Year: 2017

Artfull Project 2

Project 2: an excursion into Claymation, (November-2016)   The Project can be viewed here. Alice Cooper continued to inspire with this project. It takes the theme shown in the opening images along with some materials supplied (plus a lot more…

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Artfull Project 1

Late last year  (2016)I was involved in the Artful Program – a research effort ran by the Brain and Mind Institute and The Museum of Contemporary Art. The following are a series of interpretations of the themes explored in each…

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A New Family Tradition

Last week I had the great pleasure of attending my youngest son’s graduation from the University of NSW. While seated in the Sir John Clancy Auditorium and waiting for the ceremony to get underway I carefully looked though the Graduation…

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Remember Remember

Remember Remember The fifth of November Somethings should not be forgot Gunpowder Treason and Plot. Periodically – perhaps every four years – we should remind our political “leaders” that there is a simple way we might employ to express our…

Posted in Random Brainwaves

The Project

This page represents a record (possibly partial) of some aspects of my engagement and interactions with digital technology. The recording or journaling of this process does represent some challenges, but ones that hopefully will be beneficial. This post represents the…

Posted in Tech

Around The Tracks

Following is a short(ish) video taken around my HO layout. It is filmed from a moving loco and shows the view from the main line and down the main branch line to a waiting steam loco. It then returns to…

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Bulletrain

Recently I had the opportunity to travel between Kyoto and Tokyo by Bullet Train or Shinkansen, over a distance of 476+ km. To say that these trains a smooth is an understatement. The journey is smoother and quieter than an…

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Oh For A Voice Like Thunder

The following is a work by William Blake (1757–1827).  It is described as an unfished Poetical Sketch intended as a Prologue,  for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth O FOR a voice like thunder, and a tongue To drown…

Posted in Poetry