, you can enjoy a spot of shopping, or wander through the Reserve and soak up the beautiful Sydney Harbour.
THE HISTORY OF BARANGAROO:
The Reserve of Barangaroo dates back to the early 1800s, not long after the settlers had first arrived to discover the sandstone headland. A quarry was established at the headland to mine the sandstone resources. Buildings were constructed with the characterful sandstone which is now identified as unique to the historic ‘Rocks’ precinct at circular quay.
In those early years, Barangaroo was a place where ships would dock and, thus, created the central hub for commercial activity. From 1880 to 1900 specialization of the area occurred. Shipyards closed down, and in their place, more substantial storage facilities were built. Larger wharves were created to accommodate modernized container ships that had larger cargo loads.
Barangaroo remained commercial until 2003 “where the government decided that they wanted to do something with the land, give it back to the people because it was no longer a shipping container.” This is where the redevelopment of Barangaroo Sydney started. By referring to watercolor paintings of the area, discovered from the 1800s, reshaping of the headlands to its original form began. In addition, the Hedland was raised to its original height in a mission to recreate the historical aspect of the headland.
PLACES TO SEE AT BARANGAROO:
Stargazer’s Lawn: Tim describes this lawn as ‘a great fate of engineering where, instead of landfill, they’ve actually created a road bridge technology.’ The ‘Cutaway.’ The cutaway is used as a performance and art space where diverse events are run every month or so for the public. The cutaway hosts a variety of exhibitions from the Sydney Festival to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal art exhibitions. Open 24 hours a day, and the Stargazer Lawn is thus named as it is where visitors can sit in the grass at night and watch the stars.
At all times, it can be a great place to relax and enjoy the atmosphere.
You can also see the Sydney observatory tower not far from there. It is also, interestingly, named after the local stargazer fish.
Tim describes the fish as having ‘eyes at the top of its head, and it lies at the bottom of the harbor, and it’s the same color as the sand. So it camouflages itself from its unsuspecting victims.’ You can even buy it at the fish market.
WHAT TO DO AT BARANGAROO?
If you are a student, taking a study break to Barangaroo Sydney will be a fantastic experience, especially if you are an international student. Barangaroo is a great place to learn more about Aboriginal culture and take a Barangaroo Aboriginal Culture tour. The tour explores the site’s rich Aboriginal history and cultural significance. The tours provide an in-depth explanation of the Aboriginal history of Sydney Harbour and its surrounds.
This site has significance to Aboriginal Australians. The guides also share the stories of Australia’s First Nations People and, in particular, the clans of the Eora Nation. You can also partake in other fun government-run activities, such as a donut baking experience where participants are provided with a unique hands-on experience that will have you rolling, proofing, frying, and glazing some delicious donut creations. Stay tuned to the podcast for part two of our tour at the gardens of Barangaroo out soon. Getting to Barangaroo is quite accessible from the major Sydney universities and local Sydney suburbs.
You can easily take public transport or drive with access to public parking. Discover more about Barangaroo https://www.barangaroo.com/
ANNUAL AND UPCOMING EVENTS
The Big Design Market – 20-22 September 2019 https://www.barangaroo.com/see-and- do/whats-on/the-big-design-market/
The Other Art Fair – 24-27 October 2019 https://www.barangaroo.com/see-and-do/whats- on/the-other-art-fair/
The Finders Keepers Market – 6-8 December 2019 https://www.barangaroo.com/see-and- do/whats-on/the-finders-keepers-market/
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Learning to read English stories in the Great hall at the University of Sydney.
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In part one of our interview with Cullen and Fran, we learned of the amazement of Elizabeth I of England being so literate and being able to read and write in part one of our interviews.
Straight from the heart of Australia's leading higher education university.
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Here at The University of Sydney our tour starts at the centre of the quadrangle in the heart of the University.
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Where Fran Keeling joins him an archaeologist teaching archeology and ancient history here at The University of Sydney. Fran’s area of expertise is ancient Greece and Rome and their neighbours.
We begin our tour in the centre of the Quadrangle, a prominent building made of Sydney sandstone located within the University of Sydney Camperdown Campus.
In today’s podcast, Fran guides a fantastic and insightful tour of her unique views from inside the very soul of the university. The University of Sydney is well known for challenging traditions for more than 160 years, and Fran sheds light onto some of the firm traditions on which The University of Sydney is built and how many of these ideas are reflected throughout the architecture and The Quadrangle development.
The original building included the Great Hall and was constructed between 1855 and 1862. Construction on the Quadrangle began in 1854, and it had four sides by 1926.
The University of Sydney is regarded as one of the world’s leading universities Australia’s first university was founded in 1850.
The stories revealed throughout the podcast here at the oldest university in Australia, are often linked to the design of the building from the architects and craftspeople who carefully made them reflect some of the views and trends at the time.
These include areas and architecture that harks back to a sort of Gothic style, reflecting some of the thinking at the time that surrounded much of British scholarship.
The building grew up in lots of different stages, each adding to the story. The Quadrangle also includes the Great Hall, wherein part two of the interview we explore in more intricate detail and hidden tales from various aspects of its magnificent features.
Here we discover some of the narrative carved and woven into the very fabric
of its creation within the Great Hall in part two of our podcast series from here in the The
The quadrangle at The University of Sydney.
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Explore the University Of Sydney in 360° http://tour.sydney.edu.au/ And more about the research https://sydney.edu.au/research.html
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Welcome back to the Sydney Seafood School Sydney Fish Market Podcast!
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Join Cullen and Roberta (the Manager of the Sydney Seafood School) at Sydney Fish Market. Combining her passion for food with her skills in writing Roberta is also the author of the Sydney Seafood School Cookbook.
Roberta's insights in our podcast interview include details on how to protect the delicate flesh of fish.
Plus how to read the colour of fish when cooking and a few hints and surprises on when to heat up, cool down and at what temperature to serve dishes.
Throughout the interview, we learn about an exceptional selection of bread used to accompany many seafood dishes at the Sydney Seafood School. These include a range of flatbreads and other loaves including the Sydney Seafood Schools favourite for soaking up the best juices from every delicious dish. If you are also looking for something new to try with your seafood delight, the Sydney Seafood School reveals an extraordinary salt used in many recipes at the school.
Classes include live cooking demonstrations, hands-on cooking experience and dining with a glass of wine
Perfect for beginners or those with more culinary flair. The Sydney Seafood School team at Sydney Fish Market inspire everyone with a fun and engaging cooking experiences.
Sydney Seafood School cooking classes change regularly and below is a sample list.
Please remember that these will vary from season to season:
- Quick n Delicious - Three 30-Minute Meals
- Great Aussie Seafood Barbie
- Sensational Simple Seafood
- Italian Chef hugely popular contestant on MasterChef
- Fast & Fabulous
- Spanish
- Mediterranean
Learn more about the Sydney Seafood School cooking classes from Sydney Fish Market https://www.sydneyfishmarket.com.au/seafood-school/cooking-experiences where you can book by phone, online or in person.
Sydney Fish Market Prawns for an authentic barbecue[/caption]
Sydney Seafood School Cookbook
For more than 20 years, Sydney Seafood School has been teaching us how to prepare and cook the fantastic array of seafood found in our oceans and rivers. Now, for the first time, the School shares its wealth of tips and techniques, along with more than 80 outstanding recipes from Australia's leading chefs. Sydney Seafood School Cookbook https://www.sydneyfishmarket.com.au/seafood-school/sss-cookbook is also, available on amazon.com.
Cullen is more than keen to try a few dishes recommended during and after the show.
Armed with the skilful help from the team at the Sydney Fish Market he manages to buy some of the best seafood of the day. Combined with some tips and tricks from Roberta and Alex in our previous interview An untold story from Sydney Fish Market Cullen makes his way via the Manly ferry to Manly where he plans to cook up a storm after asking a few friends to lunch.
The cooking podcast from that day will be released later in the season so stay tuned to find out more about how well we did with what we learned with the team and Alex from Sydney Fish Market and Roberta Sydney Seafood School.
Will Cullen make it or break it when attempting the standing Fish Roast?
Fresh Fish from Sydney Fish Market
Alternatively, can he pull something together in time straight from Sydney Fish Market and into the pan?
All will be revealed in an upcoming podcast season.
An untold story from Sydney’s Fish Market and the Sydney’s Fish Market Restaurants in Pyrmont Connect with us in an untold story just a few blocks from one of our favourite nautical bars, the Peg Leg Pyrmont.
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Alex from the Sydney Fish Market, a local fisher himself, shares a few secrets beneath the glisten and gleam of the Sydney Fish Market Restaurants.
Join us in our latest Sydney podcast on a stroll through the Sydney Fish Market. We join Alex one of the fish market tour guides whom we meet excitedly admiring a fish as the sun rises across Blackwattle Bay.
Alex, who has been recently featured in Time out explains The Sydney Fish Market is open every day, except Christmas day.
The Sydney Fish Market is also one of the most diverse markets on the globe and could be just second after Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market famous for its astounding display of seafood and the pre-dawn tuna auctions
A touch on the Dutch Auction system In the first part one of our podcast interview with Alex, he explains how now the selling and buying of fish runs of a Dutch Auction. Also that technically for auction fans it’s an open descending price auction. Auction prices even start at the three-to Five dollar price range above the data price per kilo.
Buyers come from across the Asia-Pacific region who sometimes have less than a few seconds to make a decision. The auction floor can have over 100-plus varieties of shellfish and fish on any given day.
Cullen made his way carefully onto the auction floor with his guide carefully steering him through the hundreds of new crates of fish and seafood among the ice and the excited sounds of constant clicks made during the bidding on the keypads of all of the bidders.
Chilled somewhat by the early morning thaw after Cullen’s extensive tour we join Alex again where he shares his love of fishing and some of his “pretty much foolproof tips on cooking fish”.
A standing roast recipe for a fabulous fish dish He then shares his perfect standing roast recipe for a fabulous fish dish, so the fins go crispy a great secret straight from the marketplace.
His gives us great tips on what to try to around this time of the year and shares with us a cheeky story about the best part of any fish.
Alex also advises Cullen to dig deep and to trust our instincts when choosing fish and seafood by “getting something that appeals to you”.
And he shares his most valuable insight into the best lunch at the fish market as one of the ultimate foodie meals in Sydney and perhaps fact across the country.
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Hi, it’s Cullen here from the EATT Magazine Podcast, and I’m very lucky to be joined by Alex
Cullen
Thank you. You’re the tour guide here at the Sydney Fish Market, and I wanted to ask you a few questions. As I was really lucky enough to be able to come in and have a look at the, I guess I would call it the auction floor, the floor where people bid for fish, and that happens every day of the week, is that right?
Alex
Every weekday. So not on weekends, just Monday through to Friday. (referring to the behind the scene tours)
Cullen
Okay, brilliant. And when we were looking at that, there’s three; I guess what I would call huge clocks when I’m not quite sure if they were clocks or not?
Cullen
They had timers on them, and they had lots of numbers whizzing around, and there were a lot of people sitting down beneath them looking at the boards very carefully to see what was happening there.
Alex
So that’s our Dutch or reverse auction system.
Cullen
Okay. So, I think I know something about the Dutch option, but I’m sure some of our listeners might not be 100% clear about that. How would you describe it?
Alex
Technically for auction fans, it’s an open descending price auction. So it was the system designed by the Dutch for their Tulip craze. And it was the system designed from the very beginning to sell perishable goods as quickly as possible.
