by phoenix | Jul 8, 2005 | Uncategorized
i) My favourite photo from the G8 protests: the modern-day equivalent of the roses in the gun barrel. Yes, that’s lipstick and yes, those are kiss marks. Poor police officer. Is he blushing? (Photo copyright AFP, linked from The Age) ii) Many more die every...
by phoenix | Jul 8, 2005 | Uncategorized
The BBC aired footage of people’s mobile phone video. That’s not what used to be considered ‘broadcast quality’. I started to get into discussions with people in journalists about how Wikinews and Wikipedia can or can’t be credible sources given their...
by phoenix | Jul 7, 2005 | Uncategorized
So… I’m helping to update the Wikinews report on the recent London bombing. I’m finding this to be a fascinating process. I typed in the G8 statement as I heard it on Australian TV, checked the spelling and posted it in order to get it there...
by phoenix | Jul 7, 2005 | Uncategorized
Completely rearranged my library. I do this periodically as I have a tendency to use it as storage space rather than a real room, so I go through periods of changing it to a harem-like reading room with cushions to make it more...
by phoenix | Jul 7, 2005 | Poetry, Uncategorized
these pared down, harrowed days conjured from flame and fervour spread thin like a cry drawn from parched lips; like an ache refracted. in our cities, bodies drift like sparks in conflagrations — ash-light; empty rhetoric falls gnarled as tinder. what...
by phoenix | Jul 6, 2005 | Uncategorized
Went to opening night of Melbourne Theatre Company’s King Lear. It was a fairly traditional rendering transposed into modern-day clothes (kings and courtiers as rich besuited corporate bosses, interesting casting of Aaron Pedersen as Edmund) with...
