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too hot for the beach
Against my better judgement, because I knew the effect it would have on my ability to focus on the rather cheerful article I’m writing, I spent a few hours catching up with some of the discussion that’s happening in my Australian cultural studies blogging neighbourhood about the Cronulla Riots. As predicted, the wind has gone…
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HobbyPrincess: Draft Craft Manifesto
Make the distinctions between “purchased” and “homemade”, and between material and immaterial artefacts a little muddier, and I clap my hands and jump up and down for the HobbyPrincess’s Draft Craft Manifesto 1. People get satisfaction for being able to create/craft things because they can see themselves in the objects they make. This is not…
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remembering the furniture that glows
Josh and I are off to Sydney at a truly ridiculous hour tomorrow morning for the Australian Television History Conference where John (Hartley) is presenting our co-authored paper, “Laughs and Legends, or the Furniture that Glows? Television as History”, which we are all a bit crazy and overexcited from writing and talking about. program abstracts…
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love and the mechanical sublime
In Adelaide over the weekend, I used Harry Potter as an excuse to experience the Capri Theatre first-hand. The Capri is a majestic, massively high-ceilinged theatre, with wooden floors, and two tiers of plush velvet seats. It is also home to the SA branch of the Theatre Organ Society, and boasts the most incredible theatre…
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first person: international digital storytelling conference
I’m going to be presenting at this – should be an interesting collision of practitioners and researchers (and people who are both): First Person: International Digital Storytelling Conference Friday 3 February – Sunday 5 February 2006 The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia First Person will showcase Digital Storytelling as a new cinema…
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Call for Papers: IR 7.0
CALL FOR PAPERS IR 7.0: INTERNET CONVERGENCES International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Brisbane, Australia 28-30 September 2006 Pre-Conference Workshops: 27 September 2006 INTERNET CONVERGENCES The Internet works as an arena of convergence. Physically dispersed and marginalized people (re)find themselves online for the sake of sustaining and extending community. International and…
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the cultural public sphere
I haven’t really got the heart to involve myself in yet another round of cultural-studies-defensiveness-and-infighting just at the moment, but the discussion at Mel’s blog has prompted me to think that maybe it’s time for another set of Keywords, in the tradition of Grand Hegemon Raymond Williams. If I were brave and energetic enough to…
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iPod video
One of many interesting discussions about the affordances, limitations and possible uses of the video iPod is happening at Adrian Miles’s blog. As I say in the comments, I’m quite positive about the implications of the iPod for small-format, visually humble and sonically rich cinema – like what my team had in mind with the…
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exclamations
CafePress now has black t-shirts! My friend Marcus got an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship as part of an ARC Discovery Grant largely based around his PhD research!! (and Axel and Jo’s ARC grant got up too!!!) My UK fieldwork is looking all au-go-go for January!!!! On a less exclamatory note, the Digital Storytelling masterclass I’ve been…
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eggs
I am sitting in our digital storytelling masterclass, where Daniel is showing us some of the work of the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players – this is a bona fide family of three who scavenge boxes of slides from garage sales, make up wacky suburban post-folk punk 3 chord rock songs to go with them, and…