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A port­manteau. A treas­ure trove. A time cap­sule. A poetry book. A diary. A photo album. Memor­ies. Dreams. Wishes. Hopes. An open letter to an unsus­pect­ing public. An intim­ate con­fes­sion to close friends. A declar­a­tion of intent. A whis­per of love. A per­sonal record. An exper­i­ment in intro­spec­tion. A per­form­ance space. A polit­ical rant. A wild yawp. Why do any of us pub­lish our words and images online? Come, dream with me.

Films to watch

by | Feb 28, 2006 |

Just saw Syr­i­ana. Amaz­ing. If you have any interest in the middle east, the US inter­fer­ence in for­eign policy, the polit­ics of oil, see it. Don’t have time for a full review because this is my third late night in as many nights. I’m deeply impressed with the latest…

Cat Empire: Prince of Wales, 26.02.06

by | Feb 27, 2006 |

I think the Cat Empire may well be one of the best live bands in Mel­bourne. Every single member of the band is so incred­ibly pro­fi­cient at their instru­ments and the res­ults are so tight and irre­press­ibly dance­able that it’s impossible to catch the vibe of the group in…

One for bourdieu_boy

by | Feb 24, 2006 |

You prob­ably already know about this one… A Chinese pro­fessor has sued a blog host for per­sonal attacks against him. Inter­est­ing ques­tions about free­dom of speech and cul­tural clashes. A ques­tion often dis­cussed in cyber­cul­ture courses is whether technological…

Procrastinatory aids

by | Feb 23, 2006 |

Thanks to Xanni (a.k.a Andrew Pam), friend to pro­cras­tin­at­ors every­where, for Unusual Wiki­pe­dia art­icles. I, for one, shall be read­ing the art­icle “Soci­ety for the Pre­ven­tion of Call­ing Sleep­ing Car Port­ers ‘George’ ”. And maybe some of the sci­ence art­icles. Or most of…

Detournement

by | Feb 23, 2006 |

It’s funny how show­ing vis­it­ors around your city reminds you about how much you love it. In the last few weeks, I’ve hosted vari­ous people through Moon­light cinema and Brun­swick St and espresso in Degraves St and graf­fiti tours. We have the most amaz­ing food and…

Equal *work* for equal pay

by | Feb 21, 2006 |

[ganked ver­batim from zara­bee] This is fuck­ing awe­some: a Cum­brian equal pay claim based on an EU dir­ect­ive of equal value, which “allows dif­fer­ent jobs to be com­pared for skill, com­plex­ity and respons­ib­il­ity; it focuses on the work, not the job.” The healthcare…

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

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I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.