Baz Luhrmann has triumphed again with some fast-paced, layered cinema, delving into the behind-the-scenes story of the Elvis phenomenon and in doing so has created an allegorical tale that sheds light on Trump and US politics. Elvis, the movie, focusses on the rock legend’s story from the perspective of his manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom […]
Life
Category: Life
Covid is like a Russia virus
In the heat of battle against Covid-19 on Thursday night, my tired mind likened Covid to a Russia virus, most likely because my thoughts have been saturated by concern for Ukrainians in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s illegal and brutal invasion in that country. This analogy is not a perfect one, is flawed, and is […]
Waking up to mindfulness meditation at the beach
I have dabbled with mindfulness meditation a few times over the years but my latest adventure is showing signs of great promise, with Sam Harris as my guide. These few paragraphs are being writting to mark an awakening moment I had this morning and to share this story with you, on the offchance it might […]
Colleen’s Crunchy Salad
Nardia’s mum, my mother-in-law, Colleen Symonds, died this week and one of the strongest bonds between us, apart from her daughter, was her crunchy salad. So, this week I’ve been making this salad, using Collsy’s recipe with annotations, in her honour. I have been pretty happy with it, even though it will never be at […]
3 bleak ideas that lead to life
I have been mulling over 3 bleak ideas that lead to life for me, and I have decided to capture them in words to help me digest them further. If you find them helpful, that is a superb bonus to me. The 3 bleak ideas are these: We take more care nurturing something when we […]
Flawed Dad
A poem for Alexandra and Caitlin This flawed dad Chimes ‘I love you’ aloud on the hour Like some frenzied, benevolent cuckoo (When not hidden in ‘busy work’) This flawed dad Is yearning for some magic balance before the spring goes flat This flawed dad Sitting in the corner of your lives like a […]
Intimacy: A Glass Half Full
In relationships there are three primary factors that need to be balanced to achieve happiness: income earning, domestic duties, intimacy. Just like the three constraints of project management, time, cost and quality, it always seems that success requires some compromise across all three factors or the sacrifice of one in pursuit of the other two. […]
The unbearable truth about death: Life goes on
This short reflection has emerged in the wake of a few deaths in my family and social circles this week. The litany of loss The night before last I lost my last grandparent as she died peacefully in her sleep a few short months away from racking up 100 years of life. Before that, a […]
Thanks Foxtel, thanks Free-To-Air TV, I’ve gotten my life back
A big thank you to the programmers at Foxtel for making it such an easy family decision to cancel our pay TV contract recently. Not only are we now saving money, I’m finding more time to be productive AND enjoy other forms of recreation, like reading. Here’s what happened. We had been paying almost $100 […]
Global Social Media Day 2012: Social Media Relationships
On Social Media Day 2012, Adrian Morgan and I (Steve Davis), sat down over some coffee and whiskey to think about social media and its impact on relationships. We go back a long way as friends but these days our jobs draw us into social media in professional capacities. Topics that come up include: The […]
ANZAC Day 2012: Remembering the fallen, scarred and damaged from all wars
A simple post today to mark ANZAC Day, a day for paying tribute to the men and women from Australia and New Zealand who served in World War One. These days, many of us take the opportunity to use ANZAC Day to reflect deeply upon all of us who are, who have and who will […]
Spare Key: Your ticket to a home away from home
Welcome to Spare Key Spare Key is a new service using the power of Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter and Google Maps, along with your social graph, to provide you with a home away from home, no matter where you are in the world. Entering the world of Spare Key membership is easy: Simply install the Spare […]
A call to giggling: Middle-aged men unite
Kelly Noble, editor of the fashion and events magazine, Glam Adelaide, stated in a blog last week that there is ‘nothing great about middle aged men giggling‘. For the record, it was a tongue-in-cheek post, I think, and she didn’t say they were not allowed to giggle, only that they probably shouldn’t because, one assumes, […]
The Guardian Three Little Pigs video reveals truth about Big Bad Media
The Guardian’s two-minute commercial, Guardian open journalism: Three Little Pigs advert – video (view below), attempts to tell the story about how wonderful news coverage is in this age of social media. However, it actually reveals more ugly truth about the media today then was intended. I believe this commercial is the most convincing argument […]
Clean Up Australia from the inside: Advance Australia Dry
Happy Australia Day! Today I will be drinking a toast to Australia with its rich and complex history at the cricket test match at Adelaide Oval. And then I will stop. Stop drinking that is. As of January 27, I am embarking on a dry zone until the end of February. I have dubbed this […]
The value of friendship: 83 minutes that might have saved my life
I have long been an 80-hour-a-week kinda guy. I have been lucky enough to love my work with all my heart whether it was radio, journalism or, now, marketing. If you analysed my ‘weekends’ for the last 15 years, I think you would struggle to find more than 15 days of purely social time. This […]
Every Generation needs every generation
Later today I am performing the role of MC for an Every Generation event held by Adelaide City Council. The event will focus around the screening of Babies, a documentary about the first year of life of four babies on four different continents. As part of my plan to expand the breadth of material archived […]
Social Media Day in Adelaide 2011
Today was Social Media Day, a virtual event organised by Mashable, the online magazine of all things Web 2.0 and Tech. In Adelaide, the key ‘gathering’ was an online converstation using Twitter and the hashtag #socadl. (NOTE: Using hashtags immediately before words or terms in Twitter, transforms an ordinary word or term into an index […]
White lies and social networks – a perfect match!
Just caught the promo for Life At Five, a documentary about human development by the age of five. One of the outstanding findings of the various “experiments” was that almost all children by age five have learned to lie. This was demonstrated by putting children in a room with an object, asking them to sit […]
Christmas cards die slow death – good riddance
Had a chat with Glen Ridge on Melbourne Tonight (Radio MTR) this evening in the wake of a Herald Sun report that only one in three Gen Ys and about half Gen Xs will bother sending physical xmas cards this season. The theory is that social networks will carry the cheer and this will be […]
Crowdsourcing our daughter’s name: The baby name poll
This post was originally published at Social [Media] Butterflies on the story behind the baby naming poll being run at babydavisblog.wordpress.com. Social Media Butterflies should practice what we preach and a simple way to demonstrate my social media involvement is to share with you how my family has used these online social channels. In particular, […]