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Over the course of the 20th century and into our current one, empirical advances have been made in the way we use words to sell goods and services. The result is that the impressionistic rhetoric of promotion has developed significant currency, so much so that ad speak has become in many ways the language of
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No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried. Democracy is a not just a wonderfully robust concept, it is a delightfully simple one. To be called a modern democracy, all a country needs
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The ABC has been struck again by another round of cuts. Despite the fact that another 200 jobs will go and a few more programs will be axed, the management has reassured us that there will actually be more content better targeted to the needs of “customers”. For those of you that aren’t sure how to decipher
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In a week when there’s been a surge of announcements and name calling from state and federal leaders on how to deal with the power crisis in South Australia and looming supply problems on the east coast, Neil Pigot tells it like it is. ***
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Neil Pigot presents SpeakLiberal2Me:
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At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art. Then life will find its very existence from the art – Fyodor Dostoevsky They say a lot of things about art, some of it rather uncomplimentary. They say an awful lot about artists too, much of which is unprintable. But there are two phrases so
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As an artist my life is about asking myself a bunch of big questions. They’re not new questions and they are probably not that big to anyone except me, but they’re my questions. Often one of those questions can lead me to ask another that on the surface seems completely unrelated. as it did the
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Actor Neil Pigot watches another of his colleagues throw in his day job as pay rates for actors plummet. His friend guest starred in an episode of a highly rating television show and was paid $1,250 before tax. Pigot argues that the flowering of low cost, do-it-yourself, creative amateurism combined with our political leaders’ failure to articulate the value of
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Innovate as a last resort – Charles Eames I have lately been spending some time looking after my godson, a beautiful, funny 12, nearly 13 year old. When we have a bit of downtime the conversation often turns to the Zombie Apocalypse. These freewheeling discussions cover topics such as who’s in charge (him because he
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“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable” — George Bernard Shaw In case you hadn’t heard, last year the Federal government’s arts funding body, the Australia Council, had its funding cut by $104 million (over four years). The upshot has been a $12 million cut in the latest round of operational funding grants to the small
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