About

So the idea is this blog becomes a conversation about great ideas and where they came from. Technology, science and engineering, business and finance, art, music, architecture, writing and plenty of other aspects of creative culture – the key is how the idea developed from almost nothing to something.

Or maybe didn’t develop into a real thing – sometimes failure’s the most interesting window. And maybe some of the ideas here will prompt flights of inspiration themselves.

Do you have ideas for reviews, interviews, overviews, stories, links? Get in touch via one of the social media links at the bottom. Or comment on a post!

Backgrounder

I make radio shows, magazines, blogs and just finished on a TV show.

As a science communicator with CSIRO, I worked on a project that won the 2009 Eureka Prize for Innovative Solutions to Climate Change. I was a researcher on ABC TV’s Catalyst science program, and a seismologist with Geoscience Australia.

I was a presenter on the ABC’s pop-up digital radio station at the 2010 Sydney Writers Festival, and produced stories for ABC Radio National’s Artworks program. I interviewed a large cross-section of Sydney’s creative community as presenter of the FBI Radio art/ideas program Canvas, and participated in events like the Sydney Writers Festival, Sydney Festival and This Is Not Art festival. While at FBI Radio, I helped establish the now annual SMAC Awards.

As editor of Cyclic Defrost, I worked with some of the country’s best young music writers (although I’ve now passed the nationally distributed print/online magazine to two of those writers). I’ve written for Artlines, Ecos, Hot Press, inthemix.com.au, Mess + Noise, New Matilda, Nylon, Oyster, Riot, Spinach7, stylusmagazine.com, The Canberra Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. I’ve blogged at fortunegrey.com since 2004, though more likely to be blogging about my neighbourhood now at darlinghurstnights.com or about ideas and things here.

Elsewhere: Twitter, LinkedIn, Posterous, last.fm, darlinghurstnights.com.