Totally cool, this is a time-lapse video of the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy rising over Texas from 9:20 PM to 6:43 AM on April 21-22, 2009. Totally awesome.
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.
So the list of 48 Hours Finalists came out this morning and we made it into the Hamilton finals. Boosh! Not something I was going to blog about immediately, but then the list of nominations is out and well… something is definitely wrong… We got ten award nominations.
Ten.
Like, what the hell? I was not expecting that at all, especially after a rather strange period of self doubt and loathing. Thats more than any other team and its out of sixteen possible awards. Of the others, two they don’t reveal the nominations for, one is for best teen team and another for animated film which which we don’t even qualify for either, no primary actresses for the best actress award and we miss out on the ‘best use of the line of dialogue’ award cause our film is probably more deserving of the ‘worst use of the line of dialogue’ award.
So anyway, these are the awards we’re up for…
Best Makeup
Best Costume Design
Best Sound Design
Best Score
Best Script
Best Actor – Ross MacLeod
Best use of Prop
Best use of Alex Puddle
Best Cinematography
Best Film
The full list can be check out the Film Waikato site here.
It’s pretty cool to have nominations back. They didn’t do this process last year in Hamilton, but they did do it the year before when I did my first 48 Hours competition and its a lot more fun this way. In all seriousness, I’m not expecting to win best film, but I’m definitely keen to get Best Cinematography. Won it last year and got a fairly okay camera out of it from the regional prize, but missed out on winning the national prize instead. This years national prize is a totally awesome Panasonic AG-HPX302 camera and me like. Like last year, I hardly even know what the prizes are for winning best film regionally and nationally, but I know I want that camera… It’s like a shoulder mounted sex machine or something.
Anyway, Christ I get long winded for putting up a list. Eventually I’ll sleep tonight and we’ll see how it goes at the Hamilton finals tomorrow night.