Posted in Cultural, England, The Main Thread on Dec 30th, 2007 No Comments »
While you’re in London always take the trouble to take in a West End show. If you line up the theatres/shows your interested in and then hit the box office at each and see what’s going for the evening. I tried We Will Rock You and Mary Poppins with no luck – no seats tonight [...]
Posted in Cultural, England, The Main Thread on Dec 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Having first visited London over 10 years ago I have to confess I was never really that much of a fan – there’s no doubt it’s exciting to be in London – but when for example you come here for work it’s always a rush and too much time looking at the inside of a [...]
Posted in Cultural, England on Dec 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
You know you’re in England when they’re talkin’ on the radio about ‘going indoors’ and ‘hose pipes’… Or driving across Cambridgeshire early on sunny morn and the hard frost has painted the landscape white – vertically as well as horizontally – tree frames covered in picture postcard fluffy frost from top to bottom. Or watching [...]
Posted in Cultural, Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Oct 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Immersed in War of the Worlds, Live on Stage! I can’t quite imagine how one could, audio-visually, make oneself feel any smaller… (and, in my case, deafer :-) ) A fantastic tale – an amazing concert – many talents – the story, a good way of reinforcing the hopelessness we live in, even in fantasy [...]
Posted in Cultural, Poetry/Lyrics, The Main Thread, Video on Oct 24th, 2007 No Comments »
This is the most awesome piece of video art I have ever seen. In two parts.
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Oct 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
We have all heard of Wikipedia… But do you know about Wikinews, or Wikibooks, or a host of other concurrent projects that the Wikimedia Foundation run on over 100 servers based in Florida, The Netherlands and Korea? Whilst researching the Wikimedia Foundation I found the information I wanted and, as is usual with the Internet, [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Canberra, Cultural, The Main Thread, Video on Oct 1st, 2007 No Comments »
And, while we are on ‘personal knowledge‘, its nice to see the young people of Canberra expressing themselves thoughtfully through their creativity. ‘Better Moments’ … a good song by Nat and Julz… and a nice video by 17 year old Andrew Babington. I was led here by the Lights! Canberra! Action! filmmaking festival – which [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, The Main Thread, Video on Sep 26th, 2007 No Comments »
If you’ve ever thought about life… Maybe you were thinking too hard… This is another brilliant Australian short film…
Posted in Cultural, The Main Thread on Sep 24th, 2007 No Comments »
It’s been a while since I exercised the considerable sound reproduction equipment I have. It has long been my standing joke that “I like to have a little bit of lounge room installed into my stereo system”. At around 375 real watts (RMS) – plus a 100W sub-woofer – it is suffice to say that [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Canberra, Cultural, The Main Thread on Sep 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Earlier this year I reinstated an old web gallery of photographs of a Chihuly exhibition in Canberra in 2000. Since then some weird type of deja vu has been happening with topics related to Chihuly cropping up… And, today, I stumbled upon these doodlings from 2000 based on Chihuly source photographs. What was I thinking? [...]