Cullen
Okay. How does it work?
Alex
We’ve got historical sales data that goes back a decade, and that tells us in that week of the year for the last ten years, this certain species in that size and condition and we are quite specific, is worth x dollars per kilo. So if it should sell for $10 a kilo, yeah, we’ll start that particular box. Three to $5 per kilo above its expected sales price.
Cullen
So if we were talking about a fish like Barramundi for example and so let’s say that might come in at $10 a kilo. How, how would that work then?
Cullen
You’d go back over all that data over the last ten years and say this week, the 14th-weekend March or the 14th week of the year, it was worth $12 or would you take all of that down, and then you work out on an average, I guess?
Alex
Yeah, it gives us an average in a predicted, and then we started, I mean, 30% or 20% above what it should sell for sure.
Cullen
So let’s say you might go higher and say, put it out at $14 a kilo. How does the bidding work and how does the pricing work?
Alex
Okay, so we started at $14 a kilo. The auction begins, and it starts counting down every revolution of that stock clock. It takes $1 per kilo off the sales price and the first buyer, the guys you could see in the stands, the first buyer to stop the auction with a press of a button has committed to buying at least one box at the price they stopped the auction house.
Cullen
Okay, so let’s say the prices spiralling down, is that right?
Cullen
It goes down and let’s say somebody says, ‘okay’, I’m buying it at $12, and then I guess it’s competitive in the sense that people say, oh well look like you know, I better get a name because I didn’t know how many boxes there.
Cullen
Is that how it works?
Alex
You don’t know what your competitor is prepared to pay. That keeps the prices high. That’s a very important aspect of this doctrine otherwise if the price plummets, that seafood will go elsewhere next week.
Alex
So we don’t know what their profit margins are, and they can still make a living, but those guys do pretty much to the dollar.
Alex
So the second it becomes profitable to someone and the harder working businesses tend to be more profitable.
Alex
The second it becomes profitable to someone it’s sold, and we move on to the next one.
Cullen
Fantastic. And it looked like it was a big market today?
Alex
Yeah, you can safely say you saw a big market, we would have got 80 to 85 tons today.
Alex
I’m a fisherman, so I don’t want to overestimate these things. But at least 3000 boxes over a hundred different species is a bustling day.
Cullen
And what makes today a big market compared to other days when it’s not a big market. What affects the size of the market.
Alex
Sure
Alex
Fridays are traditionally the biggest day of the week for the auction because we don’t hold an auction on the weekends and people tend to buy seafood on the weekends. It’s a Friday evening, Saturday morning, Sunday morning thing.
Cullen
Additionally, I noticed, we met down on the floor it was a real bustle going on there. There was a tour down there? Were you giving a tour?
Alex
Yeah, we had a large school group from New South Wales from the central West. They had a four and a half hour, five-hour drive for them to get here. Fortunately, they got in yesterday evening. Otherwise, we would have had 30 increasingly disinterested schoolchildren staring me down.
Cullen
But they looked pretty interested.
Alex
They were fascinated. Considering they are 300 kilometres from the sea, they were all really switched on about that. They asked a lot of good questions. Obviously, they wanted to try more seafood. We had a very engaged group out here which was fantastic to see.
Alex
If I’m in the kayak at two in the morning and it’s in the middle of winter, and I’m getting rained on, I might begin to have moments of doubt. But then on quickly I hook up, and I’m in love again.
Alex
I like to fish in my kayak. I like to go camping for a few days at a time. I really would like to just get stuck in and after doing this job for a week, not talk for three days straight. But yeah, just come back all salty and happy.
Cullen
And so what sort of fish are you catching?
Alex
At the moment there’s a lot around, particularly in the Pittwater in Hawkesbury, but there’s always big Flathead and Whiting.
Alex
Caught about a 73-centimetre Flathead the other day. There is also plenty of Squid.
Cullen Also, what’s a favourite fish for you to cook? What do you love cooking?
Alex
That’s like picking a favourite child.
Alex
If I had to pick a fish, it would be the Pearl Perch. It’s a part of the Glaucosoma family, and there’s only three in it. They’re scientifically known for this sweetness. Their a beautiful, bright white flesh, and you can cook it a million different ways. Pretty much foolproof.
Cullen
So do you cook that differently quite often?
Alex
Whenever I see one, I buy one. We don’t get that many. It’s a very small volume species. It’s why you haven’t heard of it. And so how would you, how would you normally cook with are?
Alex
Because it’s a special fish, I like to make it a little bit special. I’d probably do a standing roast. We get a large lemon, cut it flat side down, and then the gut cavity will sit on top of the lemon. So score the skin, pad it dry, rub it with some olive oil and salt and then as hot as you’re up and we’ll go upright, the scheme goes crispy, the fins go crispy. Thus, you can eat them like chips, and then you get creamy, wobbly curds of flesh that flake off the bone and it’s an upright-looking fish. It’s quite impressive!
Cullen
How are we keeping the fish upright in the oven?
Alex
By plunking it on top of the lemon. If it’s sliding off cause it all, it’s got that gut cavity that it wants to sort of flatten down all that. But you can put chopsticks and sort of like antennas into the top of the lemon, and that rests in the gill breaks.
Alex
Therefore, it just sits nice and upright, and both sides are exposed to the hot air, so it cooks evenly, and then you get to serve it upright. You can also get some wilted greens or some asparagus.
Cullen
Moreover, for people who are coming in the market and obviously, that’s their first port of call, and then they make their way through the rest of the market. What do you think that they should be looking out for at different times that that might just appear now and again that isn’t here every day that’s a bit special.
Cullen
So to buy seafood, to take home or to have to say, here?
Cullen
I think both.
Alex
To have to take home the strength of Australian fisheries is its diversity. So everyone’s heard of Snapper and Whiting and Flathead, and we’ve got 60,000 species in this country. Try something you’ve never seen before!
Alex
Try something like a Crimson Snapper, $10 a kilo for the whole fish. They are cousins’ of the Red Emperor. They are sweet; they’re meaty. You can steam them, and they’ll go curdy and creamy. You can then barbecue them, and they get firm and meaty, and they cost the same as sausages. They shouldn’t have to be that cheap.
Alex
But get something, pick it, pick it well and get it cooked to order. That’s the best way to have hot food.
Alex
Cooked prawns – just visit all the shops because it varies from piece to piece in shop to shop. No one is the best. Use your instincts and get something that appeals to you. You can go from shop to shop, get pieces and pieces, eat it down on the boardwalk, get a bottle of wine. It’s not a bad way to spend the morning.
Cullen
Fantastic. Just wrapping up because I know you’ve got to go, you have on tour coming in. I wanted to ask you, what are you having here for lunch today?
Alex
I’m getting mushrooms in Oberon tonight, so I’m probably going to try and keep it light.
Cullen
Okay, so when are you going to have that’s nice and light.
Alex
Oh, just a half a kilo of prawns on the way out.
Cullen
Thank you very much for taking the time to really enjoyed being with you.
Alex
Thanks a lot, Cullen. My pleasure
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It's Cullen here from EATT magazine Podcast, and I'm joined today by Bruce Hopkins as we are talking about water safety, also known as Hoppo. People refer to you most of the time as Hoppo, is that right?
Yeah. These days pretty much growing up. I've been known as Hoppo. Brilliant. Can I ask you, do you remember, I guess clearly when you first started on the beach, and this is the dream, can you remember how that was?
Yeah, when I first started down there probably around 22 and a bit nervous coming in and trying to work out what I'm going to do when but I could always handle myself in the water, but there's a lot more to being a lifeguard than been able to swim and paddle board.
So yeah, I was quite nervous and intimidated and really had to look to the older, more experienced guys to see what you really had to do because back in those days, you worked on your own a lot as well, so I remember getting handed a pair of shorts, and a shirt, a whistle and they say out you go. Whereas these days we go through an induction program with all the guys.
We've got trainees and who also that come along and so it's a lot more professional these days than when I was back in.
Were there jet skis back then? Back when I started, which was 91' there was pretty much not even a beach bike, there are no jet skis, all you had was the rescue tube and a rescue board and, you're running up and down the beach to get to each person.
So I mean this, these days with the equipment, jet skis, and bikes and it's pretty much minimized the response time for all the guys who get to the rescues.
And I know that time, I suppose in some ways, it's changed a lot of work because it would've been a lot fewer people there. Now, how many people are going to be expected they normally there will be a lot.
Yeah. On a busy day down at Bondi. You'll get anything from 30 to 40,000 people. I mean it's, uh, it's pretty full on. You won't see any sand on a busy day.
And a lot of people and you know, we'll have point from six to we have a minimum of six lifeguards up to probably either on a busier day working through the afternoon so it gets quite intense and it's very easy to miss someone, so everyone's got to be on the ball.
For water safety, I wanted to ask you about the flags, the flags today and even on a brilliant sunny day like today. They look a little bit closer together than I normally think, they are.
‘Hoppo’s water-safety’ podcast
Well with the flags, it's something that is on the day to day basis. So if conditions prevail, you know, you might get a wider sandbank where people can sort of stand up a lot more of the rips aren't running as bad and then also when you get the rips that are quite bad, and there's a lot of drag, the sandbank and what we a bit smaller.
So the flags that are a bit smaller. So we just accommodate the people to go to those areas where it's not as dangerous, but it's something that people need to be aware of.
And I guess, the other thing you said is quite often you had two sets of flags, is that right?
Yeah, at Bondi we will have two sets. We will have a set them roughly in the middle of the beach. We'll have a set down the north end of the beach because of the crowds, and we try and cater for everybody, but it becomes quite difficult to for 30 - 40,000 people don't actually fit physically between the flags. So it makes it tough for us.
And I guess for those of our listeners who are planning to come to a beach and listening. Maybe what's the one thing that they might not know about the rip. Could you explain what a rip for someone that you didn't know what the word means?
We'll get a lot of people coming from overseas, and they don't understand what rips are, especially here in Australia.
And they are pretty much deep water and waves break on the sandbanks and then all the water that comes in needs to get back out to sea. So it comes in and then forms its own little sort of river type thing to go back out and generally that's where it's karma, waves aren't breaking, and it looks nice to just jump in and have a swim, and that's why people tend to get into those areas and thinking it's safe. But pretty much that's the water rushing backing up and something to be very aware of.
Right. I guess that's something that you learn very early on, is to see the rip, to see, to be able to pick it. Is that something that I guess you also learn from experience as well?
Yeah, I mean we can see it, and I mean, I have grown up with it, and what we used to do as kids, the best way when you're surfing to get out to the back of the break is jumping where the rip is because it generally dragged out a lot quicker. You don't have to do it as much paddling, so in the least amount of waves.
So you learned that quite quickly here in Australia, as a young kid growing up surfing and at something that you utilise that to get out past the bank?
So people tend to panic a lot as soon as they can't stand up, the panic sets in.
So pretty much they just need to float and relax because 90 percent of the time, rips will pull across back onto the sandbank where you can stand up without even trying to swim. If you just float it, it can pull you back around.
It's just people panic, and it pulls them towards the waves, and then I don't want to go where the waves are because they're not confident and they try to swim back against that and then they just tire out.
Okay. And I guess once you start tiring, yeah, that's when things get difficult I guess. And that's when it's more important to relax yourself.
That they've identified that when you're about to drown you're, you've got no sense of direction. You get the lactic acid build up in your arms like you've got any thoughts on these 100 meter world record time, and obviously, these people coming down on maybe aren't quite as fit as what he was doing that.
