Painting: Abstract (Tetris)

May 20, 2010
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I joke that this is my ‘tetris’ painting, but really I was just playing with shapes, grids, colours and washes.

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A Creative Catalyst

May 20, 2010

Strangely it wasn’t this scenic imagining that got me started so much as when it became apparent that fantastical bubble had burst around me.

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Sarah Gully On Housework

May 18, 2010

This morning however I watched visual artist Sarah Gully on Art Nation. I was particularly impressed by her comments regarding housework.

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John Cogan: Ideas Are Everywhere!

May 12, 2010

I make this distinction between ideas and encouragement to preface this video from John Cogan. John makes the observation that ideas are in fact everywhere! The challenge isn’t so much finding an idea, so much as committing to just one and developing it.

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Mark Pesce: What Ever Happened To The Book?

May 11, 2010
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Discussions regarding publishing and electronic books have concerned themselves mostly with how books will be consumed and how they will be monetized. But what if there are even more staggering implications for how we experience narratives and texts? Futurist (and minor Australian television celebrity) Mark Pesce has much to say on this topic and it is both fascinating and frankly unnerving.

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Painting: Self-Portrait (Eyes Closed)

May 10, 2010
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Feeling rather disillusioned today. This painting caper isn’t working out as I might’ve imagined – even with all the advice that it’s okay to suck and that realisation I’ll be stuck in ‘the gap’ for a really really long time. Wondering increasingly if my time might not be better spent in some other way.

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Metallic Scream

May 6, 2010
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In 1999 during my final year of high school I released, Metallic Scream – a multimedia CD-ROM which featured original poetry, software, video and music.

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Regrets

May 5, 2010

Lots of people have recorded this song over the years. I kind of wonder who these people are that have had only ‘a few’ regrets and deemed those too insigificant to even rank a mention. I guess at some point you have to make peace with your choices and their outcomes.

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Robert DiFazio: Everybody Sucks

May 4, 2010
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When you watch Michael Jackson perform it seems everything he touches turns to gold. But was it always as easy as he made it seem? Robert DiFazio doesn’t seem to think so. He has a startling revelation and I’m hoping it will change the way you look at your own work too.

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Painting: Self-Portrait (Anguish)

May 3, 2010
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Even though this image is quite crude I really feel like it embodies a great emotional truth. This is now how I ‘picture’ personal anguish. When I look at this image I am filled with a sense of recognition. I know what that is in a split second, I know what that feels like.

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