On the last day of the recent AUC Create World Conference held at Griffith University in Brisbane, a panel of techno-creative talkaholics (Profs Paul Draper (GU), Phil Long (UQ) and yours truly … that’s me in the middle of the photo … gathered under the wise facilitation of Prof Roly Sussex (UQ). Our topic was
Continue reading ...Between Christmas and New Year’s there’s always a sense of the big roundup. For years, network television grabs the ‘biggest’ ‘worst’ ‘best’ etc. of everything and rehashes a package to remind us of the biggest, worst and best of the past year. These programs always remind me of the leftover Christmas ham that is also
Continue reading ...Image via CrunchBase, source unknown I spent a few days recently at the Apple University Consortium (AUC) Create World held at Griffith U in Brisbane Australia. I was part of a podcast team headed by Allan Carrington and Ian Green from Adelaide University. I managed to get some interviews with various presenters and participants in
Continue reading ...Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Groundlings love being in crowds and in-crowds. It’s part of the buzz at the theatre for a start. Now the social-networking addicts’ favourite application, Twitter has a brand-new (about an hour old as I peck away here) International Theatre Group. How about that! And what’s the point, apart from indulging
Continue reading ...A year ago I wrote about American scholar and practitioner Robert Hornby’s ‘The End of Acting’. It’s a book that has a strong point of view about the art of acting and the education of artists. I’ve enjoyed dipping back into it since a first reading in 1993. That an actor needs training is, from
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