This must really irritate the moral conservatives. Maria Aragon is a 10 year-old from Canada who became a Youtube phenomenon after posting a cover of Lady Gaga’s Born this way – …her anthem to tolerance, especially of sexual and gender diversity. Gaga was so impressed
This is where we start to get into the debate about photography as art or technical craft. As photography became widespread it began to be used in a wide variety of ways, some of which necessarily involved naked children. The most obvious is ethnographic photography,…
I had been meaning to write something about Angus and Julia Stone and now that they’ve just won Songwriter of the Year and Song of the Year at APRA (something that Bliss from my novel WILD CHILD… also does) it seems very opportune. Angus and
I’m not a fan of boxing. I won’t be disappointed if they ban the sport. But if it’s okay for boys to box, it’s okay for girls like Jasmine Parr. Jasmine hit the headlines recently because her father, noted Thai boxer John Parr, entered her…
…Finally got to see this movie. Loved it. As usual the Cohen brothers delivered. Of course the revelation was Hailee Steinfield in the main role of Mattie.
It is hardly surprising that she was nominated for both an Oscar and a BAFTA for best supporting
One of the themes in my novel Navaratri… is the contest between the Classical world and Judeo-Christianity. I’ve really only just begun to talk about what is a complex issue. One thing is for sure: the claim that Western civilization is based on the Judeo-Christian
This one covers a few of my themes. Once again we have a young woman who seems to have bypassed the whole sexualization scandal. There’s a lot of of them in the indie scene. The other reason for posting this clip is because it is…
…I’ve already reproduced examples of paintings of naked boys swimming by several noted artists: Gaugin, Picasso, John Singer Sargent, Henry Scott Tuke and so on. So why would they focus on this subject? The reason is rather mundane. At the time it was quite common
I’ve mentioned Miranda and Kai Beverly-Whittemore several times, especially Kai’s short film Camera Obscura…. Luckily the short has been uploaded to Youtube.
My novel Wild Child… has two main characters that are brilliant musicians; Bliss who is a guitarist and Boi, a violinist. I always knew what they sounded like in my head, which can’t be conveyed in words. But now I’ve heard a song that could
A work in progress – and something completely different. A crime novel about cultural and generational clashes. A series of murders in the Melbourne art world. 
Greenfields Site.
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