So it's like putting the equivalent of 50-kilo weights on your arm and it puts you in a deep area in the surf and even myself, you wouldn't be able to keep yourself afloat. So that's what happens with the lactic acid buildup. People panicking and see you really need to relax. As hard as that is when you think you're gonna drown, but pretty much, if you go to a beach where it's patrolled, lifeguards will be there to see, and they'll be on their way out even though you don't know that anyone's even watching you are coming out.
I suppose, you know, there's a lot of, a lot of other things that you, you work on and I know that one of the things that has been important to you helping establish education, the Surf Educators International; So it must have been a real buzz for you. Water safety podcast with Hoppo
It's something we found that lacked in, Australia and I formed that with Grant Kenny and ex Ironman champion and Craig Rings, also an iron man champion. And we came together and formed this association when now I'm probably taking up to 20,000 plus students from schools and educating them in the rips, and we actually put them in the there, and they float around, and they get the experience of being in there.
Whereas in the past a lot of people would just go into the schools putting up slides and a classroom type and we found that that looking at the pictures doesn't give you the same experience. So I put them into a rip in a controlled environment with plenty of water safety there to keep an eye on them that then, you know, they get a bit of experience and understand what they need to do when they're on their own down the beach.
That's preventative as well, isn't it? Because that's probably going to be saving a lot of rescues down the track, starting really early. That's right. If you can save, a lot of rescues in the future, hopefully by starting with these kids and giving them the experience and when they get older and then they have children they can educate them as well, and hopefully, that's a snowball effect. So by the time we get 40, 50 years down the track, a lot more people, you know, can understand it and not get themselves in a lot of trouble.
I guess the other thing is I know with Bondi rescue, you recently or recently you gave that to the top five favorite things, but we know that we're a couple of things that didn't make it into the top five and could have been on there. What were one of those two things?
I think one of the highlights down at Bondi was the 2000 Olympics. They put in the, a 10,000 seat Beach Volleyball Stadium, and is even better than when we were there and working. And I'll never forget it. The finals, the women, you know, Karie Portas and Natalie Cook they won the Olympic gold. I think that was the first time an Australian team has ever won beach volleyball, and you could hear the crowd cheering, and it was just a great atmosphere, and you know, we had probably two weeks of that down to the beach and this massive stadium, and you know, it's something that I'll probably never forget. It just felt like I was a part of the Olympic Games.
And look, I know that, one of the other things that you traveled a lot and you speak a lot internationally. Is there, is there a place that you've been to that you want to go back to? Just to think, oh, I really need to come back here.
I did a lot. A couple of years ago. I went to India and did it a lot there with the lifeguards. There's a lifeguard service there, down in Goa, which is predominantly the tourist area of India, which is very beach orientated.
A lot of people go there to go swimming, and you don't get a lot of waves, but you do get a lot of water movement where they get themselves into some sort of strife.
So they were having probably over 200 or more drownings a year, and I went in and at 105 kilometers of their coastline and we actually put a few things in place.
And the last report I had, they've dropped that down to about 20 drownings a year, which is, which is good that they're really starting to come along and, and understand how to sort of minimize that risk. Uh, so I'd love to probably go back to India and check all that out again.
Sure. And I know that we were, we were talking earlier, and you've got a couple of different projects on the go as well internationally, and so I guess most of our listeners might not know about. Tell us about those.
Oh, a couple of things. There's one on back racing on the ocean skis. So that's something that, I haven't done it for a couple of years.
I was doing it quite full on before that and had a bit of a few years break, so back doing that, and I've got a big race coming up in November 12. So that's something that I'm really looking forward to, and I hope I can perform well there.
We do a lot of charity work for charities around Sydney and around Australia, and they had some bad floods out in Forms recently, and it's a country town.
We're going to go out there and do a bit of a promo and hang around the water slides out there and, try and draw some people in there because $10 goes towards, of every ticket will go towards the flood relief. So hopefully, we can generate a fair bit of money for them.
So what's, what's the, I know that you've got a couple of big races coming up as well. You want to just tell us about where they are?
Yeah, leading into Hong Kong. So I've had a couple of races recently went on the north side of Sydney and uh, there's one coming up at Bondi to Watson's Bay next week, uh, and then also then I'll head off to Adelaide and are going to rice down in Adelaide there's, which is another 16 kilometre race down there and then it's over to Hong Kong and uh, hopefully, that's the, uh, that's the big one.
And what are conditions like compared to Australia?
Apparently conditions there, I've never been to Hong Kong before. So this is gonna be a, a bit of an eye-opener as well or he does get humid and it can be called depending on the year and conditions if it is humid will be tough. Uh, but there's a lot of wind. You get a lot of wind and bump and which suits us from, from over here where you said the rough conditions and the wind. So the wind with chops would be good to um, chase some really good runners down downwind and that will suit us over here. So I'm just reading one guy that has done it in the past. One year he went over is about 34 degrees and was dead flat like a milk pawn, so I'm hoping it's not like that.
Then wrapping up with here, it's a perfect day to looking at it. How would you describe conditions today?
I mean conditions today, looking at the cross from, um, from chapter one cafe, which it pretty much can be a little bit dangerous today.
There are a few small rips out there, and the waves are around the two, three foot mark and generally at Bondi, that's probably predominantly the worst conditions we get for people getting in trouble when it gets a little bigger, Bondi tends to, to close out a lot and people can't manage to get out in the back unless they've got a bit of experience so that in between conditions are usually the hardest for us.
And mainly it's a beautiful sunny day, and I'd say a lot of people you know will get probably the 20 to 30,000 down here today.
I guess down at the end of the beach there are the big rocks as well and I guess since Bondi Rescue, a lot of people avoid those, they didn't used to it.
Yeah, I'm in the Bondi Rescue has done a lot for, especially international tourists. They watch it over there. It's in 160 countries now and, you know, people come out, they identify where these rocks are, and I know flat rock there, they often jump off and get a lot of bruising and scratches and that from that when I get hit by the waves and then South Bondi around the Icebergs they get dragged around there. So a lot of people aware of those famous locations now and pretty much avoid them.
Well, look, thank you very much for spending some time with us today. If there was any other advice you wanted to give people that are planning to come down to Bondi to coming over from overseas, what would you tell them?
The best way is to you know, keep an eye on where are red and yellow flags are. And if you're not sure, have a look around the environment and, and, and check it out before you go rushing down and jumping in the water and, and if you see a lifeguard go up and if you're unsure to check out what the conditions are like on the day.
Thank you very much for spending some time, and you get back out into the water now.
Yeah, I'm heading back down and back on the beach working this afternoon. So yeah, it's great having a chat.
Thanks.
Bruce Hoppo Hopkins was born and raised in Bronte, New South Wales. Hia passionate contribution to lifesaving across Australia and around the world is recognised in many ways.
Having spent nearly much of his childhood in and around the beach, it was second nature to him first becoming a lifeguard for the Waverley Council back in 1991.
Bruce has spent much of his life between Bondi, Tullamarra and Bronte beaches becoming one of the Waverley council’s longest-serving lifeguards.
Hoppo, as he is most commonly called has achieved many awards including the Australian Lifeguard of the year in 2006, and two Gold Medals at the Australian Surf Lifesaving titles.
Through his life as a lifeguard, Hoppo entered into celebrity status through the real-life hit TV series Bondi Rescue.
His adventure starts out when he interviews Manuel on the unique feel from one of Sydney's interesting bars with
a distinctively seaside feel
Manuel starts out by saying
“Our inspiration on hospitality is to make people feel welcome from the moment they arrive here.” So that's the part of our philosophy on the hospitality, which is about the experience that we gave to our guests.
Cullen notes the kind of run and feel of an old ship here an old boat that's setting sail lead by at least one or two finer pirate beards if ever you’ve seen them
Peter has taken us on a journey from South Africa,to Queenstown and now Auckland in New Zealand.
He generously shares some of hs top tips. Not just on travel photography but also sharing some of his lightroom techniques.
The origin of Peters last name Withiel is cornish and It's derived from the name Vivian.
Withiel
(Cornish: Gwydhyel) St Clement
is an Ancient parish in the county of Cornwall.
Withiel is derived from the Cornish word Gwydhyel, meaning wooded place.
And so launching into part two of the podcast we are back in Queenstown on a tightrope.
1) What to take with you
- Hat - Coat - Gloves - Scarf
2) How far away is Coronet Peak
Dubbed the "original" resort ski area Coronet Peak is only 25 minutes from Queenstown.
3) The School Holidays
Busy times to dodge at Coronet Peak
2019 New Zealand School Holidays Starts 6 Jul 2019 (Sat)
Finishes 21 Jul 2019 (Sun)
2020 New Zealand School Holidays
School Holidays Starts 4 Jul 2020 (Sat)
Finishes 19 Jul 2020 (Sun)
4) The season
The season typically runs from early June to early-October or late-September.
5) The night Ski
It is one of the only ski fields in New Zealand to offer night skiing on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights from July to mid-September
6) Ski terrain
Popular runs on Coronet Peak include Big Easy (beginners), M1, Greengates and Shirtfront (intermediate), and Exchange Drop and the Back Bowls (expert).
7) History
The field was New Zealand's first commercial ski field and was opened in 1947 with a single rope tow
8) Location
The Peak is one of New Zealand's most popular ski resorts due to its proximity to Queenstown, varied terrain, and quality facilities, offering a high-speed quad chairlift, high-speed six-seater chairlift, and a high-speed beginner chairlift.
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Eora means 'first people' in the language of the Darug, traditional owners of the land the Australia National Maritime Museum museum now stands on. Join us with Beau James for an interpretive description of some of these precious works. The EORA First People Exhibition takes us on a journey from Tasmania to Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait, exploring this deep connection through art and adornments.
EORA First People Exhibition works
EORA First People Exhibition works include:
Elaborately carved and painted Pukumani burial poles from the Tiwi people
Hollow log coffins decorated with the story of Mäna, the shark. Following a funeral ceremony still practised today, the bones of the deceased are placed in the top of the log coffin.
Ceremonial sculptures and handwoven works from Arnhem Land and Cape York
Delicate shell work from Tasmania
Spectacular headdresses, body ornaments and dance machines of the Torres Strait.
A SPECIAL FEATURE:
SALTWATER - YIRRKALA BARK PAINTINGS OF SEA COUNTRY
This series of paintings explains the spiritual and legal basis of the Yolngu's claim on the Saltwater Country of north-east Arnhem Land. The stories were painted to teach the Balander (stranger or white people) about the lore and law of the Yolngu people. The collection is a record of sacred lore based on the wisdom of thousands of lifetimes.
"... They represent a social history; an encyclopaedia of the environment; a place; a site; a season; a being; a song; a dance; a ritual; an ancestral story and a personal history."
- Djon Mundine, OAM, Aboriginal curator, on the Saltwater paintings.
The EORA FIRST PEOPLE EXHIBITION is a small sample from over 4000 pieces from the local people that include
Burial poles from northeast that were placed around a burial site
Hollow log coffins with intricate designs and totems
Saltwater barks created by local elders sharing the stories of poachers and showing secrecy designs.
Beau shares the intricate stories with us of how the barks portrayed the person they are and who they are related to within some of the barks.
The 80 barks were also used to help prove their connection to the land and the bark paintings were used in a court case to help claim sea rights for the local people from that country.
