I'm Ricky Onsman, an Australian web designer and developer based in Corrimal, south of Sydney, NSW. I have 15 years experience planning, coding, laying out, optimising, and managing content for websites of all kinds: corporate, commercial, personal, non-profit.
This is my personal site, where I blather on about pretty much anything. If you want to know more about my work and what I can do for you, click on over to Flyman Partners, the web design consultancy I run with my partner Hazel Flynn.
Flyman Partners is a web consultancy that draws together my skills and experience as a web designer and developer and those of my partner in life, love, parenting and now business: writer, editor and content manager extraordinaire Hazel Flynn.
Between us we have a formidable track record in creating, managing and distributing a range of content for the web, print and broadcast industries. This is our shop window.
Hazel and I went to Sydney to see Lipsynch, the latest theatrical work by Robert Lepage’s company Ex Machina to come to Australia.
Canadian Lepage has acquired a reputation as a global theatre practitioner, one who succeeds in creating theatre that is meaningful, modern and international.
His projects bring together actors, writers, designers and technicians from around the world, and give them the responsibility and the freedom to create great theatre.
We’ve met some great people since moving to the Illawarra.
Among the new friends we’ve made who live locally are Anousha Zarkesh and David Field. Anousha is a casting director while David is an actor I’ve admired for a long time – since I saw him working with Don Mamouney at Sidetrack Theatre in the ’80s when the Marrickville company was redefining Australian community theatre.
David has since become a stalwart of theatre, Australian film and TV, from his film debut in Nick Cave’s 1988 film Ghosts of the Civil Dead through Blackrock (1997), Two Hands (1999) and Chopper (2000) and more recently the cold case police TV series Blackjack. Most people who’ve watched Australian TV or films in the last 20 years would recognise him.
But David has another string to his bow – he’s about to release his first film as director. The Combination is a street gang drama set among Sydney’s Lebanese community, and is set for a 26 February start in cinemas.
