Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Point to ponder: It has been a LONG time...

Lots tend to happen in between postings if almost 4 months goes by without a word. So here's the plan Stan, of the millions of stories to tell between then and now, here is a few you may be interested in. The catch is you have to leave me a comment as to what ones you want to hear about, the more votes, the faster I'll get round to blogging. Hmmm, hope this doesn't sound too pretentious, lazy, presumptuous and several others words I can't spell.
Here goes:

* The marathon film shoot involving tree climbing, nest raiding, cameras in bread bags, a 2hr bug lecture after 24hrs of no sleep and a flat tyre in Lawrence at 2am

* Bats - of the long-tailed variety. Hunting, trapping, shaving and transmittering. More hunting, more tracking, losing the trail and sleeping all day. Possibly the last surviving roost in Hanging Rock. Keep and eye out for the short film.

* Music man of the moment. Stalking The Nomad for need of his juicy beats. Meeting up in Wellywood and having the best night out in lil' ol' Eastbourne village at his gig.

* The second and *FINGERS CROSSED* final shooting trip. 5 days of beauty shots, jib arms, heavy packs, hunting bugs and a waaay too over-the-top car commercial. Not to mention letting the Glenorchy motor camp believe we are a mad lesbian couple.

* Internship - make 2X 30s commercials for the EARTH FROM ABOVE exhibition by Yann Arthus-Bertrand - piece of cake right? I still can't work out how those brick walls pop-up so quickly. A simple 1-week job and its now almost 2 months.

* Escape from the dirty South to knuckle down into some rough-cut whatnot. Once again, those damn brick walls! But its ok, I have now discovered the secret order for narration, music and shot sequence *TAPS NOSE*

* Discovering the animator within - and the lack of professionalism and time without

* Our first NHFC design class. *SIGH* it feels like home. Even the new lecturer Ralf had me swooning over his ironic and synical outlook on technological fads... such as blogging