http://www.sarahjansen.com/ en Copyright 2010 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:10:00 +1000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss the Monthly's website.]]> http://www.sarahjansen.com/2010/02/im_so_googleable.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2010/02/im_so_googleable.html Sarah's stuff Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:10:00 +1000 The Edge is opening in three and a half weeks and everything is hugely flat out with tons to do in not much time. Actually, it's been like that for a while. Like since I started in mid-November. The launch party is going to be awesome. Seriously. But right now I'm kind of looking forward to it because I can't wait until it's over and we can start business as usual here. If you want to hear from me about it, sign up for the enews because it and the other official Edge stuff is the only think I really have time to write just now!]]> http://www.sarahjansen.com/2010/02/no_time_no_time_no_time.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2010/02/no_time_no_time_no_time.html Personal launch party the edge too busy Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:42:00 +1000 1. Couples Facebook pages 2. Giving up gluten when you’re not intolerant/coeliac (not including giving it up to see if you are or not!) 3. Fundamentalism 4. The idea that watching TV doesn’t use your brain 5. Bed sheets with brand names on them 6. Spoilers on non-turbo charged four cylinder cars 7. Being proud of monolingualism 8. Slagging off abstract art because ‘I could do that too’. You don’t though, do you? Huh? 9. Single ply toilet paper 10. Office politics http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/11/ten_things_i_think_are_stupid_1.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/11/ten_things_i_think_are_stupid_1.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:30:00 +1000 Paul Barry seemed pretty sick of talking about his latest book, Who Wants to be a Billionaire. He was speaking at its Brisbane launch hosted by West End’s Avid Reader book shop. It seemed reasonable, really. Who wouldn’t be sick of it after the media stormlet that centred on it over the last few weeks? (The whirlwind subsided once the book was released and people actually read it.)]]> http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/10/post.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/10/post.html Literature Politics avid reader book book launch casino event James Packer Kerry Packer media Packer family Paul Barry west end Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:20:20 +1000 I'm just as surprised as the rest of you. Let me know what you think and where it could be improved! http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/10/i_wrote_a_poem.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/10/i_wrote_a_poem.html Poety (?) love poem Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:10:00 +1000 1. Personalised number plates 2. Chart music ring tones 3. Throwing the bouquet 4. Technophobia. Particularly dissing social networking websites because you feel pressured by them 5. Calling your mobile phone your ‘moby’ 6. The assumption that there’s only one path to fulfilment/enlightenment/spiritualness 7. Teetotalling for non-medical reasons 8. Hen’s nights that involve veils or any kind of retarded headgear 9. Linguistic snobbery 10. Any form of evangelism, religious or no http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/10/10_things_i_think_are_stupid.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/10/10_things_i_think_are_stupid.html Personal Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:09:00 +1000 The cabbie who drove me home after a late night at work the other day was a terrible, terrible driver. http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/09/annals_of_annoyance_cabbie_of.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/09/annals_of_annoyance_cabbie_of.html Personal Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:30:00 +1000 http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/07/annals_of_the_green_house_of_d.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/07/annals_of_the_green_house_of_d.html Annals of the Green House of Destiny flatmate friend glen Green House of Destiny house housemate lindsay living lizzy real estate stephane stuart Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:00:00 +1000 Verona, in the Veneto region of northern Italy, a famous play is set. A famous scene in the famous play figures as its main prop, a balcony on which two lovers play out their most famous and romantic scene. Apparently the balcony was based on an actual balcony in the actual city. So the balcony's famous too. ]]> http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/06/wherefore_would_you_want_to.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/06/wherefore_would_you_want_to.html Weirdness italia italy literature love marriage married romance romantic Romeo and Juliet shakespeare verona wedding Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:30:00 +1000 Top Gear, moves through Desperate Housewives and Brothers and Sisters, and culminates in the brilliance that is Boston Legal. Or at least it did until last week.]]> http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/05/the_shortening_of_tv_night.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2009/05/the_shortening_of_tv_night.html TV Mon, 11 May 2009 18:34:32 +1000 You Am I was on Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope interview show this Monday, and he was a delight. Jittery and self-effacing, he gave the overall impression of being a disastrously flawed, yet perfectly whole human being. ]]> http://www.sarahjansen.com/2008/09/flawed_perfection.