Issue 143

..three dimensional look. For those who didn’t do basic film studies a cel is a sheet of transparent cellulose acetate that it can be laid over other cels or a painted background, then photographed. The cels change subtly with each image so that the images flow almost naturally when projected at twenty-four frames per second….

..pulley, at the top of the building and hoisted up a couple of barrels of bricks. When I had fixed the building, there was a lot of bricks left over. I hoisted the barrel back up again and secured the line at the bottom and then went up and filled the barrel with the extra…

..live on stage accompanying the movie and we’d arrived far too early. I was idly fiddling with my phone when Maria nudged me. ‘Isn’t that Julia Zemiro?’ she whispered – and then had to repeat the question because the ambient foyer-noise defeated my well-meaning but quite ineffectual hearing aids. I had to do a double…

..version, which is to music what the hydrogen bomb is to a fart. I can understand completely that to discover me sitting on a stool in the corner of a café with a guitar playing a bunch of never before heard songs can be a confronting or even annoying experience if not seen and heard…

As a young person I read some of the writings of Carl Jung. There was a section in it that I couldn’t quite come to grips with about how inanimate objects are living, sentient beings in a living, sentient world. I think that my story demonstrates that my scraps dish and bread board, otherwise perfectly…

..which in its turn used to be known as the Bank of NSW – aah, those were the days!). She had a young son, Jack, who was at his first year at school. All the first years had to be assessed for their swimming prowess, to which end a dozen or so were lined up…