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More endnote notes

Just caught up on few more tips on endnote:
corporate authors like a company name put a , (comma) after the words to stop it reverting to initials
email list reference is (personal communication)
edit – paste special changes a pasted font into the font of the reference a new reference

Amalgamating documents with separate bibliographies:
1. [...]

Quick Writing Process notes

This book Writing Under Pressure: The Quick Writing Process by Sanford Kaye is very useful. The author knows his stuff and has been teaching writing at a high level for many years. Here is some quick overview notes on the process which I plan to expand as I learn more. The approach is like documentary [...]

Academia crisis

This post ‘Why Academia Is No Longer A Smart Choice’ by Melissa Greg on a positive note led to a useful comment by Alex Burns 24/11/09. In this comment he provides some useful information as one approach towards the issues that Gregg raises:
First, you need to develop a ‘programmatic’ approach to your research: a [...]

Video Machines

Came across this book Writing Machines way back in the MA, but did not get into it for some reason. Really useful overview of ‘materiality’ in the front section and good example of working in a ficto-criticism approach towards writing. Got me thinking about ‘video machines.’ The wee one tucked in my arm is new, [...]

writing, hypertext and ID

There seems to be a focus on writing – time management, professional development books lately. I am also looking at finally getting under the hood of Tinderbox. Along with some hypertext theory books and accompanying fiction mentioned in that discourse, that I meant to get a long time ago. Sneaking in there more recently interaction [...]

Cross-media filmmaking

Christy Dena’s presentation Should We? Could We? Would We?: Films in the Age of Cross-Media Production for the power to the pixel a cross-media film event at the London Film Festival Oct 14-15, 2009.
Description of the presentation:
Why should we think about more than one media platform? Could we gain financially and artistically? Would [...]

Series of interviews on work and play

A series of interviews under the title ‘The Internet as Playground and Factory’ by Trebor Scholz and the New York digitallabor.org, Eugene Lang College, The New School University. Scholz in these interviews talks to varying writers and artists about the relationship between work and play on the Internet.
Interviewees include: McKenzie Wark, Jonah Brucker Cohen, [...]

Len Lye and motion

AD invited me along to the Len Lye lecture by Roger Horrocks last week and then I went back later on to check out the ACMI exhibition downstairs. Len Lye is well known in New Zealand as a NZ artist and I have the first book (biography) that Horrocks wrote in 2001. Also, I [...]

Library research workshop

Recently, I meet with Cathy Costa at the Library to go over current research techniques using library resources. I decided to capture some notes and links in a blog post as we covered a lot of ground in the meeting. I will extend these notes out beyond my personal needs to make this a useful [...]

Double Life Opening

The Double Life contemporary art exhibition opened last night at the RMIT Project Space/Spare Room. With a life in the city and in the country these artist/researchers work with their rural environments. A few pictures from the opening. Curator Lisa Byrne.

An ash stencil on the floor ‘Bastards Neck’ part of Lesley Duxbury’s work.
Talking with [...]