Bye-bye

OK for anyone still reading this blog I am going to write this final entry.

I am moving to Sydney baby, going to film school and my Melbourne blog is being put to rest.

Out with the old and in with the new and all that crap.

I will start a new one from there.

Its been a pleasure.

Bye-bye tali time, hello tomorrow!!!

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Chaos Theory

I think I may have lost my blogging mojo. It seems that whenever I get near my computer and want to type, I just can't do it. It's not that nothing is happening, I have actually been really busy helping out on some films. In the freezing cold. With no pay. Just to get some 'experience'. Which would be really bad except that everyone else is in the same miserable boat as well. Actually, the boat ain't so miserable or I wouldn't do it. Its actually some form of sadistic fun to be outside in the middle of a freezing winter night shooting a movie. It is kind of like army basic training without the sexy uniforms. Or guns. Cos guns on a film set would be real bad. People get real mad on film sets. Many things go wrong. Nerves get frayed. You want a good horror movie? Give the crew guns!
Actually in order to avoid the mass homicide, feeding the crew should be the highest priority. Cold, tired, angry people who are not well fed sink further into their cold, tired, angry ways - users beware.
The shoots I was on were actually very different. One was very well organised, ever thing was on the ball and the food was amazing. I would aliken it to the German Army complete with a mini-dictator 1st AD (who ran the set like the gestapo). The other was very disorganised, nothing was on time and the food was crap. That one I will compare to the Israeli army - a complete and utter mess with lots of off-colour humour. And what can I say, I would take the chaos any day!

Still here

I am still alive! Yes, I know I haven't writen in a while. Its just as soon as winter comes I turn into hermit. Like a bear goes into hibernation, doesn't move for months and literally turns off their brain until the spring thaw. Well I too become but half the person that I usually am. Except strangely enough, my arse become twice its regular size, funny that. Its not just me. This town has literally shut down for the winter. I went to salsa and there were only 2-other women there. I suppose it was pretty good odds though - about 3-men each!
I actually had to face the cold this weekend because I was helping out on a movie set. This time they actually gave me a role too. Continuity. Basically the shittiest job you can get apart from being a runner and having to be everyone's bitch. The continuity has to make sure that all the details are the same in similar shots. If someone has their hair a certain way one day for a shot, and the next day we continue, well I have the pleasurable job of making sure it is the same. Its all those little fucking details. And as I am easily distracted, this is the hardest job I have ever had! Except of course I am yet to make any money because I am still at the 'please take advantage of my strong desire to break into the film industry' thing. All in good time they say. Well damn it my time is up baby - show me the god-damn money!

Breaking the drought

I have been sick for a few days so have not done anything except watch entire seasons of sex in the city, washing those singledom tales down with numerous bowls of chicken soup and self-pity. So far so good. Nothing like feeling sorry for yourself to get you healthy again. I have also tried to trace the source of my illness. I strongly suspect that my downfall was due to salsa. I love salsa. I love the music. I love the way you have to shake your booty. I love sexy men who can dance. However, sweaty and slimy men that dance way to close to you and swap their germs with you ARE NOT SEXY. They give you diseases, no matter how many times you try to wash your hands between dance partners. There is this one guy who whenever he comes near me I run the other way because he is actually dripping with sweat. Soaking wet. All I can say to water boy is the following - CHANGE YOUR FUCKING SHIRT MAN. Geez. It is not brain surgery, its common freaking decency not to subject us to your astounding water making abilities. However, the Melbourne water authority could really use your services with this whole drought thing. We could string you up over a damn and you could single-handedly save as all from disaster. You could be a superhero. Water boy saves a city, a country, the world!

Water boy can fix this!

Dry Lake #3
Originally uploaded by bigbuloke

I wanna be a grown up!

I have had enough. I am done. Really, I am. I wanna be a grown up. With my own house, my own furniture, my own man. My own life. Only problem these days is finding one of those male types to settle down with. Because surprise, surprise they don't want to settle. They want to spread their seed, vastly and without discrimination. As long as it is female they are willing to give it a go. But in all honestly, no matter what they say, it cannot be that fulfilling. It is superficial. Emotionally retarding. An immediate gratification that is completely empty. And those boys who claim they don't care if they act like assholes ARE LYING. Cos deep down inside (very, very, VERY deep!), they are as unsatisfied and lonely as we are. They, like us, need affection and attention. They, like us, need someone to love them. They, like us, need another half to make living in this world a little easier. So come on everyone, enough with the bullshit. We all need one other. Damn it we can't live without each other. So how about we start admitting it? Facing up to the fact that we actually have to get together and have r-e-l-a-t-i-o-n-s-h-i-p-s. Like real ones, boy-meets-girl, girl-meets-boy kind of way. Cos without them we are destined for a life without meaning. Without fulfilment. Without a future. So go on people, go forth, prosper and multiply. Live. Life. Love.

LOVE HANDS
Originally uploaded by ruud_rook.

Love is all we need!

Movie now up...

The movie that I worked on is up, here it is...

Video slaming it

So I have been strangely silent for a little while and I suppose you thought I have been abducted by aliens or those South Korean preachers came back to drag me off to bible school as a 'Jewish' specimen, alas not. Instead I spent the entire weekend making films. This weekend I partook in a 48-hour film-making marathon. We only had that amount of time to produce a 2-minute short centred around a theme, which used materials sourced on the net under a creative commons licence (basically it is this shitload of material that you can use for free, especially a lot of file footage without any bureaucratic holdups) . You can check out me creating on the trailer for the film at the Video Slam blog , I think I am about 1-minute into it (I was very like, excited!). The actual film should be posted there too very soon. It is rather abstract so not sure how entertaining it may be but it wasn't really about the finished product for us it was more about the insane process. Some people stayed up all night, though I had to hit the hay at 6am to prevent being taken away by men in white coats. All-in-all a completely awesome experience, to be surrounded by so much creativity was like being on a high for the two days. Unfortunately am now experiencing the after-effects - much like a hangover. I am however rather inspired and plan to spend my days spurting forth genius creation for all to witness. Will see how that pans out!

VIDEO SLAM
Originally uploaded by openchannel.