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Inspiration from a Deaf, Nutty Genius

November 26, 2009

in Management, Writing

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A deaf bloke with dubious personal hygiene. A complete nutter who died nearly 200 years ago. And a modern day inspiration for artists and business people alike. All in the same person. Who’d have thunk it? But Beethoven was, and is, all of those things.

In Search of Beethoven is an engrossing new feature length documentary by Phil Grabsky . As a movie alone it is a winner. If the enthusiasm of the interviewees doesn’t wash away any reticence you may have about classical music, the music itself will break the strongest emotional levee. And it is stunningly shot to boot.

Then there is the story – and the inspiration.

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Tagged as: adversity, art, artists, beethoven, creativity, inspiration, movie

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Our Love Affair with Digital: Are we Being Led Astray?

November 20, 2009

in Society, Technology

A dark cloud passed over me yesterday. I was in the State Library of Victoria (yes, it was a metaphorical cloud). From the balcony desk where I was sitting, I could look down on a large reading room – or so it is called. The thing is, no one was reading. At least not in the traditional sense. There were probably 200 people spread around this large room and every one of them was looking at some form of screen.

My fleeting unease had nothing to do with the lack of open books. It was the stark realisation of just how wedded to digital technology we have become. Am I alone in feeling a growing sense of communal vulnerability in this relationship?

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Tagged as: communication, cyberspace, digital, electronics, iphone, state library of victoria

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An Open Letter to My Kids before Christmas. Dear Girls…

You know that uncomfortable sagging feeling you get when you leave for school camp knowing you’ve left something behind – you just don’t know what? It’s horrible the way the hunch sits in your gut like too much cake until, as you open your bag at the other end, the realisation hits: it was the [...]

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Portrait of the Artist as a New Media Mogul

While working in a ‘real’ job and then later for myself, I had no idea how little society valued the arts. Now that I’m a writer, I’m learning fast – and the image I see is not very attractive.

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Hurry Up and … Slow Down

Over forty years is a long time to work on a single task. Yet that has been the lot of the four editors of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. The massive 3,952 page double volume will be released this month, the culmination of the editors’ entire careers. In our world of fast, [...]

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Marketing Shock! Less is the New More

Not two, three, four or five. My latest razor now has five blades – plus one on the back for trimming any recalcitrant hair. Our toilet paper is now three layers thick, has a space-age texture and is quite possibly made from Kevlar. Our toothpaste makes so many promises that our dentist can safely retire. [...]

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Why Everyone – even Blokes – should see ‘The September Issue’

To judge from the gender balance in the audience, there aren’t a lot of blokes lining up to see The September Issue, the new documentary feature that gives us a peek inside the walls of Vogue magazine in New York. Which is a pity, because the film has a lot to offer anyone – male [...]

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Happiness Sheds its Hippie Heritage

I was listening to a talkback radio discussion last night about what constitutes achievement and success in work and life. While not a particularly original topic for evening radio, I was struck by the tone of the calls. During quite a lengthy discussion, not a single caller suggested that success is about climbing the corporate ladder or making money. Could it be that success – for everyone, not just the hippies – is about being happy?

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The Scourge of Human Spam

My mother taught me that it is rude to interrupt. It is something that my wife and I, like most parents, try to instil into our daughters. With all that happens in the modern household it is hard enough to find time to have a conversation of more than 30 seconds without those precious sentences [...]

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Steve’s Diabolical Challenge

Like Senator Steve Fielding, I am a lapsed engineer. Like Steve, I have attempted to understand the science of climate change. Unlike Steve, I eventually understood that the task is beyond ordinary mortals. In fact it is even beyond the intellect of a single engineer. I realised that we should be leaving it to the [...]

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