Some thoughts about MONA (Part 1)
Here is Part 1 of my reflective thoughts on MONA in Tasmania. Part 2 is here. MONA http://www.mona.net.au/ Theatre of the World (past exhibition) http://www.mona.net.au/past-exhibitions Smith Journal...
View ArticleSome thoughts about MONA (Part 2)
I promise this is the last in the series of hand-written posts about Tasmania. It just seems appropriate to wrap it all up the same way.
View ArticleThe art of data visualisation
This morning I sat down and watched this video about the art of visualisation. http://www.openculture.com/2013/05/the_art_of_data_visualization_.html It is introduced and rounded up by Edward Tufte....
View ArticleWilliam Yang My Generation – Review
I saw this at its premier in the Dendy Opera Quays. William was there as were many of those featured in the images like Kate Fitzpatrick and Jenny Kee. George Gittoes was there too representing those...
View ArticleThe East – Review
This is a brilliant film and is bound to win many awards I would think. It does everything well. The story and characters are believable and relevant and it is beautifully shot in many different...
View ArticleLasting – Review
Lasting is visually beautiful and set in Spain and Poland. It is easy to see why it won a Cinematography award at Sundance. The two leads, Jakub Gierszal and Magdalena Berus, are good as the two young...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect, a set on Flickr. Via Flickr: This is a set of images from one of the 2013 Vivid Sydney Light installations in Walsh Bay. I loved it and watched the whole sequence one night...
View ArticleLibraries and the digital future
Libraries & their digital future from Mal Booth This is the presentation I gave to a City of Sydney Libraries seminar on 27 June 2013. It was only a short presentation so it isn’t comprehensive....
View ArticleMy picks (I guess) for Sydney Film Festival 2015
Yes, it is that time of year again. As Jack Thomson nearly said last year: “In the dark, we share our germs.” Well, these are the films I’ve bought tickets for anyway. There were a couple that I’d like...
View Article11-808 & Conversations : Artist-in-Residence, 2014
Elisa Lee and Adam Hinshaw partnered as the UTS Library Artist-in-Residence for 2014. Works from this Residency are now prominently displayed in the UTS Blake Library in Haymarket, Sydney. Their brief...
View ArticleSydney Film Festival 2016
My rather ambitious list. Sorry I’ve not been around for a long while. It’s a long story and not really one I can tell right now. At least I can talk SFF. Last year I swore that I would be more...
View ArticleBeing 17 – review #sydfilmfest
Violence, not knowing, so many feels, adolescence, sexual identity and discovery, teenage angst, and sexual tension. No Griselda, I was not binge-watching Home and Away! Quelle horreur! And I say that...
View ArticleGoldstone – review #sydfilmfest
I saw this at the wonderful State Theatre where the sound system, screen and setting highlighted the brilliance of the multi-talented Director Ivan Sen’s cinematography and music. This mystery and...
View ArticleIt’s Only the End of the World – review #sydfilmfest
Xavier Dolan wrote, edited and directed this film and it won the Grand Prix at Cannes this year. Both Xavier and the film come to the Sydney Film Festival with a big reputation to live up to. It’s Only...
View ArticleWar on Everyone – review #sydfilmfest
I feel somewhat conflicted writing this review less than 24 hours after the Orlando massacre. The film is very violent, but not in the same way as Orlando and although it is lame to make comparisons to...
View ArticleLand of Mine – review #sydfilmfest
Land of Mine is a very grim and sobering film. Set in 1945, it tells us a little known story of the de-mining of the coast of Denmark immediately after the Second World War. After Germany’s surrender...
View ArticleGoat – review #sydfilmfest
I wasn’t expecting a great deal from this film, but it is actually quite powerfully disturbing. Goat is about the hazing rituals in US colleges that happen in frat houses. On the surface it presents...
View ArticleRosita – review #sydfilmfest
This is a gentle film about Ulrik, a father, played by the wonderful Jens Albinus, longing for love after the death of his wife. Like many in his small village in Denmark’s Jutland he goes for an...
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