Hand made Nick Cave, by Lucy of Newcastle. MEMO to anyone tempted to frame a cultural debate as a choice between “high art” and “popular culture”: don’t bother; you are missing the point. It’s not just that the terms are frustratingly polarising or that they frame the world as a simple hierarchy of quality based [...]
In Praise of Unpopular Culture
October 5th, 2010 9 Comments
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Sticky’s Zine Fair – my first DIY video effort
March 15th, 2010 2 Comments
I’ve recently started a low budget DIY video series for the ABC arts gateway web site. Basically, it’s not meant to be television – just taking a camera with me on my travels and filming stuff that seems a little interesting and editing it on my home computer. On the same weekend Melbourne celebrated the [...]
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