Davey Dreamnation

A couple of weeks ago I tried to put up some pictures from my time as a Professor at Sogang University in Seoul in 2005. Unfortunately, the images seemed to slow down the loading of my whole site, and so I put the post on ice. Until now. Above, one of my Australian Culture students [...]

Breakdown of first year Media Studies students’ choice of essay questions by theme:
1. Reality TV (14 essays)
2. Narrative (12)
3. Semiotics (7)
4. Postmodernism (5)
5. Celebrity (5)
6. News Media (3)
7. Culture Jamming (2)
8. Realism (0)

Greetings, earthlings. LL Damnation here, with an update on the highly successful guerilla marketing campaign we are currently conducting for DNRC Records. You may not even realise that it’s happening, but that doesn’t mean it is. The idea stemmed from some research we did on the daveydreamnation.com portal and some highly-charged focus groups, which told [...]

Outlook
Morning Clouds Sprinkles Early
More Sun Than Clouds Sprinkles Late
Morning Clouds Sprinkles Early
Morning Clouds
Sunny
Sunny
Afternoon Clouds
Temp. (°C)
14° | 21° 11° | 24° 12° | 24° 14° | 26° 11° | 21° 9° | 24° 13° | 26°
Wind Speed
11 kph 6 kph 5 [...]

Outlook
Partly Cloudy
Morning Clouds Sprinkles Early
Early Fog Followed by Sunny Skies Sprinkles
Morning Clouds
Morning Clouds Sprinkles
Sunny
Sunny
Temp. (°C)
13° | 23° 12° | 23° 11° | 25° 11° | 23° 12° | 19° 9° | 21° 9° | 23°
Wind Speed
13 kph 10 kph 5 kph 5 kph 13 kph 8 kph 3 kph

Outlook
Afternoon Clouds
A Few Showers
Morning Clouds Sunny
Breaks of Sun Late
Morning Clouds
More Sun Than Clouds
More Sun Than Clouds
Temp. (°C)
13° | 27° 13° | 24° 12° | 23° 9° | 26° 12° | 27° 13° | 26° 13° | 24°
Wind Speed
10 kph 10 kph 5 kph 11 kph 10 kph 16 kph 5 kph

Outlook
Sunny
More Sun Than Clouds Showers Late
Morning Clouds
Sunny
Afternoon Clouds
Sunny
Mostly Cloudy Light Rain
Temp. (°C)
11° | 26° 13° | 26° 13° | 23° 14° | 21° 10° | 24° 15° | 24° 14° | 18°
Wind Speed
2 kph 8 kph 10 kph 11 [...]

Outlook
Sunny
Sunny
Afternoon Clouds
Light Rain Late
Morning Clouds
Early Fog Followed by Sunny Skies
Morning Clouds Sunny
Temp. (°C)
11° | 24° 11° | 26° 13° | 27° 11° | 23° 13° | 23° 12° | 23° 13° | 26°
Wind Speed
6 kph 3 kph 10 kph 8 kph 8 kph 11 kph 6 kph

Outlook
Sunny
Sunny
Sunny Afternoon Clouds
Showers Late
Morning Clouds
More Sun Than Clouds
High Level Clouds
Temp. (°C)
13° | 24° 11° | 25° 12° | 26° 13° | 17° 13° | 25° 14° | 24° 14° | 21°
Wind Speed
14 kph 6 kph 5 kph 3 kph 6 kph 6 kph 11 kph

Outlook
High Level Clouds
Sunny
Sunny
Mostly Sunny
Morning Clouds
Sunny
Decreasing Cloudiness
Temp. (°C)
12° | 27° 13° | 25° 11° | 26° 13° | 27° 15° | 26° 13° | 24° 13° | 27°
Wind Speed
5 kph 14 kph 3 kph 6 kph 8 kph 10 kph 11 kph

While I’ve been sweating over the choice of promotional photo for my upcoming debut book of poetry, I’ve also been grappling with issues of artistic integrity and interrogating my own self-image, with alarming results. How do I want the world to view me? Is it possible for me to control the image I present to [...]

 
I’ve gone through most of my life thinking my name is fairly weird - not my first name, my surname, der - and that the chances of anyone else having it are slim. That was until I found out that Dave from legendary soul duo Sam and Dave was also a Prater (he died in [...]