Category Archives: Blog
National Day of ‘Arts’ Action
On Friday 17 June I'll be recording and releasing a song of mine, HOW LOW CAN YOU GO, as a personal contribution to the National Day of Action being coordinated by The Protagonists.
Go to HOW LOW CAN YOU GO for times, location and other details.
A response to fear
A couple of weeks ago a learned, well travelled friend with an acute legal mind sent me a brief message. She was in-transit, leaving a forum in Hong Kong.
"The world has become a scary place," she wrote.
These few words hit me in the proverbial guts. For said friend to admit such a thing - given … Continue Reading ››
Seeing another future
Yesterday I saw another future. It was akin to hearing my first radio, seeing Armstrong step onto the moon, picking up a portapak and shooting video, and that extrodinary moment we knew we could code hyperlinks onto a web page. However this was virtually real, immersive, uncomfortably intrusive and yet emphatic.
Grant McHerron: … Continue Reading ››
Response to Senate Inquiry – Impact of Budget Decisions on the Arts
Something in the order of 2300 submissions had been made come midnight 17 July 2015. The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee website indicated only 93 had been uploaded, but it appears they were overrun by submissions their server could not keep up with all that incoming. Here's … Continue Reading ››