Community

Reality/Virtuality:
we're in this together

Community

The community behind the virtual

Beyond this web site, we recognise our role as a member of our local community, supporting and supported by the people who also live and work here.

Most of the web sites we make and seek to make are created for the people we see when we drop off the youngsters to child care, or meet occasionally in the queue at the grocery store, or fall into conversation with at 'the local', whose interests and aspirations outside the mundane can be well served by the creating a 24-7 worldwide virtual space, limiting largely by the imagination, and the medium of web coding.

Pro Bono

[prō, for + bonō, ablative of bonum, the good]

Sometimes a person or an organisation catches our eye in the newspaper, or on the street, or tacked up on the noticeboard. And sometimes we have the luxury of being able to offer a web site creation in exchange for good will. When those two 'sometimes' coincide, a new web site graces the world.

Katoomba Men's Shed

The 'Katoomba Men's Shed' is a place for men to share skills, knowledge, life-experiences, and work together on practical projects for the whole community. A front page article in the local paper one week was enough to convince us that the Katoomba Men's Shed would be well worth creating a web site for.

So, we got in touch, created a site, created a logo, donated some training so that the Katoomba Men's Shed could update and maintain the site themselves, and kms.org.au is the end result.

Meet some locals

Wabi Ben Sabi Designs

Wabi Ben Sabi Designs was established by Blue Mountains artist Glenn Benmayor. Glenn's interest in Wabi Sabi style began 10 years ago when he and his partner Rachel took on the construction of their mudbrick home. This resulted in the creation of Nagual Retreat, one of the best examples of earth architecture in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia nagualretreat.com. .

Cultural Connexions

Cultural Connexions is a cultural and educational consultancy service established in 2007 and based in the Blue Mountains. It aims to 'link people, communities and culture' through educational and cultural projects and cross cultural experiences. Visit Cultural Connexions at culturalconnexions.org.

CarnivalAskew

Originating in the Blue Mountains, CarnivalAskew is a free web portal for filmmakers, painters, poets, concerned citizens, writers, actors, musicians, fire artists, sculptors, students, activistsVisit CarnivalAskew at carnivalaskew.com.