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Damn it!!!!!!!!
It looks very much like someone else just published my honours thesis! I was getting around to it, honest. Bugger, bugger, bugger. No pun intended. On the upside, I like that the Magnetic Fields have a song called The Death of Ferdinand Saussure. Past victims of “Introduction to Communication and Cultural Studies” at UQ must…
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Welcome back, brain
Now that my latest stint as degree-factory slave is over (for 2005 at least), I’m slowly finding my passion again…and most definitely feeling the full effects of the new media fatigue that has been haunting me all year – is this a problem for someone doing a PhD called Vernacular Creativity and New Media? I…
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I drew a pig
With the trackpad, give me a break…apparently, the pig drawing says a whole lot about me. Like that I’m a good listener, a traditionalist, and have a great sex life. Duh. But I cannot resist these internet quizzes and personality tests! God, someone save me from the memes. Someone other than trine, who constantly encourages…
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Bits
Birthday greetings to Herman Hesse, wherever he is. From my favourite agent provocateur and radical hacker, David Berry, come the libre commons licenses: This is a project to develop non-legal licenses that will operate in the shared space that can non-bureaucratically and non-instrumentally be formed resisting law, the intellectual property regime and state violence. These…
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Give the people a voice…
…and they tend to use it. One Free Minute is “a mobile sculpture designed to allow for instances of anonymous public speech. When you call the cellphone inside One Free Minute, you get connected for exactly a minute to a 200 watt amplifier and speaker. The speech produced by the speaker can be heard clearly…
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LifeWork Balance
hello, blog. I don’t want to sound defensive, because I’m not, but I’m a bit busy with life at the moment, you know, things, and stuff. I’ve been keeping up a bit of socialising for you though, reading other people’s blogs and leaving comments, and I’ve been adding some new del.icio.us links pretty much every…
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Transforming Aesthetics
The Art Association of Australia & New Zealand [NSW Chapter] in association with the Art Gallery of NSW and the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, UNSW present the 2005 Conference Transforming Aesthetics 7-9 July 2005, Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. Transforming Aesthetics explores the response of aesthetic theory to new forms…
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Post-punk seminar: git along!
THE CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES PRESENTS Dr Graham St John Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland Making a Noise˜Making a Difference: From Techno-Punk to “Punk-Hop” Date: Thursday 16th June 2005 Place: Seminar Room 402, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, 4th Floor Forgan Smith Tower, St Lucia Campus, The…
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Mobile digital storytelling…
I’ve been ranting on and on about mobile phones as media production tools for ages – luckily, I never have to actually develop products to back up my rants, because time after time someone else has been doing it in the background all along…witness HP StoryCast: Simple, digital storytelling with photos and narration StoryCast is…
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Musical Baton
Anne has passed the musical baton to me, so… Total volume of music on my computer I haven’t put much on the iBook, so: 1.6GB (pathetic). But the external hard drive with legacy MP3s from my desktop PC has in the region of 10GB (still pathetic). There is some of absolutely everything in there, trust…