I originally graduated in 1998 and have worked as a town planner ever since, but I returned to study in 2001-2002, completing my honours year in Cinema Studies (again at University of Melbourne). My honours research was on conventions of realism in classical era Warner and Disney cartoons. A shortened version of this material appeared in the 2005 Animation Journal, and another variant version can be found on Cinephobia (here). In 2008 I am returning to study to complete a Masters.

I have lived in Melbourne my whole life, with the exception of my stretch studying in Irvine, on the outskirts of Los Angeles.

For more information about the page and my intentions for it, read the Questions.

In my spare time, I've been dabbling in photography; you can see my photos on flickr (here).

I wrote a chapter on the depiction of the city in Blade Runner for Will Brooker's anthology The Blade Runner Experience. You can click on the cover image at left to buy it from Amazon. There's a bit more info about the book, and the original version of the chapter I wrote, here. My essay talks about the ways in which the nightmare city we see in Blade Runner looks increasingly good against the real-life Los Angeles, and discusses the diversion between the cinematic idea of urban hell and what planners might consider the ultimate urban nightmare.

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