marcus westbury

The ABC have revamped their online Arts gateway and have asked me to write and/or film a regular weekly blog over there.
According to the author (me):
The aim here is to seek out, talk to, interview and profile some of the many interesting creative people that are doing their own thing or making interesting things happen [...]

Based on the fact that i am sweating over my copy this afternoon, i think it is safe to say that I am now officially a newspaper columnist.
The downside is that “newspaper columnist” is a sub-profession of human being somewhere above politician and used car salesman and below journalist. I’m not sure that inflicting my [...]

Renew Newcastle and yours truly has been the subject of an interview on the Japanese web site Urban Dynamics Laboratory. Many thanks to Hidaka Hitoshi, Satoru Yamashiro, and Andou Youhei for conducting the interview. Renew Newcastle are hoping to work with them on a joint Australia/Japan architecture lab in early 2010.
I am sure the interview [...]

Myself and Kim Bridgland from the Renew Newcastle project were on By Design on Radio National this morning.

In a situation that may soon confront many Australian city centers, Newcastle has over a hundred vacant buildings in its two main streets. “Renew Newcastle” is an initiative to rejuvenate the centre of town, not by throwing millions [...]

The second episode of Not Quite Art Series Two goes to air on TV on ABC1 across Australia at 10pm local time tonight.
If you’re in Australia, it is possible to download all episodes of the series in full and for free from the ABC web site. However as a lot of people have observed this [...]

The new series of Not Quite Art begins on ABC1 tonight at 10pm. You should also be able to download it from 10pm tonight from the ABC web site.
Here’s also a little piece i wrote the relates to the content of tonight’s episode.
Anyhow, I thought i’d open up a thread here for anyone who might [...]

Talk about a hiding to nothing. I’m going to be on ABC TV’s interactive political panel discussion show Q and A next week. I will confidently predict that the show will have amongst its worst ratings for the year. Hopefully this will be more to do with it going head to head against the Beijing [...]

I am off to Perth, Singapore and Elcho Island off the Northern Territory in the next couple of weeks as filming continues on the next series of Not Quite Art.
In the meantime for my regular 774 pre Olympics 774 radio series i went and tried my hand at softball with pitcher Justine Smethurst and catcher [...]

Straight from the “it seemed a good idea at the time” file…
In the interests of trying to get in the spirit of the forthcoming Olympics, I’ve been spending some of my down time when not filming the new series of Not Quite Art trying my hand at various Olympic sports. With the support of Lindy [...]

We start shooting of the second series of Not Quite Art in Melbourne this afternoon!
A clue to this is the fact that i spent a small fortune on clothes, actually paid for a haircut (for the first time since the day NQA series one finished filming) on the weekend, and have been getting up to [...]