I think the Easter Billy thing may have been a fund raiser for the Save the Bilby Fund, though I’m not sure. Did some work with them in Charleville some time back, as part of a student field trip looking at design concepts for what eventually became the Bilby Experience. Great people.
From what I can remember they’ve had good success in rebuilding the bilby population.
Re: dickie for car boot (what Americans would call the ‘trunk’); some old two-seater cars had a third seat in the boot, known as a ‘dickie-seat’, at least in the UK, so perhaps it’s an old term that still survives in Indian English.
Yay, the first Australian head of state!
I remember marching against this stupid war and naturally the Howard government ignored public sentiment in favour of boot licking.
It’s so embarrassing how Australian governments appear to be so obsequious to US administrations. Surely you’d earn more brownie points by holding out for a while than being first to tow the line.
The bigger the budgets, the less appetite for risk. These huge superhero franchises are so different in scale from the original comics in this way.
There are several aspects of the Australian identity that look unflattering to modern eyes—gambling and drinking to excess come to mind. These things change slowly but they do change.
Incidentally I do think innovation is a valued aspect of the Australian identity.
Andor is Star Wars for grown-ups. It’s pretty good.
I use Reeder on iOS and have for yonks. I was using it with Feed Wrangler (for synchronisation) until it folded and then I just imported my feeds into Reeder directly so it syncs across all of my devices.
The loss of Google Reader was a blow to RSS but it’s never gone away and a great way of getting your news and information.
Man, that thing is hideous.
And yet it often leads to more satisfying narratives.
To be fair, Kojima games are primarily vehicles for cut-scene delivery. Gameplay is a bonus.
This is known as optical alignment. It’s very common in font design.