Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML via Flickr I’ve been a fan for a long time of the blog/website as the hub of an individual’s or a group’s digital world. Couple a blog with various outlier social networking applications like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and so on, and you expand your outreach. Not everyone uses social
Continue reading ...I was a conference delegate last month at the Apple University Consortium’s 2009 Create World Conference. Justin Macdonnell, a keynote presenter put some nicely provocative issues to the floor of digital arts creatives and creative arts academics gathered at Griffith University in Brisbane. Justin’s keynote, ‘In the Absence of Criticism’ revolved around a couple of
Continue reading ...My last post here investigated the first 10 seasons of Queensland Theatre Company between 1970 and 1979. This post looks at the plays from the past 10 seasons. I’ve used the same breakdown in assessing the repertoire, i.e., organised my siftings using assigned historical and geographical categories: UK/Ireland; Australian; US; Other. Plays can find themselves
Continue reading ...If you subscribe to theatre-related blogs, then your feed-reader during the past week or so will be overflowing with posts where the words ‘Outrageous Fortune’ will almost certainly appear. It’s the title of a new book on the state of American playwrighting, and it’s getting the best kind of publicity on the web – the
Continue reading ...When you spend as much time on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to as many theatre focussed blogs as I do, then you take notice of themes that won’t lie down. There’s been a bit of a stir in the social networking streams over the past couple of weeks, and it’s been about the current
Continue reading ...An image a day is the goal. I didn’t make it as planned, but here are some of the best most evocative memory captures for 2009 in this, the 109th and ultimate blog post of the year for Groundling. See you on the other side!
Continue reading ...The theatre and I have had a love affair for many years now; my Actors Equity membership card notes 13 March 1973 as my joining date, but that is just the marker of when it became a day job for real; the affair began long before then. During this – my first, official year of
Continue reading ...Snippets from our family’s year, a lot of it spent away from home … a little ‘moving postcard’ via Animoto. Hope your year has also been filled with happy memories!
Continue reading ...Image via CrunchBase You know the old saying, ‘It never rains, but it pours’? Well, I’ve had one of those weeks … nice and slow for ages and suddenly, a bloggy downpour. At times during the week I found myself flipping backwards and forwards from one blog to another whilst fielding emails, telephone, and Skype
Continue reading ...A WW 1 trench edition of C J Dennis’ The Glugs of Gosh.
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