Moniq, the organiser, has hosted costume markets before and they’re good fun! Here’s details of the upcoming one:

All That Glitters | Brisbane’s Costuming Market

It’s back! And this time it will be conveniently held at The Village Markets, Blamey St Kelvin Grove, so you can pick up all your essentials at the one place… bread, milk, nipple tassels and space suit fabric!

Items for sale will include the unique! the new, the pre-loved and the hand crafted by the artisans themselves… and cater for all lovers of theatre, cabaret, burlesque and dancers… or just those who know how to dress to impress!

*To Register for a sellers spot, please email info@moniq.com.au (no later than 8th April)*

Date: Saturday, 17 April 2010
Time: 09:00 - 13:00
Location: The Village Markets - Blamey St, Kelvin Grove

Tell me about your body in 10 words or less

definatalie:

I want to illustrate a zine on body image! Please send out the word, I’m hoping for a lot of responses!

International Girl Gang Underground Zine - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Call for Submissions

THE INTERNATIONAL GIRL GANG UNDERGROUND compilation zine aims to document and dissect how Riot Grrrl’s legacy has manifested twenty years later, as well as provide guidance for those who want to transform “revolution girl style now!” into “REVOLUTION GIRL STYLE FOREVER!”

If Riot Grrrl doesn’t resonate with you or your cause, that’s okay! We also want to know about all the do-it-yourself, grassroots music movements currently being run by women/girls/trans/genderqueer/queer folks today.

So many of you are able to contribute - go for it! I’d like to contribute something too but I’m not sure what to say.

bridgettelizabeth:

(via Far Beyond The Stars | The Art of Being Minimalist)

…99% of the people in the world are content to exist within the confines of their own settled mediocrity. The boredom of sitting under florescent lights all day begins to set in over time. Their current situation burns into their psyche, and they stagnate.

The thought of rejecting the status-quo scares the crap out of them.

It starts with the idea that you have to be realistic. Everyone knows a horde of people who either are being realistic or will tell you to be realistic. Well, these people are wrong. They’re blinded by their own passivity.

They’ve given up. They’re walking zombies. You don’t want to be one of these people.

And more importantly, don’t listen to these people.

They call them worker drones for a reason. These people are not being compared to busy bees, they’re being compared to The Borg.

Does this sound familiar? When you look at yourself in the mirror are you beginning to see the last remnants of life seeping out of your soul?

It’s never too late to start having unreasonable expectations for yourself.

You can make a change, you can make a difference in your own life and the lives of others.

Since I’ve already achieved my “unrealistic” goal of living and working from anywhere and earning at least $30,000 a year (by current approximations) it’s time to up the ante.

Here’s my new unreasonable goal: By this time next year I want to earn $100,000 a year, in addition to all of the other accomplishments I’ve unrealistically achieved over the last four months.

I don’t want to do this so I can spend it all on hookers and plasma TV’s. Because of my minimalist lifestyle, I’ve estimated that I can live comfortably making around $25,000. When I make this unrealistic amount of money, I will use it to help as many people as I can achieve exactly what I did. This blog will teach how to achieve everything that I’ve accomplished.

But enough about my unrealistic goals, and more about yours.

Here are 13 ways to start thinking about achieving unrealistic success.

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For some reason none of the external links are working (they’re all leading to empty “a” references) but it’s a great article nonetheless.

This hat has its own groupies and fans now. This isn’t the first time that Tiara (or in this case The Travelling Salesman) + Hat = Adoring People. Hmm.

Big Gay Day, 10 000 people, WHOA! And Kelly Rowland sang the song we used for the first part of the choreo, When Loves Takes Over - TWICE! We should have stagecrashed or something.

I’m glad I’m done drag king-ing for a while though. I was really starting to miss being feminine (and I hardly am!).

Taktaba: How to Learn Choreography Faster and More Easily - By Doing it Backwards!

bridgettelizabeth:

When you fly in an airplane, you hope for a smooth flight. But sometimes take-offs are shaky and flights are bumpy. In the end, all that really matters is a safe landing.

