Finally! The fear is sinking in as the shooting date for Moneta draws near. Next week we begin a three/four day shoot and then go straight into post with lots of funky effects and animation stuff. But it’ll be no problem… really… I can wrestle no less than three polar bears to the ground with one hand behind my back. This should be easy.

Three more cameos this week, starting on Wednesday at 1am I’m a surgeon, 8am I’m a war doctor or something and 11am… something else. Such a background whore.

Uh… not much else to say, except this clip of David Lynch promoting his new film on the corner of a street with a cow…

And a photo of the shuttle launch taken from the International Space Station… found on Warren Ellis’ website… awesomeness.

Been helping out this week on one of the students’ horror shorts. Fun times running around dark tunnels and haunted houses late at night and getting a head injury from a falling electric plug.

Anyway, not much to report recently. Just starting to get the heavy work done on my own short (about time some say) and still cameoing in a lot of other people’s films. Current count is at about 10 appearances.

Right… here be a trailer for a Norwegian animated film where the English dub has been written by Simon Pegg… eeeeh!

Been a busy week and every time I made to post something, I was too tired and couldn’t keep up the concentration. Sorry.

But yeah, was on a film shoot for friend Albert on Tuesday morning when I started suffering some massive stomach cramps and put up with it for a while, but then started getting headaches, ringing in my ears getting so loud I was temporarily deaf, cold sweats and apparently my face was all white. Crazy stuff. And it only lasted the morning after going home, throwing up and sleeping for a bit, but still scary painful stuff.

And for the rest of the week, I’ve been acting continuity on Alejandro’s shoot. Fun times and at least it was mostly in the school’s studio, so I didn’t really have to go far for it.

And last night we had a commemorative drink up celebrating the end of three shoots and some. Got properly drunk and woke up this morning, brain on the floor, stomach doing yo-yo flips. Going pro.

Other than that, don’t have anything else to report. Except for killer mutant viruses from the past coming back to life here.

Got properly drunk last night at the ‘A Night At The Pictures’ event, both cause there was a lot of free booze (yay sponsors Stella) and cause the auction event was a raging sucess… almost $3000 was raised from the auctions and $2000 from ticket and drink sales! Looks like Pictures of You is shaping up to have a nice budget indeed.

But yeah, drank a lot and came back to Auckland in the same night. Slept for a bit and suffered a massive hangover for the rest of the day. Actually, I’m still feeling a little under the weather, and spent most of my time finding interesting, wierd stuff on the internet.

Like, crying while eating.

And, Native American faces on Google Earth.

Re-uses of technology… totally cool.

And Ok Go on treadmills… awesomeness.

Fantasticly cool article by wired where they got a whole bunch of awesome writers from books, comics and movies to write a short story made up of only six words. This post’s title is taken Alan Moore’s one, my favourite. Find the rest here.

Also, I’m once again doing the whole cameo thing for the school’s end of year productions. Acted as a student on a shoot this morning and as a slave in hell this evening which was lots of fun. About 20 extras all drenched in blood, flailing around and playing dead in a room… awesomeness, but very tiring. So before heading off to bed, here’s Jack Black on piracy…

This Friday in Hamilton, there’s a screening event, working both as a fundrasier for Pictures of You and a celebration of film in the Waikato. Being hosted by Film Waikato, it’ll be worth going down for a look, tickets are $10 and can be purchased through Ticket Direct.

The line up of films look pretty good and I’ve weaseled some of my stuff into the line up. So check it out, because what else are you going to do?

Further details can be gotten here.

So yeah, once again absent, but this time I’ve at least got around to putting a few updates to the rest of the site. Some art stuff is finally up and added a couple of photos to the ever changing header. Sub-sections for films will eventually go up along with downloadable videos. It’s all in a bid to make myself a little more pro-active and less depressed about the things I’m being slack at.

Elsewhere, our end of year films are starting to get made and they’re shaping up quite nicely I hear. Mines still chugging along slowly, but thats only because I’ve been too busy curing world hunger… and not because I’m lazy.

Yesterday I got to finally go to the Armageddon convention and sheer geekiness poured out of every window that was allowed open. Got some great bargains on cheep DVDs and comics, whilst touching myself a lot watching Blade Runner on the big screen. Totally awesome, but totally poor too. Still, I’m looking forward to it next year.

Oh and this should have been posted a lot earlier, but the trailer for 300 is officially out and dear god… it is also something to touch yourself over. Downloadable here.

Two teaser trailers for the sexy Hot Fuzz here and here.

And two hair pulling movie title trivia games here (with office stationary) and here (on a cryptic painting).

Big congrats to Doug and Caroline who got married over the weekend. And by tomorrow morning will be flying off to their honeymoon in Australia. They’ve been together for one helluva long time and are almost sickeningly perfect for each other, so all the best to the both of you. You deserve it.

Been a while? Only a bit.

Finally on Holiday… and celebrated it with a heavy dose of drinking and partying and all that stuff. Spent all of yesterday recovering from it and still feeling a bit of the burn.

Lets see… since the last post, I went to a drama camp for school and spent a weekend at Port Waikato Camp. The freakiest thing was it was a camp I had gone to about 11 years ago and the whole time, I couldn’t shake this crazy sense of nostaliga.

After a couple dozen treatments, four and a half scripts and a lot of stressful indecision, I’ve
finally decided on a script to shoot for our Term 4 project. It’s still a little shaky at best, but there’s about 10 weeks away till we actually shoot so in that time I plan on getting a lot of re-writes, storyboards and other various pre-prod stuff that’s always a pain in the arse.

Apart from that, not much else has been going on. Or not much worth remembering… I think.