This is something that I’ve been working on (and using at various festivals) that I’m making available – hopefully someone else finds it useful! The Interactive Festival Timetable (or IFT) is an application for your phone intended as a replacement for the traditional paper timetable. It has heaps of features including:

SEE WHAT BAND IS CURRENTLY PLAYING
The application uses the internal phone clock to highlight the bands currently playing. You can quickly change between stages to check out all the current bands performing.

SELECT YOUR FAVOURITES
You can highlight the bands you wish to see throughout the day much the same as using a highlighter on a traditional timetable. These bands are also added to “MY TIMETABLE” so you can quickly see a running order of your day. The application saves any selections you make so you can plan your day in advance.

SET REMINDERS
The phone will vibrate 5 minutes before any band added to “MY TIMETABLE” is about to hit the stage. This reminder means you’ll never miss a band again!

ONLINE FUNCTIONALITY:
Go online and select the timetable you need. If the festival doesn’t yet have a timetable – you can easily create your own timetable by modifying the xml file.

CONVENIENCE
Backlit mobile screen enables you to read the timetable when the sun goes down.

You’ll need Flash Lite 2.1 installed on your mobile device to use the application (You can check out supported devices here – most phones currently only have flash 1.1 installed – though you may be able to update the version here). I have only tested and used the IFT on a Nokia N80 – so there are no guarantees that it will work on anything else!

For more information check out the readme.txt file or just download the application and have a play.

Download IFT (ift.zip, 25KB)

The only current timetable I’ve included is for the Sydney Laneway festival this weekend – however I’ve included both the Soundwave and Good Vibrations timetables as extra examples if you want to build your own timetable (and email them to me to include in the online list ;)).

I’ve also quickly put together an flash 8 version of the IFT which you can check out below:
EXAMPLE IFT.

There are currently two exhibitions which feature some of my work which I’m pretty excited about. The first “The View from the Pit” is in the Foyer in the ABC in Sydney and contains around 30 of my favourite live shots taken over the past few years. Each photograph is accompanied with a short blurb written by various triple j staffers which is pretty cool. The exhibition also contains audio stations where you can listen to live performances of the artists photographed plus there’s even a video screen with JTV footage captured in the past year. And did I mention the bluetooth station where you can download wallpapers to your phone – it’s a multimedia extravaganza.

The other exhibition is in the Australian embassy in Berlin – this group show celebrates music in Australia and four of my photographs are featured. Awesome!

Here’s the blurb for the above photo (I’ll have to brush up on my High School German)

Benannt nach einem Neil Young Song und ausgezeichnet mit insgesamt 14
ARIA Awards (ARIA steht für die Australian Recording Industry Association),
gelten Powderfinger als eine der erfolgreichsten australischen Bands
überhaupt. Die 1989 in Brisbane gegründete Gruppe gehört neben Silverchair
und Savage Garden zu den drei großen Vertretern des neuen australischen
Rock der 1990er Jahre. Wie viele von Neil Young inspirierte Bands werden
Powderfinger dabei gerne der Unterkategorie Grunge-Rock zugeordnet.

Here are a few snaps from the exhibition kindly sent to me by Joerg Mueller.

The embassy courtyard.

On opening night a few more of my images were projected over the audience.

Exhibition Details:

Both are free to the general public.

The View From the Pit
Date:16 Jan – 26 Feb 2007
Address:ABC Building, 700 Harris St, Ultimo, Sydney 2001

A Continent of Music
Date: 30 Jan – 16 Feb 2007
Address: Australian Embassy Berlin, Wallstr. 76-79, D-10179 Berlin