Archive for June, 2008

Local Media in the Postmodern World

Posted: 11 June 2008 at 12:12 am

If you’re in any way concerned about where the business of traditional media is heading (read: your job), Terry Heaton at DigitalJournalist.com puts forward a compelling account of how we got here and where it’s all heading:

Local media companies have frolicked in a world of easy money for decades — sitting back and taking orders from deep pockets who needed us to get their message out. Along the way, many mixed the mission of media with double-digit revenue growth and came to the conclusion that this was the way it was meant to be — that owning a printing press or broadcast tower brought with it some inalienable right to easy profit. This, of course, made us sitting ducks for disruption.

Full article: Local Media on a Postmodern World: It’s Always About the Money.


BBC Radio 3 Interview with Don McCullin

Posted: 10 June 2008 at 9:34 am

Conflict photographer Don McCullin in a startlingly honest interview with John Tusa on BBC Radio 3. Read the full transcript here.


Urban infrastructure

Posted: 1 June 2008 at 10:52 pm

Working on a series that takes an alternate view of Melbourne’s urban infrastructure. Below, the Federation Trail Shared Path passes through a tunnel beneath the Western Ring Road, Brooklyn.