About Me
I’ve covered a bit of ground over the years living in Santiago, Sydney, London, Delhi, Hong Kong and now Singapore, playing music everywhere from caravan parks to opera houses, pointing my camera at nomads in the Himalayas and pole dancers in Hong Kong as well as writing for serious academic journals and popular newspapers and magazines.
But, in 2012 the CV doesn’t really matter, because I’m not taking on any new clients, assignments or contracts for a year.
If we are fortunate, life gives us a handful of opportunities to take some time and look at how we do things, why we do them and where we hope life will take us.
In 2012 I’ll be doing what is called, in the creative industries, personal work (although I’m not a fan of that term). It’s not a holiday. The days will be full and the hours will be long.
I believe that Robert Frost got the relationship between what we do for pay and what we do for pleasure fundamentally right, in his poem, Two Tramps in Mudtime,
“My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future’s sakes.”
Of course, you can join me in this adventure right here. On this blog I’ll be documenting my successes, failures and what I (hopefully) learn from both, throughout the year. And, of course, you can still dive into my old catalogue of rants, reports and reviews dating back to 2004.
