That’s what dreams are made of
Lisa Dempster wrote a cool article about achieving your dreams. I just want to provide a short rebuttal. 1. Know what you want I know what she means. I want lots of things. Often it’s tempting to grab low-hanging fruit because it’s close by (the very reason Sarah and I leave fruit in random places [...]
National Young Writers Festival 2010
My wife Sarah Howell was one of the directors of NYWF this year. We went up to Newcastle for it (my ninth time, I worked out) Here’s some of my favourite bits from the festival: the bits where cartoonists such as Chris Downes, Patrick Alexander and Rebecca Clements sat around drawing things. the panel I [...]
GetUp’s visual communication problem
GetUp! is a grassroots political organisation which claims not to support any particular political party. They’re going to be handing these cards out at polling places on Saturday. I’m a member and I like what they do but I have a problem with the cards from a “visual communication” perspective. This is the e-mail I [...]
Dianetics Got Junk
Saw this today from the highway and had to take a picture.
Comedy Festival posters: the Facebook quiz
I spent some time with Sarah yesterday going through the Melbourne International Comedy Festival program and enjoying the head shots and ads. Clearly there’s a number of quite specific poses comedians default to when they’re getting their photo taken (this chap pointed one of them out here). So we separated the many shots into a [...]
POWAAA!
The video art piece I’ll be remembered for after I’m dead. Funny for Back to the Future 2 fans. Maybe. At least it’s out of my system now.
myki: a message to all Victorians
I registered for a myki pass today, and when I did, the myki people immediately called me up and asked if I would pass this letter on to as many friends as possible. Apparently their computer is broken, or doesn’t have enough RAM to send an e-mail, or something. So here’s their letter to all [...]
Engage!
Lately I’ve been hearing two concepts that disturb me. They’re related. One is that artists in the very exciting 21st century need to “engage”* with their audiences using various Web 2.0 methodologies and mass marketing principles. It’s not enough to make something, you have to Facebook it. You have to expose yourself. The other thing, [...]
Talented Bastards Who Should Be Shot
Episode one in a series highlighting shitheels with skills far beyond mine. Today: Scott Vandenbosch. Check out his beautiful artwork, and tell him, from me, to go to hell. PS: I changed the look of this blog to something much sexier and Precinct-appropriate. And now that I’m running WordPress 2.8, it has widgets and a [...]