Flying instructors know this, and so their earliest lesson is not how to fly the plane, but how to land it. Flying students practice landings over and over again, because not only do they need to be able to land the plane safely, but they need to feel completely confident doing it. Worrying about the landing could cause them to make a mistake.

This is an interesting concept, and I think I might have to try it out.

That’s how I learn a lot of circus skills. Our first step in learning stilts was learning how to fall - there’s a certain way to do it that stops you from injuring your back and allows you to brace yourself. Also, I’ve taken tumbling &physical comedy classes with Ira Seidenstein and the first thing he often does is get you to feel how the landing should be like - even if it means throwing you off the platform! He breaks everything down into steps, and instead of overthinking the process you just follow the steps and it all comes into place.

There is a man with a hat with large playing cards in it: King, Ace & Joker: self-promoting magician or blatant poker cheat?

Twitter / @drnic, who spotted me at TEDxBrisbane today. I had Gangstars rehearsal today too, so I had my drag king Travelling Salesman/magician costume on. I decided to wear my cards hat instead of stuffing it in my bag - and evidently it worked as a attention-grabber! I got a lot of questions about it!

I think my drag king getup is working a little too well though. I’m already being mistaken for a guy and I didn’t even draw on facial hair!

If someone is proposing that you work an unpaid internship because you’ll get a lot of experience, then you have to make sure that you’re actually working at a place that is actually capable (and willing) to teach you something you need to know … the more specfic, the better.

If someone wants you to perform in an artistic event, “for the exposure”, then I think you are obligated to find what that means:

Does it mean that press will be on hand to review the show?

Does it mean that you’ll have a chance to work with great fellow artists in a positive work environment?

Does it mean that important members of your industry will be in the audience to see the work?

Or does it just mean that you’re working for free and the most you’ll get out the engagement is a credit on a back of your resume?

There’s no shame in being an unpaid intern, or volunteering your artistic talents. It can be a great way to build your career.

But I also think it’s worth pointing out that some arts organizations have built their entire business model around taking a lot from people and giving little in return.

I used to volunteer to teach art at a local primary school. Sadly, by the age of 10, the majority of children had already slipped so far into perfectionism that their ability to make art was suffering. They had a very clear peeking order of who was good at art and who wasn’t and their definition of what constituted ‘being good at art’ seemed to revolve around not making mistakes.

So I devised a little exercise.

I asked them to paint a quick, colourful picture and while it was drying, I led a class discussion. I asked them whether they thought artists made mistakes? They universally agreed that if you were an artist that meant you didn’t make many mistakes and the better you were, the fewer mistakes you would make. I explained that, in fact, the very opposite was true and that someone who wasn’t willing to make mistakes wouldn’t be a very good artist. I explained that ALL artists constantly made mistakes but that they simply saw mistakes as potential opportunities.

Then, I asked them to tear up their paintings.

They stared at me in horror and disbelief. ‘Rip them up’, I urged, ‘rip them up!’ Clearly still believing they would get into trouble, a few of the braver ones made tentative little rips. ‘That’s brilliant, do more’, I encouraged. Suddenly most of the class understood that they really did have permission to destroy their work and things dissolved into gleeful giggles and wild tearing. After several minutes of creative mayhem, I asked them to stop, take a few minutes to calm down and then to re-examine their pile of torn paper with a view to transforming it into a collage. The collages weren’t anything to write home about but it’s still the art lesson of which I’m proudest and in an age of constant exams and teaching to the test, I hope it stuck with at least a few of them.

The Wisdom of Mistakes

I wish she was my art teacher. In school I would be punished for doing my artwork “too quickly” or be told in a middle of an exam “my six year old could do better!”. One time I was told that my (compulsory) entry for an anti-drugs poster campaign was so horrendous that they threw it away. I still have trouble dealing with visual art.

Who’s a Pretty Burlesque Princess Now | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

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