Redundant stacks
I'm blown away by this. I walked home today and passed a guy delivering huge stacks of white and yellow pages directories to apartment buildings all the way along my street. It increasingly seems like a huge waste of paper and ...
Signs
Taking photos for my other blog, I always take a shot of the nearest street signs. It's just a prompt to remember where it was. There's something poetic about these sights though. I've thought quite a few times about doing something ...
Bright/apocalyptic
The weather turned on a coin. One moment it was bright and sunny. The next, dark and apocalyptic.
White tulips
I saw these tulips in the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens last weekend. It was bright and early. But some trick of the focus makes the photo look like it's night, and there's something in the white perfection that looks like computer ...
Sleep on your dataset
At first glance it looks like an abstraction. It's actually more than that. Eva Dijkstra and Michael Lugmayr's Surry Hills based Infographiti work "explores the aesthetic potential of the graph as a work of abstract generative art." I love the ...
Jay Rosen
It's been a busy week. Captivating talks by Intel's Genevieve Bell and NYU's Jay Rosen (in the pic above) - more here on Jay's talk, here's how it looked in my tweet stream. Off to see @jayrosren_nyu talk "news is ...
Automatic Richter
Watching the yachts leave for the Sydney to Hobart is a Boxing Day tradition. But today's weather was pretty poor, and using my phone camera just amplified the conditions. I reckon the out of focus effects look a little like an oil painting, with ...
20 questions
The editor at New Matilda emailed asking for max 140 character answers for a piece. Not sure it's really crowdsourcing when you get contributors for contribs, but NM's one of the original online magazines in a rapidly expanding field. Here's what I sent in. Where are the best fish and chips ...
Welcome to the family
I drove out to Auburn for a citizenship ceremony this week. If you've never attended one, and I hadn't before this, you're probably imagining one of those momentous Australia Day citizenship ceremonies, with the PM and various outstanding Australians talking about what the country means to them....
Things I miss: live instores
Everyone talks about how much things have changed in music, but no one talks about instores. It was the ultimate fan gig, with the band playing in a tiny room, just metres away. When Redd Kross did an instore at Waterfront Records, I was blown away to hear them playing acoustic. Hanging ...
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