Bark gathering is hard work, and then the bark is used and worked to have a vibrancy that shares the connection to the country, and many are preserved over time at the gallery.
The waters around give story and meaning, and the fibres used also include spinifex.
Stories emerged from looking out into the area and observing the local animals including the stingray as that area could be someone’s totem, and therefore this area is someone’s responsibility to look after the nests of that area as they could become the voice of that country and the voice of that nesting area.
Saltwater or freshwater people
Precious objects were carefully around the grave to help with the journey into the next life, and then bags could be placed on or near totem poles so that a person's story and connection are taking them to the other side and so there is definite a connection on the journey into the next life.
The Tasmanian section
Massacres wiped out many people in Tasmania, and the seaweed baskets and the shell necklaces are an essential part of the collection from this country.
Baskets from this collection were also used to carry clams and oysters, and Eel traps were utilised along with sardine scoops.
More details can be found on the website below.
WARNING: This website may contain the names, images and artworks of deceased people which may cause sadness or distress to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
While the display in the Amaze Gallery of the Garden Palace collection finished some time ago, we had been lucky enough to capture a glimpse of this tragic and dynamic story lead by the technology and innovation of the time.
Sarah shares a glimpse into the rich collections of the State Library of NSW by telling some the fascinating stories associated with this magnificent building.
The Garden Palace collection display in the Amaze Gallery was displayed to coincide with barrangal dyara (skin and bones)
Sydney’s Garden Palace is now lost to living memory, however, in its day its grandeur dominated the skyline in Sydney.
Sarah Morays obsession around the Sydney garden palace started some time ago when the stories began to reveal themselves during some detailed research at the State Library of New South Wales.
From its construction, destruction, and opening in 1879 Sydney's Garden Palace captivated society in Sydney and visitors from around the world in so many ways.
Sydney's secrets from The Garden Palace The Garden Palace was also home of one of the many new technologies of the time on display the elevator, was just one of these as the sizeable purpose-built exhibition building was constructed to house the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879.
Dominating the skyline, the Garden Palace was a magnificent building.
Fiji village life with new instruments
Join us near a Fiji village as we hear from Debra Waters and a team of volunteers with the Johken school music department
Since Debra and her team visited the Johken school over the last couple of times, the school have started a music department.
During previous visits, they also managed to bring over many guitars, bongos, flutes, percussion instruments. They have also spent three days teaching all the school children's 274 students from 1st t 6th class how to play the instruments.
Over time the team have been receiving donations to support the school supporting children from Fiji villages near Navua. On a recent trip up to 100kg of school equipment and medical supplies were delivered to a local small 12-bed hospital in Navua, and the Johken school of over 235 students also in Navua.
Navua is a small town that floods regularly with the overflow from the Navua river. Apparently, this was the river used to film the blockbuster Anaconda.
During that time the team were also able to learn how Tapa prints made. The Masi plants used to make Tapa prints grow very well in Vatulele because of the rocky soil, mixed with sand.
The plant is also called the Mulberry plant and can grow up to ten to sixteen foot long. The plant and can also take from six to ten months to fully mature.
The weather is also ideal for growing the Masi ( Mulberry plant) to as the climate is hot on the volcanic island of Vatulele. Masi, as it is known on Vatulele, is also a primary source of income.
Mostly men from the local Fiji village work in the plantation working on the second stage stripping process. This process involves separating the bark of the mulberry plant from the stem.
The women do mainly separate the bark of the mulberry plant from the stem. They use their feet to hold the stem and use their hands to pull out the bark. The bark is like a long strip once it is pulled out from the stem.
A third process is used to scrape the bark.
The knife is used to scrap the outer skin of the bark strip to achieve smooth white strips.
The fourth stage is soaking the strips of the bark cloth in water.
Because drinking water is conserved, in Vatulele seawater is used to soak the bark cloth. The strips are then prepared for the beating by soaking them. Soaking achieves a softer texture to the bark strips. And it can quickly be soaked just a few hours before beating process.
The fifth stage of the beating process Each strip is beaten up using a wooden mallet, and that is shaped like a flat club. The strips are laid flat on a long wooden flat log that is carved by men in the village. Each strip is beaten until it is soft and up to a foot wide.
This process is the most laborious part of beating process known as " vava ha" to the men of the Fiji village.
The strips of Masi are layered on top of each other using three or four strips until they are about two feet wide. After that more beating is required until they achieve a six by two feet wide white Tapa to be used for painting. On an average, this can take a whole day for one woman to beat out a complete piece of six by two-foot tapa.
The sixth stage the drying process is where the tapa is spread out to dry.
The wet tapa cloth is then placed on strips of metal sheets or other flat surfaces as the tapa dries faster on larger surfaces.
The metal sheet sizes ten by two feet are used nowadays because tapa is dried faster and it only takes a few hours for tapa cloth to be completely dry.
The final stage is when tapa is designed using dyes. A brown dye is made from the wooden bark of the tree which is soaked and cooked till it's a thicker texture to become a brown paint or dye.
Women designing tapas with the the Masi The Masi are designed often using designs uniquely from Vatulele island passed down from generation to generation. The stencils are cut on X-ray films or cardboard and used to print the designs on tapa cloth. Tapa is used in Fiji for special occasions identifying with Fijian culture
You can contact Debra here if you would like to make a donation or support the team in some way.
Join us for part one of the EATT New Zealand Gourmet food travels with Waiheke Herbs.
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In part one of our podcast we leave Auckland city on our Gourmet food travels to meet with Wendy from Waiheke Herbs.
Auckland is built between a couple of large harbours in the north of New Zealand’s North Island.
The iconic Sky Tower In the centre has great views of the Viaduct Harbour home to many superyachts and filled with brilliant bars and cafes.
The city’s oldest park, Auckland Domain is based around an extinct volcano and the city maintains many of its historical Auckland buildings among the contraction of many new skyscrapers and apartment buildings.
See the delicious images in this podcast
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and sense the taste and feel of this magnificent Pinot from Central Otago.
In part two of our travel podcast,we continue our conversation with Maryann at The Winery discovering how New Zealand wineries are leading in new wine time trends.
View the images in these wineries of New Zealand podcast.
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Looking at a map of Queenstown in New Zealand The Winery is situated right in the centre of town, and leading in an innovative trend not just among the locals but also with many visitors when it comes to wine time.
Emerging from what some might compare to, but not quite like “the slow food movement” where your tasting time becomes much more of downtime and where time in fact becomes an essential part of the entire experience.
What exactly is the rush anyway?
Many visitors to this part of the world are often disarmed by the awe-inspiring “Middle-earth feeling” that comes with the remarkable view, unrelenting as soon as you disembark at the airport. This breathtaking experience slows down even the fastest city slicker seeking adventure immediately on arrival.
In essence, this wine time machine has somehow been decanted into the enclave of The Winery.
So much so you might not notice yourself easing into the chair beside you or not see yourself in the mirrored glass quietly heading for your next tasting, at such an early part of the day. But let's face it, it is in fact so much more than that.
It interrupts your day, delays your restaurant booking, emails lay unchecked, text messages denied and tomorrow's events ultimately end up somehow redesigned or rescheduled, and why not.
Suddenly in the clarity of a single glass in one hand and nothing in the other, you realize something critical.
You are on vacation; you're on holiday, you have reached your true north, your last destination, your very own wine time.
Catering for all tastes, chill out in town with wine, Champagne, Ports, Sherry, Whisky, local beers and non-alcoholic beverages as you soak up the "vibe" that makes Queenstown so special. In winter enjoy hot mulled wine or a hot smokey buttered rum....just what you need to warm up after a day skiing.
Expect the unexpected during this interview about Sydney spider exhibit held downstairs in a tight corner deep within the sandstone bowels of an underground cave within the museum chambers.
Bill Aronson boarded his flight with a book in one hand and one in his mind. Underpinning the new book what a simple question
What would happen if you could double your memory?
Our flight is the very beginning of a story about a book that changed my flight and eventually my life.
In this story, we meet Bill very early on in his quest to increase his memory and then to go on and help thousands and thousands of other people to do just that.
Join us for a brief update on our next two new destinations and a huge thank you to all of our listeners as we leap forward into an exciting part of the journey.
Anthony (Tony) Hope runs the Salamanca walk a very flexible tour tailored to individual requests from Monday to Sunday alongside his working mate and tour guide Peter Lutz, the Manager of the Salamanca Walk tours. Tony has an interesting history and has also written about the history of Salamanca, in Hobart, Tasmania. His book A Quarry Speaks which is an illustrated history of Salamanca, Sullivans Cove and Battery Point now in its second edition. The book refers to the early colonial days including the convicts and early pioneering companies right up to the building of the Salamanca Square complex.
For those who love whisky and may not have the time to visit all of Tasmania’s distillery’s and independent bottlers, we represent all of these amazing award winning single malts in one place. Enjoy with knowledgeable staff who have passion for whisky!
“This is by far the best representation of the Tasmanian Single Malt Whisky Industry I have seen anywhere” – Bill Lark, November 2014
Specialising in:
- Whisky Tastings: Every whisky is on tasting including Limited Releases, Special Editions, & rare Tasmanian Single Malts.
- Whisky Flights: Tempting the taste buds with four of the finest.
- Whisky & fine food matching: Pairing Tasmanians outstanding single malts with Bruny Island & Tasmanian gourmet foods.
- An intimate environment with an open fire, stunning waters views, Gourmet Platters & a Boutique Provedore. Situated 3 kms from the ferry terminal.
arved from bush and pastureland on the outskirts of the sleepy little island settlement of Lunawanna on Bruny Island is Australia’s southernmost vineyard.
Richard and Bernice Woolley bought the Wayaree Estate property in 1997. With the help of Bernice’s father John Dillon, they established their vineyard the following year, planting 2500 Pinot Noir and 1500 Chardonnay vines.
The vineyard is set on a gently-sloping site with a sunny north-westerly aspect. In an ideal season, Tasmania’s calm, clear autumn days are perfect for the slow fruit-ripening conditions needed to create premium cool-climate wines.
There’s a long tradition of fruit-growing in the Dillon family. Up to the 1950s, Bernice’s father and grandfather had apple and pear orchards at Alonnah, one of the sparsely-populated island’s few settlements. But the story goes back even further – Bernice is a direct descendant of one of Bruny’s first settlers, who arrived at Coal Point in Adventure Bay in 1878.
And the history of horticulture on Bruny reaches a further 100 years into the past, because it was on this scenic island off Tasmania’s south-east coast that Australia’s first apple trees and grape vines were planted in 1778 by Captain William Bligh. He was one of the many European navigators who sheltered in Adventure Bay on their great voyages of discovery from the mid-1600s to the early 1800s. (The bay is named for the ship Adventure, commanded by Tobias Furneaux, second-in-command of James Cook’s 1772 expedition).
Richard and Bernice have recently extended the Bruny Island Premium Wines vineyard, which now has 6000 vines. The two-hectare block is well-protected by an encircling electric fence – the wallabies and possums around Lunawanna love the Woolleys’ grapes almost as much as the growing numbers of people who have discovered the wonderful cool-climate wines that are grown, made and bottled by hand on the estate.
Bruny Island Premium Wines is a genuine family affair. Apart from Bernice and Richard’s hands-on approach – they’re involved in everything from pruning to labelling – other family members are also involved. The beautiful and unique labels of their wines are taken from original oil paintings of Bruny scenes by Bernice’s mother Ruth Dillon (the Unwooded Chardonnay label shows Coal Point); while the graphic design is the work of Bernice’s cousin Kylie Stokely.
