Book Review: Wanderer by Fox Rogers

One approaches a book written by a first-time author friend with some trepidation. What can one say if after the first few pages you can’t bear to read it, if it’s badly written or full of cliches and flowery language, or just lacking in any qualities that make a book good to read? Fortunately, I …

VR Experience – Tilt Brush with HTC Vive – Noosa Library Maker Space

I’m not a gamer. I don’t enjoy quests and shoot-em-ups I’m interested in creative applications – in using 3D VR to create artworks and creative experiences, so my first serious foray into headset-based VR has been with Tilt Brush. I was using an HTC Vive headset at Noosa Library Maker Space as part of Matt …

Workshop – 3D Books – March 4th- Noosaville

Fat Girl Fiction

We were throwing around ideas for an exhibition at a recent Christmas party, and I put ‘Fact or Fiction’ into the mix. But in the general din of a lunchtime pub my friend Zela heard ‘Fat Girl Fiction’ instead. And so an idea was born for a new zine. A place to write ridiculous things …

More MOOC’s

For a change of pace from learning programming (still) I’m doing a graphic illustration course with Junichi Tsuneoka from the Cornish College of Arts. It’s been a great break from the keyboard and screen, sitting in my studio listening to the radio and wielding a pen. I’d almost forgotten the meditative power of drawing just …

Susie Neuvonen Aged Four

Why the Arts Party Fills Me With Fear

I attended the Queensland Arts Advocacy Group forum on Thursday via webinar. If you’ve read my previous post you’ll know that a mini forum chatters away behind the real life conference, commenting on the speakers and the issues and adding their voice to the on-line forum. The introduction to the forum supported a bi-partisan (meaning …

Attending a Webinar

As an aficionado of virtual worlds, MOOCS and multi player on-line gaming environments participating in five or six text conversations while watching television, filling out my tax forms, moving an avatar around on screen and doing some 3D building on the side is not a big ask. A webinar meeting should be just as easy. …

Pocket Sized Projects

Playing around with ipad apps. for a workshop I’m doing at Caloundra Regional Gallery on Wednesday as part of their Pocket Sized Projects. Just working out how the gifs work from Plastic. Enjoy. Great little app. that can get  some pretty good animations as well as make gifs. I’ll be interested to see how quickly …

Replicating Bridget Riley

When the ipad 1 came on the market in 2010 (was it really only five years ago?) I was fascinated by the apps that let you draw, that interacted with your finger in bursts of particle colour, or created trees or flowers or whatever right there when you touched the screen. At the time I …