Published in frankie 26 (November/December 2008)
Tom Chard
When Tom Chard arrived in Burma in September 2007 he had no idea he was stepping into a situation that was set to explode. For the previous month local monks had been staging peaceful demonstrations in the streets of Rangoon and Mandalay, calling for democracy and protesting against the [...]
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As told to Chloe Walker, published in frankie 26 (November/December 2008)
The night of my 30th birthday I thought, I’ve had a rough 29 years, I’m just going to do something for myself. This will be a new beginning. It was like saying goodbye to those years, and good riddance. I went to a bar, enjoyed [...]
Published in frankie 25 (September/October 2008)
Jason Wilson: early video games
Last year Griffith University graduate Jason Wilson added ‘Dr’ to his name when he submitted his 90,000-word PhD – a critical history of video games from 1972 to 1985. Aside from academics, it was also a chance to pay homage to some old favourites, like Pong [...]
Published in Tertangala ‘Birthday’ edition 2007
Linda Jaivin loves a challenge. In the decade since her first novel, Eat Me, became an instant cult classic and international bestseller, the Sydney author, film subtitler, China specialist and accidental sexpert has published erotica, science fiction, grunge lit, thriller, biography and a collection of essays. Erotic fiction involving fruit [...]
Published in Arts in the City, Issue 2, September 2006
Linda Jaivin has a delicious giggle. At times it seems like she’s struggling to keep it from taking over the conversation. Her sense of humour has been the one constant in a varied career for this translator, subtitler, historian, journalist, writer of erotic fiction and [...]
Published in Arts in the City, Issue 2, September 2006
Yes, Luke Davies used to take smack and yes, that’s him playing the milkman in the film adaptation of his 1997 novel, Candy. Does that clear everything up? Davies has had a case of deja interview since the film, starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish, [...]
Published in The Pun, Issue 3, 2006
Question: what if Australia’s pre-eminent political comedian, described by The Age as ‘a living Melbourne treasure’, were charged as a terrorist? It could happen. Last week Rod Quantock hosted The Inaugural Golden Guy Fawkes Award, in which local and international comedians competed for the ‘Comedian Most Likely to [...]
Published in The Pun, Issue 3, April 2006
To anyone who has ever ‘solved’ a Rubik’s cube by peeling off the stickers and rearranging them – go to Lawrence Leung’s show, The Marvellous Misadventures of Puzzle Boy. Lawrence has spent the last twenty years trying to learn the secret behind solving the iconic 80s puzzle toy. [...]
Published in Crossfire, Issue 6, October 2004
From tips in Queensland and op-shops in Melbourne to working the hard rubbish run in Sydney, Dave Medworth knows how to find the treasures in Australia’s trash.
Dave Medworth picks up rubbish. Whether he’s scrounging round a country tip or simply waiting to cross a Melbourne street, Dave is constantly [...]
Published in Crossfire, Issue 13, 2003
A cloaked man smears blue liquid all over his hands, makes an ‘o’ shape with his fingers, and blows. The rows of people before him are silent as a bubble emerges, glistening and swirling with colour. The man lets the bubble rest in his left hand, while with his right [...]