The Woolleys opened their cellar door in 2007. It features timber from the original vineyard site, and offers tastings and sales. The cellar door is open most days from 11am to 5pm. Richard and Bernice welcome appointments and group bookings.
If there’s no-one behind the counter when you call, just press the bell, because they won’t be far away – in a family-run vineyard, there’s always something to do!
Join us on the whisky Podcast at the Lark Distillery Cellar door and whisky bar is situated on the Hobart waterfront and offers the opportunity to taste Tasmania’s finest whisky and other distilled spirits in a warm and inviting atmosphere. The whisky Podcast is lead by Mark Nicolson.The bar ranges over 150 premium malt whiskies. From here you can venture to the Lark Distillery in the Coal River Valley on a guided tour. We offer a range of tour options including our signature tour ‘The Lark Distillery Tour’ which runs for three hours and includes the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of the Lark Distillery and discover the process, ingredients and art that goes into creating our award winning Single Malt whisky. Whilst you make your way through our distillery you will have the opportunity to taste our signature Single Malt Whisky during each stage of the distillation process all the way from fermentation to maturation.
The Lark Distillery Cellar door and whisky bar is situated on the Hobart waterfront and offers the opportunity to taste Tasmania’s finest whisky and other distilled spirits in a warm and inviting atmosphere. The bar ranges over 150 premium malt whiskies. From here you can venture to the Lark Distillery in the Coal River Valley on a guided tour. We offer a range of tour options including our signature tour ‘The Lark Distillery Tour’ which runs for three hours and includes the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of the Lark Distillery
Join us in part three of our visit to Hobart Tasmania visit with Rod Ledingham as we dive deeper into our story taking a tour of the Mawsons Huts Replica Museum.
Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum is rated by trip advisor as the best museum in Hobart being ranked as No 1 out of 15 museums
It has attracted over 100000 visitors in its first two years of operation and continues to set new attendance records with visitors from all over Australia and overseas.
Situated on, the citys beautiful waterfront it is just 50 metres from Constitution Dock and opposite Mawson’s Place.
It was opened on Monday December 2 2013 which was the 102nd anniversary of the departure from Hobart of the Australasian Antarctic expedition 1911 to 14 which Douglas Mawson led.
The MISSION
To develop the Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum as a boutique world class museum that: provides visitors with the opportunity to learn and understand the history and achievements of the men of the 1911 to 14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Douglas Mawson; helps promote awareness of Australia’s involvement in the Antarctic and highlights Hobart as the gateway to the Antarctic continent for the Asia Pacific region
Planning Your Visit
Make the most of the stunning scenery, waterfront vibe, cafes and restaurants when you plan your visit to our Replica Museum. Located in the centre of Hobart, we are within a few minutes walk of most major accommodation and conference venues.
Find more details before your next visit to Hobart Tasmania
Join us in part two of our visit to Hobart, Tasmania visit with Rod Ledingham as we dive deeper into our story taking a tour of the Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum.
Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum is rated by trip advisor as the best museum in Hobart being ranked as No 1 out of 15 museums.
It has attracted over 100,000 visitors in its first two years of operation and continues to set new attendance records with visitors from all over Australia and overseas.
Situated on, the city’s beautiful waterfront it is just 50 metres from Constitution Dock and opposite Mawson’s Place.
It was opened on Monday Deceember 2 2013 which was the 102nd anniversary of the departure from Hobart of the Australasian Antarctic expedition 1911-14 which Douglas Mawson led.
The MISSION
To develop the Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum as a boutique world class museum that: provides visitors with the opportunity to learn and understand the history and achievements of the men of the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Douglas Mawson; helps promote awareness of Australia’s involvement in the Antarctic; and highlights Hobart as the gateway to the Antarctic continent for the Asia Pacific region.
Planning Your Visit
Make the most of the stunning scenery, waterfront vibe, cafes and restaurants when you plan your visit to our Replica Museum. Located in the centre of Hobart, we are within a few minutes walk of most major accommodation and conference venues.
Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum is rated by trip advisor as the best museum in Hobart being ranked as No 1 out of 15 museums.
It has attracted over 100,000 visitors in its first two years of operation and continues to set new attendance records with visitors from all over Australia and overseas.
Situated on, the city’s beautiful waterfront it is just 50 metres from Constitution Dock and opposite Mawson’s Place.
It was opened on Monday Deceember 2 2013 which was the 102nd anniversary of the departure from Hobart of the Australasian Antarctic expedition 1911-14 which Douglas Mawson led.
The MISSION
To develop the Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum as a boutique world class museum that: provides visitors with the opportunity to learn and understand the history and achievements of the men of the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Douglas Mawson; helps promote awareness of Australia’s involvement in the Antarctic; and highlights Hobart as the gateway to the Antarctic continent for the Asia Pacific region.
Planning Your Visit
Make the most of the stunning scenery, waterfront vibe, cafes and restaurants when you plan your visit to our Replica Museum. Located in the centre of Hobart, we are within a few minutes walk of most major accommodation and conference venues.
Hobart travel centre Tasmaina Australia Join Alex Heroys inside the Travel podcast at the Tasmanian Travel and Information Centre on what's hot in and around Hobart for the coming season and take a journey with us and his unique insights.
The Centre employ over 20 enthusiastic, multilingual and knowledgeable staff to help visitors plan the perfect Tasmanian getaway. In addition to their skilled travel advisors, they have over 50 dedicated volunteers to greet visitors arriving from cruise ships and the airport on selected days. They can assist in planning itineraries, offer personalized travel suggestions, provide detailed local knowledge and information, and can even make your bookings.
As locals and tourism experts, they possess unique knowledge and information drawn from their experience of living in Tasmania and working in the tourism industry. The Tasmanian Travel and Information Centre is conveniently located in the centre of Hobart, less than five minutes walk from the waterfront and the city centre.
The Tasmanian Travel and Information Centre are here to help, so call, use the website contact form or visit our travel centre for our personalized service and for more
Join us on The startup school podcast for young entrepreneurs Bill Aronson the author of The Lost Art of How to Find Things: Freedom from forgetting, shares his thoughts on the 21st century challenge and exponential change.
In this our first startup school podcast for young entrepreneurs Bill shares his insights an education that combines academic and business skills to help you, your family and community.
As a tsunami of change is coming. Over the next two decades, artificial intelligence will transform the service sector and professions in the same way that automation did to agriculture and manufacturing in the 20th century. Half of today’s jobs will disappear and new industries will spring up.
What other schools are doing? Most schools today are preparing students perfectly for a job in 1970, despite the overwhelming evidence that a traditional education is no longer enough. You still need academic qualifications of course, but these become no more than the table stakes for entry into the market. You’ll need much more than a good degree to thrive over the duration of your career in an evolving world.
The world’s first school for teenage entrepreneurs The Cambridge International School, based in Cambridge, England, is the first in the world to inspire, equip and nurture teenage entrepreneurs. While many business schools and universities offer courses in business and entrepreneurship, we are the first school to provide this opportunity to 16-19 year olds. You will study for a minimum of three International A levels while running your own business. To make this possible, we will train you in accelerated learning techniques including the memory training mentioned in this book.
Action based learning The program is practical and real. You will work alone and in teams, running real businesses. You will go through the whole business cycle from generating business ideas, pitching for seed capital, to taking the company operational. Are you worried that you might fail? Success is born of failure. We expect you to fail. We want you to fail, because there is no better way to learn. Fail fast, fail often.
Philosophy The school is for students who want to do well and do good. You want an education that combines academic and business skills to help you, your family and community. You want to make a difference. Your next step may be university. However, you may find that you want to continue to run your own business, be a social entrepreneur, or use your new-found entrepreneurial skills as a passport to enter the global workforce. It’s up to you.
Background on the school The Cambridge International School has been running for ten years and is part of the International Schools Partnership with fifteen schools all over the world. This year the school is extending to provide education for students who are 17-18.
Summer School Summer school starts July 11th and goes through to August 5th. You can come for a week or two. Each week you will participate in a Google Design Sprint. On Monday you will create an idea. By Friday you will have a practical solution. You will be working with real companies like Dyson on real business issues. The cost is TL 30 a day.
What does it cost? A good question. This year only, because the school is just starting out, you can attend the summer schools for STL 30 per day which includes meals and accommodation and collection from Heathrow if you are coming from overseas. Furthermore, we have a number of scholarship programs for students attending. The bottom line.
We are looking for students who are funny, perceptive and courageous, people who are prepared to back themselves. If that sounds like you, we will work together to find a way for you to attend.
How can I find out more? The school is open from September 2016. However, you do not need to start then. We will be accepting students right up to the end of January to allow for other countries academic year.
From our Quick Photography Tips podcast with Mike Calder where we learn What type of weather is the best for great shots * + What type of weather is the best for great shots + What kind of camera is best when your traveling + How many photos to take when you have no time + What time of year will give you great results + When is the best time of day to take great photosGet our travel photography tips and tricks in our latest travel podcast series
Welcome back to part two where we continue our conversation with Mike Calder in the photography podcast part two with EATT magazine and then we head out to take a few photos where it looks like things might get a little bit wild. As the weather was showery we got some unexpected shots. We also had had a bit of a disaster when I got my camera out as somebody was using it the day before but we managed to capture the mood of the day.
We cover a simple trick to manage your camera in extreme weather and protect it from getting wet plus take a look at the images Mike took during the walkaround.
Join the festival of voices part 2 with Tony Bonney the festival director on the Travel Podcast to find out more about the character of this unique festival. Festival of Voices transforms our towns into singing cities every July. As Australia's premier celebration of the voice, we attract thousands of singers, choristers and music lovers, for the chance to hear harmonies soaring in concert halls, theatres and public spaces across the state. The Festival is proud to bring some of the most respected singers from across Australia and overseas to our shores. For eleven years we have presented a remarkable program of performances and - uniquely - vocal workshops run by critically acclaimed artists, creating a Festival experience like no other. A few years ago Brian Eno suggested that those moments when you sing collectively you stop thinking about ‘me’ and start thinking about ‘us’. This thought, outside of the undeniable artistry contained within, is at the core of our Festival. When we say we make this island sing we believe that we are not only providing an abundance of talent, light and warmth to our winter months but we are also bringing communities together to celebrate those moments of ‘us’. https://festivalofvoices.com
You can now Download the Free Podcast App from EATT Magazine. The new app is completely free and is available on the app store on both the Apple app store and now on Google play The free podcast app features
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Bill Aronson on Digital dementia part 1 and 2 on Crowdfunding with #masteryourmemory
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insights from the Carlton connect initiative with Dr Renee Beale
Elliot works closely with a range of projects, coaching creators on what makes a campaign compelling and the best practices for getting the campaign out there. FAQ from pozible.com include
What is a pledge ? A pledge is your proof to pay if the campaign hits it targets. When you pledge you leave your payment information with us. If the project reaches it's target, we take out your pledge amount and forward it to the campaigner.If the target is never reached, we delete the pledge information and the campaigner isn't obliged to fulfil the campaign outcomes or deliver the rewards.How does it all work?Project creators set up a campaign page where they list vital information on their project, the funding amount they need to realise this, the timeframe for the campaign and things they can offer to people in exchange for financial support (also known as 'rewards').If the project doesn’t reach the target amount within the time limit, no money changes hands and the supporters are never charged for their pledge.If the project hits it's funding target the supporters money is collected and the creator fulfils the project outcomes and delivers the 'rewards' to the supporters.Explore projects ending soon
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In part 2 of Digital dementia and The Lost Art of How to Find Things we take a memory test. Grab piece of paper and take the test with us
Find out more about the campaign here http://www.pozible.com/project/204106
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REPLACE THE BRAIN BATTERY
Get your first edition electronic copy of the "The Lost Art of How to Find Things" + our online newsletter.
