For those who understand – and I hasten to say I don’t – Nam June Paik is dead.
His official website is here; I found it via Boing Boing.
Wikipedia here.
He said “The future is now”, and that he invented the phrase “information superhighway”. He started playing with video art in 1963. Fragments to give you [...]

Sometimes the internet can give you such an intense picture of very different lives.
Heh.
I do like that blog a lot.

Remember the old theory that the role of the police is to receive evidence of an offence, investigate it and then arrest suspects?
Gone to glory. Not just in suburban Geelong, where the police recently harrassed the camera club for taking photos in public, but in inner city Melbourne as well.
This month, the Trocadero Art [...]

The war in Iraq has now cracked the goldfish bowl of US television news, bursting open the studio space which is always safe, always calm, always right.
Veteran cameraperson Doug Vogt and (US)ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff have been reporting directly from Iraq in a trans-global co-anchoring tag team with a studio in [...]

The reality of life in Australia – new culture in an old landscape.
This image comes from Graham Houghton, a strike team leader in the Country Fire Authority. For overseas readers, that is the voluntary system we use to live in an ecosystem formed by fire.
Posted in The Age, as part of their photographic survey of [...]

Some things I like to have nearby, but not on my site.
Things like this.
It comes from a metafilter thread about Project Censored’s annual list of suppressed news stories.
Worlds within a single picture.
UPDATE: Ian Westbrook at Duckpond referred me to the wider shot and the Gore Vidal article with it.

“THE Australian film industry has lost its way and succumbed to a handout mentality that benefits directors who continue to make movies that no one wants to watch.”
That is a bog standard Right wing attitude to film and television subsidy. However, it actually describes the views of Henry Tefay, the head of production at the [...]

Some people had such a hard time over Xmas, they had to query an on-line coroner. This is a veritable definition of morbid fascination.

A woman wears a mask on top of her head as she works collecting recyclable items.
Sex and reality TV are an incendiary combination. I am sure Network Ten thought it could defy the toothless tiger of Australian content regulation and get away with the Big Brother willy wagging incident. Unfortunately for the publicity department, the [...]

Selling series concepts for reality TV is big business, though the numbers are not public, so policing ripoffs is a bit of a battlefield.
Australia’s very own The Block has been bought by female oriented Dutch Channel Five, who have made two series and will pay for the rights to another, forking out just for the [...]