As an Arts graduate (got the MA just in case the BA didn’t quite drive it home), you’d think I’d be more prepared to answer the question, “Why web? Why not ‘The Arts?’” For someone else, I can see how when looking over my bio my career path may seem more “road less traveled” than [...]
Here’s a great article on how former/recovering/current expats or Third Culture Kids can be great additions to your team. Just try explaining that to the dude who looks at your CV, raises an eyebrow and says “Ethiopia, huh?” or, my personal favourite, “Where do you FEEL like you’re from?” Cultural relativism can be a powerful [...]
Some of my favourite classes in university were: Intermedia: An Art History course on performance/video art, experimental music, and the art scene throughout the 20th Century. I read Kurzweil for the first time and wondered what Socrates would think of mobile devices, given that Plato claimed in Phaedrus that he thought literacy alone would wreck [...]
So the blogosphere is all a-tingle with the news that blogger and author Belle de Jour is actually Dr Brooke Magnanti. I, for one, am glad that she turned out to be: An actual woman (there were many doubters) An actual former sex worker (again, many doubters) A doctor working for a worthwhile cause Proud [...]
