Posting Stuff on Films

Mon, 2 Mar 2009

Am currently editing a video for my friend Sash and introducing his Samurai Movie marathon this weekend, which is just fun and a good excercise to keep me working. Especially since I’m currently sick from work, which is really annoying, cause I get sick only once a year during the seasonal change from Summer to Winter, but that shouldn’t happen for a few more months. This flu is way too early and I blame it on global warming. To be fair, I do blame everything on global warming, well, I do if I can’t blame it on the robots first.

Last week there was a screening of the short film collection It Came From the Swamp at the Hamilton Gardens Summer Festival. I tried to attend it, but somehow got lost in the gardens and it seemed everyone I inquired had a different opinion of where exactly it was on the grounds. But from what I’ve heard, most screenings have gone down very well and Spit-Takes is a real crowd pleaser, which is great.

At the insistence of several people I’ve uploaded an old video made several years ago. Shot on no budget and for a university music video competition, this was just fun for all involved and turned out to be pretty much one of the only videos I can rewatch without cringing for some self concious reason.

So, without further blathering, I present “I Think I Can” with music by The Pillow.

Finally Back Bitches

Mon, 26 Jan 2009

So I had a holiday and at the end of it was like, man, back to work and I suppose I should get back to blogging. But then I decided that I liked being on holiday, so decided to take a little more of a break from the internet and blogging in general. But then that holiday just turned into laziness and hence why I’m now weeks overdue on posting anything. Go me.

So things have certainly been happening. Two lots of friends have finished their film shoots over the new years. The good folk at Downending films filmed the bulk of their Kaikahu Road and I look forward to seeing some filmstuff from them soon. From what second hand talks I’ve heard, they’ve just got a few pick ups to do a few months down the track, but they managed to shoot the bulk of a feature film in less than two weeks and that certainly says something about efficieny.

Meanwhile the lads of Chasing Time productions have nearly finished their shoot of One Fat Man’s music video/experimental film thing that’s to tie in with Jeremy’s new album “a typical day in suburbia”. I’ve sneaked a peak at a little of the footage and it’s got some pretty neat-o stuff, so here’s to seeing how that goes down the line.

In other films news? Yeah, got nothing, but hey, here are two totally awesome ads. The first one from Cadbury, hot on the heels of their strange but awesome Gorilla ad is one with these freaky kids with freaky eyebrows getting their funk on. Apparently its not computer generated or anything, but watch the video for yourself and decide just how human these kids are.

The second ad for T-Mobile takes an awesome concept from the Improv Everywhere guys and applying it on a bigger scale with more people and an obvious budget and such. Hard to describe, so just click play and enjoy the fun.