Out The Back of Kinglake West Hall…Six Months After Black Saturday

Download now or watch on posterous KinglakeWestHall.mov (6317 KB) The Hall at Kinglake West is very intact, with no sign of damage from February’s fires, sitting only a hundred metres or so from the local CFA. However, if you go out the back and look over to the left side, the trees tell an important [...]

Just Near The Kinglake Diner

The Diner itself and the shop next to it are intact, but these trees show how close things were during the February bushfires. Sent from my iPhone

Kinglake West Six Months After Black Saturday

Sent from my iPhone

Returning to Kinglake

My start in social media began with relaying/retweeting important information on the #bushfires and #vicfires hashtags over on Twitter and I’ve already made visits to two of the affected areas from February’s Victorian bushfires…Flowerdale and Kinglake. Tomorrow, Sunday July 12, I’ll be out at Kinglake West assisting with a community event, so I’ll be seeing [...]

Experimenting With Video…

I’m predominantly a text and prose man, although, as a former cartoonist, I do think visually.  However, with the events of this year it’s taken awhile to move toward video and/or videoblogging. Yesterday, I did some personal experiments with filetypes, cameras available and what video-serving sites were available.  My eight-year-old step-son practicing on his bike [...]

Into The Second Week…

The name of the man accused of the Churchill fires was lifted this morning.  And no doubt, by tomorrow, the papers will be filled with information about him.  Bio, faults, flaws, history…the fact that, as Churchill residents are already aware, that he was a bit of a sad sack who had problems, who lit fires [...]

WordPress First Post

The start of a new blog, commentary on the Twitterverse and how citizen journalism applies in Melbourne Australia.