Discovered the first reference to my work today. Not academic work, but my work nevertheless: However despite all the bad press it has received it has received some good from car lovers of Australia and become renouned as a classic example of the Australian car / road movie. (As interest’s sake, another is Metal Skin […]
Monthly Archives: January 2005
SICK! just got a new donk for me falcon…
Thieves take off with V8 engine January 29, 2005 From: AAP A V8 racing supercar engine worth about $60,000 has been stolen from a western Sydney business.The thieves were believed to have forced their way into the premises at Blaxland Road, Campbelltown, between 7.30pm and midnight (AEDT) on Thursday, police said today. They took the […]
The Original, Updated
In 1952 Gene Kelly sang and danced in Singin’ In The Rain, and now, courtesy of modern technology and Volkswagen, he will breakdance in it. The car company has been granted permission by the Gene Kelly Foundation to use the scene, one of the most famous sequences in the history of cinema. A Volkswagen spokeswoman […]
DJ Spooky lecture
My report. It is very Glen-centric and for that I apologise. If anyone wants to know something specific, then just ask. Ok. Blurb: “This lecture/multi-media presentation by philosopher, DJ and multimedia artist, Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky, focuses on how DJ culture has evolved out of the same technologies that are used for digital […]
Vote or Die, You Stupid Spoiled Whore!
Australia Day… “[N]o issue is intrinsically a gut issue; it is produced as such only by reducing the complexity of the debates, the various interpretations and contradictions that surround it, to a matter of affective investment. The conservative strategy depends upon a logic in which the fact of the ‘gut commitment’ becomes more important that […]