After an unseasonably warm day, this is the kind of scene – “winter wonderland” – you don’t normally expect to see in Surry Hills at this time of the year, if ever… It’s funny, because as I was walking home, I had an inkling hail was on the way, and then, within five minutes of walking in the door, small hail had started to fall. For a moment I thought that was it, but then…
I spent an hour or so of this afternoon at the Lewis Morley exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW. The two most compelling (and memorable) photographs are quite similar in many ways: those of Joe Orton and Christine Keeler. In a very brief shoot, Keeler is photographed nude sitting on a chair, belying both a naivety and provocativeness. Morley describes it as an example of where the photograph was almost, if not more significant…
Great title for a post, eh? All over the country today there were marches and rallies in support of Same Sex Marriage. I had to pop in to work for a while and so was unable to attend the start of the rally and march at Taylor Square, so I figured I’d go straight to Hyde Park. A fine day in Sydney, I’d estimate the participating crowd at about 1,500 people (maybe 2,000). Amongst those…
As it’s been a long time since I’ve attended a university lecture, tutorial or seminar, I guess I’d forgotten the importance in academic circles of reviewing literature and locating discussions within a theoretical framework, but today it all came flooding back. At the end of a rather interesting day at work, I went to a seminar led by Dr Georgina Born from Cambridge University entitled, “Digitising Democracy: Digitisation, Pluralism, and Public Service Communications”. Her paper…
While baby-boomer television writers remain obsessed with the likes of Mel, Koshy, Karl and Jessica, the real television battle is now being fought between the hours of midnight and three AM. There was a time when late night television consisted of the NBC Today Show, classic Hollywood movies, repeat drama on the ABC and the SBS test pattern. Not any more. A few years ago, Channel 10 decided to break the mould with “Big Brother…