I watched the trailer to the film, The Fault in Our Stars and it brought tears to my eyes in that short footage. I knew it was a film I had to watch. Two young adults who appear to be very sick trying to live life the best they can with the bodies they have…
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TEDxSydney on Reflection – Top 5 talks
It’s been a few weeks since the TEDxSydney was on at the Sydney Opera House, the media hype is over but I think it’s time well spent reflecting on some of the TEDxSydney talks. Each person would have got something different out of the TEDx talks, whether it was educational, inspirational, thought provoking, entertainment, everyone would have…
Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace | Cremorne
If you live or plan to visit Sydney, there is a suburb north of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, about 10 minutes from the Sydney CBD called Cremorne that may seem like a quiet, sleepy suburb at first but is a charming little place where you can connect or reconnect with friends for something as simple as…
3 interesting aspects about food from ‘Chef’, the film
I watched the film Chef over the weekend which is now showing in cinemas around Australia and it’s more than just a story about a chef, Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) who quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner (Dustin Hoffman). It shows how…
New Film: The Trip to Italy | Around Australia
I enjoy road trip films as I always seem to have a good chuckle. If you have ever been away on a road trip with friends or family, there will always be at least one story that generates much laughter, that is retold again and again at the dinner table for years to come. I went away with friends…
Interview with TEDxSydney speaker Stella Young, comedian and disability advocate
Having a disability does not make you inspirational. This is the key message from Stella Young’s TED talk on Inspiration Porn and the Objectification of Disability at the Sydney Opera House held a couple of weeks ago. Stella Young is a comedian, disability advocate and Editor of ABC’s Ramp Up website, the online space for news, discussion…
8 Films to Watch at the Sydney Film Festival 2014 | 4 to 15 June 2014
How do you choose from 183 films from the Sydney Film Festival 2014 to be shown in the space of 11 days? Simply work out what genre interests you (go the ‘Films’ drop down box on the Festival’s website www.sff.org.au, select ‘interests’ and then see which film best fits in your diary. The 61st Sydney Film Festival 2014…
FREE DOUBLE PASS to new film, CHEF in Cinemas May 8 | Around Australia
Thanks to STUDIOCANAL, See.Taste.Do is giving away two double passes to the new film CHEF at HOYTS/EVENTS, just in time for Mother’s Day! TO ENTER, go to See.Taste.Do Facebook page and: 1. Write your favourite restaurant in the comment box 2. Send your name & mailing details to: seetastedo@gmail.com 3. Share this post and copy…
5 minutes with US Comedian Wil Sylvince | Australia
After touring Australia last year supporting The Wayans Brothers on their sold out tour performing to over 20,000 people, American comedian Wil Sylvince will make a welcome return to Australia in April-May with his own solostand up show. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Sylvince has honed his act in New York’s top comedy clubs –…
What’s the relationship between Maths & Sex? Ask Clio | TEDxSydney
It’s not what you think… Once upon a time I liked mathematics as a subject at school. It wasn’t only about trying to master intricacies and techniques of problem solving through equations, polynomials, geometry, integration, and calculus. But it was also the way it was taught, the way I learned it. I remember my Year…