Keep your valuables safe. Help your friends find lost items. Save money, time and end the frustration of absent mindedness.
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Does the thought of giving a speech without notes terrify you? Chances are you are suffering from digital dementia, the inability of perfectly normal healthy people to memorise and recall.
Check out the new campaign to fight digital dementia.
http://www.pozible.com/project/204106
My name is Bill Aronson. I am a memory coach. My team want to show you how you can reverse digital dementia and age-related forgetfulness. To date, I have trained more than seventy Tasmanians and the results are remarkable. As Jim Kwik, one of my memory coaches says, "There is no such thing as a poor memory only an untrained one." Once you know the techniques, whatever your age, your memory starts to improve.
Come on this journey and transform your ability to remember. As your memory improves, so does your self-confidence and your ability to imagine your future.
In 2015, I became interested in improving my memory. I noticed that it was not as sharp as it used to be. I had particular trouble recalling names.Then I realised that this was a common problem. We are all prone to digital dementia, the inability of perfectly healthy people to remember names, numbers, lists, street directions, pin numbers, passwords and all the other vital details of our lives. There is an unintended and significant cost of moving our memory into the Cloud and that is our memory is declining. Memory is not something that you have; it is something that you do. As we age, our memory declines. We assume that is normal and inevitable. It is not. I work helping others to double their memory. I am amazed at the capacity of the brain to adapt and change. Tell it that it is in decline and it declines. Tell your mind that this is not helpful and it improves. Neuroplasticity is a beautiful gift. My memory is far better than it was years ago only because of tips I will share with you.
I have also appeared on ABC radio where I recited the first 50 decimal places of Pi. You can listen to the interview with Ryk Godard by clicking the image above or here. https://soundcloud.com/936-abc-hobart/man-never-lo... My website at www.billaronson.com.au is devoted to all things to do with improving memory.I have written a short ebook - The Lost Art of How to Find Things - which is now ready for publication. Challenges The major challenge is our negative belief that it is natural to have a poor memory. That is why I want to train several hundred people. The more the merrier but at this time, my next target is 200 people in Hobart and 200 online. That will start to build up a critical mass. Then we can start introducing this work in schools, aged care facilities and workplaces. We are now in discussions to provide memory training to small business owners and their teams with federal funding paying the cost. Let's end digitally induced dementia and strength our ability to visualise the future. http://www.pozible.com/project/204106
Sydney Armani is a long time Silicon Valley entrepreneur, with more than twenty five years' experience in the Valley's community, acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. He shares his recent vision from the 4th Annual silicon Valley Crowdfunding conference and the growing move to alternative investments. We gain valuable insights into the future of crowdfunding and the importance of 2016 with a move to more equitable finance, the increasing opportunities for women in crowdfunding and the development of ethical investments within the sector. Sydney is an active speaker and moderator at conferences and plenary sessions on crowd finance, capital markets, secondary liquidity, disruption in banking and a host of other topics. He has lectured at major universities such as Georgetown and Hult International business School , while authoring articles for or being interviewed by CNBC, WSJ, INC Magazine, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist, amongst others. S ydney is publisher of CrowdFundBeat.com, an online daily crowdfunding news site in US, Canada and UK. He is also the founder of Crowdfunding USA Platform an early stage venture funding for startup incubator & accelerator. http://svcrowdfundbeat.com/ http://crowdfundbeat.com/
We take a tour at the Centre for Additive Manufacturing where research is driven by market requirements and focuses on design, materials and manufacturing and system development.
More details can be found here
http://www.rmit.edu.au/research/research-institutes-centres-and-groups/research-centres/centre-for-additive-manufacturing/about/
01 : EATT Magazine startup Podcast E1 with Research Rockets Blast off with the first podcast from the EATT Magazine startup Podcast and join Paul Ayling from Research rockets.
02 : Podcast for startups with Helen from Busivid Join us and listen to the startup podcast with Cullen from EATT Magazine and Helen from Busivid and get insights into one of the new startup apps at The CONNECT Expo In Melbourne
03 : EATT Magazine Podcast 3 – Retail design with Andy EATT Magazine Podcast 3 – Retail design with Andy and an introduction to this years podcast program.Andy Hennessy takes us through a designers view of retail merchandise and how an understanding of several principals can apply to the effects a design.
04 : EATT Magazine Podcast 4 – Silicon beach with Athula In part 1 of this series of podcasts around silicon beach for startups we join Athula Bogota in this remarkably candid interview on his role as the lead organizer for a silicon beach meetup.
05 : Podcast 5 – Interview with Phillip Ball Join us in this Interview with Phillip Ball sharing his thoughts on his new book Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen.
Phillip shares some of his research into his next book he is currently working on and the window he is using capture the philosophy and engineering of this exciting project.
06 : EATT Radio at Carlton Connect with Tony Lloyd EATT Radio interview Part 1 with Tony Lloyd an Australian contemporary artist.Join Cullen the Editor of EATT magazine interviewing Tony Lloyd about his exhibiting works at “Baby it’s hot outside!” – a ThoughtLAB-14 event presented by the Carlton Connect Initiative at The University of Melbourne.
07 : EATT Magazine podcast 7 with Pamela Bain Join us for the EATT Magazine podcast 7 with Pamela Bain part 1 of a 2 part podcast series.Pamela Bain is a practicing artist with over ten years exhibiting history. Working with materials and media such as acrylic, watercolour, pastel pencil, ink and collage, Pam is now exploring the application of digital manipulation to her painterly creations.
08 : Col. Chris Hadfield – First Canadian Astronaut to walk in space with Pamela Bain Podcast In Part 2 of this podcast Pam also talks about her life long passion for space travel history – a fascination recharged with each pilgrimage to NASA Houston.Hadfield conveys his interesting insights on art and communication pertinent to the ‘space’ experience along with his unique views of earth from the International Space Station.
09 : Virtual Reality podcast with Stefan Pernar the director of Virtual Reality Ventures Podcast In this Virtual Reality podcast Stefan Pernar, president of the Australian Virtual Reality Industry Association and director of Virtual Reality Ventures, shares some of his experience in VR technology.
10 : Artists and Entrepreneurs with Cammy Davis from art on the airwaves.com Join us in this interview with Cammy Davis about Artists and Entrepreneurs. Cammy hosts a show called Art on the Airwaves for KSKQ radio in Ashland Oregon. The show is about art and the business of art, where she interviews a wide variety of guests from artists, to musicians, to magazine editors, to book authors and discusses topics relevant to “artists and entrepreneurs.”
11 : Join Dr Renee Beale at the Carlton Connect initiative podcast Peter Sharp and Dr Renee Beale, High and Low, 2013. Peter Sharp and Renee Beale created a couple of years ago called ‘High and Low’ for an Insight Radical show in a gallery in Sydney – it tells a story of Chemistry from its roots in alchemy to more modern tech of today.
12 : An interview with Katie Demar – networker, accountant and photographer volunteering with Melbourne Silicon Beach Katie has previously been involved in volunteering with Melbourne Silicon Beach, has dabbled in trades from all areas and is always keen to get involved in new and exciting opportunities. Currently Katie has taken her love of networking to the web where she is aiming to utilise her skills to create the digital nomad lifestyle for herself and other people.
13 : Tim Sinclair the CEO of Ringr the new app podcast Tim Sinclair the CEO of Ringr the new app joins us from a very special event not yet revealed in this post but inside the interview itself and this is the first time EATT Magazine has used this technology during this call as a live test. Ringer has gained recognition from such companies as:
14 : Melbourne Silicon Beach with Sanjay from Random drinks and Sarthak from Getworm Join Sanjay at Melbourne Silicon Beach talking about his new meetup created by 2 random dudes, having random drinks, looking to meet random people, doing random things at a specific place on a Friday night! If I ask you to describe the relationship between a startup and early users, what would you say? Perhaps producer-consumer? What if I say they are both the same? What if I say they both can be described with “one word” from the dictionary, that is:
15 : DJ Main Event and Josh from AUUG at #SiliconBeachOz Join us with DJ Main Event and Josh from AUUG at #SiliconBeachOz.Main Event is a DJ, music producer, TV show host, songwriter and live MC act. He has performed the world over for concerts and multinational corporations as well as working with the best acts in modern entertainment.
16 : Cullen Pope and Martin Ball, Artist & musician with Cammy Davis Martin Ball is a multi-instrumentalist and composer living in Ashland, Oregon. His music varies through many different musical styles, combining elements of alternative, electronic, reggae, and world sounds into a unique and ever-shifting mix of dramatic and compelling music. His goal is to make music that captures the listener’s imagination with beautiful melodies, catchy rhythms, and interesting sounds and instrumentation.
17 : International podcast day .com with Steve Lee #PodcastDay Join Steve Lee the owner of Announce Solutions an IT consulting firm. After retiring from the Air Force he worked as an IT Consultant for such companies as, Computer Sciences Corporation, Modern Technologies Inc., International Consultants and IBM.
In part 2 of our interview with Oscar Jofre, President and CEO of KoreConX, we discuss Equity Crowdfunding across the Globe.
Oscar applies more than two decades of experience and insight into successful start up enterprises to lead KoreConX’s ongoing development and growth. He is a member of the Crowdfunding Intermediary Regulatory Advocates in the USA, a Top 100, Global Thought Leader on Equity Crowdfunding, and a Top 100 Fintech Influencer.
Oscar Jofre’s latest book
EQUITY CROWDFUNDING 101
THE GLOBAL GUIDE TO A FINANCIAL REVOLUTION
THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON
Joy Schoffler stated about the book that: “Being educated before you launch a crowdfunded offering is critical, Equity Crowdfunding 101 provides readers with a great base of knowledge to build their crowds.”
The Ebook was written by Oscar A. Jofre Jr edited by Jason Futko, and covers many areas of crowdfunding and Equity Crowdfunding.
EQUITY CROWDFUNDING 101
THE GLOBAL GUIDE TO A FINANCIAL REVOLUTION
Opens with a simple forwarding paragraph stating that Equity Crowdfunding is considered by most to be the holy grail of the crowdfunding phenomenon that is sweeping the globe. Companies can access capital via equity crowdfunding.
Then it dives straight into the basics with a very clear outline of the 4 main types of crowdfunding and equity based crowdfunding
Download EQUITY CROWDFUNDING 101
We sat down with Oscar Jofre, President and CEO of KoreConX, to discuss the future of equity crowdfunding and shareholder management for private companies. He's a Top 100 Global Thought Leader on Equity Crowdfunding, and a passionate advocate of finance disruption.
The discussion begins at ground level - with the how, what, when, why and where of crowdfunding, and proceeds to look at the industry from 10,000 feet up, focusing on why it’s disruptive, and what the potential economic and financial impacts of this innovation are.
Gone are the old days of arms-length relationships with shareholders, and equity crowdfunding is a direct result of this. You have to be transparent with the crowd, and if you do it right, they're your best customers and biggest advocates.
