This is the Outsider's Guide to Melbourne's archive section, where you will find information about and links to our previous competitions, workshops and events.
Capturing Melbourne is a photo journalism competition which the Outsider's Guide to Melbourne is proud to present on an annual basis. In it's inaugural year, 2008, we had a number of outstanding entries, some of which can be seen here.
winner of Best Photojournalism Story
Miscellaneous articles from past competitions etc.
The Illustrated Space in the Outsider's Guide is open for graphic artists of any kind (e.g. illustrators, animators, etc.) to contribute in the making of this interactive journal. Contributors are welcome to send illustrated stories about one specific subject, which will change periodically. The current subject is "Public Transport Stories."
Slideshow from "Public Transport Story # 5"
Sonnets from the Gatwick is a series of short video-documentaries originated from the Gatwick Private Hotel, a rooming house in Fitzroy Street, St Kilda.
The production of these videos is being done with the collaboration of the management and some of the tenants of the Gatwick.
Track 1; it runs in the family Track 2; The spiritual realm
Track 3; Backstage Balad Track 4; Retracing Steps
Track 5; Food Van Sonnet Tracks 6; Wendy Wanderlost
Track 7; A Fountain of Inspiration
Behind the scenes photographs
Directed by: Mauricio Rivera R.
Artistic Director: "Budapest" Sandor Szentirmai
This space is open for the contributors of the Outsider's Guide to publish their work outside Melbourne.
It’s an exercise of shared artistic creation. A game in which one player (a person or a group) starts by creating the first detail of a news article dated on the future. The second player (ideally a group), must complete the rest of the story. A detail can either be an image or a title. The player who provides the first detail also selects the date for the news-story. The first set of News from the Future has been dev-eloped by the Outsider's Guide, as part of a research on di-gital media and its influence on 21st century societies. The game is inspired by a statement by communications’ theorist Marshall McLuhan, author of terms like: “global village” and “the medium is the message.”
McLuhan defines the artist as “the antennae of society” or as humankind’s “early warning systems.”
News from the Future is an invitation for you to play the artist and foresee the future through the eyes (and words) of a fellow creative mind.
If you want to fill a story, you may send the text to outsidersguide@gmail.com or you may download the larger images with no title and design it yourself. If you want to submit an image of your own, you may also send it to the email above.
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