Monthly Archives: August 2008

the Eye in Her blue hand

by Dina El Dessouky, Kurungabaa, Vol. 1, Issue 2, July 2008 the Eye in Her blue hand I. I found my self lost at sea when my eye shifted equivocally between two concrete nations imagined specks on an unfocused horizon … Continue reading

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Descent Into The Maelstrom

A classic song by 70′s Australian punk band Radio Birdman. Descent Into The Maelstrom takes it’s name from a short story by Edgar Allen Poe in which the narrator experiences “the most terrible hurricane that ever came out of the … Continue reading

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The Blogging Revolution

The young online tribe is more interested in discussing sex, drugs and rock’n’roll than political revolution, writes Antony Loewenstein

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Blaspheming Dora

I grew up with stories about independent blokes like outlaws, larrikins, anti-heroes, as well as a full pantheon of inventors, travellers, rogues, competitors, and stylists. It’s how I learned to be enthusiastic for an “escape” from the “hum-drum” of everyday … Continue reading

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A Homeland Built in Language

I Come From There I come from there and I have memories Born as mortals are, I have a mother And a house with many windows, I have brothers, friends, And a prison cell with a cold window. Mine is … Continue reading

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Kamogawa Surfers’ Lives

Filmed and edited by Alex Leonard

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Style is …

Too much coffee this morning, after a night of reading the work of Henri Bergson. Bergson was a French philosopher who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. Bergson argued that the intuition is deeper than the intellect. … Continue reading

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Congratulations Tara June Winch

Tara June Winch, who contributed the beautiful short story Summers Gone to our second issue, has won the literature category in the 2008/2009 Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative. As a protege Tara receives a year of one-on-one creative mentoring … Continue reading

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Surfing and Ja Volim Te Jos

Filmed and edited by Alex Leonard

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Investing in Surfing Magazines

(This is one of my favourite things Stu has written lately. It’s the editorial in our second issue. Al) by Stu Nettle, Kurungabaa, Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2008 > Download (PDF) I was brought up in a house surrounded … Continue reading

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