When I listened to audio vignettes featuring Roly and Sonya Parks on early morning broadcasts of 4QR (Brisbane’s ABC radio) in the late 1980s I wasn’t even aware that Kalangadoo was a real place, much less that at some point of my life I’d be living in the same region of South Australia as the …
Some days only Fail Army will do. This is their recent compilation Top 100 for 2020, a year that you might think will take some topping. These don’t seem to be ranked, or even sorted, more a mixture of misfortune, misadventure, lack of common sense, lack of any sense, and, in some cases, alcohol. There …
Some weeks watching Fail Army is strangely comforting; other weeks People Are Awesome is motivating. I thought this week might have been a Fail Army week, but then People Are Awesome came in strong. These compilations of contrasts feature a sequences of People Are Awesome clips of someone doing something awesomely (naturally) followed by a …
This 2019 animation provides a time frame and sense of visual scale for successive holders of the distinction of being the world’s tallest building. Of interest is the gap between the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center Towers; the idea that the world’s tallest building could have been in Chicago; and the move …
