Fave Web Designs
There are so many great web-template services out there. From Wix to Shopify, Joy to WordPress, Squarespace and beyond. Many of these are cheap, if not free. That’s great, both …
Ramblings
Bolivia Burning REDD
Ready for a crash-course in Bolivian politics? This audio doco sought to understand why Bolivia was the only country to not sign the 2010 UN REDD agreement to combat climate …
Pottery 1
Some months after Bub #2 arrived, my friend Lyn invited me to a pinch-pot class. It was my first experience with clay and I loved the visceral nature of moulding …
The Campaigning Arms Race
Did you ever stop to wonder how truly democratic Australia is? Did you know that some places, like Switzerland, have forms of direct democracy (not representative democracy)? Imagine that – …
Music Theory
As the saying goes, how long is a piece of string? I know the answer can be very long so I avoided music theory for quite a while. I vaguely …
eLearning Design for Foreign Language Learners
How do you feel when you hear these phrases: “design implications for sensory memory”, “top-down reading processes”, and “control-of-processing principle”. Yawn? If you’re in the nerdy minority that’s interested in …
Media & Society, a brief history
https://vimeo.com/68611213 This video, which I made in 2014, was to be the first in a short series intended for Citizen J, a program that was discontinued at the Queensland State …
Murdoch, Google & Facebook
There have been some big events over the past year warranting a reflection on the role of media. The first is the current battle between our regulator and the internet …