Week 9 video challenge: #alcmuseummemory

Week 9 Video Challenge 

Twitter: #alcmuseummemory

 

This week's video challenge is admittedly a bit grim... The dreaming story of the Seven Sisters is essentially about a group of women desperately trying to escape a rapist. It's not pretty and it's not romantic, but it does shine a light on how long men have been equated with sexual assault, and the even more disgusting fact that this fundamental evil still has not been excised from human society.

Come on, men. We can do better than this. We must do better than this. There is so much about being a man that is friggen awesome, and we can contribute massively to the good in this world if we empower ourselves to be strong and fearless, and overcome our base desires and instincts.

However, there are several monolithic obstacles that stand in the way of educating men and boys towards a better co-existence with the rest of the world. It is these obstacles that perpetuate the same old narrative that men are better than women, and that women (and children, animals, the environment, and "weak" men) have been placed on earth to serve our every whim.

On this topic:

Our fathers, and their fathers, and so on, were WRONG.

Christianity is WRONG.

Islam is WRONG.

Judaism is WRONG.

Trump is WRONG.

...and to be honest, most traditional cultures worldwide are WRONG.

Any social/religious/legal dictum that advocates, accepts, or openly encourages the subjugation and objectification of women (or any person for that matter) is WRONG.

As men, we need to work from a new brief. One that encourages our strengths to shine, and our shortcomings to be quashed. We have proven over the millennia that when we work together we can achieve amazing things to the benefit of all humankind. Let's stop tarnishing our achievements with rape and sexual assault and general fuckwittery.

The bottom line here is that simply being genuine, kind, respectful, and strong but peaceful WILL GET YOU LAID...a lot! Try it out sometime, dudes.

We can, and must, change the narrative here and now.

#alcmuseummemory

Culture Couture podcast (week 9 assessment)

link: Culture Couture (week 9 assessment)


This week on Culture Couture I tackle the question "Does the nature of digital innovation place cultural heritage institutions at risk of becoming redundant?"
 
I speak with the Australian War Memorial's retired senior curator of military technology, Mr John White, and I road-test Google's Arts and Culture project online.


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Week 8 video challenge: #alccauseicare

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Sup y'all, it's Sam back again with my week 8 video challenge:

So, the enclosure shown in the video has taken a couple of weeks to build due to the fact that a) I moved house during the Christmas period and as a result am devastatingly broke! And b) relying on recycled materials I had to be opportunistic and just grab whatever was available whenever it became available.  

Rattie checking out the Currawongs from safety

In a perfect world I would have knocked up a series of wall frame cubes in treated pine and constructed a modular multi-level adventure playground, but to achieve the dimensions I've reached here, that cost is moving towards $2500, where this whole thing ended up costing me approx $300. I did look into pre-fab pet enclosures but that is a racket on par with arms dealing, and I could never justify those costs for something I can build myself.

It was a stressful couple of weeks keeping all four cats locked inside 24/7, and impossible to avoid their revenge (piss and poop in fun and random places, claw marks on everything, 4am wake-up meows, etc). Now they have access to and from the outside world everything has settled down remarkably. The local birds have spent some time checking the enclosure out and are so confident in my building ability that they now perch on the roof and squawk at the cats. 

Weasel enjoying a roll in the dirt

Some of the conversations between my cats and the local Peewees have been pretty hilarious to watch. I will post new pics once I've installed the sandbox and new split level walkway, and planted a few low shrubs to make the space more dynamic for my babies.