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Photos of Comet Leonard
23 December 2021
Comet Leonard is making a once in eighty-thousand year flyby of the Earth, lighting up, in a way, the festive season night sky. A hunt around on Twitter will turn up a mass of fantastic images of the comet, but here are a few of my favourites.
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Minds Shine Bright writing competition 2022
20 December 2021
Entries are open for the Minds Shine Bright writing competition, until Monday 28 February, 2022. An initiative created by Melbourne based Australian writer and film maker Amanda Scotney, Minds Shine Bright seeks to encourage excellence in writing, particularly fiction. If you’re a writer of fiction, poetry, or script-writing, looking for some recognition, and a financial incentive, this may be the opportunity you’re looking for.
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Australian literature, fiction, writing
Voting open for Triple J’s Hottest 100
15 December 2021
Voting is open for Australian radio station Triple J’s annual Hottest 100 listener’s poll. I don’t hear too much radio format and have come to regard the Hottest 100 in the same way I do the long and short lists of literary awards, a great place to seek out quality music listening inspiration. Voting closes on 17 January 2022, and the countdown can be heard a few days later on 22 January.
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The two hundred greatest Australian albums of all time
10 December 2021
Keeping it all Australian today, not the plan, just the way it turned out: Rolling Stone’s list of the top two hundred albums of all time. While the top twenty titles include household names, only the work of two artists, Tame Impala, and 5 Seconds of Summer, is less than ten years old. Many of the top albums were released in the latter part of last century, and I’ll be curious to see how they’ve fared in terms of chart position, in say twenty years’ time.
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Earth’s climate change black box
9 December 2021
An aircraft’s black box contains data that may help investigators piece together what caused an accident, and hopefully ensure there isn’t a repeat of whatever went wrong. What then to make of Earth’s Black Box? It is a quadrilateral-like shaped structure that will stand in a geologically stable location, on the west coast of Tasmania, and collect climate data. Like an aircraft flight recorder, the information Earth’s black box stores is intended to one day guide a future civilisation, should global warming spell the demise of ours. Thank you, and have a nice day.
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Winners of the Australian Podcast Awards 2021
3 December 2021
Last night the winners of the Australian Podcast Awards were announced, at an event hosted by Sydney’s venerable Ritz Cinema. The Podcast of the Year award went to Private Affairs – which also won Best Fiction Podcast – a show billed as a “romantic-dramedy fiction podcast about a couple learning how to navigate the complexities of an interracial and intercultural relationship.” Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard won The Spotlight Award with her production A Podcast of One’s Own with Julia Gillard, while Tough Love, by Sydney based radio host and musician Linda Marigliano, took out the Best Lockdown Podcast.
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Darren Hanlon’s literature inspired music playlist
2 December 2021
Last week Australian musician Darren Hanlon put together a music playlist inspired by works of literature for radio station Double J. Included is a cover of the old Dire Straits hit Romeo and Juliet, based of course on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, by Lisa Mitchell.
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Darren Hanlon, literature, music
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival
22 November 2021
Four days of misdemeanours, transgressions and far worse no doubt, that’s the 2021 BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, taking place from Thursday 2 December 2021, until Sunday 5 December, which is sure to be a treat for fans of crime writing, who are in and around Sydney, Australia.
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The retro themed artwork of the soundtrack cover for Licorice Pizza
20 November 2021
Retro themed artwork for the soundtrack cover for Paul Thomas Anderson’s retro themed movie Licorice Pizza. The title track is credited to Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. I couldn’t find out who the cover designer is, does anyone know? You can hear most of the soundtrack here on Spotify, sans, at the moment, Greenwood’s contribution.
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Genesis Owusu wins Triple J/RAGE music video of the year 2021
18 November 2021
Australian musician Genesis Owusu has been named winner of the J Award for both best album and music video of 2021. The Other Black Dog took out the music video award, being a track lifted from his debut long-player Smiling with No Teeth, winner of the album of the year gong. The J Award is presented by radio station Triple J, and late night weekend music TV show RAGE, every November as part of Ausmusic Month.
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