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I present a weekly art/ideas show on FBI Radio in Sydney, and whenever you click on the website to listen online, you get this message.
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The result is this – you might need to toggle the zoom out a bit:
Explore the full version here. It’s just manual so far. But aims to be at least self-adding before long.
Ever since I moved out of home, my books and CDs have floated around in a range of ad hoc arrangements. Rickety Ikea bookshelves, milk crates, vertical stacks. No more.
Having bookshelves that reach up to the ceiling is one of those life’s dreams – I’m almost too pleased with the way they turned out.
I love opening up my books to little discoveries of things I forgot to read or need to read again.
Tags: books, bookshelves, Vitsoe
Michaela Gleave’s snowstorm outside the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, on the weekend, was a gorgeously unlikely spectacle.
Two industrial sized fans blowing foam across the grass, while a host of photographers snapped shots, and a busker performed magic tricks – oh and the MCA served bright red snow cones.
Tags: Art, MCA, Michaela Gleave, Mus, Museum of Contemporary Art, snow, snowstorm
Triple J cops a lot of flack in Australia, but it shouldn’t and not for the usual reasons.
Even with changes in media distribution, it still carries a hell of a lot of sway in exposing new acts and national exposure. So it’s no wonder people have a lot invested in the station.
Anyone who has followed music in Australia will have seen several rounds of people dismissing the station as selling/blanding out, but often in reference to the same periods – critics pine for the so-called golden era of the station in the ’90s, but while that era was playing out, the same sort of critics were pining for the freedom of the station in the ’80s.
Our memories are rose-tinted.
We find out about new music and think the source of that music is breaking new ground. You hear more and eventually exhaust that source – it can’t provide that depth AND provide for the broader audience. So you become a critic of the station or you listen to community radio and increasingly online options.
But whether or not Triple J cuts it musically isn’t my point. In fact, it’s got nothing to do with music.
I reckon one of the things the station does really well, is introduce a new way of operating to the rest of the ABC.
One of the things I like about Triple J is that because of its clear target audience, its presenters don’t get inculcated into the stuffy national broadcaster sound. They speak clearly, but like real people.
ABC GM Mark Scott tweeted recently that “All across the ABC I meet people who started at triple j.”
And as presenters like Steve Cannane and Fran Kelly move out into Radio National and ABC TV and the like – obviously a process that’s been happening a while – they’re taking with them quite a different audio aesthetic.
Tags: ABC, aesthetic, Fran Kelly, Radio, Steve Cannane, Triple J
Canvas had a writing special yesterday. I interviewed Reif Larsen, author of the fantastical debut novel The Selected Works of TS Spivet, plus artist Emily Floyd, and Liz Keen from 12words.com.au.
We put the call out on Twitter for 12 word stories, and got some good ones.
Sleepless night. Tired. But the day is too beautiful to waste. (@russki_fro)
The last thing she wanted was a scandal bigger than her own. (@brevity24)
Reading braille by the beach, granules beneath fingertips, her story ever changing. (@macleanbrendan)
Off to play scrabble in the park. Canvas is worth 11 points. (Blake Thompson)
Go on, jump, you’ll not bang your head. (@lynniferm)
Pigs love mud. Pigs have fun when they play in mud. (@judeekerick from Jett 7yrs old)
when i left at 6, it was snowing. on arrival it was sunshine (@urthboy)
she moved quietly through the dark rooms she could feel their presence. (@kutira)
Dear person who drained my bank account: I will find you. (@sophiemallam)
I dropped one of work’s portable phones down the toilet last night. (@cupcakeaimee)
“Look again!” he said. “Oh, I see it now,” I said. Ouch. (@anthonyjucha)
cornelius eyed off the TV remote. he sought change. flick. flick. change…. (@drbad)
Pretty great, right?
If you want to see Reif, he’s in Australia for the Melbourne Writers Festival and appearing at various bookshops and events (including tonight at Shearer’s Bookshop, Leichardt).
Tags: 12 words, Canvas, FBI Radio, Reif Larsen, Twitter
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