Oxfam's latest video. Inspired by Coldplay. Starring you.
Wow. We asked you – Coldplay fans, Oxfam supporters and creative geniuses – to send us photos and videos of ordinary things out of place, and you responded in thousands. You sent 7,000 pics and films, from 55 countries, in five continents! (What, no Coldplay fans in Antarctica?)
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Saturday night by candlelight
The world celebrated Earth Hour on the 23rd of March in a big way! Were you a part of it? I made sure I was!
If you’re not familiar, Earth Hour is a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) initiative to raise awareness about our use of energy. It began right here in Australia. Now, people all over the world are turning off their lights and living by candlelight for an hour as a symbol of effort to reduce our energy use.
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The Minimalists
Ryan Nicodemus and Joshua Fields Millburn, aka The Minimalists, say that it all began with a lingering feeling of discontent in their lives. As they were nearing 30, the boys had achieved everything that was supposed to make them happy: six figure salaries, fast cars, big houses (with more rooms than occupants) and an array of fancy gadgets. Despite having the means to purchase whatever they wanted, the boys still weren’t satisfied with their lives.
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Going bush with hiphop workshops
3things chats to Nick, a Brisbane hiphop artist who has one of the coolest jobs in the world – helping young people in remote Aboriginal communities make their own hiphop tracks and videos. Read all about his work and check out a video clip from the amazingly talented kids in Yarrabah, North Queensland.
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Ugandan youth inspire change via SMS
This awesome clip comes from one of our Oxfam International Youth Partners in Uganda.
Owiny Hakiim, better known as Bigdeal, is helping to promote U Report, a free text messaging service for Ugandan youth to share their ideas, ambitions and worries.
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An Oxfam volunteer on tour with Coldplay
If you can imagine 50,000 people, an enormous stadium, the biggest band in the world, crazy lights, pyrotechnics… and people dressed as carrots and tacos, then you can only begin to imagine the weekend of concerts that Coldplay invited Oxfam to in Sydney.
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"Cyber bullying is like being punched in the face"- videos that block the punch
The ten winners of the BackMeUp anti-cyberbullying competition have created a 30 second commercial at their film making workshop in Sydney. Two of the winners – Paige and Eloise from South Australia said “It is surreal the way we have got along with each other during this amazing journey no-matter what our experience of film and acting is or where we are from or how old we are we are all entirely supportive of everyone’s decisions, ideas and inputs.”
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Revitalising spaces one pompom at a time
For those who are as keen as me on last months post about the Heymaker! I have some news on their latest project for you. For those who didn’t get a chance to read about Heymaker! A creative collective, it is a group of 5 artists who are very creatively revitalising their hometown with art and crafts by occupying empty shop spaces...the collective is asking for your help by taking a pledge to support the collective and for each pledge they will hang a pompom in the store window. I want to see if that whole window can get cluttered with bright colours to liven up the gloomy weather, so why don’t you take the pledge by visiting this website?
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A world of art, fun and local change
Art, recycling and local goodness. 3things loves these …three things. So of course we were excited when we discovered a cool little art collective that gives back to the community with their sustainable art. The Heymaker! collective hopes to reconnect their local community with their art. Read on to find out how the group responds to our questions as they show us 3things they would do to help change the world.
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Volunteering, Cookbooks and Hot Potato
Students from the University of New South Wales are trying to get young people to think more consiously of their eating and cooking habits through an awesome cookbook free for all UNSW students. The cookbook shows how food and volunteers can help make a better food world with hard work and dedication to a cause. 3things resident intern and blogger, Lucy Murrie, tells us how she pulled it all together and how you can get similarly culinarily inspired.
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