This weekend is film competition weekend in New Zealand.
An initiative called “48Hours” aims to get people out and about making short films – writing, shooting and editing – in, well, a 48 hour time span. It’ll be a weekend of complete mayhem I’m sure, with hopefully a bunch of nice films as a result. And the logo has a gorilla in it!
I’m on one of the teams as a tape logger, so expect a link to our short soon. The 2004 and 2005 films can be viewed online at nzshortfilm.com.
Some photo groups on flickr are great for visual inspiration. One of these is Typographical Happenstance.
Visit the group photo pool here.
Some of you might instantly recognise that quote from the movie “Freaks” by Tod Browning (1931). I recently bought the new DVD release. It had been a few years since I first saw the film and I was pleased to find that it hadn’t lost any of its power. Read the rest of this entry »
I recently rediscovered an old 7″ vinyl single that used to belong to my dad. The moment I heard the first few seconds of this track I was sold. So I decided to record it and put it here.
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Sylvie Vartan – Ne t’en vas pas (Comin’ home Baby)
Welcome to the first post on my blog.
Hope you enjoy this tune and your stay.
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