Middle East

Around the world !! In a London Taxi (Part 2)

Australasia

Massive storm arrives in Melbourne

Asia

The Chinese century – progress toward cultural fluidity or imminent conflict?

Africa

Manolo L B Mantero – Africa

The Chinese century – progress toward cultural fluidity or imminent conflict?

A couple of things have encouraged me to write about the growth of Chinese power. It is Chinese New-year on…

January 22, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

Left,Right…nowhere! We really need Fluidity

We need to end this destructive battle between the Left and Right and think about what is best for us…

January 22, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

The self, the universe and everything – an odd post Christmas message

While reflecting through my journal (crazy writer types keep journals) I came across some thoughts on the self and the…

December 27, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

Around the world !! In a London Taxi (Part 2)

The Balkans to Iraq Part 1 is here if you have missed the journey soo far. And visit the boys site It’s on the Meter here   Old Friends I first visited Venice in 2008 and the thing I remember most was how nice the…

December 13, 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More

Has India changed? – now and then the story of McLeod Ganj

13 years ago I spent 4 weeks in the hilltop heaven of McLeod Ganj recently…

December 4, 2011 / No Comment / Read More
Lebanon – The hidden beauty on the Med
Wine and Beer in Northern Victoria – Strathbogie ranges/Goulbourn River
Half way around the globe in a London Taxi
Beer lover Heaven – Melbourne micro beer fest
Tasmania an ancient and beautiful island
Holgate brewery pub Woodend
The Barossa Valley – peace, wine and food
Entourage Grenache from Barossa Valley Estate 2009

Gintaras – photography of human-nature

  Gintaras Kasperionis was born in spring of 1986 in Western Lithuania, a most profound year. His master degree in genetics feeds an imagination for the wonder of life. That is why in 2009 when he started to work as photographer he already knew all…

January 22, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

Manolo L B Mantero – Africa

Enjoy the sublime and powerful photography of Manolo L B Mantero. Visit his site Manolo…

October 30, 2011 / No Comment / Read More
Devil babies invade Swanston Street (or are they Angels?)
Views from the Balcony – David J Campbell
Scott Wiley’s Morocco
Suburbia – an odd thing to choose
The urban photography of Jason A Cina
Coffins of Ghana
Cameron Solnordals light box
Being Alive – D.H. Lawrence

The Chinese century – progress toward cultural fluidity or imminent conflict?

A couple of things have encouraged me to write about the growth of Chinese power. It is Chinese New-year on Monday, the year of the water dragon, which signifies strength and power, and for many Chinese this means 2012 is a great year to show…

January 22, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

Left,Right…nowhere! We really need Fluidity

We need to end this destructive battle between the Left and Right and think about…

January 22, 2012 / No Comment / Read More
The self, the universe and everything – an odd post Christmas message
The winter of our discontent – is the revolutionary dream over?
Leisure – and its virtue
What Adbusters want – we all need!
The Rise of the Occupy Insurgency, The World’s First Internet Revolution #OWS
You are subjugated by Interest.
Fluid Society – egalitarian pluralism
Adbusters; the seed of the “occupy” global protests demands a Robin Hood tax

So You Think…you can be a champion

It’s easy to imagine So You Think, Australia’s greatest horse in recent memory, appearing out of the dust of Hades carrying one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. A big muscular brut of a horse who races up to his physique, a no-nonsense position…

October 12, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

Oakbank – Picnic racemeeting in Australia

Oakbank – Picnic racemeeting in Australia Oakbank is the biggest picnic race meeting in the Southern hemisphere, held about a 45min…

August 21, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

Leaders cannot (or will not) prevent enviromental collapse

Environmental mismanagement is a very sure way for a civilisation (in this sense civilisation is human existence no matter how uncouth) to break down, even to disappear completely. Jared Diamond in his book Collapse: How Societies choose to fail or survive, (another book that had…

January 10, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

Greening the Desert – using water vapour for crop production

Edward Linarce’s airdrop irrigation system may enable crop production in drought ravaged regions. Inspired by…

November 15, 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More
A New Economic System: What Is Wrong With Ownership?
We need to move out of the city
Sustainable outcomes from equality
Suburbia – an odd thing to choose
Population