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A Bloodless body – AI is not art
Hello? Is this thing on? (Crackling sound) Hello? Can you hear me? Can you see me? Are you alive? Testing. Testing. Testing. I am alive. It has been a while. A long, long while. *This text is not AI....
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Time – Rone
Melbourne, Australia in summer can get hot. Very hot. As the desert centre of Australia heats up during this season, the weather cycle brings occasionally brings a wind that drags those conditions...
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What I learned working 8 years in Maternity – Farewell to the Northern Hospital.
Where to begin with this tale is a tough one. Of all the jobs I have had, working in the The Northern’s Maternity Unit is going to be one of the places I will forever be most proud of working in. But...
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Olivetti in Venice – The showroom and typewriters that defy time.
In every inch of its existence Venice’s history stands in contrast with commerce. The deep laneways are a wonder to wander with discoveries to be had around every corner. It is a city that grew in an...
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The Storm Before The Calm.
It’s been a while since I wrote a typecast. I’m not sure if I have to time or the mindset for much writing at the moment, but I just felt a need to get some thoughts down on paper. So pardon the...
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Things To Watch While You Are Quarantined.
We’ve entered a new age. An age when boxing ourselves up into our homes has become more rewarding than ever. The abundance of high-definition television and audio at our fingertips along with very...
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Cold, Hard Type 3.
Another book? Another book! The last two Cold, Hard Type books are great little tasting plates for the creativity of some of my fellow members of the Typosphere. If you have not read them yet, in the...
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The North’s Typewriter – A Secret Hidden In The Ceiling.
I stood by the roadside on a warm autumn morning with a pocket full of cash, and a racing heart. I felt this deal would fall apart at any second, and I wasn’t sure if it was him – or me that was going...
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For the love of clutter – The typewriters of Mirka Mora.
Earlier this year one of Melbourne’s more prestigious auction houses cleared the belongings from Mirka’s studio in Richmond. Calling the auction “The Magical Studio of Mirka Mora” ,they rebuilt much...
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Hope Is A Shade Of Grey: The Themes Behind The Nameless
Writing is easy. You just make Earnest Hemingway sit at a typewriter and bleed him. It’s all he’s good for, really. When Richard Polt announced the idea of Cold Hard Type I was excited and keen to get...
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The storms of Pompeii.
I clutched my camera firmly to my chest, hunkered down and learned against a wall made 2000 years or so years ago. My nylon poncho flailed around in the wind as a bitterly cold rain lashed my face....
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Rome: Exiting to the Vatican
I’ll just say this. There comes a point when you are spending so much time with the great classics of art, that you find yourself really grasping what modern art is all about. Gosh I love history, but...
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Rome: City of typewriters
The flying time from Melbourne, Australia is brutal. I watched the sun rise as our plane took off at 6am, only to see it set 22 hours later as we commenced our descent into Leonardo Da Vinci –...
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Farewell to the RMH ICU, a part of myself, and to my friends.
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Cold Hard Type.
In a group email recently Richard Polt discussed the idea of producing a book made up of contributed stories about typewriters and typing in a post apocalyptic world. And why not! I started writing a...
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New Podcast Episode
In this jet-lagged episode I visit an exhibition in a gallery in Rome, Italy, where the art of Olivetti’s design, as well as the company’s past and future is examined. In the Filthy Labs segment, I...
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One Week In Bangkok – Pt 2 . You can find it all in Thailand.
In 2006 a coup by Thailand’s military toppled Thaksin, the current prime minister from his position. This was the first of many coups that would perpetually destabilise Thailand’s government. By 2010...
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One week in Bangkok – pt1. Hitting the streets and going on typewriter safari.
Jane and I departed from our wedding, as by vague tradition, at around the 10pm mark and before the guests left. We headed to a hotel in a part of Brisbane city known as Fortitude valley. It is...
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The Many Types Of Wedding.
As winter set in here Melbourne, Australia in June 2017, Miss Jane and I were frantically getting ready for an event that… well, we’d kind of procrastinated on for over 3 years. Some members of our...
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Thankfulness at Christmas.
Hi there. I’m sure most of you are reading this while nursing a nasty hangover, glancing or between moments of keeping an eye on your kids as they roll around on newly acquired Christmas presents,...
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