The Auckland final of the 48Hours film competition was on Thursday, and it was a brilliant evening. Fractured Radius didn’t make it into the finals this year, but that doesn’t matter cos that’s not what we’re there for, man. So was just able to enjoy a selection of 12 of the best films from Auckland [...]
It’s that time of year again. The time where I spend a perfectly good weekend running around making a short film with the Fractured Radius team for the 48Hours film competition. Director/producer/editor/all-round awesome dude Dylan has a timeline of what we did. The bit where it claims “everyone sleeps” on Saturday night is slightly a [...]
So, wasn’t the 2007 Budget, like, really awesome? I find myself rather excited about the bonus money going into KiwiSaver (which I’m going to spend on a plasma TV I’ve carefully disguised as a humble suburban house). But what got me the most excited was news of the establishment of the news Coronial Services Unit. [...]
So, about a year after it was made, team Fractured Radius’ 48Hours film is finally available on YouChoob. It’s called T.H.A.T: Three Heroes Against Terror, and has possibly stood the test of time. We’re doing it again next weekend. Yay!
Today at work I had to search for two things on Google that would, in most workplaces, trigger various alarms and may even require a sit-down meeting with management to discuss inappropriate interweb use. First, I had to figure out how to spell cockring. Now, if you look up cockring in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, [...]
After work today, I went downstairs and watched the Magic Numbers play. Their lovely three-part harmonies gave me goosebumps. I ended up on telly for a little bit, in a fuzzy, background, out of focus sort of way. Here is me and Romeo from the Magic Numbers on the telly: (I was smirking because Romeo [...]
Sometimes I think the universe is conspiring to make all my dreams come true. For example, discovering that there was a metal/hardcore/other band in the Hawke’s Bay called Gunt, and episode one of the BBC’s language series “Balderdash and Piffle”, where they looked at Polari, the 1960s gay London slang, while Morrissey’s “Piccadilly Palare” played. [...]
The strangest thing just happened outside my flat. I heard a scrubbing sound and voices – someone saying they needed more water – so I peeked out the window. There were three teenagers – they looked Chinese – who were scrubbing chalk marks off the footpath with water and a broom. Next to them was [...]
Last night I went to Dylan and Melanie’s stag do/hen night, which for convenience’s sake we shall call Melyn’s hag do. We started off at the Pearl Garden Chinese restaurant in Newmarket, and had many plates of many delicious foods. I think my favourite was the cashew chicken, but then I’m a Pakeha, so I [...]
Last year Peter at Dub Dot Dash asked me and some other folks to make a prediction about what the music scene would be like in the future world of 2007. I said: Now that the New Zealand iTunes Store has opened, I expect that downloading music will finally become less teenage/geek and more mainstream. [...]