This week’s poll is now closed, though the questions or discussion points raised by the results … as well as the original question … will surely continue elsewhere, and perhaps here. Thanks to those who contributed. Results were received from 23 respondents from around the world, so it’s a very limited sampling. More responses might
Continue reading ...Image by sniggy via Flickr Today, October 15 is Blog Action Day around the blogosphere. Those thousands of bloggers who have signed up to write about this year’s theme Climate Change, are sitting down and tapping out individual responses. The idea is simply to spread the word. Maybe it’s preaching to the converted, or singing
Continue reading ...Yesterday’s post about the monetary side of working in the theatre got a lot of hits but no comment. I’ve put together a poll today (great free service complete with plug-in from PollDaddy) to see if it gets more of a response. How were you last remunerated for your work as a theatre artist? (polls)
Continue reading ...I’m often involved in conversations with actors and other artists and creatives about the issue of remuneration for theatre work. I’m not talking here about ‘doing it for the love,’ but for what a good friend of mine calls ‘the foldies’, real money … what you need to pay the rent, to eat, and generally
Continue reading ...Image by Getty Images via Daylife And so it’s off to Sydney for the weekend for some theatre and catchups with friends. Cate Blanchett is playing Blanche in Sydney Theatre Company‘s production of Tennessee Williams‘ A Streetcar Named Desire. I hear she’s not too bad at all! To stay in touch I’m equipped with a
Continue reading ...It’s in its ninth year according to Short+Sweet’s website, but I hadn’t heard of this competitive festival of 10 minute plays until relatively recently. Short+Sweet arrived in Brisbane this year, and played at Brisbane’s Powerhouse just prior to the start of the Brisbane Festival – a kind of outlier or ‘fringe up front’ to the
Continue reading ...I’ve loved Tumblr for years. It’s been my online scrapbook for quotes and images. From today I’m tinkering in Posterous, especially since it’s design is now customisable. Oh yes, and this is a test post. Posted via email from Kate Foy Related articles by Zemanta Posterous Launches Support for Themes, Import from Tumblr (readwriteweb.com) Posterous
Continue reading ...Here’s the latest video response from XPLANE, stimulated I suspect by a terrific slide show Shift Happens that’s been doing the rounds for a couple of years. In fact, I wrote about here just over a year ago. Want a glimpse into how our lives are changing in this digital age?
Continue reading ...Flloyd Kennedy, actor, director, and voice coach talks up a new ‘Bits’ fringe festival for Brisbane, scheduled “loosely” for late November this year. She enthuses about the kind of wild and woolly “and deeply unreliable” fringe festival that she wants to see in the city, and challenges the group to get organised, and get going.
Continue reading ...I’ve had some fun today playing with Apple’s new 5th generation Nano iPod. Specifically, I’ve been testing the inbuilt video camera for usability and results. I’ve sent up an Audioboo which discusses my reactions so far to the Nano, and although I call it a ‘Nano video-camera’ on this boo, it’s no such thing at
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