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2008/09/flawed_perfection.html Personal Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:00:00 +1000 The recent calls for Australia to legalise polygamy to accommodate the country’s Muslim community have sparked some interesting discussions in the media. There have been a lot of statements about the issue of polygamy — a word that covers both multiple wives and multiple husbands — and how it relates to the “Australian way of life”. One camp says it threatens or is counter to it and therefore should not even be considered. The other camp says that it is rare for Australian Muslims anyway and that there are polygamous marriages here already so making it legal wouldn’t threaten anything. No one is talking about what the Australian way of life actually is, and why it is feeling so threatened. http://www.sarahjansen.com/2008/07/polygamy_and_the_australian_wa.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2008/07/polygamy_and_the_australian_wa.html Politics Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:00:00 +1000 Shanghai to Wuhan. They hadn’t actually declared war on China, claiming they were helping the country, which gave them more freedom to play outside the rules for things like the treatment of POWs and the admittance of the press. This is the setting for Children of the Silk Road, a film centring around the true story of one journalist’s experience of the eastern beginning of World War II. Desperate to get into the city of Nanjing, Japan’s latest conquest, and report on what’s really happening, George Hogg poses as a Red Cross delivery driver and makes it into Japanese controlled territory. What follows is not what he expected, but that’s what happens when life takes you in hand and points you in a different direction.]]> http://www.sarahjansen.com/2008/07/film_review_children_of_the_si.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2008/07/film_review_children_of_the_si.html Film Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:00:00 +1000 He’s a classical musician with a talent for improvising. A concert violinist who decides his playlist moments before taking the stage. A baby-faced professional. An outgoing Finn. Although he’s the current it-boy of the next generation on classical music’s world stage, Pekka Kuusisto doesn’t go in for all the rock star gimmicks his peers seem to resort to. There’s no designer punk hair style, fluorescent instruments, or psychedelic suits; just plain matte black two piece suits for Kuusisto, pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips, and the page turner du jour; standard haircuts and clean shaven chins; standard wood violin and glossy black grand piano. http://www.sarahjansen.com/2008/07/a_harmony_of_contradictions.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2008/07/a_harmony_of_contradictions.html Music Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:43 +1000 By all accounts, the Australian film industry is under the pump. Apparently, independent Aussie films are lucky to pull $3 million at the box office and usually cost between $3 million and $10 million to make. Not difficult sums to work out. Those films that do manage to get close to that $3 million mark are the relatively big ones like Romulus My Father that have actual marketing and publicity budgets. This situation leaves the others to survive on word-of mouth. Only they don’t usually stay at cinemas long enough for word to get passed through enough mouths that are attached to bums which will end up on cinema seats. People in all sections of the industry seem to agree that the business model is faulty. Although it isn’t as faulty as the one Australian independent theatre makers are currently negotiating. Independent films at least have budgets that include paying cast and crew, whereas it’s pretty rare to find an independent theatre production that manages to pay for its public liability insurance and time in the performance space, let alone its director, performers, and the myriad of highly skilled behind the scenes players it takes to put even the most humble of shows on the boards. The comparison may not be that of apples with apples, but the two are related artforms: both tell stories through image and sound; both need collaboration between several people; and actors, directors and writers often cross over and back from one form to the other. Film and theatre are two of the more expensive artforms because they take a lot of equipment and a group of people to create a piece. To practice as an actor or director or lighting designer, you need a specific project to work on. It’s not like being a writer, musician, dancer, painter, sculptor—those forms of expression you can practice on your own with a pen and paper, instrument, the right shoes, canvas and paint, clay or wood or a piece of rock and a chisel. If you’re moved to express what’s in you through one of those mediums, you can do so by yourself, in your own time, outlaying no more than a couple of hundred dollars, and without needing to relay on convincing other people they want to consume what you produce. Sure, you don’t make any money off it unless you convince someone that they want to swap it for your art, but you can still do it. And doing it, in the end, is what allows an artist in any medium to hone their craft, get better at expressing themselves in a way that resonates with others. http://www.sarahjansen.com/2008/05/nowhere_to_go_for_film_and_the.html http://www.sarahjansen.com/2008/05/nowhere_to_go_for_film_and_the.html Arts Film Theatre australia business film funding theatre Sun, 04 May 2008 14:39:02 +1000