Sunday, September 25, 2005

Monday, September 19, 2005

Inanimate Objects


OK Over the past weekend we had the band Inanimate Objects come to canberra, a bunch of very talented guys from wollongong stay to help me shoot a Music Video for their recently recorded song "No Time for Haste". I know these guys through the lead singer Patrick Arnold who is a good friend of my brothers. I hadnt seen him for about 2 years so it was definately good to catch up, and to also meet the other two members (minus the bass player who unfortunately couldn't make it) Patrick Douglas and Jono Hunt.

The clip was shot in the 'Black Room' aka studio 5 at CNMA. It took us about a day to get set up to do the shoot the next day. Basically the Band in the clip is playing inside an old-school radio which made setting up the lighting pretty tricky. So we went and purchased a radio from a recycling depo and cut the shape of the holes in the speaker in a large sheet of black plastic which was then hoisted up cutting off a third of the room we were shooting in. Some red-heads were set up behind them and a pin light directed on Pat who was shadowed in the corner by the guitarists. So you can kind of see a reflection of the radio light in this image of Jono's guitar.

So yeah it looks really good! the HDVcams were are now using are amazing! They make anything look broadcast quality and bring a tear to your eye when it comes to watching your footage on a television set. So these next few images are from the actual footage... I hope you like!!!

Oh and make sure you take some time to check out a couple of their songs, I strongly recommend you listen to No Time for Haste and Significance which are their two most recently recorded. Hopefully they get a few gigs in Canberra in the not to distant future and if they do I'll keep you all posted because they are definately worth the listen, not to mention entertaining to watch!

Patrick Arnold

Totally hotter than hot.

Patrick D

Patrick and Jono!

Thursday, September 08, 2005


AWWW im a sucker for all things stupidly cute and retarded! Googly eyes make me smile.

Nikon it is!


Ok, I went with the Nikon, its soooo nice! After comparing the specs it was close, but considering the nikon was cheaper and MUCH MUCH smaller (not to mention a lovely shade of blue!) it won my heart over... Hope you enjoy!!!