Ammon Shea: So it's kind of like, the whole language is moving in a circle. And the hackneyed phrases, the succulent bivalves of the world, are becoming fresh again. And the new words, the slang likeawfulandbootleg,bouncer, andcahoots, are just becoming commonplace words. Peter Sokolowsk...
Here is a great day out in the Southern Highlands, just under two hour’s drive from Sydney – about 145km for us. The old town of Joadja featured in a book I found in a second hand shop a couple of years ago – called simplyAustralian Ghost Towns. A great book. Where I first r...
These are the founding technologies of Total Cinema, but the art forms of the 21st century (let’s call them Expanding Cinema –an adaption of the phrase coined by Gene Youngblood in Expanded Cinema his book of 1970, where he surveyed the multitudinous foundations of the new film-related arts...
The crowds hadn’t arrived so it was easy to drive places and park the car. You could get a table in the better restaurants without having booked months in advance and you could walk without being intimidated by seasoned walkers in high tech hiking gear with OS maps in plastic bags. The...
Colorful, market enhancing jackets became commonplace after WWII. Tend to your jackets. You may want to protect them with mylar book covers (after trying them all, we prefer Demco products). Dust jackets will suffer normal shelf wear over the years. Small edge chips and tears at the spine ...
Remember the last big shooting in the U.S.? They seem to’ve become so commonplace that we barely register them anymore. Remember who did it? Or where he did it from? No, neither do I, not really. That was only two months ago. ...