Reading Brisbane looks at the city through the eyes of many of its most creative artists and arts institutions. The growing ubiquity of high-speed Internet connections allows visitors from around the globe to experience the city in ways never before possible. More than that, they can contribute their own stories, experiences, and ideas about Brisbane. As descriptions of the city accumulate, we expect that new ways of reading Brisbane will emerge.

Our editor, Robert Whiteley, is not really much into bios, but tells us he enjoys his day job and cannot understand why people stay in roles they detest.

Weekends often seeing him transform into an enthusiastic landscape photographer. Supporting this photographic pursuits is the website neverhappen.com which invites you to attend with a tagline “Daily photography post from Australia, New Zealand and sometimes elsewhere”.

As landscape photography is about getting outdoors subtropical Brisbane makes the perfect place to call home. Despite having lived and worked for periods outside and around Australia, a combination of climate, culture and continually evolving space along the river means this really is the perfect city.

Look hard enough and you will probably also find him taking advantage of sporting and cultural events. Cricket tickets for the ‘Gabba east side on a blast furnace summers afternoon – love it.

For some warped reason Robert has a head full of useless facts. Even further from explanation is that these facts seem predominately to be related to explanations in names. Ask him for example why the Brisbane Rivercats are named that way, or full name for a company acronym and he will probably know.

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