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Finding the Annandale Toll/Troll
So what happened here was… If you’ve read the post on Guerilla Gardiner, Sydney Collective artist and Graphic designer Mickie Quick, you’ll know about how he created an installation under a railway overpass bridge, located at the intersection of Johnson St. and The Crest in Annandale. Well, as part of my last ditch efforts to […]
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Don’t play with your food…
May 26, 2011
When I first had to consider what this Blog would be about, I immediately thought of what kind of images to have as a Blog banner. My first ‘brilliant idea’ was to find some alphabet soup, and carefully position the letters made out of noodles into my Blog title. This was a total fail. Firstly, […]
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Diatribes of a Dying Tribe: Culture exposed through Texts
May 26, 2011
The definition of a diatribe is as follows: (this is from mixed sources throughout the Interweb – Merriam-Webster/Free Dictionary.com/Wiktionary.. by the way) It’s an ironic or satirical criticism or an aggressive expression – an abusive, bitter of forceful attack and bitter denunciation – it can be a speech or a piece of writing. A text. […]
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The Mass Debate
May 26, 2011
In a previous life, or rather, during her undergraduate degree at Sydney Uni… The now, working professional – public policy director Jacqui Greedy was a Schools’ Debate Coach. One of the more interesting observations that she made – which she believes is of note – yet purely anecdotal.. Is that the majority of students, particularly […]
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Bloggers vs text (in it’s most wacky and wonderful forms….)
May 26, 2011
Anna Roberts is a Blogger who is pitting herself against culture…and collects text. I spoke to Anna about her Blog and why and how she finds what she posts: Anna’s father, Gary – who is a former Family Law barrister decided – post retirement to take up woodcraft and gifted her an “@” symbol that […]
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Curiouser, and curiouser…
May 26, 2011
As part of our class website review, I spoke to Shakti Sivanathan who is the Director of Curiousworks, a Sydney based arts organisation that Broadband in cities Narrowband in Regional areas Here’s Shakti on the website: Shakti on the Curiousworks Logo:
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Back to Black – A journey back through the dark rooms of Karaoke joints
May 26, 2011
Karaoke, song lyrics and text: A cultural comparison I have to apologise as this might seem as this Blog is turning into a guide “All About Karaoke”. This is not the case. But what I wanted to put across is the subtle differences between two cultures influences on text being used as entertainment. Karaoke in […]
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Poet and don’t you know it
May 25, 2011
Fiona Wright started composing serious slabs of poetry in her year 12, HSC – 4 Unit English Major Work. At the time (The Yer was 2001….) she illustrated her works with vividly colourful oil pastels. I went to school with her and hence call her ‘Fi’ colloquially throughout the audio which is attached below – […]
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Graffiti Q a&A
May 19, 2011
Here’s a piece of audio from Graphic Designer Pat Armstrong… He’s back again on this Blog to explain how graffiti acts as the bridge between text and hip hop: But on a more personal level, fresh out of design student Alissa Maree made a stencil of a rose. She took this stencil and armed with […]
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Karaoke in Sydney
May 18, 2011
Karaoke is one of those forms of entertainment that is either really good to listen to when sung/performed really well or enjoyed when it is bad enough to be entertaining. Anything performance in between, well, it’s just filler for the main event. In Sydney, Karaoke has developed from a novelty event at dank bars with […]
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Textually Transmitted Stories 
May 26, 2011
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