Illicit Eve or Belittle League... You Decide!

There're a couple of Suit Up! related gigs coming up, on the same night, no less. Illicit Eve, featuring our very own Emily Smart will be making their triumphant post touring return to the Grace Emily, Waymouth St, Adelaide. They'll be playing with Rejusa, flogging their new t-shirts and generally being rocktastic.

At the same time, just a couple of blocks to the south, Belittle League will be shaking his booty for the masses in support of Home For The Def at The Prince Albert, Wright St, Adelaide. Belittle League is responsible for all the music that's heard in Suit Up!, including the wondrous squelching opening track, "Rock And Roll Ombudsman".

Both these awesome gigs will be happening this Thursday, November 2nd 2006 from 9pm. Get along and rock out!

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Our proper website is still under construction, and it'll be a few weeks yet before anything really cool is up there. You can visit there if you want, though, and maybe bookmark it for future reference. :)

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Well it's been a lovely and relaxing holiday. I just hope I'm ready for the next two months, which are sure to be blisteringly busy. I have secured myself a bit of work experience, which should be fantastic, but might get in the way of the end of my work on Suit Up! This project is so important to me. I'll do the best juggling I can to get things done on time.

Do you all know about the end of year screening? Whatever else happens, you'll get to see Suit Up! there, and on the big screen no less!

ADVANCED MAPS 2006 SCREENING
7pm, Friday December 1st
Marion Cultural Centre
287 Diagonal Rd, Oaklands Park
South Australia

Hope to see you there!

Jeff Pulver and Network 2.0

Welcome to to the future of TV on the Internet. Let Network2 be your guide to tv shows only available on the Internet.

I've been watching quite a bit of Internet video in the last couple of days. It probably would've been to my benefit to have better researched what was already out there in terms of applying a model to how things would turn out. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure we'll still be fine. But there really is a lot of cool stuff out there.

My hot favourite at the moment has to be Cerealized, a genuinely funny 24-part series about three flatmates and three breakfast table bickering. I've seen four episodes: all good. The show started in October last year, and seems to be on hiatus at the moment. I've still got plenty more to see, though, so it's cool.

I've been watching them on Network 2.0, an off-shoot of pulver.com that is a directory of Internet-only shows. Since Jeff Pulver mentioned me (and Suit Up!) on his blog the other day, we've had a bit of a discourse about Internet TV, and he's let me preview some of the stuff they have in store for Network 2.0.

Here's the Network 2.0 definition of Internet TV:

An Internet only TV Show should be a source of video content that is orginial, consistently updated, and entertaining. It should not be alternate viewing or portions of broadcast content, an aggregation of user submitted, user generated, or viral video with minimal original contribution, or purely personal vlog with a dearth of general interest or entertaining material.

I think Suit Up! makes the grade in this regard, but we're also going to have to set up a dedicated RSS feed. Easy enough with the feed, but as I've mentioned before, it's the hosting that I think's going to be the tricky part.

Further reading:
Jeff Pulver being interviewed on Rocketboom.

The Australian: Live narrative short films aren't so diverse.

Creativity bypass | The Arts | The Australian

SHORT films aren't dying, only their relevance is. As Hollywood studios increasingly look towards the flashiest talent from the hottest new media -- the Zeitgeist-hitting, video-dominating YouTube or MySpace, for example -- the competent work of a film school graduate just doesn't look sexy any more.

Digital film-making has liberated the creative community and given it access to a medium once viewed as prohibitively expensive to work with. The internet has added accessibility to that low cost; but while the volume of such short films and videos has increased, they haven't exactly added to the greater good.

I don't think Adelaide Punk, for example, will have any problems setting itself apart from the mainstream, but I agree with a lot that is said in this article. I wouldn't say, though, that M.A.P.S. as an educational institution necessarily "encourage(s) social realism" as a rule.