On Australia and Indians

Anant’s blog: Of Melbourne and of jingoism | Indian advertising media marketing digital opinion analysis debate – Campaign India online
My daughter is one of many Indian students who have or are studying in Australia.
How difficult would it have been for Indian media to talk to her? She would have been easy to find, studying as [...]

Melting Human Flesh

This one is for Barbara – I was at this public event and someone comes up to you and says, ‘hey that thing, that bunker thing. I am watching that space for ideas’. It felt good. For the faint voice is committed to stay hidden and only talk about the small and the hidden.
If you [...]

Support

I live 45 kms to the south of Kinglake and about 30 kms from Whittlesea. So the fire and the tragedy felt really close.
We heard yesterday that Sue, my daughter’s class teacher from a few years ago, was safe. But a friend of theirs had lost everything – so we pitched in with some clothes and stuffed [...]

‘Dig deep’ for bushfire victims

‘Dig deep’ for bushfire victims, Australians urged – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The Victorian Premier John Brumby has launched a Bushfire Appeal Fund to help the victims of the more than 400 bushfires which have swept across the state.
The Victorian Government and the Federal Government will donate $4 million to the appeal, in addition to [...]

Melbourne bushfire

Research Publication – five years on

Looks like an interesting document. See – Five Years On. Victoria’s Design Sector 2003-2008
“5 December, 2008, Join us for the launch of the research publication that will provide a valuable knowledge bank on Victoria’s design sector.”

Another year comes to an end

Its November – and I have finished my teaching for the year. So I am not thinking of my students – but am focussing upon the world of ideas. Typically in this period I reconnect with the core of by practice. I was asked yesterday – what my dreams these days are. I said I [...]