If you only had a brain I wouldn't be so hungry...

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:50:00 GMT

Last night I had an accident in trampoline class, where I fell badly and landed on my neck.
I wasn't really sure how freaked out to be about this, on the one hand sprained muscles are not that big a deal, on the other hand hurting your neck is pretty terrifying. (The trainer was equally ambivalent: want to put some ice on that? want me to call an ambulance? - Gee, those options are pretty far apart).

In the end I went home, got some medical advice and felt pretty confident that I was okay, went to a GP this morning just to check, and he sent me over to the emergency at the Royal Melbourne.

It's bizzare how one minute I was a person checking in, signing papers, carrying my stuff, and then once I was inside the same people told me I had to lie down in a neck brace and not move because I might hurt my neck.

It kind of reminded me of Brazil, like a Byzentine system that doesn't necessarily adhere to everyday logic, that you get thrust into.

But yeah, I'm okay.

The internet has failed me

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:45:55 GMT

The other night I saw an awesome burlesque performance. There was one act in particular that mainly consisted of fire eating and other fire play. She did this thing where she would spread some kind of white foam on herself, light it on fire and spread the flames around. It looked fantastic.

Anyone know what it's called? Google isn't coming up with anything, and I really wanna try this! But without trial and error preferably.

Wed, 06 May 2009 06:36:02 GMT

I made this animation a little while ago for animation club. I didn't win or anything, but I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

I'm also finishing the zombie movie short, it's looking pretty fun and cheesy.

Max got me in contact with people at the Holocaust Museum, and it looks like I might be translating part of the diary of a Hungarian doctor who was made to work with Josef Mengele in Auschwitz. Which sounds incredibly harrowing, but also, wow.

I'm acting in a play (barely), about a lesbian bar, but the characters are coctails not people.

The wedding of Doom, is still ongoing. I've been working on this for so long that what I'll get paid for it works out to be practically nothing.

Oh, I also picked up a bunch of books at the Rowden White sale, including retro 50s femdom porn in comic book form.

Gonna work another job on the side for a little while. It's gonna be welcome to have a steady part time income. Lack of above being one of the bad sides of freelancing.

Started doing African dancing, which is amazing. Still doing aerials. I dropped trampoline, which I really miss, but can't afford at the moment. It's much cheaper to go to the gym a few times (if the gym is the local YMCA, not one of the wanky expensive ones anyway).

So that's all pretty cool. The bad stuff, well, the bad stuff pretty much all has to do with being really quite poor.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:04:38 GMT

This movie looks awesome:

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:59:49 GMT

Tweenbots: art project of little robots set free in the city, able to only go forward, their destination written on a flag.

Strangers interact with them, point them in the right direction. They all made it to their destinations so far.

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:19:41 GMT

Sarah Haskins does an awesome segment on advertising aimed at women. There's tons of them. This one is on 'tending your garden'.

Conservatives in the US are sending teabags to the White House and holding teaparties in what they refer to as 'teabagging'. Rest of the world snickers because we're all twelve.

Found list

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:16:17 GMT

Brains in jars
Frozen zombies
Matrix cows in goo
Telepathic vaginas
Jesus porn

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:39:15 GMT

Habitats for space cats

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:54:49 GMT

How to stalk NASA

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:45:29 GMT

I saw the most awesome dog the other day.

I was getting the tram home, and the dog was being walked along Lygon street.
Suddenly it ran off from its owner and hopped on the tram. People were trying to tell the driver, but the doors were already closing and the tram pulling away. The ownerless dog ran happily up and down the tram and said hi to concerned people who were unsure of what to do.

At the next stop, which was at a park, the dog jumped off, and went off to do its business.

Public transport dog!

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:29:14 GMT

dynonichus? You have to check out MuMuHug. It's a creature of pure love and little intellect, and most things flee from it in terror, as it stumbles after them to hug them.
It's kind of a dolphin, except with legs and it can't swim. And it's friends with a glowy fish, a pig dragon, and a grandfather and a baby octopus.
It is far more demented than any show I've ever seen aimed at the toddler set.

