Wangari Maathai died today. I heard her speak in 2005 at the Clinton Global Initiative. She was a lady who planted trees. Like Jonny Appleseed. Or the man who planted trees. She was certainly a hummingbird. A special woman who’s best was pretty darn impressive. Thank you Wangari. Thank you. The world thanks you. ps [...]

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I’m inspired in ways that I haven’t been in a long time. And it’s thanks to Jim Denevan. Below you’ll find his art (just a taste) and images from “Outstanding in the field” – a moveable feast that brings people back to where their food comes from, setting up large tables in farms and fields [...]

“Content, it turns out, is not king” Overwhelmed by all the data? How do you keep up with it? And your files? And filtering it… “… And that is what the Semantic Web could eventually promise to do.” And then there’s the critics… A little story about the Semantic Web by Kate Ray Web 3.0 [...]

I happened across Iranian artist/filmmaker Shirin Neshat via the Financial Times this week. There was an image from her Women of Allah series – and I had to find out more! Below you’ll find some of her achingly beautiful disturbing and challenging images. She also her first feature film out “Women without Men” – whose [...]

A new project my good friend tip & i have been talking about since Sept …. and we’ve finally moved a part of it “apartment diet | start with a corner” online. We’ll be posting our inspirations here More info on apartment diet to come ps I was bizarrely reticent to post this – something [...]

Had a rather #$%^ed day yesterday and was really stressed. And I did the opposite of what I should. I should have stopped. When all things are going to @#$% stopping is a much better solution than making an even bigger mess (though I wonder how many work places would accept your response “sorry I [...]

Tonight I’m in the mood for a bit of magic and travel…and these Persian rugs seemed like the perfect place to start…So where do you want to go? …Enjoy your ride image sources 1 & 2 -via google images

 The other week I posted my favourite quote at the moment "Relax – Nothing is under Control" … Ok, so let’s say we accept that as true. Nothing is under control. But what if your situation feels more extreme than usual. If things really are spinning away differently from how we ‘planned’ or ‘assumed’. How [...]

Last year (’07) I was visiting my hometown Sydney, and I found myself quite proudly part of a little experiment by the city of Sydney "Earth Hour". The concept was simple: have the whole city turn off their lights for 1 single hour to reduce greenhouse emissions. Well this year Earth Hour has gone GLOBAL! [...]