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Quick Snap 9#: Google street view photos
So I was running around the twitter-space, minding my own business when I stumbled across something called 9EYES which is tumblr that aggregates bizarre google street view photos. Want more? visit 9eyes.tumblr.com
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Quick Snap #8: Modern Art is a CIA conspiracy.
November 4, 2010
I have been studying art history for a far while now, undergraduate, then honours, into my work life and postgraduate degree, but I have never heard this one before. This article, actually released in 1995 (how it evaded me I’ll never know) claims that modern art from the 50’s and 60’s in America, The Abstract […]
Posted in: Article Comment
Quick Snap # 7: Halloween
November 2, 2010
So I am American, or at least to say, my family is from New York… I joke that my Mum is from London, Dad from New York and them moving to Perth to have me is just confusing. But I digress. In my family when I was younger Halloween was a big deal… So every year […]
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Week 11: Galleries, museums and technological advances
October 24, 2010
Recently I have been thinking a lot about the changing nature of galleries. How spaces present themselves, what the modern museum and gallery has to do to get visitors and how they theme their exhibitions to keep patrons for as long as possible. At the forefront of such ‘theming‘ devices galleries and museums employing new […]
Posted in: Opinion
Week 10: Internet Activism: the lazy way to save face?
October 17, 2010
In a wave of confusion caused by the Malcolm Gladwell article published on October forth by the New York Times entitled Small Change I wanted to consider the topic of internet activism. Whether the simple act of staying at home and ‘liking’ a cause, protesting a policy via email or objecting through a tweeted post […]
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Quick Snap # 6: Banksy and Kids cartoons
October 15, 2010
For so long the major gag in any Simpsons episode was the couch gag. In an episode that aired on the weekend in America, the whole openning sequence had a dark overhall by street artist Banksy. I do not know if you could classify it as a ‘gag’ but it is worth mentioning. I found […]
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Holiday Post: Gifts the internet gave me.
September 27, 2010
In this break period from university studies I feel the need not to push on a particular opinion about web publishing but instead make a brief entry about what, this week, I have loved on the internet. I find that everyday whether it be through my google reader, facebook, twitter, wordpress or even live journal […]
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Quick Snap #4: Australia can’t make any decisions.
September 25, 2010
But the web will always provide. I’m not even an Australian Rules Football fan, but I appreciate the gesture. http://doesaustraliahaveagrandfinalwinneryet.com/
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savvy affirmations 
November 22, 2010
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