Oscar is a featured as a passionate speaker on equity crowdfunding, compliance, governance, and transparency across the USA, Australia, UK, Canada, Peru, Singapore, Indonesia and China.
In a recent media release KoreConX was outlined as a Secure Platform that Prepares Users for Due Diligence and Simplifies Shareholder Communications to Reduce Risk
The release also states portals are responsible for conducting due diligence on each company that wants to list on their portal. Doing this to the highest standards is where they get the edge and the reputation they need to succeed. This is a major undertaking, and time consuming when companies come unprepared and in large numbers. Portals serve the company and the investor, and protect the best interests of both with good due diligence. The investor will remain with the portal long after the company has raised its money, therefore the portal operators want to make sure their investors are being well taken care of by the companies they have just helped in raising their capital. We help save equity crowdfunding portals time, increase deal flow, and make regulatory compliance easy.
The full release can be found here https://koreconx.com/blog/en/news/
Examples of Anthony's words that sell include The focus on this page Equity crowdfunding USA is on people taking action when it comes to their equity crowdfunding projects. The seconds counting down on the timer is a proven way to get people to act instantly.
Here's an example template Anthony did using LeadPages on Conversion copy words that sell to demonstrate an email opt-in page. This template uses a high-quality background photo and includes a countdown timer, bullet points and easy opt-in call-to-action.
Additional works include
Crowdfunding examples
And an Crowdfunding App Competition currently live here at EATT Magazine and being used also no on our EATT Magazine Instagram account.
Elliot Chapple is the campaign advisor for Australia's biggest crowdfunding platform, Pozible. His mission is to increase the overall success rate of all campaigns. Working closely with creators his he coaches campaigns daily at all stages of their campaigns. With a background in the creative industries Elliot successfully launched Australia's biggest Action Sports Film Festival which started as a Skateboard Film Festival back in 2012. His time at Pozible has seen the project success rate rise from 58% to 65%.
Pozible | Crowdfunding Creativity
Join us with Murray Roberson and take a tour of the 3 ravens brewery then Ben Patterson shares some of his founding original vision for 3 ravens and Dee Wild takes us on a tour of the coworking space in this unique and ever intriguing tour.
Engineered by hand, 3 Ravens beers are the product of a craft brewing process in which traditional methods meet exacting standards. We take care to emphasise quality over quantity and use only the finest natural ingredients. Our Beer now undergoes a gentle filtration to remove fermenter yeast. The age old process of bottle conditioning is then started with a small amount of fresh live brewers yeast. This creates a clearer, brighter beer unmasking and enhancing the flavour, aroma and body of our premium natural ingredients. Cheers!
Their first project, 'Food for Thought', provides nutritious food and creative educational activity for children who have limited opportunities in their lives. Social Opportunity Group partly funds Food for Thought through their social enterprise espresso bar 'The Final Step' which is located in South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia. They also partake in various fundraising activities to make up the rest of the money necessary to fund their grassroots project.
In 2013 Ben Whitaker, Social Opportunity Group's founder, turned his espresso bar into a social enterprise that now donates 100% of it's profits. In the same year he moved to Argentina to join forces with his good friend Valeria to facilitate Food for Thought. He returns to Australia and New Zealand once a year to action fundraising events. Parts of Argentina are like a rich European country, other parts are very much third world. Health and Education are two areas that are in desperate need of improvement. This is why Social Opportunity Group is aiming at children and focusing on Food and Creative Activity within the Monte Chingolo community in the provinces of Greater Buenos Aires. They want to support children in making sensible decisions for themselves and those around them, today and for the rest of their lives. More details can be found at socialopportunitygroup.com
Join Martin Talvari and Nicolas Hoban on funding startups with Cullen Pope at SLUSH Down Under is a focal point for Australasian start-ups and tech talent to meet with international and local investors.
SLUSH Down Under is held in partnership with SLUSH Finland - Northern Europe's largest and premier tech start-up event, based in Helsinki, which attracts over 10,000 attendees.
This Summit was one of eleven conferences being held at CONNECT™
and details of the event from earlier in 2015 can be found here
slushdownunder
WELCOME TO THE NORTH. Helsinki, Finland on November 11-12, 2015.
Slush draws together a crowd of 15.000 tech entrepreneurs, VCs and journalists to Helsinki, Finland on November 11-12, 2015.
Slush is the focal point for startups and tech talent to meet with top-tier international investors, executives and media. This year, Slush brings together 15.000 attendees and more than 1600 startups for the two-day event. 800 investors have arrived to Helsinki to meet startups in nearly 4000 pre-booked meetings.
slush.org
Join us with Chris Krishna-Pillay (Science Communicator and Performer) where Chris shares his world view on art and its place in communication around science.
This event was part of ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2015 from 11 April–17 May 2015, a Melbourne-wide festival of art exhibitions, forums and talks seeking to harness the creative power of the Arts to inform, engage and inspire action on climate change. For more information: www.artclimatechange.org
Chris was a guest Panel member at the very first ThoughtLAB-14 event
Chris Krishna-Pillay is one of Australia’s most prominent science communicators and performers. His writing and performing credits include, Howard Florey – a Tale of Tall Poppies, Somnium, Pre-Coital, Dante’s Laboratory and the Great Big Science Gig. He has also directed Faraday’s Candle for re-science.
Chris has performed across Australia, as well as in the UK, New Zealand and Japan. Recent engagements have been with BHP Billiton, Bunnings, ABC, Siemens, State Library of Victoria and CSIRO. Chris has experience in television, drama, musicals, stand-up comedy and is also a regular guest on popular radio program Einstein A Go Go
More music details can be found on
Ologism website.
http://ologism.com/lyrics/lyric_supermodelnew
http://ologism.com/
The story of the project Field Notes - Hong Kong on Pozible FIELD NOTES IS A LIMITED EDITION 80 PAGE BOOK OF NICOLE REED'S PHOTOGRAPHY THAT CONTAINS A 10" VINYL RECORD OF MUSIC BY PLUTONIC LAB.
Pozible project http://www.pozible.com/project/196951
The collaborative work ‘Field Notes’ began development when Nicole Reed and Leigh Ryan began exploring and documenting their travels together.The first instalment is centered on the city of Hong Kong, and engages a uniquely tailored adaptation of the travel experience, blending the insights of Reed’s photography along with Ryan’s soundscapes.
"Hong Kong has always been a place that has held a massive interest for us, and when we visited, we naturally documented our travels as much as we could. We fell in love with Hong Kong and what we captured exceeded our expectations which lead us to the idea of Field Notes.""I have always wanted to produce a book of my photography and people have always asked me when I'll be working one. The images I took in Hong Kong have really inspired me to pursue this. We brainstormed the idea of using field recordings and thought the music created from them made an incredible backdrop for the images."“We wanted to combine our work in a unique and complimentary way, and as a creator of records and a fan of collecting them, the idea of inserting a vinyl record into the back seemed a perfect way of creating something tangible, analog and beautiful.
Nicole and Leigh Pozible project http://www.pozible.com/project/196951
Field Notes website - www.fieldnotesproject.comPlutonic Lab website - www.plutoniclab.comNicole Reed website - www.nicolereed.photography
While giving some advice to artists about marketing their products “on the spot ”, she shares insight into her latest videothat leaves our editor speechless and shares some of her upcoming sales strategies and the locations of some of her latest paintings and line of jewelry now in gallery’s across 5 states.
Art on the Airwaves podcasts are also available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spreaker and YouTube. The show airs every 1st and 3rd Friday from 1 – 2 pm PST. Tune in to KSKQ 89.5 fm or stream at kskq.org to listen live!
More details of her work can also be found on http://cammydavis.com/
Her jewelry can also be found at http://cammyart.com/
Links to Cammy’s podcasts can also be found at artontheairwaves.com
The song for this podcast is called “ Come Back To Me” by Jeff Kloetzel
International podcast day .com with Steve Lee #PodcastDay SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 Join Steve Lee the owner of Announce Solutions an IT consulting firm. After retiring from the Air Force he worked as an IT Consultant for such companies as, Computer Sciences Corporation, Modern Technologies Inc., International Consultants and IBM. Steve is also the founder of Modern Life Podcast Network, Modern Life Discussions, Two Thumbs Up Media podcast directory, Prescott Logistics, Building Market Place and International Podcast Day. Steve has been a four time Podcast Award finalist and with over 3,000 podcast episodes produced on his network.
There is National IPA Day, National Waffle Fries Day, National Pancake Day, and National pretty-much-anything-you-want Day. In the summer of 2013, Steve Lee (founder of Modern Life Network) heard a radio announcement for National Senior Citizens’ Day. Thinking that was pretty cool, it begged the question of why wasn’t there a day of celebration for podcasting. That’s when Steve said to himself “Let’s create a Podcast Day!” So the adventure began and a collective team of podcasters put their heads together to establish methods for podcasters and podcast listeners to raise awareness for this great entertainment and education medium. After the overwhelming success of Podcast Day 2014 the event was rebranded to International Podcast Day to ensure the world is involved.
“September 30th will be a day to celebrate podcast producers and a day to celebrate podcast consumers around the world,” said Steve Lee. “It’s a day where we can educate the world about the wonders of podcasting.”
As more and more mainstream broadcasters and celebrities start releasing podcasts, the market is booming and the download numbers don’t lie. The entertainment system in the car you will be driving in as early as two years will be able to stream podcasts. Airlines have already stocked their “inflight entertainment” options with various podcasts flyers can listen to at 34,000 feet.
It's like being in the early days of TV and Radio, but also it has provided an avenue to create audio and video information, education and entertainment, which can't be found through traditional media. It is thought that as podcasting becomes a more integral aspect of entertainment, education and self expression, the public needs to be familiar with the term and know what they are. This is where where International Podcast Day comes in.
InternationalPodcastDay.com has been set up, not only as a resource, but also as a site where current podcasters, listeners or anyone curious about podcasting can go and learn about the industry, get the word out about this broadcast medium. Remember that podcasting is meant to be both educational and fun.
Lee and his team want everyone to go out and spread the word; International Podcast Day is September 30.
Let’s Start The Conversation!
http://internationalpodcastday.com/
Martin Ball is a multi-instrumentalist and composer living in Ashland, Oregon. His music varies through many different musical styles, combining elements of alternative, electronic, reggae, and world sounds into a unique and ever-shifting mix of dramatic and compelling music. His goal is to make music that captures the listener’s imagination with beautiful melodies, catchy rhythms, and interesting sounds and instrumentation. In addition to pursuing music, Martin is also an author, public speaker, university professor, and visionary artist.
iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/martin-ball/id128815453 More of his work can be found at
www.martinball.net
About Cammy Davis
EXHIBITIONS
2015Various Group Exhibits, Ozone Fine Art, Newport, ORVarious Group Exhibits, PUSH Art Gallery, Ashland, ORVarious Group Exhibits, Rogue Gallery & Art Center, Medford, OR
2014Sacred ARTifacts, Ozone Fine Art, Newport, ORVarious Group Exhibits, PUSH Art Gallery, Ashland, OREdgy Art, Ashland Armory, Ashland, ORTwo-Person Exhibition, Connections, downtownART+SOUND, Medford, ORVarious Group Exhibits, Rogue Gallery & Art Center, Medford, ORSolo Exhibition, Winter Textures, Berryman Gallery, Medford, ORAshland, Oregon Hannon Library, SOU Campus, Ashland, OR
More podcasts can be found on
art on theairwaves
Join us with Anthony from mainevent and Josh from AUUG at #SiliconBeachOz Main Event is a DJ, music producer, TV show host, songwriter and live MC act. He has performed the world over for concerts and multinational corporations as well as working with the best acts in modern entertainment.
