handwriting
Homegrown graffiti from the digital world – writing, rhythm, rhyming and movement
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Travelling light – Into Northern seas: UK, Norway, Denmark and Germany 2019
Monday, April 29, 2024
Travelling light – Journey to the North Country: Scotland and Northern England 2017
Our trip to New Zealand at the end of 2016 whetted our appetite after a long dry spell of staying put – except for our much-loved regional road tours through the smaller towns and cities of Victoria to Adelaide. In August 2017, we took off for Singapore (once again on Singapore Airlines, of course, thanks to Chief Minister Andrew Barr, whose Government had persuaded the airline to be the first to fly internationally from Canberra – no more the need to get to Sydney first).
Thursday, August 12, 2021
Updates on creativity and culture an email away
There are four blogs in all, covering the gamut of creativity and culture; humour; food and cooking; and creative writing. ‘indefinite article’
is irreverent writing about contemporary Australian society, popular
culture, the creative economy and the digital and online world – life in
the trenches and on the beaches of the information age. ‘balloon’
is thought balloons for our strange and unsettled times – brief quirky
articles about the eccentricities of everyday life, almost always with a
sense of short black humour. ‘handwriting’ is homegrown graffiti from the digital world – writing, rhyming and digital animations; ‘tableland’
is food and cooking from land to table – the daily routine of living in
the high country, on the edge of the vast Pacific, just up from Sydney,
just down from Mount Kosciuszko. The blogs are complemented by two
briefer social media channels – indefinite article on Facebook, which is short arts updates and cultural commentary; and Twitter, short, sharp and shiny.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Travelling light – Island on fire: Tasmania 2019
On an island you’re never far from the sea – that is unless the island is huge, like Australia. In tiny Tasmania, perched like an afterthought at the foot of Australia, even the mountains in the centre are not far from the ocean raging around them – just as in the distant homeland from which those who settled it came. On the main island, though, everywhere is a long way from everywhere else. Two islands, very different in size, in many ways with both similar and different histories. Both on fire. But this not just about the fires – it’s about what happened in front of the fire, the life lived in a time of warming and burning, even if it sometimes felt like a rehearsal for the end of the world.
The year before the new decade started, the last year of the old decade, began with fires in the centre of his island home, Tasmania, where he had grown up. It was burning in the very spot where he spent his earliest years. That year he had decided it was time to travel back. It didn’t start well. The year started off dry and hot and ended even drier and hotter. Luckily global warming didn’t exist or who knows how bad it could have been. Luckily the Earth was flat, because that would stop all the water needed to fight the fires running down the sloping edges of the world and falling off.
Ferry leaving Melbourne for Tasmania |
It was a year book-ended by bushfires. A year that began with fires and ended with fires – a warning of a future to come.
Friday, May 26, 2017
Stephen Cassidy – Writing biography
More serious articles appear in indefinite article, which publishes irreverent articles about contemporary Australian society, popular culture, the creative economy and the digital and online world – life in the trenches and on the beaches of the information age.
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
The virtual world – research and commentary on Australian arts and culture
When I first established my blog ‘indefinite article’, a couple of years back, it was because I wanted to research and comment on Australian arts and culture, something I know something about from working for over 35 years in the arts and culture sector. I could have written about other subjects but that would just be me expressing my opinions like every other man, woman and their dog (and cat) on social media. ‘Who cares?’ I thought. ‘indefinite article’ is irreverent articles about contemporary Australian society, popular culture, the creative economy and the digital and online world – life in the trenches and on the beaches of the information age. This is my main blog and it’s the one that gets most views.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
State of origin
State of origin looked at where we come from, where we go next and where we truly belong. In this work the writer and visual artist combined word, image and computer technology to make visual music. Words and images moved across the computer screen, with no fixed address.
One of the slides from State of origin |
While Stephen is primarily a writer, he has always had a strong interest in visual arts and images, though it is not his main area of expertise or interest. For both these reasons, working with a visual artist with a similar approach, stretched the visual side of his skills and also provided a different perspective on his writing.