Wanted: Music Entrepreneurs. Apply now!

Here I put some of the latest local and international competitions announcements. These announcements have been emailed by the MSC few days ago, and I'd think I hardly can't joined any of them. I guess it would be better to share them here than be rotten and wasted in my email's inbox. So waste time no more, gather your creative team and face the challenges!

2008 has drawn to a close and with the new year comes new opportunities!

British Council Malaysia has been running the International Young Music Entrepreneurs (IYME) Award for two years now. It’s our little way of recognising and paying tribute to young music entrepreneurs who have been working hard to make the local music scene a better place.

IYME 2009 is now open for applications and we’d like to hear from music entrepreneurs between 25 – 35 years old who are passionate about their industry and are committed to see the music scene develop even further. Find out application details here.

By becoming the IYME Malaysian finalist, you’ll get a chance of a lifetime to:

• Attend a two week all expense paid tour of the UK music industry.

• meet and network with leading UK music industry figures.

• promote Malaysian music at The Great Escape music conference and festival.

• share experiences with other IYME finalists from emerging economies.

Closing date: Wednesday 18 February 2009

Hamburg International Short Film Festival

The Challenge

The Hamburg International Short Film Festival has its roots in the independent filmmaking scene. The Festival first took place in 1985 under the title NoBudget, a name which clearly defined the Festival’s mission. In 1994 it received its current name. Since it was founded, it has always been the Festival’s aim to rise to the challenge presented by new developments and changing parameters in technology, society, and aesthetics.

The 25th Hamburg International ShortFilmFestival will take place from 2 - 8 June 2009. The submission deadline is 15 February 2009. Films for the Three-Minute Quickie competition (the topic 2009 is 'Human Error') have to be submitted by 1 April 2009.

For Malaysian submissions, kindly visit:

http://cmc.msc.com.my/register_shortfilm.php

Democracy Video Challenge

Your Voice.Your Video.

The Challenge

Create a video short that completes the phrase "Democracy is…"

The Prize

An all-expense-paid trip to Washington, New York and Hollywood to attend gala screenings of the winning videos, gain exposure to the U.S. film and television industry and meet with creative talent, democracy advocates and government leaders.

Click here: http://cmc.msc.com.my/register_democracy.php

Illustration Friday - Pale

Children are dying there. Can't we do something?

Illustration Friday - Resolve

This week topic is 'resolve'. The first thing that struck into my mind is kamikaze. In Japanese, kamikaze means divine wind. Nowadays the word of Kamikaze has been generally accepted as to symbolize the act of self-sacrifice, determination and men with the nerve of steel, and yet romanticism. Oops, I'm not trying to glorifying the kamikaze nor Imperial Japanese Army and their atrocities in WW2.



Interesting fact that most of the 'volunteer pilot' is actually youth as young as 16 years old, and none was have done proper flight training. It was ironic that most of them crying loud calling their mother on their one-way mission. "It's all a lie that they left filled with braveness and joy, crying, 'Long live the emperor!' They were sheep at a slaughterhouse. Everybody was looking down and tottering. Some were unable to stand up and were carried and pushed into the plane by maintenance soldiers,"-Wiki.



Here I expressed the word 'resolve' as an illustration of a Kamikaze pilot in the last moment of his mission. Recently I'm mad in experimenting with PS filter action, and the result is wal-lah! Four different vintage moods. He he..



Ignore those grammars.

Kreativ Blogger Award

Thanks to fliffy who has just given me the Kreativ Blogger Award. The receiver of the award is supposed to list 3 things she (or he?) loves. Haha sorry Fliffy, I've copied almost everything from your post.

1. My family
2. Myself
3. Everything that closed to me

And now the bloggers I'd like to nominate for the Kreativ Blogger Award:

IdaMandarin
Eju
Yutatz
Agent Sesat