Better Days Ahead
This morning I found this video from mate Steve Grace that he has recorded with the Watoto Children’s choir. I remember Steve saying what a challenge it was getting the primary shoot done in the outback. There’s a lot to be said for dusty trails. You need time to get where you’re going and an understanding of the wear and tear it can take on your equipment. If you jump into the trip without this understanding you’ll probably travel unprepared and unequipped. Steve and his team know the bush and so they meet those challenges head on. The right equipment, the right attitude and the...
Read MoreNew Year’s Rear Vision Mirror
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin When I read this quote I was challenged by it simplicity and its ending. Around the blogs and the twittersphere there is a lot of topical New Years material but there is a cathartic nature in writing about the topic. Like every good preacher I suspect that every blogger is 'preaching' first to himself before the audience reads a word. One of the ways that I approach each New Year is to think of three words that will keep the year ahead in focus. I will...
Read MorePuss in Boots
Recipe for removing stress: Take a weekend morning and head to the St. Lukes Vmax cinema to relax watching Puss n Boots 3D with your wife and two children in a theatre full of parents and primary age kids. This was the result I came away with after sitting through the preview of the latest offering from the team who brought us the Shrek franchise. Now that reference to the green ogre is where it ends. This movie stands alone as a backstory to the lovable rogue we have come to know again through Shrek’s introduction. Antonio Banderas returns to voice the feline Casanova and captures the...
Read MoreContagion
In an increasingly mobile world where people and news travel fast, Contagion is a timely reflection on this brave new world. The conspiracy theorists will look to the movie for vindication while the script has a shot across the bow of everyone from the pharmaceutical conglomerate to the independent blogger. It plays on our fears and ask questions of recent events including the swine flu epidemic and a world where super bugs crawl and adapt. Looking at the movie poster you could be forgiven for thinking we’ve ended up back in the era of the 70s movie making. Remember ‘disaster...
Read MoreAre you a Tattoo?
One of the modern day dilemmas involves ink, skin and Mum. Most teenagers will think about it, bikers will do it and wives may regret it. The thought of getting a tattoo has probably drifted through your mind from time to time. How have you resolved the question. Did you vote in favour of the needle or find a compelling argument to via left? Through this post I want to also ask "Are you a Tattoo?" and see what that means to you personally. I know for myself I’ve often admired the artwork of a well inked tattoo and appreciated many of the personal tributes and anchor points in...
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