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Baaddd – Poofie / Barbarian (Live) These hilarious drug fucked hipster bitches are pretty much my heroes right now.

Warhol superstar and bisexual icon Joe Dallesandro completed changed the way we see male sexuality on screen. I can watch him for hours sitting stoned out of his fucking mind and dreamily dazing into space and never get bored for a second. He’s endlessly fascinating, especially in these films. Although he is playing supposedly “deadbeat [...]

sadism / sacrifice

Given that we are invariably marked on what we post on this blog. It is now necessary for me to write a self-indulgent piece about the stuff I have been working on, with the intention of  hopefully completing it by the end of the year. I shall start with Fierce, which is going to be presented [...]

One of the most beneficial things I have got out of my year studying at AFTRS so far has been the diversity of the student group. With everyone rapidly planning and in some cases already shooting their final projects. It has been fascinating to see what each person has decided to do. One student who [...]

Shane Mauss is an American comedian from Wisconsin, who has appeared on Conan three times, and I was lucky enough to have the privilege of seeing his show at the comedy store in the Entertainment Quarter last night. He was supported by a few Australian acts who were really good as well. Most notably Rodney [...]

I managed to pop down to the Sydney film festival last night and catch the documentary  made over Valentino’s 45th year as a fashion designer. It was a  hilarious film with a compelling narrative that seemed to be unfolding amongst the mayhem of the fascinating world of couture fashion, and it was superb. I can [...]

about a month ago when I drove past the Clovelly cemetery I had this brilliant idea to shoot a great acoustic performance there to post on my blog as part of a series of shoots I am planning to do at some stage. Like most ideas these days, I discovered today that it has been [...]

Aye, it’s been too long. Months ago I saw Mister Robert Connolly who brought you the stellar Balibo, which if you haven’t seen you should see it now or we’ll have a situation similar to this. Not only did I manage to scab entry into a charity screening of the drama, my school AFTRS, had [...]

I have failed to mention that i’ve had the pleasure of seeing three great Australian films as of late, for free. The first being Accidents Happen, a suburban drama set in an American community and starring the lovely Geena Davis. Another drama? Yes, but this one may have something going for it. Director Andrew Lancaster, [...]

That’s not Nash Edgerton, it’s his actor brother Joel. A while ago they hit Australia with a long time collaboration: The Square. The film is amazing, comparable to the works of the Coen Borthers but without an old sherriff dissing out a monologue at the end to leave the film ending on sub text. Unfortunately [...]

Get your reading glasses out, Robert Connolly presents a white paper on ‘Embracing Innovation’. Robert Connolly is set to release Balibo, the $5m Australian docu-drama that looks like a $15m action flick. The low cost can be accredited to the new style of production he describes in his paper. Check it here, meanwhile that’s the [...]

Screen Australia has just annouced to up its marketing budget, from $6.2M to $8.4M. That’s what I’m talking about. Read more here.

Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active Communist and husband of Frida Kahlo. Rivera’s large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. *Belo […]

As I just saw Coraline I thought I might do my part to promote a fellow peer – introducing upcoming claymation guru and beatbox wiz kid, Luke ‘LC BEATS’ Cavalan. These are some stills from his short film ‘Mayhem in May Lane’ – he’s currently in the throws of filming his major work Kaos in King [...]

Some of the best things come in threes…

Lucian Freud’s paintings are often associated with surrealism and depict people, plants and animals in unusual juxtapositions. These works are usually painted with relatively thin paint, but from the 1950s he began to paint portraits, often nudes, to the almost complete exclusion of everything else, employing a thicker impasto. With this technique he w […]

Some work by Brisbane-based artist Brett Lethbridge. A friend of mine took me to visit his Paddington gallery once and it’s been love ever since… For more information: http://www.brettlethbridge.com

Here are more photographs of shooting with the performer walking through the Australian landscape in a beautiful white dress. It was an awesome experience and heaps of fun to shoot. I love how picturesque the shots and photos look. I guess another inspiration is the music video for Kate Bush in the song ‘Wuthering Heights’. [...]

I really think what I am working on could develop and help me grow as a director and an editor. I feel that the performer I am working with could be the next Kate Miller-Heidke or Kate Bush. Mainly because she is a unique artist. Part of my inspiration is the music video for Kate [...]

