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 ...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 ...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 ...Frangipani aka Plumeria in my tropical corner, originally uploaded by Dramagirl. This shot is from a year ago, but true to its form, my courtyard Frangipani/Plumeria is blooming its little heart out once again. It’s a joy to feel the seasons roll on … here in the sub-tropics it isn’t as dramatic as the change
Continue reading ...UPDATE: A year and a half later my follower list has grown enormously – more about Twitter than me I suspect – however I now have a real reason to organise my people into appropriate lists since they come from a range of ‘communities’ of contacts. This way I can be selective about who gets
Continue reading ...I posted a peeve tweet this morning, something I do from time to time when the ‘Grrs’ strike. I’m finding that more and more websites are popping up with good, well-written content, but with no RSS feed, so there’s no way for a regular reader or a potential reader to learn when new posts are
Continue reading ...If you’re a regular here, then you’ll know that Groundling loves software, apps, services, and devices that are well designed, and which optimise productivity and simplify communications. If you use a Word Press blog, then you are going to love a really clever plugin which I’ve just installed on a couple of my blogs today.
Continue reading ...You must have been living under a rock if you haven’t been aware of the health reform debate currently playing out in the US. Here’s a terrific example of the way a group of protestors ‘flash-mobbed’ a meeting of health insurers recently, grabbed attention in a playfully serious way, and then got it up and
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