Don’t be a journalist in Iraq

by | Aug 29, 2005 | Uncategorized

Two Reu­ters media crew have been shot by US forces. One died, becom­ing the 66th reporter or assist­ant to die in Iraq since 2003, accord­ing to Report­ers without Bor­ders. That three more than died in the Viet­nam War over 20 years. Oh, and Bro­g­den? You’re...

Swapping Lives

by | Aug 29, 2005 | Uncategorized

Have I men­tioned I love my friends? My insanely awe­some friend, Max Bourke, was the cine­ma­to­grapher on a new doco series that will air on SBS in Octo­ber. The series, Swap­ping Lives, is the brainchild of David Goldie and Sohail Dahdal who...

Beauty is in the eye of the money-makers

by | Aug 27, 2005 | Uncategorized

[ganked from dr_nic and Neil Gaiman] This creep’s site boasts his skill in making models look ‘beau­ti­ful’. Actu­ally, he’s at the fore­front of the trend to digit­ally air­brush women so that they look unnat­ur­ally sym­met­rical, blem­ish-free, pert and slim. He...