devMEET Update

*melbournites - Scav Meet IV - July 26th

ANZAC Day

I know we're a day late but would just like to say Happy ANZAC Day to all of our members. It is an important day for the history of our nation, a day where we remember.



Lest we forget.

=zacthetoad

CSS competition

For anybody who actually started the css competition, its time to refine your work and finish it up. Submit now please.
Thanks to those who want to enter.
go [HERE] for more detailed info.

-`astarsia

Mar 17, 2008

=zacthetoad introduced himself, as our new Staff and admin, and said hello to everyone:

<sub>G'day!

I felt it necessary to start my first news post with "G'day". Anyway, just thought I'd do a quick introduction of myself. I've been on deviantART for three years and a member of *crikey for quite some time, so long in fact I don't remember exaclty when I first joined. I've attended a few of the devMEETS in Melbourne and have always been a keen supporter of the club. Hence why I was more than happy to accept this role when `astarsia and `cdaile approached me.

Basically, I will be doing a fair bit of the administration work, mostly uploading submissions and sorting through the comments and mail. The majority of it will be behind the scenes and I look forward to making small changes none of you will ever notice.

I'm looking forward to working with the amazing guys on staff and interacting with you guys, the Australian community. Here's to another year of the most patriotic club on deviantART.</sub>

Mar 16, 2008

-Announcing the new staff member =zacthetoad and explaining what kind of job he will be doing

..News submitted by `astarsia

Mar 15, 2008

-Peeps no longer have to request join to be in the club, simply watch the club and it is recognised.

-@kyza has taken on the role of National Crikey devMEET organiser.

-New competition about css! details here: [link]

..News submitted by `astarsia

Mar 14, 2008

-Notes recognised by staff, and will attempt to address them asap.

-`astarsia is still going to continue running the club as much as possible

-`astarsia is taking a break from running the crikey devmeets nation wide.

-Submissions to the club will still continue. Competitions are planned to start soon. TBA
Possible prize outcomes:
Prints..... subscriptions.... devwear.... Lucky Dip.

-Please send a note with a link to the print of any submissions you have sent us in the past.

..News submitted by `astarsia

National Crikey devMEET

Well every year we have held a meet, lately. So we will keep a journal here just for that purpose. Keep an eye out for what is in store forus as `astarsia has handed @kyza the reigns!

Aussie Songs, beloved by all!

[if you have an aussie song that is worth putting here, by all means, please do.]

Aussie Jingle Bells
_{Colin Buchanan}

Dashing through the bush, in a rusty Holden ute,
kickin' up the dust, Eskey in the boot.
Kelpie by my side, singing Christmas songs,
it's summer time and I'm in my singlet shorts and thongs,

Chorus: Oh, Jingle bells, Jingle bells, Jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia, on a scorching summers day,
Oi!, Jingle bells, Jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut'
Oh what fun it is to ride, in a rusty Holden ute.

Engine's getting hot, we dodge the kangaroos
Swaggie climbs aboard - he is welcome too,
All the family is there, sitting by the pool,
Christmas day the Aussie way by the Barbecue.
Jingle Bells....

Come the afternoon, Grandpa has a doze,
The kids and Uncle Bruce are swimming in their clothes,
The time comes 'round to go, we take a family snap,
We pack the car and all shoot through before the washing up!
Jingle Bells....

Home Among The Gumtrees
_{W. Johnson and B. Brown}

I've been around the world a dozen times, or maybe more,
I've seen the sights and had delights on every foreign shore,
But when my friends all ask me the place that I adore,
I tell them right a way.

Chorus: Give me a home among the gumtrees, with lots of plum trees,
A sheep or two, a kangaroo, a clothesline out the back,
Verandah out the front and an old rocking chair.

I'll be standing in the kitchen,
Cooking up a roast, with Vegemite on toast,
Just me and you, a cockatoo,
And after tea we'll settle down, beside the hitching post,
And watch the wombats play.

There's a Safeway on the corner,
And a Woolworths down the street,
And a New World's just been opened where they regulate the heat,
But I'd trade them all tomorrow for a simple bush retreat
where kookaburras sing.

Some people like their houses built, with fences all around,
Others live in mansions, or in bunkers underground,
But I won't be content,
Until the day that I have found
The place I long to be.

I Still Call Australia Home
_{Peter Allen}

I've been to cities that never close down,
from New York to Rio and old London town,
but no matter how far or how wide I roam
I still call Australia home.

I'm always trav'lin, I love being free,
And so I keep leaving the sun and the sea,
But my heart lies waiting over the foam
I still call Australia home.

All the sons and daughters, spinning 'round the world,
Away from their family and friends,
But as the world gets older and colder,
It's good to know where your journey ends.

But someday we'll all be together once more
when all of the ships came back to the shore,
I realise something I've always known
I still call Australia home.

But no matter how far or how wide I roam,
I still call Australia, I still call Australia,
I still call Australia Home.

Waltzing Matilda
_{Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Patterson (1864 - 1941)
Over time the original version, as written by 'Banjo' in 1895, has been altered.
Maybe, this more widely known modern version is easier to sing.}

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree.
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled,
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me.

Chorus: Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda,
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me.
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled,
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me.

Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong,
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee.
And he sang as he stuffed that jumbuck in his tucker-bag,
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me.

Up rode the squatter mounted on his thoroughbred,
Down came the troopers one, two, three.
"Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag?"
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me.

Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong,
"You'll never take me alive!" said he.
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by the billabong,
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me.

I Am Australian
_{Bruce Woodley and Dobe Newton}

I came from the dream-time, from the dusty red soil plains,
I am the ancient heart the keeper of the flame,
I stood upon the rocky shore I watched the tall ships come,
For forty thousand years I'd been the first Australian.

I came upon the prison ship bound down by iron chains
I cleared the land, endured the lash and waited for the rains.
I'm a settler, I'm a farmer's wife on a dry and barren run
A convict then a free man, I became Australian.

I'm the daughter of a digger who sought the mother lode
The girl became a woman on the long and dusty road
I'm a child of the depression, I saw the good times come
I'm a bushy, I'm a battler, I am Australian.

Chorus: We are one but we are many,
and from all the lands on earth we come,
We share a dream, and sing with one voice,
I am, you are, we are Australian.

I'm a teller of stories, I'm a singer of songs
I am Albert Namatjira, and I paint the ghostly gums
I am Clancy on his horse, I'm Ned Kelly on the run
I'm the one who waltzed Matilda, I am Australian.

I'm the hot wind from the desert, I'm the black soil of the plains
I'm the mountains and the valleys, I'm the drought and flooding rains
I am the rock, I am the sky, the rivers when they run
The spirit of this great land, I am Australian.

Botany Bay

Farewell to old England for ever,
Farewell to my rum culls as well;
Farewell to the well-known Old Bailee,
Where I used for to cut such a swell.

Chorus: Singing too - ral li - ooral li - ad - dity
Singing too - ral li - ooral li - ay;
Singing too - ral li - ooral li - ad - dity
And we're bound for Botany Bay.

There's the Captain as is our Commander,
There's the bo'sun and all the ships crew,
There's the first and second-class passengers,
Knows what we poor convicts go through.

'Taint leavin' old England we cares about,
'Taint cos we mispels what we knows,
But becos all we light-fingered gentry
Hops around with a log on our toes.

For seven long years I'll be staying here,
For seven long years and a day,
For meeting a cove in an area
And taking his ticker away.

Oh, had I the wings of a turtle-dove!
I'd soar on my pinions so high,
Slap bang to the arms of my Polly love,
And in her sweet presence I'd die.

Now, all my young Dookies and Duchesses,
Take warning from what I've to say,
Mind all is your own as you touchesses,
Or you'll find us in Botany Bay.

*crikey's gallery mission

firstly, welcome to what is going to be the start of the best damn collection of Australian and New Zealand art in the world! allow me to introduce myself, i'm `cdaile and i look after the gallery here at *crikey. i quite love australia and have a strong commitment to making sure the club gallery is the best it can be!

my mission with the club gallery, is to showcase our beautiful nation to the world through deviantART and now we are at the footsteps of our dream for *crikey, as we begin to fill our club gallery with only Australian and New Zealand art by Australian and New Zealand artists [even if they currently live overseas].

*crikey's submission guidelines

[revised march 2007, by `cdaile]

submitting deviations to *crikey is easy, but please keep in mind that with over 1000 members, we've tailored our submission guidelines a little more in an effort to make sure the club gallery is the best it can be! remember, we're here to showcase australia to the world!

so to submit your deviation to the club, just send us a note with "submission" in the subject line and inside the note place the link to the deviation in your gallery (and a description if needed; location, event, details), and we'll consider adding it as soon as possible.

but, before you send us your note with the submission link, please read through the following submission guidelines and make sure that when you submit work it meets with these. if your work does not meet with them, you may find that your submissions are not posted in the club gallery [you will receive a note in this instance, directing you back to this journal].

so, onto the club submission guidelines:

• please don't send us more than 2-3 deviations for submission per note, we'll select what we like best and post it
  
• deviations must be clearly related to australia or new zealand in some manner (snap shots of "my dog" or "a peg" or "flower" will most likely not make it into the club gallery), we want you to show off our country, our culture and our lifestyle to the world.


• deviations should clearly explain in their 'artist description' how they express views about or relate to australia or new zealand in some way; alternatively, this information may be provided in the note you send us.


• deviations should be well presented; for instance, photographs should be clearly in focus, traditional art work should be finalised, written material and prose should be free from spelling errors; all work should be correctly categorised within dA, watermarked with your signature (for your own copyright protection), and presented neatly - frames / borders are preferable


• deviations which may contain mature content will be reviewed at the discretion of the gallery managers. please don't be offended if your work is respectfully declined





important notes

• we don't always accept every submission sent to us. we want the gallery to be a collection of various images, places, events, icons, animals, buildings and characters etc, so we're not going to take on 50 photos of the sydney harbour bridge (for example) unless they are of course SPECTACULAR. we know it's hard, and we apologise.. we certainly don't want to upset anyone, but this tough choice needs to be made.


• your deviations are submitted to *crikey by you, deviantART members who are part of our online australian community and are therefore displayed in the gallery with your permission.


• images displayed in this club may not be copied or reproduced without the expressed written permission of the original artist of the work.


• all submissions must abide by the deviantART submission guidelines


• the *crikey admin reserve the right to review and change these submission guidelines at any time.
  




should you have any questions about the clubs submission guidelines, i'm here to help, so feel free to send me a note, and i'll do my best to help in any way i can!

cheers,
cath

_{club gallery managers, *crikey}