Not even a week ago I wrote an essay doing my best to explain the idea of 'soft power' and did my very best to try persuade anyone silly enough to read it that they should care about it. Especially if they were an artist or arts worker
Kind of like a hammer made from asbestos that looks like fairy floss. Monied interests, those in power and over to the right of the Overton Window understand soft power. And yet many artists and arts organistions utlised for these means still don't seem to understand not only
Quitting big tech, is kind of like trying to give up smoking but if we were still living in the time when doctors were prescribing cigarettes to pregnant mothers and you needed cigarettes to chat to your racist uncle. Here we are in 2026 and already its been a week
I often get asked where I get my information from and usually I respond with a really vague "well umm". Which isn't particularly helpful for anyone. This ramble of words probably isn't going to be either. If you've been to my house
An exhibition review of sorts. Confronting Femininity - Institute of Modern Art 4 October–21 December 2025 Curated by Sal Edwards, Robert Leonard Artists: Michaela Stark, Natalya Hughes, Rosemary Laing Positionality Statement: For brevities sake, you can skip this and go straight to the review if you like, there will
It would be safe to assume that so called Australia’s pending teen social media ban was being led and designed by experts, not a breakfast radio guy and an ad man, sorry producer. But here we are. I guess I should start this by saying, I’m not accusing
If you’re as online as I am and if you also like comedy you’ve probably recently been made aware of the formerly, little known place of Riyadh. Pronounced "REE" + "ad" in case you were wondering. Jokes aside, it’s actually the capital of Saudi
More of a guttural response than a review and definitely not a critique of the exhibitions ‘Terra Culture’ by Bianca Tainsh and ‘A man that didn’t have betrayal in his heart’ by Anastasia Booth at Metro Arts, West End from 4 Sep - 15 Nov 2025. Redacted Redacted Redacted
Warning, you might need to have watched Paddington 2 (2017) and Eddington (2025) before reading this. I only watched Paddington 2 and then subsequently the prequel because of a strangely funny meta scene in movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Tears in their eyes, Pedro Pascal and Nicholas Cage
A short story about a little known collective in so-called Australia convincing international major payment providers to think twice about providing payment services to anyone creating or platforming NSFW content. In a story first published by Ana Valens for Vice (formerly), Valens reported that Collective Shout weaponised the ‘save the
I’m yet to come up with a catchy pun driven name for what will no doubt be a regular little focus area for this page, maybe ArtsedIN? Kind of sounds like AssIn. I started this page and am trying to write more regularly again for two main reasons. One,
Satire is Dead. Good Riddance. I grew up on shows like Family Guy, South Park and all the Late Night Shows that were airing through the late nineties and two-thousands. For some weird reason I never really watched The Simpsons. Which I can only put down to, there was something
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The other morning I went looking for a dead baby whale, I couldn't stop thinking about it. For some reason I felt like I needed to see it again or at least know it was gone and not rotting on the rocks. Normally every Winter I make a
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This is "This Could be It". It's my attempt to start writing again instead of just blasting my social media with ranting nonsense repeatedly. Of course with how my brain works, I can't manage to do anything unless its a mildly public manner. But