typing the void

As I was wandering the lanes and back-streets from a great afternoon at the White Rabbit Gallery in Chippendale, I decided to stay in the lanes to see if I could recognise the backs of the houses I knew well from passing them so often from the front. After stopping to consider if seven potted [...]

In the past few months I have been noticing pairs of shoes left in the outdoors, snug, together, as if in the closet or by the door. They all look wearable and usable, but alone and apparently un-claimed. Here’s a pair from yesterday. This pair was at Bondi Beach, a short walk from the beach, [...]

I bet this is not what you thought I’d be posting about Social Networks, here, namely as it is not about digital Social Networks but physical and tangible ones. These people actually touch each other.

Am I the only one who seems to get upset at the massive open-air refrigerators in grocery stores? My local council introduced a scheme to reduce the use of plastic bags, called “bagbusters” in the neighbourhood, for obvious reasons, and you can read the press release by downloading the PDF from their site. But to [...]

We’re not individuals all of the time; we’re occasionally herd animals, sometimes like flotsam sometimes like wheat, and yes, occasionally the lone wolf. I’ve been noticing how people behave when a train’s approaching. Ok, it is usually during rush hour, with that 8am grogginess or 6pm urgency that I notice this, but it’s a valid [...]

I’ve been watching you. I mean, I like watching you. I mean, you’re interesting to watch. I’m digging myself a hole, aren’t I? I like to watch people using technology in a public place, to see how considered their planning might have been, just like I like to watch people use websites, to learn how [...]

Bought a guitar on eBay last week, out of some sort of desire to be a bit more analogue, and realised I had no good way to know if it was in tune. So back to eBay for a tuner from the US. Now who’s an eejit! Completely forgot I have an iPhone and that [...]

Nothing posted for months and now two in one week. Deluge! I wanted to post about the strange fruit I noticed in the park across the road from me, on my way back from the grocers something glinty caught my eye. Can you see what it is yet? let me get closer: I know you [...]

I was inspired today by being an inspiration. I guess I should explain. In the distant past, I used to be a photographer, before I took up the keyboard. My main forte was still life and small objects, nature isolated. You may recall at the start of this blog in the first posting, I wrote [...]

I am of the age where the Apollo project, and humanity’s expedition to the moon, holds a great and lasting fascination that has not diminished and forms a strong basis for my core being. My view of technology, humanity, the planet and the universe are all strongly influenced by those live TV transmissions in 1969, [...]