I am thirty-four years old. In less than six months, I’ll be thirty-five. Anyone who’s been reading this blog long enough will know I had a lot of trouble coming to grips with the big 3-0. A lot of this was because of: 21 – Moved to Melbourne 22 – Bought a house 23 –…
… Monday. (Playing with Paper again.)
The Joker’s obsession (at least in the 1989 Batman film) with creating/curating, such as you see in the scene above, resonates with me at a time when I have not had the time to do anything similar, such is the nature of blogging in certain respects. He is interested in a specific kind of aesthetic…
It’s no secret that I love books. I think it’s also pretty common knowledge that I love making them as well. What I’ve not talked about – not for a very long time anyway – is the first book I put together, a family history of collected stories and anecdotes for my grandparents for their…
This film is the result of sixteen-months of work by ‘filmumentary’ maker Jamie Benning. According to Slate, he “spends months and months picking over every last scrap of behind-the-scenes material—from deleted scenes to alternate takes to story boards to, yes, director’s commentary tracks—and strings the best of it together into the full-length story of the…
I’m a bit of a secret scribbler, so this was a highly enjoyable 21 minutes.
I was running on the treadmill at the gym the other night, doing what I usually do: snooping on the people all around me, specifically at what they were watching on their in-built television monitors as they jogged along. (Usually I go to the gym in the early afternoons and reserve a special sort of…
I took this photo just moments before the audience were asked to return to their seats ahead of a panel I was speaking on this past Saturday called ‘How to find and refine your voice’. The panel convenor was Wendy Tuohy and my co-panellists were Kate Forster and Lou Pardi; they are all fabulous, talented…
Quite by happy chance I came across these two brand spanking new Penguin Specials releases on the bookshelves at the library. As the website states, “Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written by some of today’s best and most exciting writers, to be read over a long commute or a short journey, in…
