A look at how the cigarette industry kickstarted modern advertising, and its impact upon Australian culture and health. Its semiotics. Counter responses from Government and health agencies, and the sustained market share of Big Tobacco in the absence of traditional … Continue reading
Marcus Westbury, perennial media and arts commentator, festival founder, and renewer of crumbling, unloved shopfronts and streets, has hit the ground running with a pozible campaign to fund the creation of a proposed book, ‘Creating Cities’. Such is the strength … Continue reading
In light of the recent push by the State Government of Victoria to prioritise the implementation of the East-West Road Link over a major rail development, the Melbourne Metro Rail Tunnel, this paper presents a timely study of whether the … Continue reading
Mercury Fur, by Philip Ridley. Directed by Ben Packer, at Theatreworks St Kilda (September 2007). Science Fiction (SF) and theatre may, on the surface, appear to share little with one another. There isn’t a more unlikely binary than nano-tech and … Continue reading
Click here to view Brendan McCallum’s showreel, produced by Batch Edit and hosted by Vimeo. Brendan is represented by Active Artists Management (AAM). [e] jrp@aam.com.au [ph] 038669 0980 With thanks to Justin Batchelor, of BATCHEDIT, and dark heart productions.
My idea has always been that it would be in the future a kind of Pantheon for the glories of American Independence… (t)he island should become a sort of pilgrimage, a charming walk for the city. – Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi (1899) … Continue reading
‘The project of modernity formulated in the 18th century by the philosophers of the Enlightenment consisted in their efforts to develop objective science, universal morality and law, and autonomous art according to their inner logic. At the same time, this … Continue reading
Tool, it seems, is one of the few bands today that have mass. The music chugs, swerves, pulls up suddenly, only to spill elsewhere in huge rolling waves. It must be a hard beast to steer, and for many, it … Continue reading
Directed by Jenny Kemp. At the Sumner Theatre 25 August to 29 September 2012. Top Girls, directed by Jenny Kemp for the MTC, is a revelation. With her uniformly … Continue reading
Sarasota, Florida 1974. Christine Chubbuck, presenter and regular news anchor can see that the potential of television has become stunted, oversaturated with blood and commercial bullying. She rails against her superiors about the output of the station. Crafting puppets to … Continue reading
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