The Preens

What’s a Preen. They are the perfects. The people that look like they have just stepped off the conveyor belt…

Interesting new Oz music

There’s no doubt Tame Impala are influenced by psychedelic 60′s a 70′s and from what I’ve heard so is Gotye.…

How to create a brain (Artificial Intelligence)

We need a few ingredients, a purpose, randomness, trial and error, and genetic progression.     We seem to solve problems by imagining scenarios and then possible solutions, trying each solution on the imagined stage and then discarding those that don’t work. Each time we…

A new world has germinated

There is one idea that can pull together developments so seemingly incompatible as permaculture and digital currencies like Bitcoin into one new universal social and economic system. That idea is Fluidity.   Many new developments are popping up all over the globe and our CEO’s…

Sandlewood as the crop for arid areas

We all know sandlewood, we burn it in incense, put it in our soaps and cosmetics, and even use it for art. Little did we know that it is the perfect tree for the arid Australian climate. Combine Sandlewood with aloe vera, olives, some grape…

Climate change… No it is all normal

England is having blizzards in spring. The worst in 50 years. London is covered in snow again, they hadn’t had snow for decades before 2000. The USA has a winter that won’t end. New York has had two massive hurricanes in 4 years. Australia is…

Schama’s doco on David

I love this because David was a revolutionary and a propagandist and… and. My sister asked me while reading Anna Karenina do you know the “The death of Marat” and because of this I did. It is mentioned in Anna Karenina because it had such…

The Romantics – Documentary

A doco from the BBC looking at the writing of Wordsworth, Blake and Coleridge and their times. Upheaval, revolution and a new (old) way of looking at the world. And of course philosophers Diderot and Rousseau. Beauty in nature not the machine, beauty in people…

“The game of life” and “Your Fall” by Khaloud Al-Muttalibi

The game of life A clash of metal against my horns The dry hand that pulled me back My brother’s feet crush mine Their bodies’ heat becomes my hell Before I take my last breath The gate screeches and the field expands My heart leaps…

The light, the mood. Caravaggio

Schama’s BBC doco on Caravaggio. My favourite Renaissance artist purely because every time you see his work you are moved. It is not pretty, it is not paying homage to a Pope or King. It is human… so very human.        …

Obeid and nepotism in Australia

Obeid and nepotism in Australia

The Obeid inquiry continues in NSW but the ABC 4 corners investigation shows what we always knew. Politicians are not our representatives, they are looking after the interests of themselves, and those that gave them our purse strings. Watch this.    …

The inter-web is not as old as you think

I just read an article online which stated the internet has been around for 30 years, and for many much shorter. This got me thinking. Thirty years! I don’t think its been around that long. I’m 41 and can remember playing the first video game…