Twin Peaks

Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee

Bioluminescence in the Gippsland Lakes

Been cripplingly sick with the flu for the last few days and feeling like a totally unmotivated dead member of society. One night had me going with restless sleep and occasional vomiting, but I’m now through the worst of it, so happy fun times lie ahead of me. Only major victim was my room that turned into a sea of snot filled tissues and mugs filled with leftover soup, tea and other congealed liquids that were beneficial to my well being.

In saying that, here comes the happy fun times of knowing that the schedule for this year’s international film festival is out. I’ve been having issues with the site today, probably because of the new design and some obvious bugs going on with its layout, but not before catching a glimps of at least a few films of worthy note… David Lynch’s Inland Empire is topping the charts, so is Satoshi Kon’s Paparika, Ghibli’s Tales from the Earthsea, Hezrog’s Rescue Dawn, Tekkonkinkreet and the indulgently fun looking Daywatch. No doubt there are a lot more, but having such issues with the site at the moment, I can’t really see the whole list. But hopefully it’ll fix up soon, or even better, someone in Auckland can be a good sport and send me a few copies of the booklets as opposed to be being a selfish biach (you know how you are you whore).

Other than that, I really have nothing much else to report, so it’s off to bed with me and if luck is going my way, I’ll be well enough to go join in on the festivities for Shirow’s birthday party. But until then, here is more examples of the awesomeness that is the Japanese and human tetris. I miss that Naoki bastard.

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.