… the world’s got me!

My old friend.

Just an update on whats been going on in my life:

Friday - went down to the Stagecoach Busyards and shot the last bit of footage for the Cows On Buses clip (which will be online soon). The graphics are up on the bus and they look really good! Theres one in Wellington and one in Auckland - keep your eyes peeled when riding your bike behind buses

Mum and I picked up Gabrielle and a Rocket Kitchen Chocolate Whiskey cake (which is unbelievably good by the way) and head out to Muriwai for a shabbat dinner as well as celebration of Jo’s return and hard work at the olympics.

Saturday - hung out with Max and Jack and shot a short clip to play at Eshay’s 21st party over in Sydney that only Max is able to make. It was a hilarious day of shooting in downtown Auckland with my cellphone blaring the song so we could try and lip sync (not that we neccesserily achieved this very well). - I’ll post this ASAP!

That same night after a few screenings of the clip we had just made at my flat (some very satisfied viewers!) and a few wines I head out with Ella and Max to Quay St Social Club where Phil did a DJ’ing stint.

Sunday - Early in the morning I missioned out to the Symonds St bus stop to get on a Howick / Eastern bus! An HOUR later and lots of Auckland Suburban scenery later I excited the bus at the Ridge Rd BP station - a 30 second walk away from Anna’s house

Anna and I hung out and chilled all day - it was wonderful - our day included a wonderful lunch (including eggs benedict and hashbrowns), a walk on windy Eastern Beach (along with all the boy racerzzz), Spirited Away and My Neighbour Totoro viewings, A little snooze, some Ukelele playing and a Thai dinner out in Howick town centre (with brother Josh and his girlfriend Gemma).

Monday - After another hour long bus ride into the city I spent the majority of the day with Zoe at Elam making the model for our upcoming music video shoot.

Two Heads the superstar film & television production duo have just dropped their new website crafted by The Church and boy does it look mighty fine!

Have a squiz: www.twoheads.co.nz

Then have a peek at Palestinian Hip Hop group MAD - do a cover of Scribe’s “Not Many” from Nick D’s Making Tracks here.

Peace

Two cool clips I came across on my morning walk through internet land..

This great little animation put together for WWF Brazil:

And this lovely short film about Canadian ‘Street Artist’ Roadsworth. He creates some amazing stencil art which he sprays down on the road in very interesting, thought provoking and inventive places.

Yesterday I was out with Greenpeace launching the Red List Species Fish Guide at Kelly Tarltons (it got covered in the Herald Green Pages today as well on online here).

We had a big red sad fish costume running around and volunteers handing out the guide to people passing by. After Kelly Tarltons we head over to Mission Bay where the sun was shining and people were out in the droves!

Today we shot the live action parts of the TVC which will go to air on TVNZ6 to promote The Outlook for Someday. We shot in our studio after re-arranging the furniture - Olly Coddington from I AM TV was the face and here are some behind the scenes pics! You can see my messy desk!

Band of Horses were in town last night and they played a great show at the kings arms! We had an interesting experience sourcing two extra tickets on the day (considering they were only selling 20 on the door) but we all made it! We spent a few hours in the sports bar just drinking and hanging out and talking which was fun - I almost forgot we were at a gig! By the time we wandered in to see the support act the Kings Arms was massively full - we were expecting it knowing it had sold out and considering how bad the weather was outside we new everyone would cram inside.

After appearing onstage to some country flavoured “intro” music they surpised me by opening with “Is there a ghost” perhaps their most well known song at least around these parts.  They continued to play a smattering of songs from their first full length “Everything All The Time” and their latest effort “Cease To Begin” as well as throwing a couple of new ones in which sounded fantastic.

They played one my fav’s “The General Specific” as their closer and after being encored back on stage they played the beautiful “No One’s Gonna Love You”.

What a wonderful night!

So the last few weeks have been pretty hectic.

Andrea and I have been running workshops for Educators and Faciliators on how to support young people in making a film for The Outlook for Someday film challenged which launched last week.

on Monday straight after the full on 5 day wellington stint we did the Auckland one - following that Will and I took off to the Media That Matters festival screening in Auckland and I did another shout out about the project - It was a great little festival with 9 really amazing and powerful made by young people as well as awesome performances between the films from the South Auckland Poet’s Collective crew.

On Tuesday I moved flats I know live on Baildon Road in the heart of the Mighty Grey Lynn! A stones throw from my work, the GL park,  savour and devour, harvest wholefoods and the surrey cres shops. Awesome. Untill I crashed the rental van I hired to move my stuff in into a car that was parked outside my old house. After the initial shock I finally got all my shit into the van and to my new house (thanks to Troy and Caleb).

Wednesday evening I went and spoke about The Outlook for Someday on Green-Core a show on ALT-TV.

Friday Andrea and I flew to Christchurch early to do the workshop down there. Andrea stayed the weekend - I flew back the same day.

Saturday I went and saw The Band’s Visit a really beautiful film about an Egytpian Police Orchestra who get stuck in the wrong Israeli town - its an interesting and refreshing look at Arab-Jew relations - I loved it especially because of the familiarity of the people and language - also re-inspired my enthusiam to go to Israel next year.

