Originally published in Atlas Obscura’s food blog, Gastro Obscura, in 2018. In Murray Bridge, South Australia, the path to pastry glory is paved with a curious sandwich. Pies are a cultural icon in Australia. In ...
Rabbit Poetry Journal, Issue 27: The TENSE Issue (April 2019) Book Reviews: Dominique Hecq’s ‘Hush: A Fugue’ UWAP, 2017 | ISBN 9781742589473 | RRP $22.99 Hush is a brutal reminder that in losing ...
Work [Noun]: Activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result. What is work? To some it means doing certain tasks, ultimately creating or delivering predictable products or services ...
Food can be the best time machine in the world. Excitement tastes like dagwood dogs and fairy floss at the Royal Show. One bite of the deep-fried mystery meat and I can feel face paint ...
as featured in Antithesis Journal, October 25, 2018 John Fawcett’s sophomore film, 2000’s Ginger Snaps, explores the misadventures of Ginger Fitzgerald after she’s bitten by a vicious werewolf. The infected Ginger subsequently unleashes her teenage ...
Was I always a fan of David Bowie? Not particularly. I mean, I quite liked him as Jareth in the wacky cult movie Labyrinth, for which he penned much of the soundtrack. Cue saxophones, bursting singalongs by ...
Gender identities in advertising are constructed to seem natural, but are based around ‘ideal’ identities that circulate in society. An imagined ‘femininity’ (concerning the 2004 Elle MacPherson Intimates lingerie campaign) is constructed through a binary ...
How do music videos reinforce or subvert bodily performance of ‘the other’ gender? NOTE: ESSAY AND VIDEO CONTAIN EXPLICIT CONTENT
An analysis of narrative codes (in particular, symbols and motifs) in the music video ‘Special Cases’.
Heard of MONA? Tl;dr: self-proclaimed ‘arseholic’ David Walsh makes a fortune playing blackjack (among other things), and invests in a Tasmanian museum now named MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) that he vamps out ...
Ginger snaps. Delicious treats constructed from ginger-flavoured biscuity-stuff rolled into a cigar, and pumped full of brandy cream. The cigars can be prepared ahead of time and frozen for several months, so they’re basically available ...
Key points As one of the world’s best selling games, The Sims has enjoyed widespread success. The game’s popularity can be examined in a multitude of ways: through identity construction, narrative, construction of imagined worlds ...
How do local organisational structures successfully negotiate conflict, external subsystem demands, and feedback? Abstract Cybernetic organisations are comprised of any number of subsystems, which must be permeable in order to exchange information, resources, input, and ...
The Apple iPod was introduced in 2001, its innovative features and interface finding a key place in the music industry by combining the technology of computing software and music stereos. Users could suddenly mobilise their ...
An analysis of the ways that converging media platforms have influenced television industries and production.
