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Sleepy City
Images of the bits of Brisbane that don’t match the shiny postmodern marketing at sleepy city: Through the decaying doorframe or that unnoticed metal hole wait adventure and sights few will ever see. All it takes to step across into this parallel world is a torch and a curious spirit. No joining fees, no ridiculous…
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Circular Streetscapes
The project installation Their Circular Life uses digital technologies to present quite ordinary images of urban life in an innovative way. It is similar to panoramic VR presentations, but instead of allowing you to “fly” around viewing the scene from a number of different perspectives (so you feel that you are controlling the spatiality of…
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Bronx Photos
Some great photos of the Bronx at Satan’s Laundromat
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Straight out of Brisbane
Straight out of Brisbane is a festival of independent and emerging arts, culture and ideas. It’s on again this 2nd to 7th December, in locations in and around Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. I didn’t get along last year, but by all accounts it is a worthy enterprise. I also find it interesting as an example of…
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Urban Tribes
In similar vein to Richard Florida’s influential, but problematic The Rise of the Creative Class, journalist Ethan Watters’ work of pop sociology Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment looks interesting. By the sounds of it, 2 parts Maffesoli and 3 parts Copeland. Here’s the Publishers’ Weekly blurb:
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Architecture, Modernism, and Postmodernism
Gary has been thinking about Federation Square in connection with his long running concerns about the modern and postmodern in visual and urban cultures. I posted a pretty long comment to his post, and thought I’d repeat it here as it is very much my kind of discussion. [Federation Square] is monumental and spectacular –…
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Brisbane and Adelaide/Creative Cities
Gary from Junk for Code has posted some thoughts on Adelaide’s “creative city” policies, or lack thereof, which kind of continues an earlier dialogue on the matter between our two blogs. Here’s some more of my thoughts. While Richard Florida’s bookThe Rise of the Creative Class, and the wider emerging discourse of Creative Industries and…
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Urban Rebranding: Creative Cities for the Creative Class
In Junk for Code, Gary Sauer-Thompson reflects on the Weekend Australian’s latest article in its Australian cities series, in which Adelaide is characterised as the “thinking person’s city”: a city of ideas, education (the grandmother of all sandstone universities is there), but more importantly of cosmopolitanism. As a Brisbane native, not only can I only…
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Small Black Box
This weekend, those in BrisVegas should spend $7 to check out Small Black Box, “a performance and listening space dedicated to experimental music and sound art, held at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia”. In the box this month: Toy Satellite’s Andrew Garton & Justina Curtis present “D3 – From Drift to Dérive”,…
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Urban Life: The 73Bus
This is one of those “Oh, I wish I’d thought of it!” projects. If, like me, you believe in the poetry of the everyday, then have a look at the 73bus blog and website. I love it because it is poetic, funky, and sociologically informed at the same time. Blurb: “73urbanjourneys.com is designed to explore,…