Independent art resources in Melbourne

I'd like to share this logo I made for a logo design contest on 99designs.com.

I put this video together to show you how I turned myself into a cartoon. I did this because I noticed some services/websites out there that offer to turn your pictures into a cartoon for a fee / price. So to show you just how easy (or difficult) it can be I recorded myself turning myself (and partner) into a cartoon.

Beautiful HDR Photography

 am a fan of all things retro. I especially like sci fi, space images. check out this wallpaper I made

This website has a variety of different artists and musicians. The website creators will make a page for an artist if they like you work. I am happy to say that I was featured on the site as "Freshalex"  This is a good site if you want to get some more exposure, and if you like art in general.

This little dancing robot is as cute as cute can be. I had to post this video of it dancing to music. It was developed by scientist (Hideki Kozima and programmed by Marek Michalowski) as a learning aid for children. The design of Keepon is very simple, just two eyes and a button nose It will certainly be a big hit when it goes onto sale in 2010. 

Here is a great idea for a gift card that turns into a garden

Congrats to Emmy for winning the Bestee Award at threadless.com 

Crazy Tron legacy concept poster and the various retro sci-fi posters by Tanaka13 - Créations du Net on Flickr

Cool illustration by Odo

Celebrities Portraits

This site has a month at a glance gig guide that can be added to but it is only as big as its user group. The gig information is supplied by the bands and musicians themselves rather than being a "managed" guide that supplies the gig info itself. its a bit like Gig Pig in that it is relying on its membership base to add flesh to the bone. On the Community tag there is an extensive bibliographic list of their blogs, Soulshine has a very large membership but I suspect that they are essentially music fans rather than musicians judging by the small amount of gigs. So the more musos the better, there are over 1000 members here already.

This site is a database of Indigenous Australian musicians. It is something like a myspace for indigenous Australians

This site is for the performing arts generally but especially for music. It features quite a good interactive gig guide.

This is a good site for emerging entrepreneurs and bands to check out venues for special events.

This site is associated with the Creative Commons and offers musicians an opportunity to share their unsigned songs with the world. You can sell the tracks through Sound Cloud or you can just distribute them to share with a genre specific audience or accross the entire range of music styles that are available to SC's members. Obviously the selling of tracks can be very beneficial but the distribution of your music via this site is a great way to promote your band or music to the world. Sound Cloud is a relatively new resource, it only sprung up last year and Nine Inch Nails were the first major band to try it out, see what they did.