The Bush fires have affected many many Australians and influenced media mechanisms from print, to radio, to blogs, television, txt and in turn the fires and their destructive expanse have sculpted the content of these mechanisms and their delivery. 

This image is a copy of a page from The Herald Sun in which the power brokers of the business and media communities are juxtaposed in both the format and in the content of the page I have added to the my Blog.

The article is a accompanied by an image of recovery and regeneration and the article talks about the power of the belief in regeneration as well as revealing that regeneration requires investment. I believe this image encapsulates the idea of hope and that in turn the article talks about the power of regeneration that this image symbolizes. This image is a document of growth and change an image of the future. 

Somehow the signs of hope are important to us humans to the our ability to continue to invest and to develop. The image and the article are hopeful and well intended which I thoroughly enjoyed as it wasn't about tragedy but rather about the possibilities of the future. I do hope that the power of this image encourages more investment and  encourages the broader community to continue to support the communities directly affected by the fires.

 This image is a collage of 

a map I collected on the day of the fires - so that I could do some walking and exploring whilst doing my Masters work. These are the keys to the house I was staying in and I've included a card with an address from a lady that I talk with who works in the city near where I live but lives in the Kinglake and she and I talk about the experience of the fires and about the differences between the experiences and understanding of the fires within the city and the country.

This image  is a collage and reflects the layers and the textures and the approach I am taking to planning and generating my documentary/blogumentary 

I watched the film by Dziga Vertov today that Lev Manovich references and more importantly deconstructs in his theoretical work  The Language of New Media and watching this film helped me understand Manovich's ideas more clearly and what I took from Vertov's ideas that are really important to social software and my project is - "capture fragments of actuality".