Marginalia – Page 67

Life snippets: a collector’s tale

14 June, 2009
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Technology and Creativity, Voice and Text
Posted by Kate Foy

I’ve been collecting snippets of my life for years. I guess I am a confirmed diarist at heart, although the collection process is random and not nearly as organised as it might be. I’ve had a camera since I was 11 years old – a Box Brownie as I recall – and have been collecting

Compact Cassette, Facebook, Flickr, Friend Feed, photography, Tape recorder, Video camera

Accent or Dialect?

11 June, 2009
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Actors and Acting, Featured, Voice and Text
Posted by Kate Foy

An interesting blog post on OurBrisbane.com today – it’s a performing arts blog run by Brisbane playwright Katherine Lyall-Watson – caught my attention. It had me reaching for the keyboard; it was about one of my favourite topics, something I’ve been dealing with for years – voice training, specifically dialect and accent work for performance.

accent, Actors and Acting, Add new tag, Christopher Hampton, dialect, God of Carnage, Queensland Theatre Company, speech, spoken English, voice, Yasmina Reza

Friend Feed and Twitter – an experiment

29 May, 2009
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Collaborative Learning, Featured, Technology and Creativity
Posted by Kate Foy

I followed a reasonably heated Friend Feed debate-thread some days ago. It was initiated by someone complaining about Twitter ‘crap’ appearing in the Friend Feed Home feed and supposedly diverting or undermining ‘meaningful’ threaded conversation; it was clearly a gate-keeper post by someone who felt Friend Feed’s real strength was being diluted by these disembodied

Facebook, Flickr, Friend Feed, Seesmic, Twitter