With the New Year, Artisan has been busy working on some interesting projects. Karl actually spent New Years Eve in Hong Kong as he was off Directing a new TVC for Canon. He has a blog entry on it here. Returning briefly to Australia, he shot some Camera tests for a new Documentary called “Machete [...]
Despite recent economic woes, the Warbird scene in Australia has continued along mostly unaffected, according to Warbird owner and Restorer Judy Pay. Today, James Carter and myself traveled down to Judy’s base at Tyabb, the Old Aeroplane Company, and interviewed her on camera for our documentary, tentatively entitled “Broken Wings”. She gave us some amazing [...]
On January 22nd, we began the production of the Canon “Grass Ski” Television Commercial, at the foothills of Mt Hutt, New Zealand. While I did blog about the trip I couldn’t go into any details at the time. Shooting Gallery Asia had flown us all to New Zealand the day before. A quick location survey, [...]
On friday the 17th of April, an incredible experience began to unfold. After 12 months of preproduction meetings, we finally shot a massively complicated production called “Drop the Bomb” at Millmerran Queensland Australia. It involved a competition held by the Fosters Group Australia and the Austereo Network where two winners, one selected from a Carton of Carlton Draught Beer [...]
Today was one of those days on the job that really took you out of your comfort zone! As part of my up and coming Shoot called “Drop the Bomb” for Clemenger in Melbourne, TV Producer Jason Byrne and Myself had to get our student Skydiving Pilots license. For the last 15 years I have often [...]
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On Friday the 13th, James Carter and myself toured the Australian International Airshow at Avalon. We were hoping to interview a few pilots at the show for our Documentary “Broken Wings” but sadly this was not to be. In recent months, two Pilots had lost there lives in vintage and aerobatic aircraft. One of these Pilots [...]
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Nearly ten days after the Bush Fires broke out in the Wombat State Forest near Daylesford, a group of friends and family decided that it was time to go back to Daylesford and see if there was anything we could do to help clean up. The Farm at Daylesford had been fully burnt out by [...]
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Recently, I was in Hong Kong to Direct a television Commercial. While I was there, I took some time with my friends from Shooting Gallery Asia (Singapore), Freddy and Rachel Kee, and wondered around Hong Kong. On the 2nd of Feb, we explored Lantau Peak at the far end of Hong Kong Island. There, we [...]
My stay in Singapore is coming to a close for now. I’m wait listed on a flight today or tomorrow, to fly back to Melbourne. Yesterday I bought an IR filter for my 24-105 Zoom lens. So today I walked across the road from my hotel to take some photos with the IR filter attached at Fort Canning. Its [...]
