Something you need to know when you're working with scientists to put an Australian Acoustic Observatory website together is this: You say 'day-ta'; I say 'day-ta'. In other words, no one with any kind of clue (and with any kind of accent) will be pronouncing 'data' as 'dahh-ta'. And that's not the only thing I've [...]
For a few years now, I've been keeping tabs (and tags) on any native Australian bird or plant that has offered to model for me, and maybe a few that haven't [...]
There comes a time in every nature-loving city dweller's life when they must ask themselves whether staring into their cocktail at a plastic palm-tree-shaped swizzle stick truly constitutes communion with the natural world. And when that time comes, it's time to visit Ecotone — a local native plant nursery and social enterprise. I'm rather proud to be an inaugural Ecotone committee member, and the maker and keeper of the Ecotone website and blog [...]
The Invisible Mend started out as a blog that transformed from a personal–professional space into a project space, with the intent of connecting others in the publishing field and coaxing together the disparate threads of the editing profession [...]
What do Lily Cole and I have in common (besides freckles and possibly too many clothes)? Give up? This: While Lily features more than a little prominently in the Winter 2014 issue of Peppermint Magazine than I do, I'm still pretty darn proud to say I share the pages with her in my modest way. [...]
I've always admired a nicely produced print job and recently I've become just a little bit obsessed with finding out how I can make prints myself. It's also nice to have the background on terms such as noise and registration, and masking. So, after a bit of 'casual googling' revealed lots of opportunities to get [...]
Clare Murphy 