Behind the City Night scenes 01.07.09
Although the City Nights call-out has finished, the finalist works are now being recorded for radio broadcast right here in the ABC studios. Pool intern Meeli tells us what it's like being amongst the actors and musicians:
"Today I wandered down to the studio to see Gretchen working with some musicians
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Pitch to Pool 26.06.09
If you create interesting sounds, pitch them to presenter Tim Ritchie at Sound Quality by uploading them to the Sound Quality group on Pool. He's featuring this track Hamadryad from Pool on his show tonight. Tim is always looking for fresh material to feature on his show and is calling out to composers of the interesting, the evolutionary, the inaccessible and the wonderful. Auditioning's never been so easy!
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City Nights finalists 24.06.09
Over the last four months nearly 350 unique and wonderful stories, images and sound worlds have been contributed to City Nights. It's been entirely magical to log on each morning to see what else the City Nights tag cloud has rained down overnight; from the very local to the anywhere, the early evening to the pre-dawn, the intimate to the abstract, the heart-felt to the detached.
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keffiyehs and baseball caps 19.06.09
We’re very excited with our first guest blog from a member of the Pool community. Thanks Susan!
Photographer Susan Dirgham tells us what motivates her to share her work on Pool.
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Newtown: my street in the City Night 15.06.09
One of Pool’s interns Amelia has been working on the team since the start of the year. As a Newtown local, she’s guest blogging about new work on Pool set in the inner-city of Sydney. Warning: these entries will inspire you to contribute that last-minute entry for City Nights (closes Monday).
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You can't beat a beta bug! 17.06.09
Well we knew it was ambitious rolling out so many new features at once: groups and instant comment notification, forums, the creative commons licence selector, the redesigned upload and profile forms...But we really didn't count on how many bugs that might add to the mix. And now we are all swimming in it!
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When is enough Lust too much? 12.06.09
Radio National's The Spirit of Things is running a monthly series exploring all seven sins, and they invite you to contribute. The first program, starting this Sunday at 6pm, delves into Lust. For the next month, share your creative stories of Lust here in Pool. Be as lateral as you like. Join the Seven Deadly Sins group and read more about the call-out here.
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Q150 Steam Train Writers 12.06.09
We’re very excited that our Pool team has grown. Welcome Andrew!
I’ve been wanting to say hello for a while! My name is Andrew Davies and I’m the newest member of the Pool Team. I’ve only officially been onboard for the last month or so, and the first project I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in is the Q150 Steam Train.
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