Little boy on a stoner loose bike. Purple woollen, handknitted beanie dangling from his handlebars. Cherishing a Portuguese custard tart in one hand. Parks in the shade under the Information Highway overpass, and takes his hearing aid out. Feels better … Continue reading
by j p, December 15, 2002 0 comments
Factoid for the day: John Howard and Arnold Schwarzenegger have the same eyebrow stylist. Easy enough to imagine Arnie pumping iron at Parliament House, butt much harder to swallow Johnnie on the back of a harley in leather with a … Continue reading
by j p, November 12, 2002 0 comments
Web design is sort of like trying to steer a surfbike against the tide, while the riverside, melting, industrial chocolate sculptures make for the slowest syruppy pedalling, your thighs have had for a long time. As recently presented at Electrofringe, … Continue reading
by j p, October 30, 2002 0 comments
City towers seem to have a certain resonance these days, which was nicely tapped into by a German project ( www.blinkenlights.de/arcade/live.en.html ) which allowed all the window lights of an office block to be controlled by mobile fones to play … Continue reading
by j p, October 8, 2002 1 Comment
Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet by Graham Meikle, Pluto Press, 2002. Book Review by Jean Poole ( first published for Real Time magazine, Australia ) I like the internet. I think Graham likes it too, perhaps for similar … Continue reading
by j p, October 3, 2002 0 comments