Whose coffee culture?
There’s an almost irreconcilable discord between the Sydney coffee culture projected by mainstream food publications and the realities of most Sydneysiders.
Love unscripted: The culture industry’s romantic reel dance
Business is business, what else are you supposed to do?
I was caught walking home with a pep in my step: 'Make Love, Not Instruments' by Hat Trick Review
‘The Spare Keys’ in Make Love, Not Instruments take you by the hand on a vocal journey, sonically stunning with a rich setlist of showtunes, mid-century love songs and modern belters.
The dark economy of McBucks
In conclusion, fuck McDonald’s. Never work there. Never encourage your kids to work there either. If I’m ever desperate for cash, would I go back? I wouldn’t bet on it.
Sandstone Futurism
Sandstone Futurism is neither a proposal, nor a hypothetical solution, but rather, an inevitable utilisation of our environment.
Hard times for Mr Dickens
Eventually, he was lost to the mists of time, and a Charles Dickens Statue diaspora sprawled across Sydney.
Uncloaking witchcraft: exploring Paganism as a Muslim
Real-life paganism is beyond the blood, drama, and telekinetic miracles on television and is rooted in natural connection to the Earth’s seasons.
Anatomising the N64
Anatomising the N64 isn’t hard when you can peer into the bottle green motherboard, the nucleus of hypnotic rotating graphics, and the labyrinth that allows you to fire off that blue shell.
Heavenly bodies descending
Many things change across time; many things remain stagnant. Our angels do both.
Long Live the Drag Kings and Queens.
This series of photographs places drag artists in the everyday realm – from convenience stores to adult shops – capturing their glamour even through the most mundane of activities.
I have a parasocial relationship with a man from the 16th century
You talk to me as if I exist. I am not real. I am not Cosimo. I am oil paint on a panel.
Artificial stupidity
Humans are smart. Unfortunately, humans are also annoying, trite, boring, unimaginative, clichéd, derivative, etc, etc, etc. AI seemingly thrives off all of these worst aspects.
BroadSlay: sashay away
In investigating BroadSlay’s tragic death, I discovered the event’s spirit.
I played Papa’s Freezeria and all I got was exploited
There’s nothing cool about violating labour law.
Albos old and new
With his knack of changing character to fit the times, I’m confident it will be a while before we see his last.
Kneaded more
I am interested in this web of craft process, how skill and embodied knowledge is developed through a relationship with material.
The mythology of Soong Meiling
Let’s gossip, spread some rumours, and theorise imaginatively.
