And so Oscarsfeast 2014 begins. It starts this year… with Her. The film: The Dish The Reason Is it possible to hold love in the palm of your hand? Spike Jonze thinks it might be, with Her. The OS1 is not just an operating system. It’s a consciousness. ‘Samantha’ is portable, responsive, and ever evolving. […]
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Names for things can be a problem. A little bit of a re brand never goes astray (written from a woman who once wore kitten heels and wool trousers to air conditioned communications departments and slogged through two of them). But in this instance I’m not talking about corporate identities. I’m thinking about an appointment […]
Even the best of intentions can end up busted. First- thank you to so many of you who wrote such lovely emails to me after last week’s sleep deprived brushes with the outer perimeter of sanity. In this month of madness we’ve absently poured wine into our empty pasta bowl instead of glasses, […]
I worry about what has happened to our beloved Bondi. This iconic curve of Sydney sand has changed since we’ve been gone. Some for the better; the most recent advent of Gelato Messina and Sensory Lab coffee down the previously dead end of Hall Street is a boon. But the hipsters. Oh; the hipsters, I […]
On the side of our change table (freshly stocked with wipes, nappies, cloths and creams that smell like you’ve stumbled into a glade that’s sheltered by musk sticks) there’s a poster. It was a gift from my godmother’s daughter- an honorary sister. She’s s film critic. She knows me too well. It’s both a quote […]