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As a qualified educator, and educator of the educators, I am a communications expert; understanding how and why information delivery works and doesn't work. I have experience with technology and consider myself an information-futurist. I am a dreamer!

Now, enough of that wank and onto some more...I have been a teacher of modern English and literature, taught people the skills of learning, teaching and communicating. A can look at big and little pictures and advise on getting from point A to point B. I can read maps!

I am an excellent facilitator, negotiator and have, on many occasions in the past, presented to small and large groups alike. I am a talker!

My experience in commercial enterprise has helped me take a leap from the structure and politic of government back into the real world. I am a thinker!

But I am a teacher; was a teacher of skills and knowledge, and now, like most of us, just a teacher.

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Information and communication developer, reviewer and planner, advice on learning, elearning and services online. I see the past and dream the future. I can use smart and dumb tools. A sharer and a listener. A strategist and a dreamer. I can negotiate with people from all walks. I know where I am at and where you want to be. I can read maps!

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Review: The Age of Stupid Gets Smart on Enviropocalypse | Underwire | Wired.com

  • September 18, 2009  | 

    • The Age of Stupid

    Blurring the boundary between sci-fi and documentary, Franny Armstrong’s The Age of Stupid peers back in time from a climate crisis-wracked 2055 to lament our current inaction on the mother of all conflicts: The war on terra. The film premieres globally on Monday.

    “We’re not at war at the moment,” explains Piers Guy, a British wind-farm developer who serves as one of The Age of Stupid’s compelling subjects. “But if people actually recognized the full implications of what’s happening to us, they would be treating it like a war.”

    Armstrong’s docu-film isn’t shy about examining those implications. Beginning with the Big Bang, The Age of Stupid’s evocative CGI hurls toward 2055 at light-speed, only to find Earth’s once-mighty metropoles annihilated. From a drowned London to a buried Las Vegas and a burning Sydney, its dystopian imagery conjures up disturbing visions of humanity and hyperconsumption gone seriously awry.

     

    London drowns and Sydney burns in <em>The Age of Stupid</em>'s destabilizing dystopia.<br><em>All images courtesy Spanner Films</em>

    London drowns and Sydney burns in The Age of Stupid's destabilizing dystopia. All images courtesy Spanner Films

    via wired.com

    Well, it might be a bit of hogwash - do we really think London will be flooded and Sydney burning in 2055? Seriously?? This movie - come - docudrama (errk!) really is just about putting fear into the voters so that their Governments react according to our Enviro-Economists in Copenhagen.

    But since the special effects and CGI are meant to be awesome - why the hell not! Read more at wired.com's reviews section.

    Sylvestor
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    Filed under  //  Climate Change   Environment   Movies   Review   Underwire   Wired.com  
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    Posted 5 months ago

    3D the next dimension in home entertainment | News | News.com.au

    Sony 3D TV
    Third dimension ... Sony's 3D TV prototype at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers conference and exhibition in Sydney / Courier-Mail

    BREAK out your TV-watching goggles. The next big thing in home cinema is 3D and it could arrive in a big way next year.

    With more and more feature films being made in 3D, Hollywood studios are lobbying to bring the full immersive experience into lounge rooms, and TV manufacturers are striving to meet those demands.

    via news.com.au


    What are we? Back to the Future of 1955??? 3D is just a tad passe' in my view and until holographivision becomes a reality - really, what is the point of this?

    The basic premise of the technology has not changed in 50 years. This is not a good thing. Money should be invested in projected vision entertainment for the home, not just a means of bringing cinema into the home the same way it is delivered in theatres.

    Why do our bigshot entertainment and tech houses insist on focussing on reinvention...where is the new stuff? where is the future?? Stop taking us back in time please.

    Sylvestor
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    Filed under  //  3D   movies   Sony   technology   TV  
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    Posted 7 months ago

    Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes touch down in Australia

    via news.com.au

    TOM Cruise and Katie Holmes have arrived at Melbourne's Essendon Airport in their private jet and are staying at Crown Casino in a private suite.

    The Herald Sun reports the Hollywood couple are expected to stay at Crown with their daughter Suri for their time in Australia.

    James Packer flew to Melbourne yesterday, reportedly to prepare the suite for their arrival.

    The Packers' private jet was at Essendon airport yesterday with a cheerful-looking Packer spotted at Crown Towers.


    Seriously, does anyone really care????

    Sylvestor
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    Filed under  //  Don't Be Afraid of the Dark   Katie Holmes   Melbourne   Movies   Tom Cruise   TomKat  
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    Posted 8 months ago

    Star Trek 7 - what did I think?

    Star Trek

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    The story chronicles the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members during their time at Starfleet Academy.

     
    So what did I think?
     
    It was going to be long. Apparently. And I had expectations. It has been a few years since the last "next gen" ST movie and they were beginning to disappoint. The attempts at "prequels" for Star Wars completely failed in my mind. Science Fiction turned pulpy-emotive-finicky messes. So I was in a questionable mood even before it started.
     
    I watched it, quietly in my seat, pop-corn, diet-coke in hand at the VMaxx cinema Innaloo. Did this make a difference? Probably not to me, realistically, I could have stayed home and watched this on my own TV and had much the same experience. To be honest, I believe it was the soundtrack. It left me unsatisfied with the levels of tension, suspense and excitement I was expecting. "There's meant to be a big KABOOOOM!".
     
    The cast had familiarity. But not from mainstream film. More from various television productions. And Aussie Eric Bana was unconvincing as a rogue Romulan.
     
    I won't describe the story, go see it for yourself. It wasn't spoiled by "romance" as I suspected it would be, a little confused perhaps, but if nothing else, this has left it wide open for a 'prequel-sequel'. That is one of my primary annoyances. I came to see a complete film, not the start of another serial.
     
    We shall wait and see.
     

    Filed under  //  Greater Union   Innaloo   Movies   Prequel   Sci Fi   Star Trek  
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    Posted 10 months ago