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  • TED TALK: Looking Past Limits!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    “When you REALLY believe in yourself it’s amazing what can happen.” – Carline Casey Caroline Casey’s parents didn’t tell her she was legally blind until she was 17 years old. She suffers from a genetic condition called ocular albinism which is characterised by severely impaired sharpness of vision, essentially like having Vaseline smeared over your…

  • Steve Jobs – Resigns In Peace

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Well a new day of international mourning was created this week with the announcement that Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO. To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO,…

  • A Brisbane Papergirl!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I’ve just discovered that the art project ‘Papergirl‘, is happening in Brisbane! Papergirl Brisbane is a project produced by For Us By Us, that involves artists of all varieties submitting their artwork and having it delivered to the public. The art is not curated or filtered, it is just rolled up into bundles of three…

  • Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Each year I thoroughly look forward to seeing the best of Brisbane fashion unleashed to the public at Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival. I love getting all ‘suited up’ and wandering down to the 60 metre long marquee that spreads along the Brisbane River in South Bank. I love seeing the new and upcoming models that…

  • Brisbane Festival 2011

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    We are just over a week away from the launch of the Brisbane Festival. The three-week festival runs from 3 September till 24 September and offers some of the most interesting, inspiring and cutting edge art and entertainment the city, the country and the world has to offer. Experience and delight in the offerings to…

  • For the Typography Lovers!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

      Who needs a Gas lift, reclining, Ergonomic, posturepedic, support chair when you have these AWESOME Typography Chairs! Spell your name, your initials, and you could even play a sneaky game of ABC Musical Chairs! Furniture inspired by typography is another trend that the Dutch showed to the world late last year. ABChairs is a…

  • What adults can learn from children

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    In this TED talk Adora Svitak, American child prodigy and published author reminds us of what we can learn as adults, from children. She reminds us that when we were children we had crazy ideas of doing and achieving anything we could imagine. Then as adults we look at these ideas as impossible or too…

  • New social network to rival Facebook, Twitter and Google

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I was reading the Brisbane Courier Mail on Friday and came across this story by Alex Dickinson about “the next big” social network, created right here in Brisbane. Kondoot – a social network based around live streaming video – was quietly launched last month by a small Brisbane team of young technical programmers and already…

  • Anti-what?

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

      Over the last few weeks, you may have seen a poster, scored a lollipop and stickers, or had your photo taken for a promotion about “Antipodium”… So what is it? Antipodium is an international fashion label that is part of the new ‘Sportsgirls Like’ designer collaboration. Geoffrey J. Finch is the designer behind the…