Then I arrived home to the begginings of my flatwarmings - and after a shower and costume dressing and a few drinks I was well into it! A fun night - Jack, Max, Fran, Elly, Ella and I hung out alot and was heaps fun.

Sunday Mum came around and we moved Storm in! She’s been hanging under my bed alot (her safe place) but has been wandering around the lounge as well.

Afterwards we went up to Muriwai to visit Dan and Jo before she goes to the Olympics in two weeks. We had Jachnun (a traditional Israeli pastry baked dish thing). I also had the pleasure of meeting a very little young man called Tiki who was a very awesome 10month old baby!

After that mum and I went up to Palm Springs and had a bit of a soak in the hot pools which was just what I needed after this stressful week!

So as promised to myself I am writing in my blog!! I’m off to Wellington tomorrow for the Involve conference for the rest of the week and going to spend the weekend there.

Last weekend was heaps of fun - all centered around Saturday night really - I went to The Basement and saw Dr. Collossus play with Anna then I headed up to The Rising Sun where Kayleigh was having her 21st.

I’ve been watching this skate video called Lakai Fully Flared and its totally amping me to skate again - and if it weren’t for the snow and snowboarding I’d be wishing it was summer so I can skate!

Ok blog - lets talk soon.

peace

So hello.

It’s been awhile since I’ve posed anything on here and its due mostly to how slack I am. I start to write “Drafts” with only the title in it with the intention of coming back and using the title to prompt my memory in order to write the post. This was a good plan (I thought) untill several months pass and I almost completely forget what I’m supposed to be writing about!!

So I’m starting afresh, with a new theme and a new ‘Brief’. I am keeping the old content so untill my new content pushes the old into archive you’ll have to bear with the horrible formatting.

I’ve decided that I really need some intention or mission when I own a blog - my last travel blog (here) was easy because the mission was to record every day of my journey with a few words and photos. With this blog it was once to record interesting events in my life so I can look back in the future and see what I’ve been doing throughout the years.

I’m not going to write a whole new mission but evolve the previous. I think relying on writing about an interesting event immediately after it happens was too hard, especially if the event included a hard night out!!

So now I’m going to bring my blog writing into my weekly schedule as to give it routine like a lot of other things in my life. And instead of only reporting on an interesting event in my life I will talk about my week - including events, things I’ve read online, things I’ve learned, photos I’ve taken, songs I’ve written etc, etc, etc.

I will start at the end of this week by wrapping up this week in my life. Consider this is a record of my intent!

Ciao.

~dizzy!

So tonight was one of those nights where you have an awesome night then your just hanging and all these opportunities seem to arise out of thin air that you’d usually work hard to achieve.

I had quite a long day at a workshop on the best way to access the media (esp. the news media)  to report on development issues. Hosted by CID (Council for International Development) many communications and PR people from various NGO’s were all there and we were discussing good/bad experiences of getting stories into the news media. Quite interesting stuff but also quite intense at moments when the fact that I was the youngest there by far and also not specifically a communications officer were quite clear and I could only barely keep up with conversations with people. Met some very nice people that have been in the non profit game for yonks and definitely proved a useful networking opportunity.

In the evening I made my way up to Youthline where I am a part of a guiding group for a new Ministry of Health initiative to help young people cope with a depression. This time it’s a website which I think is an appropriate medium for young people that is open and accessible (for most people in one way or another).

The workshop today was led by an awesome woman called Sam who I think does these sort of sessions on ‘Madness’ (or mental illness) for the Mental Health Foundation. She has an awesome style of facilitation and plays some of her own songs on guitar at various times of the evening. Lots of pictures and cards and writing and fun made for a surprisingly comprehensive session on quite a complex issue. Beautiful voice thanks very much Sam!!

After getting home and gobbling some ice-cream with the flatties I headed down to Max’s where we had a session on our computers just browsing around.. Annabel called and we went out to pick her up from the wrap party for the show that she produces which was at Shanghai Lil’s. We picked up some Wendy’s on our way (our usual style) and were waiting in the car when annabel invited us in - we were in out PJ’s but we still went in and had some expensive tequila and beers (on the tab) and were introduced to some of the models from the show (Deal or No Deal). Then Max and I were casually standing around trying hard not to stand out as the two kids with PJ pants on when two gorgeous obviously model girls came over and introduced themselves to us! Haha well Max and I tried but we couldnt sustain the conversation so they eventually left - but I was just please they came to us!!  Anyway.

Then we had a hectic drive home and Max drove someones land rover home for them and I drove Max’s car. We eventually made it back just after midnight and we had a munch and watched a few ep’s of Entourage Season 3 (Second half). Wicked.

Welcome to ‘the world’s got me!’ ~ I will be spending the next few weeks backtracking through memorable events in mylife in the last 6 months or as a long as I can remember in an attempt to document experiences and feelings I’ve had so I can review back to them and remember!

A note to myself on the things I want to get writing on (I went through my diary!)

~ Gig
~ Snow!
~ Mum / Dan / Heidi /Ben / Barn

~ Luke’s wedding plans - suit trying on
~ Tealight & Space
~ Botany Secondary school sessions
~ Drumming

~ Tilly and the Wall

~ Melbourne

Phew.