For the last few months, I’ve been working on a hobby project to recreate, loosely speaking, the suburb of Glebe in Sydney in 3D. The original idea was to capture the essence of the suburb without necessarily making a one-to-one…
In 1985, Neil Postman wrote a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it, he warned that unless we changed course, our society would be controlled by the technology we thought would free us. Our very desire would be our…
This is a film of my poem “Color Me Into the Sky,” written for the Vocal poetry competition, which had the theme color poetry expressing the self. It was an interesting competition, not the least of which for the minimum…
Disco Elysium is a role-playing game chronicling the journey of an amnesiac detective trying to solve a murder case. You play as Harry Du Bois, stumbling through a fictional city that has been subject to war and political upheaval. The…
In the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway visited the galleries of Paris to see the works of Paul Cezanne, a painter who had an incredible impression on him. He later said of these visits: I was learning something from the painting of…
Avatar: The Last Airbender was a mid-2000s children’s TV show chronicling the journey of Aang, a young superhero aiming to master control of the four elements. Set in a pseudo-Asian mythological world, Avatar leant heavily on eastern philosophy, drawing on…
I stumbled upon the work of Kavita Bedford in a newspaper article. She’d written about the launch of her latest novel, Friends and Dark Shapes, but the article was just as much a love letter to Sydney – a city…
When I was younger, I read many of the books of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man considered to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Prized for his literary style – Fitzgerald has been linked to the…
A few years ago, I came across a painting by the artist Simon Stålenhag. The painting showed a remote landscape in the Swedish countryside. A father and son were out walking together and in the distance, a giant mechanical structure…
For the last few weeks, I have been working on a new project creating YouTube video essays. The essays are all derived from existing and hopefully soon new content of my blog New Intrigue. They will cover a range of…