Bruce Corneil... The story so far...
Yours truly is a pop culture historian which is a fancy way of saying that I like old things eye-ee movies (particularly those of the quirky, offbeat and generally unusual variety), TV shows, architecture and cars of days gone by. This gent explains what we do in more detail: What Is Pop Culture? | Mr. Pop Culture (mrpopculture.com). It's been a lifelong passion and great fun documenting the aforementioned subjects as a writer, photographer and video-maker. However, I've done a number of different jobs around the arts and media industry. I've also been a furniture salesman, delivery driver, warehouse assistant and Sunday market trader.
Being a voracious reader, I commenced my working life as a trainee manager at a major bookstore in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia. From there, I spent about ten years in the areas of radio and television production, programming and writing. Moving on, yet again, I handled publicity and media liaison for several organizations in the health, sports, tourism and heritage sectors (for more details have a click around the various sections of this blog to get an idea of where I've been and what I've done). During my time in the media, I travelled extensively overseas, got to visit a number of stations in the US and did a stint at the National Nine Network office in Los Angeles (I was working for them in Australia)
In 1994, I established Flashback Videos; a home entertainment distribution, retailing and direct marketing business that specialized in retro and cult movies, TV shows and historical documentaries. I was also involved in the collectables scene as a stall-holder at Melbourne's Chapel Street Bazaar, a contributor to Collectormania magazine and an occasional guest on radio station 3AW's "Antiques and Collectables" program.
My articles, reviews and/or photos have been published in many different magazines in Australia and the US. These have included the Big Reel, Films of the Golden Age, Paracinema, Nostalgia Digest, Cinema Record, Photographic Trader, Bookseller & Publisher, Old Cars Weekly, Australian Classic Cars and, as already mentioned, Collectormania. I also wrote the cover notes and did the preproduction artwork for more than a hundred videos and DVDs . I usually write about heritage related subjects (as detailed at the beginning of all this) and it has been one of my objectives to make the learning experience as easy, engaging and, hopefully, as entertaining as possible. In fact, following on from my interest in adult education, I completed a Certificate IV in Training & Assessment and spent three years teaching non-fiction writing at community centres. It was very rewarding to work with some talented people and be able to get their writing projects published.
So, how did this blog come about? Well, some years back I had to become a carer. Put simply, that meant that I was going to be home for most of the day. Looking around, my gaze settled upon all the boxes and folders that were filled with forty plus years of writing, photography and audio visual production work or, more accurately, the few bits and pieces that had survived. So, I decided to set about digitizing and uploading everything both for my own memories of the people who were involved and, hopefully, because others might, possibly, enjoy some of it as well. All the "writing stuff" went onto this blog. The audio visual material went to You Tube and the prints, negatives and 35mm slides were scanned and uploaded to Flickr where my pages now contain just over 4,500 images.
https://www.youtube.com/user/junkyardphilosopher/videos
Original Photos : Pick of the Pics | Flickr
(Note: When you go over to the Flickr website, ensure that the middle icon
in the set of three that appears at the top right corner of the screen (the toolbar) is highlighted.
If it isn't, then click on it. This will ensure that photos are displayed, initially, in the correct "album" size.
You can then click on individual photos to supersize them
There's still a bit of "gear" to get the digital treatment including several videos of early Melbourne television shows from as far back as the 1950s. Unfortunately, my first blog disappeared due to a technical problem and I have only recently got it up and running again.
Anyway, that's the story...so far. Hope you find something of interest and feel free to make contact. Click on the words "older posts" at the bottom of each page to read the next item (I'll put together an index when time permits)
All the best
Bruce
Admittedly, the profile photo does go back a "few years" (cough...from memory..
Nixon had just left the Whitehouse).But there will be nothing more recent offered
because I'm not in favor of uploading distressing images to the internet .The car is a 1969
Buick Wildcat... one of many interesting classics that came my way in earlier times
A few memories of 1969..
