This week I had the pleasure of collaborating with Chang Che on a video essay on the Japanese concept of “Omakase,” which literally means “I’ll leave it to you.” But the word means more than that. It evokes a calculated…
Six hundred people in the space of fifty square meters. They’re crammed in tight around the edges and we only just get our own spot. Everyone is dancing, but it’s a slow dance even in the fast songs. I catch…
I somehow managed to finish my PhD! 😄🎉 I wouldn’t have been able to make it without the great assistance of Adelaide Law School and the tireless effort of my supervisors, Professors Paul Babie and Peter Burdon. It’s been a…
Tune into Spotify these days and you would be forgiven for thinking that love has an inbuilt expiry date. The shortest relationships are being celebrated as having incredible depth and meaning, despite, or perhaps because of, their brevity. In Home…
A few years ago, I watched the third-highest grossing anime film of all time, Your Name, by Makoto Shinkai. It was an intriguing love story about body swapping between two people who had never met before attempting to find each…
There is an oak tree at the end of a winding road Out passed the beaches and the ritzy mansions, Up on a cliff at the edge of the world. – I visited it with her in the spring of…
I once attended a philosophy lecture on the value of truth in modern times. It was framed around the rise of Trump, post-truth and ‘alternative facts.’ The story went that people were believing whatever they wanted to believe rather than…
I had the chance to sit down and have an interview with Bri Lee, the author of Who Gets to Be Smart? Our chat took us on a journey through modern education, how it privileges some and discriminates against others…
For the last few weeks, Sydney has been in the start of a two-month lockdown. With nowhere else to go, I have started playing a few video games. I’ve been particularly exploring the mass-market games I usually don’t play. Chief…
In the 1970s, Davis Cone travelled America and painted the last remaining golden age cinemas. His mission was to paint as many as possible before they were demolished and replaced by new shopping malls and parking lots. Cinemas were the…