• Underground: The Julian Assange Story

    Underground: The Julian Assange Story

    As part of their Meet the Filmmaker series, Underground: the Julian Assange story has been playing at Cinema Nova all this past week in Melbourne. The movie was principally made as a telemovie and was primarily funded by Channel 10 (and it was aired last year). Alex Williams, Laura Wheelright, and Robert Connolly The movie…

  • War Horse in Melbourne

    War Horse in Melbourne

    I was lucky enough to see War Horse in Melbourne recently. I usually see something other than high-end and popular international theatre productions but prefer local independent theatre (which has an extraordinarily vibrant community in Melbourne). I only saw Warhorse because my mother was in town, and I was familiar with it as I worked…

  • Wanderlust

    Wanderlust

    A personal project that I have been working on in my spare time over the past few months involved locating, digitising, tagging, and putting into neat little country boxes (on Flikr) all the photos that I have taken on my travels since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. And there are a lot…

  • Announcing DH Awards 2012 open for voting!

    Announcing DH Awards 2012 open for voting!

    It our pleasure to announce that the DH Awards 2012 is open for voting! Digital Humanities Awards are a new set of annual awards given in recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH…

  • Fitzroy, Melbourne, November, 2001: oral history archive

    Fitzroy, Melbourne, November, 2001: oral history archive

    Milkbar: The Everyday City and Globalisation was a project that sought to uncover some of the stories and concerns of some of the residents of Fitzroy, an inner-city Australian community. The videos assembled here are part of a larger project completed in October 2002 (more details below). Forty four people within the suburb were interviewed…

  • Berlin Wall, 1990

    This is a picture of me at the Berlin Wall, August 1990. I am presently updating my personal archive and in the process digitising my analogue travel pictures and putting them on Flikr. Hardwork! Many of these I have placed on the Flikr stream on the bottom of the side-bar on this blog, but I…