Jun
06
2011
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door – NOT!
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**BLAM!… Out of nowhere you have the inspiration of a great idea.
You’ve just dreamed up a new and novel way of doing something that everyone will want and now all you have to do is …
Tags: Art, Atomic, Coffee, Design, Development, Industrial, OTTO, Podcast, Product, Sydney, Technology
Apr
30
2011
This is how to tell a good story?
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Many people live a life in the arts. Sometimes it’s through choice or circumstances but it’s always a life that is lived independent of many of the norms of Western Society, using their resources to work in a variety of fields within the …
Tags: Australia, Community, Storytelling
Dec
05
2010
Back on Episode 50 with Kate Foy I used a track from Nick Hollywood. I was just poking around the web and I found a few other tracks that you may find interesting. Here they are:
This track is from Swing Republic just in time for Christmas Boogie Woogie Santa
SWING REPUBLIC – BOOGIE WOOGIE …
Tags: Music, Personal
Nov
22
2010
What is needed to make it in music?
How may people are performing, working their craft, doing all they can to be seen and heard, to make it in this world as an artist? How do they get noticed amongst all the noise and what do they have to do in the mean time until …
Tags: Career, Cooking, Jazz, Musician, Pastry, Study
Oct
05
2010
You have the idea but how/who to write the book!
Have you ever wanted to write a book? Have you had a great idea that you need to get out there? Do you have life experiences or know someone who you would like to write about? Maybe you have already started writing? Do you have:
An …
Tags: Ghost, Ghost Writing, Migrant, Writing
Aug
10
2010
One of the great pleasures of having a blog is being able to be self indulgent - This is one of those self indulgent posts.
As you may know I dance tango for pleasure, a great pleasure! Sure I’m still learning after 3.5 years but I think tango is one of the life passions that …
Tags: Music, Personal, Tango
Mar
02
2010
Welcome To Episode 50 of Your Story.
I invited Kate Foy to come and share with us the world of a professional theatre actor and all that it means. What was the theatre industry like in the early 1970′s when the Queensland Theatre Company was just getting underway, what do you need and how hard …
Tags: Acting, Career, Greenroom, Podcast, QTC, Queensland Theatre Company, Theatre
Feb
23
2010
Welcome To Episode 49 of Your Story.
In a pub recently it was mentioned that I should sit and talk with Gemma-Rose as she has a passion for photography and has managed to make a career of what many would love to do for a living.
Not only do we learn of the early days of …
Jan
30
2010
I’ve been messing around a little taking some long exposure shots of Brisbane, the River and the Freeway at night but my good friend Adam (@gtowna) found this stunning footage and it’s worth sharing. It’s just the thing with Brisbane that the climate and the weather makes it so attractive that with this skill …
Tags: Brisbane, River, Video