Sweet and Moist

Well the bake sale fundraiser we had on the weekend went pretty damn well! The mountains of muffins and slices and brownies and scones and biccies that everyone brought along were yummed up in no time.

Rehearsals for the All-Girls Magnetic Fields Choir got underway and perhaps even drew a few extra punters with our hauntingly evocative rendition of 100000 fireflies.

Rob's Everything Will be Alright zine (check out The Avocado Moshpit) sold well and reinforced our need to make a snazzy zine rack for future events.

And even though only one person bought a cup of the homemade ginger-ale (admittedly marketing it as Monster Bile was not that enticing) the day was a success! We raised about 10 million dollars to fund our next event so it looks like we better start planning something....

Moonbox Benjamin: An Interstellar Symphony

Alien births, symphonic eruptions, vinyl couch aphrodisiacs, intergallactic battles between good and evil... and Prince!

Our very first event was the DIY Movie Afternoon, held on March 14, 2009. It was essentially an experiment in community based DIY movie making and an excuse to enjoy the experience of creating and watching a movie as a community and not as a consumer.

Following the BKR protocol developed by Michel Gondry, 19 of us packed into the tiny headquarters and worked together to create a movie from scratch in two and a half hours.

No preplanned ideas were allowed, although each participant was encouraged to bring a prop along. In two 45 minute workshops the group democratically voted on each aspect of the movie's creation. Genre was decided upon first, and from that a title for the movie was chosen. Plot lines were then brainstormed and composed into scenes. With 19 people this was no small feat to accomplish within the time-restraints.

With the skeleton of our movie mapped out, we were allowed only 1 hour to film the entire movie. Everyone had to appear at least once on screen. Scenes were shot in sequence and in single takes. This was deliberately done to avoid perfectionism, as perfectionism is the enemy of creativity!

We successfully managed to complete our filming with 1 minute to spare and ended the afternoon with our own private screening of our freshly completed movie 'Moonbox Benjamin: An Interstellar Symphony'.

It begins...

OK now things are getting a bit more organised...

Since our art space seems to have unintentionally landed this name we may as well keep it. And since we now have a name I figured we should have a blog to document and inform folks about our enchanting little oblong box of fun. OH wonders wonders!

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