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:23:43 GMT

So much has happened lately. It's been far too long since I wrote anything here.

We were kicked out of our lovely old Greensborough house, but found a new little house in East Brunswick, with blue walls, and a double bunk bed, and courtyard with pidgeons for the cats (they're too slow to actually catch them). There's an artist colony in a warehouse at the end of our street. There's galleries run by friends, there's amazing food around the corner, Brunswick street ten minutes away. And people come to our parties now! We can have parties again.

And now I'm in Europe, barely after moving, with unpacked boxes still in some corners.
Landed in Vienna, and now in Hungary with family.

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:32:14 GMT

Off to Europe in 3 hours.
Need sleep.

It'll all be on Facebook.

xox

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:51:18 GMT

A Sound of Thunder is a cautionary tale of a movie about the dangers of time travel (mostly, these dangers involve babboon faced-dinosaurs, and turning people into fish).

It's an awesomely terribly movie, but not enough so to sustain an actual viewing. These few clips should give you the best parts.

The very best part however is this conversation, the most unscientific scientific explanation since that one in Evolution that managed to combine killing aliens, toothpaste, boobs and the period table.

"..All we need is another [time travel] portal."
"That's easy. Let's go to Home Depo.
"There's one nearby at the University."
"A Home Depo?"
"No a portal. Well, not exactly a portal, a particle accelerator. With the right software it becomes a portal."
"We're talking plug and play?"
"Yeah, more or less."

*facepalm*

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:14:57 GMT

I made this video last night for a competition.
It's the story of what happens to a farmer when he gets abducted by aliens, but then the aliens decide to take his cows instead.

And Dan made absolutely kickass sounds for it.

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:44:25 GMT

Mildly obsessed with Demeter at the moment.
Its a fragrance company that picks out and reproduces singular scents, instead of making up scent coctails, which is the done thing.
So people can look up things they already know and love, like freshly baked bread, thunderstorm, snow, grass, books, the laundromat. Stuff that smells really nice, but no-one else would consider making it into a fragrance, like mushrooms or cucumber or black pepper or play-doh.

Got some samples the other day. I'm wearing Holy Smoke with Leather at the moment. It's the perfect S&M scent.

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:30:04 GMT

We've been given notice, and soon this beautiful old house full of history will be apartments. Or possibly a retirement village.
This was the plan since I've moved in, and have been here for two and a half years. I guess the incompetence of the landlord was our gain.
I love this house, but I don't mind moving on.
It's just an inconvenient time to be kicked out as:
-I'm heading off to Europe the week after we have to move
-and I wanted to film a zombie movie here before being booted.

Is anyone else moving house in the next few months?
Doing all this rental research reminded me of all those plans of setting up a big awesome house with friends.
It'd would be in Clifton Hill or North Fitzroy/ East Brunswick, maybe Yarraville. Anywhere close to the city, but leafy and quiet. Under $110 each (yah, I think it can be done).

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:11:54 GMT

Monopoly is an incredibly unfun game to play while having to deal with the current rent market.

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:01:58 GMT

Music video's finished, going to Cairns this weekend. Can't wait. Cairns is awesome.
I went last year and never really wrote about it.
There were tropical islands with snorkeling and the reef and the fish and lots of crocs, and rainforesty stuff, and it was all lovely, apart from when a butterfly started laying eggs in my hair, that was kind of violating.

Io9 is an awesome science fiction blog, and they do a great job of picking out the most awesome and exciting sci-fi news. I particularly like the found footage section where they pick out the oddest parts of fantastically bad movies, like a firebreathing monster that inexplicably explodes when it falls, a Tilda Swinton movie with alternate universes and a brain in a jar, or space pirates becoming scantily clad man slaves. Many ideas for movie nights from that one.

On the recommendation of Io9 I checked out this new tv series called The Middleman, 'n it's pretty cool. The writing is good enough to make comparisons to Buffy, the concept is sort of Men in Black crossed with Get Smart, but in a good way. The plots are incredibly silly, ducks stuck in space-time rifts and zombie fish kind of silly. Also the main character is a struggling painter working temp jobs before getting recruited to save the world, and all the art stuff really matters in terms of plot. It's like a pastiche of all things happy made into a show.

