"Sound"

Alrighty, here's some details about the shoot with Dave I mentioned. The shoot was for the short film "Sound" which is the forth is a series of five based around the five senses. I was helping out as camera assistant and clapperboarder. It was a lot of fun and so great to work with such a talented cast and crew! Here's a few film stills...

The actors, Dylan Corbett & Michael Wahr:

Actress Louise Howlett:

Director, David Liu:

Director of Photography, Simon Walsh:

Producer, Jack Haycox:

Sound Recordist, Leon Cranswick:

First AD, Georgina Foley:

The whole cast & crew:

On set:

And here's a funny shot of me just for fun:

All photos by the very talented Woodrow Wilson! I should really start shaving before I go on shoots!

Melbourne My City

I just finished up on a two day shoot with my man Dave Liu (more on that later). I had the pleasure of meeting and working with a bunch of very talented folks, including photographer Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow did stills for the shoot and while we were chatting he mentioned a short he had made about Melbourne using timelapse photography. It's a cool piece of work so I wanted to post it here for you all to enjoy. Here it is, Melbourne My City by Woodrow Wilson:



Woodrow runs his only freelance photography company so check out his website here. He's a real pro so if you're looking for some photography then definitely look him up!

Vigilantelope

Steph, from D.I.Y Art Films, is one of the members of Vigilantelope, a comedy crew of 8 young comedians from Melbourne. The group, currently working on a show for the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, produce smart, twisted comedy with a narrative bent. Find out more about Vigilantelope by checking out their blog. You can also find them on Facebook.
Keep your eyes out for these guys on the streets during the fringe festival and beyond!

Supermarket Musical Massacre - Trailer

I just cut together a short trailer for our animation, Supermarket Musical Massacre. It's on YouTube now and it looks like balls, so much so I might actually take it down. I actually spent more time trying to get it looking good on YouTube than actually editing it!



I'm going to try and upload a decent quicktime version of this. In the meantime, enjoy this monstrosity!

Edit: Click here to view a medium quality quicktime version (about 7MB).

Guitar Zero

A couple of days ago I acted in a (very) short film by my friend and collaborator David Liu. The film was for Hamish & Andy's Infuriatingly Short Film Festival, a competition for the best eight second film. Hamish & Andy called Dave live on air because they thought his entry was too good technically and they wanted to make sure he actually made it. Unfortunately that entry was disqualified because Dave's film was originally made for his uni course.

So, instead of just giving up Dave set out to make a brand new film for the competition in a single night! You can view the result here:



I believe the winner will be decided today, so good luck Dave! You can check out all the entries on the competition website here. You can view Dave's original entry, "Idle Hands", on there as well!

One Time Only

This is an awesome promo for Nike by New York Studio Hunter Gatherer. Click the picture to check it out!


You can check out the studio's website at huntergatherer.net

New T-Shirts

Here's two brand new t-shirt from Wonderful Drawings.

This one was created especially for Sir Chesterfield of Oyster Bay:

This one was created for Elise:

Prices have also been reduced on all Wonderful T-shirts! $29.00 for stupid t-shirts, and $25.20 for really stupid t-shirts! Click here to view the whole range!

If there's an extra special design you would like to request let me know and I'll see what I can do! There's no guarantee it will look anything like you expected but that's half the fun!

Zoom H4

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I want one.

Wall E

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What can I say, I love Pixar films...

Kenny's World

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The first two episodes of Kenny's World have been great fun, I think the second one was even better than the first. If you've missed any of the episodes you can watch them online. Check them out here!

Neon Blue Trailer

Dave just cut together a trailer for the short documentary we directed together in March. Check it out:



I'm loving that all the YouTube related videos are about Neon Genesis! You can't tell from the trailer but "Neon Blue" is actually animated and about giant robots!

Kenny's World Premieres Tomorrow)!!!!

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That's right folks, Kenny's World premieres tomorrow (10/09/08) at 8pm on Chanel Ten. Be there or be square kids!!!

SMM & The Line go In The Bin

Our films Supermarket Musical Massacre (2008) & The Line (2005) have been invited to screen as part of "In The Bin", an outdoor short film festival based in the gold coast.


In The Bin began in February 2000 as the brainchild of film director and short film enthusiast Jed Cahill. Cahill’s vision was to create an event for Australia’s aspiring film makers to showcase their work and put the Gold Coast on the map for short films. The response to the initial event was so overwhelming that Cahill planned to make it an annual event. The festival has continued to grow. Due to the festival’s exponential growth the decision was made to take it national and visit rural and regional destinations throughout Australia. (from the In The Bin website)



Supermarket Musical Massacre screens this Saturday, the 13th of September, as part of the "In The Bin Part One" programme.



The Line is scheduled to screen next Wednseday, the 17th of September, as part of the "Boardshorts"programme. We are currently waiting on license confirmation for the music so The Line can screen. Keep your fingers crossed for me people!

Check out the full programme here, and for more information check out http://www.inthebin.net.au. Many thanks to Jed & Pia from In The Bin for their interest & support!

El-P - Deep Space 9mm

Just while we're looking at videos, this is one of my favourites:

Wonderful T-Shirts: Preview Shots

The first run of Wonderful T-Shirts came in last week. Here's a few preview shots before the proper photo shoot.




Get 'em while they're hot people. See the full range here and stay tuned for the first proper photo shoot coming up in the next few weeks!

Children Collide - Social Currency

You may have seen this on Rage or JJJ TV, but anyways here it is. The new clip for Children Collide by Melbourne boys Krozm, and shot by the one and only Adam Howden. Adam has some higher quality quicktime versions on his site, so check it out here!

Architecture in Helsinki Videos

Steph & I were doing some music video research last night and ended up watching a whole bunch of AIH clips. I don't know how these guys manage to afford it, but they're videos are consistently awesome!

Do The Whirlwind:

Hold Music:

Like It Or Not:

Heart It Races:

Dig it!

Chronic Deja Vu - Shoot

Shooting for Chronic Deja Vu wrapped up last Wednesday night. By now the film should be edited and in the early stages of vfx. Here's some pics from the two day shoot.

Our leading man, Cole Rintoul:

Alan & Adam working out the shot:

Alan & me:

The camera crew:

Cole & Belinda Di Vito acting out the real proposal scene:

Day two, on the set:

Everyone did an amazing job and it was loads of fun. I can't wait to see the finished product! Thanks to Viola Tsoi for the stills! Check out her website here!

Floppy Ts

D.I.Y Art friend & associate Oliver Ramsay is getting his Red Bubble grind on with these awesome floppy disk tees!

Check out his RedBubble site here!