This year I was roving reporter for Australian INfront at Semi Permanent 2010. It was my first sp and I tweeted the event from @aust_infront’s account.  You can see my roundup on the INfront site, but I really wanted to share a film by the last speaker, David Michod.  I personally think his talk was the least glamourous but most inspiring.  The crux of what he had to share was the success happens incrementally, while you’re going merrily along living your life.  There are no epiphanies, no driving passions, just a fear of public embarrassment which makes us want to do good work.  Crossbow was the short which changed things for David.  I hope you like it.

Click here to see his CNN interview, shot the day before the stroke.

The site explains the project best:

These five photography briefs are what EOS Photo5 is all about. Inside the official box each year are items which represent 5 seperate photographic briefs. The challenge is to answer the 5 briefs with the most creative and imaginative images you can think of. The past two years of EOS Photo5 have produced some amazing shots, and we are expecting even bigger things from the World of EOS community this year, check out the past winners here.

For 2009, we’ve made the briefs even more challenging to test your photography skills not just your creativity. Each brief has also been assigned a professional judge to provide tips along the way and choose the final ten shots before we open the competition up to a public vote to choose the winners. New to EOS Photo5 this year is the Open Brief* – Practically Black. This is the first time we have one brief which everyone can enter, even if you missed out on one of the limited edition EOS Photo5 boxes.

check out the rest of Nirrimi’s work here

The linefeed site design is unpretentious even taking unpretentiousness to the extreme of not being ironically minimal in its design.  Wow, that’s a complicated statement but it’s the best way I can describe my observation.  If you care about design, check it out.  It’s quite all-encompassing and caters to the pedestrian use of design, including user experience of city design, as well as speaking to the design nerd.

This stuff is really inventive, thought provoking and, well, pretty much plain old amazing.  Here’s a tiny sample (for more click the link above).

This image depicts 28,000 42-gallon barrels, the amount of of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes (equal to the flow of a medium-sized river).  It boggles the mind.  Thanks Dave for the link.

I have taken out a little ad on Design Files.  It looks super cute (big thanks to Jethro Cave at Viviens and Sophie Wilkinson at Scene by the way).  The Design Files is such a great resource.  It features some really in depth interviews and basically all the design happenings in this country.  I find it easily as inspiring as any of the internationational blogs, probably moreso as it’s all going on in our gigantic but largely uninhabited backyard.

Check out the link and add Design Files to your RSS feed.

Click here for the article and for a Monday morning full of inspiration!