I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them _ Picasso
You be the DJ Play the tracks at different paces You_Bring_the_Sun_Out.aac You_Bring_the_Sun_Out.mp3
"Capacity is at the forefront of public transport challenges in Australasia" _ Chris Hale, Civil Engineering Office UQ (The Australian Planner: New Approaches to Strategic Urban Transport Assessment...
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. - Johann von Goethe Defamation Tute: JR 212 My old uni notes (20 years old...
A song will long outlive a sermon in human memory - it's true. A poem, a saying, a line of a great play, a great philosophic thought, anything that reveals the spark of humanity. Politics very rarely lights the darkness. Athenian democracy shone a light so bright that the Greeks dined on it until the 21st Century. Talk about degustation! Civilizations are built on songs, stories, murals, pottery, paintings - why exactly do you think we cling to these? Identity. Otherwise, why don't we just have a big clean up and...
I sat on the bus home the other day staring at the Brisbane City Council brand on all the chairs in not one but two colours. They must have money to burn. And I wondered where the lovely carpet was...
I often feel like a character out of a Jane Austen novel - rarely the heroine these days. I know my character flaws and over the years I have tried very hard to be the "good", do the "right". If I were a character in a Charles Dickens' novel I would be the one who never got away with anything and was always required to "be good". My belief is that life is not about actual "right". It's not about actual "good" because these are relative - you can be right all the time if you hang out with people who think like you...
About a year ago, I bought the pink beaded fringing in a sale at one of the only two shops for which I will "pilgrimage" into Brisbane's horrible city heart. As a kid, I caught the bus on steamy Brisbane...
Da Scriffles Launch: A Podcast! The Pay Check is inspired by two years of surviving on my wits as a freelance writer-producer and the luxury of listening to hours of Radio National while I work. Self-employment has been a great adventure which has enriched my life and enriched my understanding. I have finally got a motto for 2012: Superiority is not useful - diversity is. It feels like anyone who has a "fair dinkum" "go" is "fair" game. The lazy mob wants to have a go at them and pick them to bits. Has the nation...
Secret Family Recipe
"Is that final-FINAL, Minister?" Bernard asks, testing the patience of his Minister who already insisted that "Indeed, that is final!" This clever satire proves the existence of "prickly finality...
Matisse: Drawing Room - more than an afternoon gallery stroll "Old Masters" - do people call the Impressionists-Expressionists-Surrealists old masters? The phrase probably belongs to Rebrandts and...
December 31, 2011: Done.
I took this image of a giant cobweb some time this year to use as a Christmas card design. Feel free to download my design or use the images to create your own. Merry Christmas. Love to see what...
This will bring tears to your eyes because you are not there! ღ Live Augmented Reality for National Geographic / UPC from Appshaker Ltd on Vimeo.
I haven't done any portraiture work for years. I made a couple of sketches at a Newstead cafe on Sunday over coffee. Working up to oils on canvas.
This old John Wayne movie reminded me that Hollywood changed its mind (around the 1960s) about portraying "the Indians" as bad savages. So we got "Revisionist Westerns". Australia has no Hollywood. Australian stories are disappearing from our screens as we speak. Frankly, our film & TV producers are girding their loins to battle for stronger Australian Content Standards and Quotas on subscriber, free-to-air and "somehow, some day, somewhere" online services. It is the culture war! They will die with their...
Lefka left Red for the open road and met another Red Coat. That Red Coat, a student besotted by the hatching of emergent culture, was a bookworm. This is a reworking of two previous videos...
I finally bothered to learn the manual settings on my camera at sunset at the Sydney Opera House. Such freedom. I totally forgot what it feels like. Shooting in low light. Shooting into the sun. Focusing...
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