I have not been posting much on this website. I’m slowly changing that. I am, currently, sharing bits and pieces with people in Malaysia (where I most recently spent time as a Visiting Professor) as part of a geolocation tagging process. I am working on a text on Malaysia; the posts of the past two…
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GROK and me
An old colleague and friend, the documentary filmmaker, Gerard van Niekerk, suggested I check out the GROK app. I downloaded and tried out a few things, but was underwhelmed. Gerard suggested that I ask GROK who I was/about me, instead. This, below, came up. It was a bit disturbing. One fact that GROK got wrong…
First Digital Photographic Expedition
I set out a few weeks ago to give photography another try. I had sold the last of my film equipment, my beloved Nikon F5 almost two decades ago, and bought an entry-level digital camera. My work as a writer, an academic and in policy-making had made it difficult to fully embrace photography to the…