Tag: Follow Friday

Conspicuous Acts of Cultural Consumption

Follow Friday: The Tardis Guy

So my friend Allan makes some extraordinarily cool, highly-geeky shit in his alter-ego of The Tardis Guy. Case in point, check out this picture of one of his replica Thor hammers: @sldixonphoto doing his thing in my workshop. His thing is taking amazing photographs, by the way. #Mjolnir #photography #comicbooks #comics #hammer #thor #MARVEL A photo posted by Allan (@thetardisguy) on Apr 7, 2015 at 11:05pm PDT And his holy shit, I really want one of those Captain America shields: Today was a good day and soon it will be #shieldday. No words left, just a rack of shiny stuff #canteven #captainanerica #captainamericashield #veryhappy A photo posted by Allan (@thetardisguy) on Mar 17, 2015 at 10:54pm PDT Al’s recently launched his official TARDIS GUY website, which is still a work in progress, but the real fun is watching his facebook or instagram feeds, where you can track his works in progress and see the new projects as they come to life. Even if

Conspicuous Acts of Cultural Consumption

Follow Friday: Fiction Machine

Years ago, in the early days of Twitter, the #FollowFriday hash tag became a way of directing people towards tweeters who were doing interesting things. Over the years its become something less than that – The Oatmeal charts its demise pretty well – but the original concept has some merit. The internet is built on connections, after all, and there’s a lot of interesting things out there. This isn’t twitter, but I still like the idea of the Follow Friday. A recommendation of someone who deserves your attention, plus sufficient context to determine whether it’s likely to be your kind of thing. #FollowFriday: Fiction Machine Grant Watson has long been one of my favourite Australian reviewers. Way back in 2007, when I was doing Clarion South, one of the tutors basically recommended subscribing to a local magazine purely on the strength of Grant’s Bad Film Diaries column. Sadly, I missed the chance to do that. The magazine was shut down