mapping blog, sent to me by a friend.
something unforseen, and very enjoyable, about this project is that my dearest friends are finding little tidbits to bring to me: names of books, sometimes the books themselves, thoughts, links, recommendations of people to talk to. it's the first time I've done a project this big and I am finding that aspect of it - having something to be obsessed with, as well as the help and participation of others - very rewarding.
which reminds me: ask M about the academic R. mentioned to me last night. oh, and remember that D.V. is working on a script about mapping of Armenia.
people do seem to love maps...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
capturing melbourne - photography
scored six old Melways @ $2 each in an op shop frenzy today. considering buying an Edition 5 (1970-71) on Ebay.
representation and guidebooks are not the same thing...
scored six old Melways @ $2 each in an op shop frenzy today. considering buying an Edition 5 (1970-71) on Ebay.
representation and guidebooks are not the same thing...
Monday, October 27, 2008
city link camera images: can be hacked by adding "webcam01.jpg and so on to the main url (after removing the index.php bit)
going out and doing things seems to be a good idea: have three pieces of about 1500 words each written since last Friday; on the map fair, the sketchcrawl and on some swans I saw on the Moonee Ponds creek...if one could hope to keep up this rate, 40,000 words wouldn't look so hard...but some of the research will be much slower...
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
"This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through
the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body."
-heh. as required. and so on.
so this book, project, whatever it is, is actually going to get written. I am of course terrified - and have of course turned that terror into a short essay I'll be trying to get published - but overall it's a good thing. disrupting, challenging, but good. Six months' work at $10,000...it's about a third of what I used to get paid...but a darn sight better than the big fat nothing I was being paid before...and even better again than my original plan, which was to pay the government (uni fees) so I could write this as a thesis. Supposed to have a first draft by the start of May next year. my application left out a few key chapters, so I guess I can defer those...it's all going to be about maps and books from here on in...though I will be collecting artists, like the popov show below and the very interesting Sketchcrawl.
the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body."
-heh. as required. and so on.
so this book, project, whatever it is, is actually going to get written. I am of course terrified - and have of course turned that terror into a short essay I'll be trying to get published - but overall it's a good thing. disrupting, challenging, but good. Six months' work at $10,000...it's about a third of what I used to get paid...but a darn sight better than the big fat nothing I was being paid before...and even better again than my original plan, which was to pay the government (uni fees) so I could write this as a thesis. Supposed to have a first draft by the start of May next year. my application left out a few key chapters, so I guess I can defer those...it's all going to be about maps and books from here on in...though I will be collecting artists, like the popov show below and the very interesting Sketchcrawl.
Monday, September 1, 2008
thoughts on indigenous chapter; need to have acknowledgement ("written on the land of the Kulin people"? or similar) at the start , but the chapter on indigenous representation doesn't have to be at the start.
because this is not a history or a linear story. and in some ways, the ways of the people who were here before come to one's attention after one (in this case, non-indigenes) has been here for a while.
the first people were, to a large extent, too focussed on looking for what was like where they came from to see what was there. it's only later (and there were exceptions -find?) that they/we took an interest in how the locals had lived before, and what could be learned from them.
back to my idea about the different reasons for figuring things out; for many, it's so that the thing can be controlled. for others, it's so they can learn to live with the thing as it is. I'd put most indigenous mapping/culture in the latter category, though there are examples of technology (fire agriculture, the eel farms).
they didn't just live here before us; they lived here differently from us.
though sometimes not so differently; the way that key sites were reproduced - the MCG - was the particular nature of the site reproduced - and the story about an old tree on the site of St Paul's - is it a carrying on of the sacredness, or was it just that that tree protected the site so long that it was all that was left by the time they came to build the cathedral?
because this is not a history or a linear story. and in some ways, the ways of the people who were here before come to one's attention after one (in this case, non-indigenes) has been here for a while.
the first people were, to a large extent, too focussed on looking for what was like where they came from to see what was there. it's only later (and there were exceptions -find?) that they/we took an interest in how the locals had lived before, and what could be learned from them.
back to my idea about the different reasons for figuring things out; for many, it's so that the thing can be controlled. for others, it's so they can learn to live with the thing as it is. I'd put most indigenous mapping/culture in the latter category, though there are examples of technology (fire agriculture, the eel farms).
they didn't just live here before us; they lived here differently from us.
though sometimes not so differently; the way that key sites were reproduced - the MCG - was the particular nature of the site reproduced - and the story about an old tree on the site of St Paul's - is it a carrying on of the sacredness, or was it just that that tree protected the site so long that it was all that was left by the time they came to build the cathedral?
Sunday, August 31, 2008
arts vic grants...the melbourne grants are to pay production costs only, so for publication, payments to third parties etc..whereas arts vic (next deadline March 2) pays for the creative process, ie as a writers' grant.
possible funding sources:
ozcouncil
state library
arts vic
city of melbourne
possible funding sources:
ozcouncil
state library
arts vic
city of melbourne
aaargh! why didn't anyone tell me that the council gives people money to write about Melbourne? details here now I have to wait for next year to apply...
writing about Melbourne
notes from MWF session on Melbourne and writing about melbourne (more notes in Moleskin diary):
"that richer, other Melbourne that exists between the pages of books or in painting or in film"...Michelle de K.
- that being just one of many statements by the writers on the night that fitted with my view of this self-referential trope of Melbourne's. to the extent that I'm a little worried that when my piece comes out in the paper, people (in particular the lecturer who I think may be a good prospect for a supervisor or mentor) may think I have pinched their ideas and words.
but it's in the zeitgeist, and the general agreement between where I'm hoping to go and where people seem already to be heading only made me more enthusiastic about this project.
other bits: the idea that an act by a person/character is mirrored by the landscape, in this case Nick Gadd's comments on the "toxic act" by a character that, like the toxic chemcials left in the soil by industry, comes back to haunt him years later.
"that richer, other Melbourne that exists between the pages of books or in painting or in film"...Michelle de K.
- that being just one of many statements by the writers on the night that fitted with my view of this self-referential trope of Melbourne's. to the extent that I'm a little worried that when my piece comes out in the paper, people (in particular the lecturer who I think may be a good prospect for a supervisor or mentor) may think I have pinched their ideas and words.
but it's in the zeitgeist, and the general agreement between where I'm hoping to go and where people seem already to be heading only made me more enthusiastic about this project.
other bits: the idea that an act by a person/character is mirrored by the landscape, in this case Nick Gadd's comments on the "toxic act" by a character that, like the toxic chemcials left in the soil by industry, comes back to haunt him years later.
not the first post
have spent the morning looking for theses already written on the representation of Melbourne in film and books: can't find any. this must be a failure in my search technique because surely it's been done.
it does, however, bode well for my plan to make this topic the subject of my own masters' thesis and, I hope, of a larger work. hence this blog will be pretty much for my own personal use (ie incoherent and disjointed) as a storage place for the bits and pieces I find along the way.
this blog, and a large plastic storage container beside my desk....
it does, however, bode well for my plan to make this topic the subject of my own masters' thesis and, I hope, of a larger work. hence this blog will be pretty much for my own personal use (ie incoherent and disjointed) as a storage place for the bits and pieces I find along the way.
this blog, and a large plastic storage container beside my desk....
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