More adventures with A Piano of Tasmania, in north-east Tasmania
For those who don't know, "A Piano of Tasmania" is a project started by Kelvin Smith in 2020 to bring music to people in lockdowns in...
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Mark Thomson
- Aug 2
- 3 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 64 - The simple life in Tonga
As I mentioned in my last blog, I hadn't managed to find any Pacific Islanders until recently, despite many attempts. But once you get...
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Mark Thomson
- Jul 31
- 3 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 63 - Samoa and family
My interview with Loni was my first with someone from any of the Pacific Island nations, an area I've been wanting to cover for a while...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 29
- 4 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Compiling clips on common themes
In the process of doing the interviews for this podcast, more and more common themes have emerged. There are certain things that are...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 19
- 2 min
Sometimes you can get the best shots close to home...
One of the challenges of drone photography in Tasmania, which I've mentioned before, is the changeability of conditions, which can happen...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 19
- 2 min
An excursion down to Arm End to fly the drone and capture some dramatic clouds
A few weeks ago it was a lovely clear afternoon, with barely a breath of wind, and I had a spare few hours, so I took a drive down to Arm...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 19
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 62 - Magical Madagascar
I have to say that Madagascar was actually not on my list of countries from the 2016 census ( which is of course well out of date, but...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 17
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 61 - Talk with an Egyptian
I have been doing this podcast for almost 2 years now, and through the process I've learnt many things. One thing that I've taken on...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 16
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 60 - In between Hong Kong and Tasmanian culture
I thought it would be interesting to have Anthony on the podcast because of his rather unusual reason for coming to Tasmania and his...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 5
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 59 - Norway
In the case of many migrants I've interviewed, coming to Australia/Tasmania has meant coming to a place with a better quality of life,...
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Mark Thomson
- May 4
- 2 min
Photo and video projects in 2022 so far
For a while in 2022 I sort of took a break from photography and just stopped doing my usual "photo walks" or anything much beyond...
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Mark Thomson
- Apr 29
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 58 - On rural life in Kenya
I guess Kenya is one of those countries we might associate with the quintessential Africa - herds of Wildebeest, sweeping savannah,...
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Mark Thomson
- Apr 27
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 57 - Small island community of the Seychelles
There were so many aspects of Anna's personal story that I found interesting that it was hard to decide what to leave out. I must admit...
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Mark Thomson
- Apr 25
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 56 - Traditional village life in Portugal
As any of you who follow my podcast will know, I frequently ask my subjects about their childhood and upbringing. This is the time of...
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Mark Thomson
- Apr 14
- 3 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 55 - Iraq and a touch of Palestine
There have been numerous interviews where I have felt like there was so much more we could have talked about and that my final edit...
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Mark Thomson
- Apr 2
- 3 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 54 - Singer and jeweller from Slovenia
This was my first attempt at interviewing a couple, I hadn't really been able to do it before easily, but now I have a new microphone...
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Mark Thomson
- Apr 1
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 53 - Barber from Sierra Leone
If you look at the history of migration across the world, one of the common threads you see is how migrants bring both new skills and a...
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