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crowdfunding

as you can see from the rh sidebar, i’m on twitter now… nothing like a spell in china to give you an appreciation for microblogs and media feeds. new matilda and overland are both asking for support to continue providing readers with thoughtful, independent content and commentary. both these publications have been enormously supportive of [...]

recreational trespassing

the august podcast is coming right up, the dictaphone is on the blink. i’m also spending all my time here: www.fabrikpotsdam.de doing avant-garde performance art experiments. which i hope to be able to write about eventually. but not today. in the meantime you can enjoy some photos of spreepark planterwald, the abandoned amusement park on [...]

natural history

in the dublin natural history museum, which is crammed with thousands upon thousands of stuffed animals, a young boy of about 6 is standing in front of the monkeys, transfixed. ‘dad,’ he says, ‘that’s my head.’ ‘all right son, come along now.’ ‘no, dad… that’s my head.’ i think that particular revelation needs to go [...]

sound atlas

tomorrow i’ll be on the train to goolwa for the salt on the tongue festival where i’ll be reading and making this audio walking tour if all goes according to plan. which of course it always does. festival season is here again, so i have a few interstate trips over the coming month and i’m [...]