10 Fonts that Could Destroy the World (If Used Incorrectly)

Typography is a very important part of any document, design or business. If chosen properly, your font will convey a sense of everything you ever hoped and dreamed. Perhaps that’s a touch of an exaggeration, but fonts are so…

Heavy Metal: Fighting the stereotype

In year 11 English I was asked to choose and read aloud lyrics for the class to analyse. The following is an excerpt of what I read from Metallica’s Dyer’s eve.

Dear mother, dear father. What is this hell you have put me through? Believer…

What we can Learn about Hip Hop from Lupe Fiasco.

I was one of hundreds who watched Lupe Fiasco perform his long awaited album at Big Day Out 2011. I stood in complete awe of the intensity that he brought to the stage. Recently, after downloading Lasers (legally, I might add) I was…

The Isthmus’: Greatest Hits of Moral Media Panics

Since the dawn of time society has liked to point the finger:

“You didn’t sacrifice, so now our crops aren’t growing.”; “You ate the forbidden fruit, now we have to work and stuff”; “You played World of Warcraft for…

Understanding Psychological Theories by Watching Jersey Shore

Jersey Shore. Combine these two words together and brace yourself as you are inundated with fist pumps, Ed Hardy t-shirts and spray tans. This television series has become a cultural phenomenon, whether you love it or hate…

The Pros and Cons of Facebook

Social media, while a fairly recent trend in the scheme of things has taken off like the space race. Everyone wants a piece of the action. The thing with social media though, is its fickleness. When the wind changes so does the trend. Tom from Myspace, I’m sure, spent days on…

I Just Had a Coke: Social media and the need to document everything

Why is it that when you log on to Twitter or Facebook a constant barrage of random statuses greets you? A good friend of mine is normally very intelligent, but all they say is “I just had a coke. It was awesome.”…

From Band to Brand

What’s one of the most important things to the survival of the human race? Our ability to adapt to changing situations. Time after time, it’s the only thing that’s really helped us to survive. You don’t see us doing the same thing over and over again if it’s not working or enjoyable — at least…

I’m not Racist, but I Like Angry Boys

Chris Lilley’s mocumentary Angry Boys as mentioned in the article, ‘Tiger Lilley turns mockery into art’ treads the line between controversial and offensive. With statements like “get your lazy abo ass off the couch” and “I thought wogs were meant to be good at…

It’s Not the End of the World

I’m a big a Robert Frost fan as they come (at least, in any country where his poetry isn’t included in the national curriculum). I have his words tattooed on me, and I think he would have been a damn clever sort. But even I can admit his take on the apocalypse may have been a…

Rediscovering the Classics

About once every two months my friends and I, in our numerous pointless conversations, end up talking about the television shows we watched and movies we saw as kids that were greater than anything that has come since. We talk over the top of each other trying to come up with our…

Re-Purposing for Profit or Culture?

Remakes, reboots, re-imaginings, prequels and sequels. These terms refer to the re-purposing of media content — especially films, with a plethora of recycled content in the ‘creative’ production pipeline — The Amazing Spider-Man, The Man of Steel and The Rise of the…

News Centres: An Immediate Threat

As the weeks have passed since tragedy shook Norway and much of the world, many of us have found the appalling events a sobering reminder of the ideological problems that face society in the 21st Century.

That’s just Bollocks!

It could just be my own personal attraction to British accents and actors, for that matter, (a slight Rupert Grint fan) but the recent cancellation of Skins US was relatively unsurprising. Really, any television show that was openly displaying audience criticisms on its own trailer was not…

Fear and Carbon in Canberra: a savage journey into the heart of Australian politics

There is nothing to fear but fear itself, except the pricing of carbon, that is. The debate over the proposed carbon tax has divided the nation like nothing since the introduction of the…