I was helping out with set design for the scenes of Tom Rhor’s major project Fierce. I have read the script and I found that the characters were awesome and dynamic. It seems like a really fun project to be apart of. The scenes consist of interviews with the main characters as they discuss how [...]

I have decided to incorporate a yellow theme since the song is about how a strong bright person in someone’s life. I was inspired to use the colour yellow as theme as it captures the energy of idea. Part of the idea came from the Three Colours: Blue, Three Colours: White, and Three Colours: Red [...]

I got the chance to experience what is like to be an extra. I went to help out in a scene along with other students from AFTRS in Tim and Albert’s AFTRSH major project. I got to clap, cheer, toast, chat, laugh and hang out with the main characters and the crew of AFTRSH. It [...]

Doof Pirates

Henry Selick, the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and Giant Peach creates a spooky and visually captivating world in the first stop-motion feature shot in stereoscopic 3D. The fearless, blue-haired Coraline (Fanning) is dead bored. Her parents (Hatcher and Hodgman) are too busy writing garden manuals to play games and her only [...]

Today I had a chat with Madeline. She is also interested in Studio Ghibli

Disney Picks Up Ponyo for Aug. Release Disney will release Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea on August 14, 2009. Retitled as Ponyo for its U.S. theatrical run, the English-language version features the voices of Cate Blanchett, Noah Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Frankie Jonas, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin and Betty [...]

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Parallax Bites : The Thing That Ate My Homework zoomed into the imaginations of many today. Shooting began on a short promotion for the film that will be used as part of next weeks pitch. “I thoroughly enjoyed tapping into my ten year old self and it was flippin’ awesome!” says Ash, one of today’s stars. Jaime, [...]

my Story and Audience trailer “Chameleon” Starring Ash, Tanya, Chris, Dane, Kevin Rudd, and myself.

A short film for children that I directed in my first year at MAPS film school in Adelaide, 2005. It’s called “The Little Girl and The Little Boy” A mock trailer, shot on my mobile phone, and made for the Adelaide Kino Kabaret, 2007.

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I had my son help me out with this one – he makes an uncredited appearance as the guy in the middle when they open the door…

So is this shit like Twitter? ‘Cos I ain’t down with Tweeting… I’ve seen that, with like the man in the black, leather gimp suit on a leash, and the other guy watching him crawl around with a gag in his mouth… cos that’s fetish shit – I’m not down with that… shit’s not cool.

Everybody wants to be Robert Rodriguez, don’t they? The Austin-based filmmaker, avid chef and long time buddy of Quentin Tarantino is renowned for his  tongue-in-cheek exploitation films that despite their extremely violent content and themes contain a pleasing aesthetic feel that is not dissimilar to that of the films we all made in our backyards whe […]

This is really cool. I found this on Youtube a while ago. This is a copy of Wes Anderson’s short film “Bottle Rocket”, that marked the acting debuts of Owen and Luke Wilson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV9fLUAbaO4

Joshua Hoffine is a photographer whose pictures have a strong horror theme and is very cinematic in style. His website has examples of his work. He also blogs about his pictures, giving insight into the image-making process. He has a visual style and feel that I would love to incorporate into the major work.

A great horror film. The eel scene will haunt me forever. It was worth watching just to see how an eleven-year old boy is transformed into a menacing ageless being with inhuman perception and knowledge.

Note to self: if ever I need inspiration for a good title sequence for this major work, look this up.

First up is FFFFound!, a photography and design resource site which maintains its level of quality by restricting membership to invite-only. The other is something I stumbled upon while looking for fresh pig’s blood: Suicide Food. It’s amusing and disturbing at the same time.

dust 1.earth or other matter in fine, dry particles. 2.a cloud of finely powdered earth or other matter in the air. 3.any finely powdered substance, as sawdust. 4.the ground; the earth’s surface. 5.the substance to which something, as the dead human body, is ultimately reduced by disintegration or decay; earthly remains. 6.British. a.ashes, refu […]

Meredith and I have started to write the treatment for our film dust + water. We shall keep you posted. So far only 2 pages. Trying to push the words out.

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They live inside your brain and paint pictures in your mind when you’re sleeping. They can be scary at times but otherwise charming.

This was a class exercise I did in February where we were instructed to personalise an inanimate object with a human quality using camera movement. My friend/ co- student Adam Leemey had the idea of throwing in the Mortal Combat- inspired text at the end. I think it made it. It was originally inspired by a short animated film I saw at the Ignite Christia […]