January 2012
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Ira Glass @ Sydney Festival
Ira Glass presented tonight’s show, Reinventing Radio, to a jam packed, captivated Sydney Town Hall audience using an iPad instead of a mixing desk to add the sound bites, show snippets and music mood cues to his story about story telling, and the lesson of how a good story can not only save your life, it can transform it.
Ira Glass on story telling...
December 2011
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Why occupy?
‘So, why occupy? The point is not to hold a city park. The point is to dramatize the struggle of weak against strong, which is also the struggle of poor against rich. If the dominant theme of the occupations is, as Jay Rosen succinctly put it, “public policy favors the rich,” then having the public police arrest the weak becomes a powerful metaphor for the message of the...
October 2011
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September 2011
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I'll Have What She's Having, Mapping Social... →
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Hollywood & Australian cinema
‘Film lovers today have never had it so good, with more movies from a greater range of countries being made than ever before.
Yet for any viewer who judges the state of contemporary cinema by what is released in Australia, it is a very different story. ‘
- Hollywood rule means audiences lose (Hamish Ford in SMH)
I agree with much of this article (except the dig at The King’s...
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The question of being
‘This question of ‘being’ is not a complex, ontological question, ‘the meaning of my life’, the Cartesian type stuff- it’s not all about me, Emmanuel Levinas believes that the whole question of ‘being’ is instantly informed, it only becomes a question, when faced with face of the ‘other’. ’Being’ is then not an existentialist question, but an ethical, a moral question. We as humanitarians, I think...
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Connection vs Connectivity
Notes from a talk by William Powers, author of ‘Hamlet’s Blackberry: a practical guide for building a good life in the digital age’.
‘Even as digital technology added connectedness and opportunity, something else was being taken away. At home, the more connected we were, the less we were spending time together. At work, as I got more connected, I was slicing my attention...
August 2011
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Just finished reading Great Expectations
And I feel all the breath has been knocked out of me.
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July 2011
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Four ways to think about the worst humanitarian...
I’m published! (At least a tweet of mine is)
Below excerpts taken from Four ways to think about the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet
(The article, a must read, looks at the need for balance in media coverage. I am left wondering, again, how can we overcome over hyped media on less significant issues while remaining true to the very real need to disseminate such important stories...
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UN Dispatch
Received in email today:
‘For the first time since 1984, the United Nations has declared a famine in East Africa. Worse, UN officials said that the famine in two regions of southern Somalia may spread elsewhere in the war-weary country.
The famine was precipitated by the worst drought in 60 years. This has sparked a massive population flow as families scramble to leave famine stricken...
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Another reality show?!
TV used to be a way to escape into something exciting at the end of a day. Now it seems life is so exciting, we need to escape into doldrums of reality.
Or are our lives so banal, that this plastic version of ‘reality’ is more exiting?
How utterly depressing.
— Can of Worms opens well (SMH) http://bit.ly/nKcRwT an article seemingly written to celebrate the ratings of...
June 2011
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Grey
I imagine the air vent above me, rather than loudly regurgitating icy germ-filled air, is sucking energy and happiness, the last drops, from my very core.
May 2011
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Bicycle Power Calculator →
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Crisis in confidence in Australian content
A few comments hit home for me as an exasperated audience member, regarding the lack of support for Australian content.
Playwright Lachlan Philpott at #fastBREAK Sydney Writers Festival edition May 20 2011:
‘Australia has a crisis in confidence in our own content.
While US etc have a policy of around 90% domestic content, in Australia its about 15%. A stat from Sydney Theatre,...
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“If people are making you unhappy just now, I can understand, but don’t confuse...”
– Dr Glen Fuller, May 2011
March 2011
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ARRGH!!
This made me feel as though I’d been kicked in the teeth by my profession.
(On further research, at least the company apparently make sustainable products.)
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February 2011
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