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:35:07 GMT

There's a Jim Henson retrospective at ACMI, 4th to 14th September. Muppets!

Also, Spore is awesome. I wish this game existed when I was a kid.
The Sims influence really shows; the way the creatures behave and the way they act excited is very similar to how the Sims act. So, I guess behaviour in the game is going to be kind of limited.
But! For $10 off their website, or $4 off eBay (or free with the paper a few weeks ago), you can get the Creature Creator, which is really the fun part, and make an endless stream of odd monsters. It is so much fun.

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:34:02 GMT

From untoward:

In Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World: There's a bit of footage in the middle, of a penguin who becomes, in Herzog's word, deranged. It shows us three penguins, one heading off to the water for food, one heading back to the nest, and one just standing and looking at the mountains. Eventually, the penguin heads for the mountains. Waddling along, adorable. We're told that even if that penguin is retrieved, and placed in his nest, he would immediately leave and head straight for the mountains again. We're shown footage from eighty miles further, as the penguin passes a small diving camp. Still heading for the mountains. Everyone stands still as the penguin passes, forbidden to interfere, and the camera pans to watch him heading straight toward the mountains, and the 5000 miles of interior beyond. And his certain death.

It was a powerful juxtaposition, is why it hit me so hard, I guess. The penguin was so enthusiastic looking, waddling excitedly toward the mountains. Toward its death. I keep thinking back to the footage of the penguin just looking off at the mountain instead of going for food or going back to the nest, like he was just realizing there might be another choice. And, yeah, maybe that choice means death, ultimately, but it's hard to watch him try and not feel a little excited inside your heart.

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:31:30 GMT

I copied the C: drive of my old dead computer onto the new hard drive and it actually booted up, though I'm pretty sure that's not how you're meant to do it.
It's kinda like a resurrection spell that unexpectedly worked, and now I'm stepping around gingerely to figure out whether it's mostly good just rattled, or whether I have a zombie on my hands.

A series of misadventures

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:12:52 GMT

Got back from Sydney yesterday, the flight killed the last shred of my immune system that was still hanging on, am now with a cold.

Came back to find the heating broken, spent a night under all blankets in the house, wearing many layers of clothes, in a delirious sort of dream about being trapped under snow and how I mustn't fall asleep cause I'll freeze to death.

Okay, backtracking a bit.

Sydney was shiny, sometimes. A little shred of partner time in a few months of not so much. Checked out AFTRS, do not want. It's a film school in the middle of what looks mostly like an old broken down theme park, without any of the actual attractions. Very odd.
The highlight would have been seeing Rocky Horror, which I am conflicted about, cause really, how could Rocky Horror be improved upon, but it was nevertheless HOT. The anti-highlight would have been the smoke alarms going off from cooking (not burning!) dinner at the hotel, running around in socks trying to get the receptionist to turn the alarms going off all over, and firemen turning up within 10 minutes, all dashing and heroic, and turning kinda sarcastic.

Backtracking somewhat once again.

Before going to Sydney I had a job to finish. I had some delays, so I was planning on some major cramming right before heading off.
Except Sydney -4 days my computer died and refused to be revived, following in a long tradition of highly improbable computer problems at the worst possible time.

So yeah. Today I was sick. Tomorrow it's back to work.

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:04:14 GMT

Here is a trailer for a B horror film I worked on a few years ago: Damned by Dawn .

I couldn't track it down before 'cause they changed the title a couple of times. It used to be the Banshee for a while.

Here they have a couple of still from the film too.

When I was there they weren't shooting the fun carnage-y parts, just lots of running around in the mist. But I am in the background of one of the shots in a white sheet. Oh yeah. Classy AND subliminal.

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:39:05 GMT

Anteaters around the house.

It's the Flickr account of a woman who keeps two anteaters as pets.

They can open doors and windows and fridges.

Also they look both amazing and dorky sleeping on laptops and in laundry baskets.