Death by meetings

Have you seen that old movie “Zulu” that has Michael Caine in it?  He’s one of the British soldiers defending a fort at Rorke’s Drift from a force of Zulu warriors that outnumber the British about 50 to 1.  No matter how many Zulus they shoot another wave comes right behind them.
I don’t want to [...]

I have a sore throat

The drive to work gave me a sore throat today.  This was the natural result of the horn on my car not working (I think the fuse is gone).  Add to that the fact that this morning was the worst drive to work in a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long [...]

Behind the scenes of “Ghost Rider”

For those of you who don’t know, the recent Nicolas Cage film “Ghost Rider” was mostly shot in and around Melbourne.  It’s a bit of fun watching the film and spotting places I know as well as spotting Australian actors in supporting roles pretending to be Americans.
I decided to shoot a video at one of [...]

Digg this

I’ve decided to experiment with a “Digg this” button now that WordPress have made it easy to add a little widget. I’ve been toying with the idea of adding buttons for the various news/social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us etc. but essentially I could never be bothered to add the code to the template. [...]

Art in an alley

This video is a bit of a visual treat and it was a bit of a laugh while I was shooting it as well.  I’ve shown a bit of street around Melbourne before but the stuff shown in this video is all shot in one alley that is often used as a gallery/exhibition space.
While I [...]

2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Extravaganza

I’m planning something pretty exciting over the coming weeks.  Well, it’s exciting for me anyway.  The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is coming up in about a month and my old college friend, Adrian Calear (who I’ve mentioned in blog posts before) is directing quite a few shows in this year’s festival.
The Melbourne Comedy Festival is [...]

Some exciting news

Well, exciting for me anyway. As I was driving home from work yesterday I actually heard myself on the radio! My favourite radio station used a grab from one of my videos to illustrate a story on their current affairs show. I called them to say (a) how awesome I thought this [...]

You need The Angry News – everyone else really is lying to you

When I came up with my tag lines for “The Angry News” (“everyone else is lying to you” in the opening credits and saying “that’s the news and that’s the truth” at the end of each bulletin) I was being mildly ironic.  Like any sensible person would seek the truth from a raving lunatic who [...]

Why aren’t you listening?

I’ve had some interesting experiences over the last week sitting through some training.  The training is for a new software package that’s going to be rolled out across a reasonably sizeable company and I was in a group with some senior people from the company.  Some of the things I saw made me think of [...]

Me next please YouTube – LonelyGirl15 takes Hollywood

I have to admit, I wasn’t particularly surprised when I read the news that Jessica Rose AKA Bree AKA LonelyGirl15 has scored some film roles.  Some people seemed to think that blowing the cover of the LonelyGirl15 makers would ruin their popularity on YouTube.  After all, “Bree” became popular because people thought it was the [...]