Lurking out the back of this website is my (Fred’s) web archive, at various times the content was alive and active, so while it’s still twitching we don’t have the heart to step on it. Like all of us, the longer it stays there the more interesting it becomes historically. If you’ve followed a Google link here you might end up on this page wondering ‘what’s up?’. Let me explain a few of the things you’ll find. Some of these were done back when you expected your reader to be loading from, at best, a 56k modem so they were very simple. Many are in frames to keep the sizes fixed as it was for a 800×600 monitor. I’ve resisted re-doing them, preferring to move on to new stories.
Another Country Diary was a regular blog that ran for years -2002 to 2006. It started with the acquisition of a swish new digital camera (it still works-sort of) that let me immediately add aresonable resolution image (it used to be all 35mm film processing and scanning before that. I resolved to take one good picture a day of the country town and home life around me and write about it briefly. Four years later we started Regional Food magazine and that took my attention.
Neg Dirt and Scratches. When not everyone had a slide scanner, I had the loan of one (in 1975)for a few days, I hunted out some old negs, (prompted by the Masters Apprentices footage on TV on the Long Way to the Top series) to scan the images I had of Howard Lindley who directed the Masters singer Jim Keays in the footage they used. I added some others but commented that “given the size of the neg archive, this will be an ongoing task”. It’s fifteen years later and I still haven’t done it, so this remains as a low-res snapshot of the years when Harold Holt was PM, there were pop festivals at Wallacia and Sunbury and Vietnam War moratorium marches in the streets.
Dana Atchley- Digital Storyteller. Dana died in 2000, I did this interview/story about his Digital Storytelling Festival and his multimedia performances in 1996. I think you can tell that if he was still around I would still be a big fan, and at the time I was somewhat envious. He posted a link to this story saying that it was “his best personal introduction”.
And there’s more. Like this Cinema Papers article about the effects on Baz Luhrman’s Romeo and Juliet (a Video Fax eh?)
