There is a particular kind of anxiety that doesn’t announce itself as fear. It arrives as a vague sense that everyone else has sorted something out and you haven’t. I’ve seen it when the subject of using AI comes up in discussions with colleagues like researchers, educators, actors. These are all people with decades of
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There are two conversations happening about artificial intelligence and creative work, and I find both of them exhausting. The first is the anxiety spiral: AI is going to replace writers, researchers, educators, artists. The work we’ve spent careers developing is being automated out of existence. The second is the dismissive shrug: it’s just autocomplete, serious
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The high pampas of southern Patagonia reminded me, immediately and unexpectedly, of home. Not the lush, subtropical home of southeast Queensland, but the older, drier home of the Darling Downs: flat country, big sky, occasional hills rising without particular justification from the plain. The grasses are a different gold. The animals are different animals. But
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There’s a moment, somewhere in the roaring 40s, when you look out over the water and realise you are genuinely far from anywhere. The Chilean archipelago extends for hundreds of kilometres south of Puerto Montt — islands upon islands, most of them uninhabited, unsuitable for human habitation, apparently indifferent to human existence. It is exhilarating
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I’ve been to deserts before, but nothing quite prepared me for the Atacama. This is the driest place on Earth — and it looks it. At first glance, it seems impossible that anything could thrive here. Then, by some sleight of hand, the landscape proceeds to astonish you. We’d flown into Santiago, transferred north to
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Out of the booth I often find myself listening to other actor’s voices rather than to what they’re saying – a professional hazard for a narrator and voice coach, I suppose. As I do this, I invariably form an image in my mind of what the actor looks like. Usually if I meet them afterwards
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Every now and then, and this has happened for decades since I’ve been an actor and in the actor-training game, someone tells me they’re thinking of becoming an actor too. It usually comes with a hopeful look and the slightest wince, as if they’re waiting for me to deliver bad news gently. And yes, the
Continue reading ...The kind of day where you find yourself stuck to a keyboard in the thrall of technology as you decide — in a fit of madness — to change the template of your website. Oh yes, dear reader, that was me today. And, of course, the smart and shiny new WordPress template for which I
Continue reading ...In Part 1 of this blog-post series I emphasised the importance of the foundational planning phase. If you haven’t already read it, take a look before you get stuck into this part of the post. As a freelancer my work is project-based so having a system that is as powerful as Tana to interlink and
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