For more action of me doing crazy hand gestures check out these highlights from the recent User generated cities forum held in Adelaide. The other speakers in this session were Teresa Crea, Tim Horton, John McTernan and John Wardle of ‘buy John Wardle a beer day‘ fame who i managed to buy a belated beer for on the day.

More information on the forum can be found in this overview from the excellent Renew Adelaide blog.

If you have any trouble with the embedding watch the video here.

Wandering around 798 — the industrial scale arts and cultural district of Beijing — yesterday, my old friend Shannon Bufton asked whatever happened to the former BHP site in Newcastle. Then i happened across this video via facebook today courtesy of Bob Cook who worked at the BHP for many years and is now a councillor on Newcastle City Council. It answers the question in a most powerful way.

Perhaps Tribute to Men & Women of Steel is only emotional for those of us who grew up in the shadow of the BHP steelworks but i really felt it when i saw this.

Bob has some other great videos at the Newcastle Industrial Heritage Association site.

For some strange reason, i couldn’t resist posting this.