Sydney people!!

FREE TICKETS TO BLISS. This Sunday night. Talk to me… I was plan­ning to go out tonight maybe, because every­one is going to Gol­gotha. But instead of a head­ache, I now feel even sicker. Stom­ach ache. Woozy. Yerch. Can’t even con­cen­trate enough to...

Slam spam

Go here, read what zara­bee has to say about new ways Aus­trali­ans have of deal­ing with spam.  Neat.

Crazy, crazy

It’s all hap­pen­ing. Today, while I tried in vain to work on my thesis, the phone rang incess­antly, I found myself nego­ti­at­ing a pos­sible deal that may end up with me and a friend from Sydney run­ning a magazine com­pany,...

Osama: Advanced Screening Feature Film at ACMI

[cross-posted in ] It’s not often a film makes you angry at your­self for not having done enough. Osama is the first fea­ture film made in post-Taliban Afgh­anistan. Des­pite the title, it is not about Bin-Laden. Rather, it uses the figure of a young girl...

Empires & Ruins

Went to the key­note of Empires & Ruins last night at ACMI, with Okwui Enwezor talk­ing about the role of the artist as pro­du­cer in a time of crisis. It was good but not amaz­ing. He was most engaged when talk­ing about African artists and the...