It is not every day a university student tries to show up a newspaper powerhouse. But that’s what Sasha Burden attempted when she condemned the corporate culture of The Herald Sun following her internship at the organisation. On face value, I applaud Sasha. She is an Arts student majoring in Media and Communications at the University of … Continue reading »
In 1977 Brooklyn graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat went by the pseudonym ‘SAMO’; meaning same old shit. As a seventeen year old boy he painted slogans, poems and symbols around the buildings in Lower Manhattan, allowing his work to get some exposure, before it won him an interview with a local magazine. Five years later art … Continue reading »
Have you ever been out and forgotten your phone at home? If you have, you can probably sympathise with my need to find a men’s bathroom and quietly hyperventilate in one of the cubicles. Without my phone I can’t navigate my calendar, I don’t know any important phone numbers and god forbid I look outside … Continue reading »
Trendwatching.com is a team seasoned analysts who delve into new innovations that will hit the markets shortly. This month it delivers its most fascinating trend analysis ever. I’m not ashamed to admit it left me drooling into my cup of coffee.
It’s hard to believe that 50 year after The Feminine Mystique launched a new wave of feminist empowerment that the tides would patter away somewhere between then and now. When a female wades through a traditionally testosterone drenched field, her gender is very much the centre of outside speculation. Julia Gillard’s historic, albeit controversial, climb … Continue reading »
My phone sleeps beside me at night, it’s in my pocket during the day, and it is always switched on. Time magazine explores the revolutionary ways that little slab of circuits and wires in your pocket is quite literally changing our lives.
If you put on a headset to play an online video game these days you may hear party poppers and fresh caffeine drinks being cracked opened in celebration of an R18+ video game rating for Australia, beginning January first of next year. The legislation for the adults-only R18+ category for computer games recently passed Federal … Continue reading »
A few days ago I received a pretty important letter from my superannuation fund. It detailed account valuations, monthly premiums, asset allocations, interest rate fluctuations and expected shortfalls due to a turbulent Australian economy. I took one look at those small black numbers, calmly folded the papers back into their envelope, and put it on … Continue reading »