Reach him at: talktome(at) djmainevent.com
Supporting Start-ups At EATT, we like to keep you in the loop while supporting great ideas and innovation at the same time. So, each issue we’ll introduce you to a new start-up venture you might like to explore.
AUUG Motion Synth
From motion to music! The AUUG Motion Synth is a remarkable leap in creating music via movement. It transforms your iOS device into an expressive controller that plays musical notes, and allows you to alter their sound through motion. It places the power of live musicians in the hands of anyone who loves music, and lets users create a symphony of electronic sound, from heavy metal and solid rock to classical. In fact, it can be applied across any genre of music.
AUUG Motion Synth - standalone synth A special grip created with aircraft grade aluminum attaches to your iPhone or iPod touch, and the app directs sound creation by tracking your movement and touch. The AUUG Motion Synth allows you to generate what some users have described as ‘a fantastic journey through your own soundscape’.
AUUG Motion Synth Grip 6
Plus the AUUG Motion Synth makes it easy to control the sounds generated by compatible iOS music apps running in the background on the same iPhone or iPod touch, as well as external devices (like a laptop running music software) via WiFi or MIDI cables. Favorite settings can be configured and saved as presets and shared via the AUUG cloud with the AUUG user community.
For pre orders http://www.auug.com/pre-order/
For more details visit http://www.auug.com/
Join Sarthak from Getworm at Melbourne Silicon Beach.
The excerpt below is from a recent article in EATT Magazine.
If I ask you to describe the relationship between a startup and early users, what would you say? Perhaps producer-consumer? What if I say they are both the same? What if I say they both can be described with "one word" from the dictionary, that is:pioneer pʌɪəˈnɪə/1. a person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area2. a person who goes before others to prepare or open up the way; one who begins, or takes part in beginning, some enterprise, course of action, etc.
So in a way, both startups and users are a part of the same community! A community that wants to see problems solved, a community that is not afraid to try, a community that embrace new ideas and a community that can benefit from each other.
Yet while every Startup is seeking answer to “How to get our first 1000 users fast ...superman fast?”Early Adopters are thinking “What’s in it for me?"
Inspired by the challenge and with the simple idea of “early bird gets the worm”, we thought “How about attracting the curious & engaging community of early adopters, and how to get them more excited about a startup?” An idea came - “Let’s get them worms!”
Tim joins us from a very special event not yet reveled in this post but inside the interview itself and this is the first time EATT Magazine has used this technology during this call as a live test. Ringer has gained recognition from such companies as: Serra Ventures, who work closely to provide professional advisory services and entrepreneurial capital to emerging enterprises in the Central Illinois area and other selected geographies. The Champaign County Economic Development Corporation whose mission is through public-private partnerships to continually grow the local economy by supporting local business and driving expansion and attraction. The app that lets you connect with virtually anyone on the planet, record your conversation, and instantly download it for editing, playback, and sharing. And the best part? The sound quality is amazing! In fact, unless you share your secret, no one will know the two of you weren't sitting right next to each other having a face-to-face chat. Description RINGR lets you connect with virtually anyone on the planet, record your conversation, and instantly download it for editing, playback, and sharing. And the best part? The sound quality is amazing! In fact, unless you share your secret, no one will know the two of you weren't sitting right next to each other having a face-to-face chat. We hope you'll share your feedback with us. What do you like? Not like? What features would you like to see from RINGR in the future? Our next release will feature many of the suggestions we receive from you over the next few months. CURRENT FEATURES Record interviews and conversations at amazingly high quality, no studio required. Stereo, split-track downloads. In-app scheduling of future interviews. Receive an MP3 download of your call within minutes. FUTURE FEATURES Address book implementation External microphone compatibility Notification alerts "Smart" processing Conference calling Use RINGR to record podcasts, radio or job interviews, and other conversations worthy of saving and/or sharing. Each recording sounds like you both are in the same room, even if you’re on opposite sides of the country…or the world! Download the app today http://www.ringr.us/
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Renee Beale is a science communicator and curator committed to increasing public education, awareness and engagement in science. She is particularly interested in science and art, and how the two disciplines many inform each other.
Renee has over eight years experience in science communication, runs artist residencies in the School of Chemistry, and curates exhibitions involving historical items used in chemistry research. She also manages cultural programming at Carlton Connect Initiative, the University of Melbourne where she brings together people from diverse backgrounds, particularly from the arts and sciences, to curate events and exhibitions.
Prior to her current activities, Renee trained as a research scientist earning a PhD in Genetics from the University of Melbourne and spent three years in a postdoctoral research position at Monash University.
This interview is with Cammy Davis who hosts a show called Art on the Airwaves for KSKQ radio in Ashland Oregon and the show is about art and the business of art interviewing a wide variety of guests from artists, to musicians, to magazine editors, to book authors and discusses topics relevant to "artists and entrepreneurs." Cammy Davis is a mixed-media artist whose work has been featured at fine art galleries throughout the Northwest. She has been published in books—Ashland, Oregon and Ashland, Oregon Day Trips—and periodicals—EATT Magazine, Luxe Beat Magazine and Southern Oregon Magazine. Cammy’s work is influenced by her roots in the outdoors and growing up in an Airstream near a river surrounded by the woods. This translated to her art in later years, both in her contrasting use of natural and industrial materials, and her characteristic independence. Cammy constructs her work from scratch. To Cammy, the creative process is based on a willingness to experiment and always be learning. Cammy studied Fine Art at the University of Idaho for two and a half years, raised a family and then went back to complete her degree in Interior Design at Bellevue College in Washington. In this interview Cammy shares her latest travels in San Francisco at the San Francisco International Gift Fair and her insights into entrepreneurship and being an artist while giving some advice to artists about marketing their products "on the spot " and shares an insight into her latest video that leaves our editor speechless and shares some of her upcoming sales works and the locations of some of her latest Paintings now in gallery's across 5 states. Art on the Airwaves podcasts are also available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spreaker and YouTube. The show airs every 1st and 3rd Friday from 1 - 2 pm. Tune in to KSKQ 89.5 fm or stream at kskq.org to listen live! More details of her work can also be found on http://cammydavis.com/ Her jewelry can also be found at http://cammydavisjewelry.com/ Links to Cammy's podcasts can also be found at ,artontheairwaves.com The song for this podcast is called "Singing The Sun Down" by Jeff Kloetzel Jeff's songs are Influenced by many musical genres including pop, rock, folk, blues and contemporary island, there should be something for everyone in Jeff's set list. His original songs are fueled by his rhythmic guitar work and soulful vocals. In 2014 Jeff took top honor for "Best Local Musician/Singer" in the Sneak Preview's Medford area poll (and was a top 5 finisher in 2013), and in 2012 he won the first Southern Oregon Rising Stars competition hosted by South Stage Cellars winery. He just released his latest CD - "Long Time Coming" -- in November 2014. Kloetzel has strummed guitar strings from a young age. A self-taught player from a musical family, he played with many artists and groups in Hawai'i including Johnny Helm, Jake Shimabukuro, Bruce Shimabukuro, John Cruz and Guy Cruz . His recorded work and compositions can be found on many CD's with a variety of artists and on his own indie label (Kamananui Records LLC). Jeff has performed around the USA (MD, VA, MT, ID, OR, WA, CA, HI) as well as in Japan (touring with renowned ukulele magician Jake Shimabukuro). He's also had the good fortune to have been a member of bands opening shows for the likes of Jackson Browne, Gregg Allman, Jack Johnson, Gavin DeGraw and Aimee Mann. Since moving to Oregon, Jeff has been the local opening act at the renowned Britt Festival for 70's supergroup America, Boz Scaggs, Natalie Merchant, Gavin DeGraw, Matt Nathanson, Jake Shimabukuro and Leo Kottke. www.jeffkloetzel.blogspot.com
And his latest album can also be purchased on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/jeff-kloetzel/id939022993 Hi reviews include ~ "outstanding acoustic guitar" by AllMusic.com www.cdbaby.com/jeffkloetzel
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Details of Tonys works ” slow motion” can be found in the Periscope version of EATT Magazine.Join Cullen the Editor of EATT magazine interviewing Tony Lloyd about his exhibiting works at “Baby it’s hot outside!” – a ThoughtLAB-14 event presented by the Carlton Connect Initiative at The University of Melbourne.Tony is part of the a guest panel invited to to interact with the audience to collaborate on ideas, analyse evidence and dream alternative futures. The panel are invited to imagine It’s the summer of 2050 and after three consecutive days hotter than 47oC, including a new record temperature for Melbourne of 50oC, predictions of even hotter temperatures have thrown citizens into chaos. Your country has turned to you to solve the predicament. With your trusty advisory panel, decide on the best plan of attack and strategies to implement.This event is part of ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2015 a Melbourne-wide festival of art exhibitions, forums and talks seeking to harness the creative power of the Arts to inform, engage and inspire action on climate change.Lloyd’s paintings are influenced by cinema, in particular Film Noir and Science Fiction, and the Romantic conception of the sublime. Lloyd’s largely monochromatic paintings are realist in style.
Stefan Pernar is at the Connect expo which is Australia’s fastest growing business event with a focus on disruptive and emerging technologies.
The event holds a large trade show with technology zones and a streamed conference program covering industry, job functions plus technology tracks and roundtables. Executives from across various industry’s, Government and startup community’s come together to network and access solutions and form partnerships.
During this podcast Stephan shares a VR headset with Cullen the editor and broadcaster of EATT Magazine and explains not only some of the medical applications emerging now for VR ( Virtual Reality ) but also applications for VR in the fashion industry.
Virtual Reality Ventures has also begun prototyping experiences for business leaders. Stephan is also working on a book with a focus on the evolution of virtual reality and how this could affect the human species.
Virtual Reality Ventures positions itself at the fore front the vastly growing corporate aspect of the virtual reality industry – See more at: www.virtualrealityventures.com.au/
The company now has a wide range of corporate clients and sponsors and more details can be found at http://www.virtualrealityventures.com.au/
Stefan Pernar has also been featured on startupsmart, on Australia’s channel 9 news, The Sydney Morning Herald, The ABC, on the Rev VR Podcast, the Enter VR podcast and ComputerWorld.
This is the first podcast Virtual Reality podcast and we will be speaking with other innovators in Virtual Reality in our new Technology and innovation stream shortly.
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Pam also talks about her life long passion for space travel history - a fascination recharged with each pilgrimage to NASA Houston.
Pamela Bain is a practicing artist with over ten years exhibiting history. Working with materials and media such as acrylic, watercolour, pastel pencil, ink and collage, Pam is now exploring the application of digital manipulation to her painterly creations. Pam’s body of work includes
BIOTIC COSMIC
A life long interest in astrophotography and space exploration has informed Pamela Bain’s latest body of work. Responding to the uncanny resemblance of microbiology to outer space imagery BIOTIC COSMOS speaks to the observation that we and the universe share mutual composition and thus, connects us all. This creative direction also relates to one’s location within space both near and far. Overall, the space scape thematic provides an interface for meditation and potential for philosophical reflection: a contemplative space in which to consider relationships with ones environment, one’s self and the universe.
Join in Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen with
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