I'm a rocket , man!

I get influences and ideas from funny places..one of which
was Thomas Hoepker's very controversial 911 photo..i loved this
idea of something epic happening and the people in the foreground
going about their lives...









This work was a little bitter sweet though
as its the last artwork i will do for montpelier
as they will be going their own ways after this release

I hope i saved the best till last :)

have a little faith...

I was asked to mix music and coffee together
on a poster and after half a morning of throwing
away ideas that showered in obviousness ..i came
up with the idea that the spooling holes on a
cassette tape look a little or could function as
little coffee cup coasters..the results of that
idea are , well , seen above

the world on a string part 2

So here it is...



i wanted to capture the look and feel of a jean
pierre juenet film but on a much smaller scale .
I'm really proud of my FX work on this esp. the
blending of the puppet into the street scenes..

was a very relaxed , very fun shoot ..as it always
is with the delightful Avalanche city ..it was also
a joy trying to make one of my fave Sydney suburbs ,
MacDonaldtown , look and feel like Paris .

In the end this is a sweet little story that riffs
on the Cyrano tale but with hopefully my only little
stamp on it

and the winner is....

wow such an amazing and successful night for the boys..
if anyone knows my work then they know i have worked with
them since their beginning and have pretty much done everything
visual since then ..so their big win ( five arias ) filled me
with a lot of pride and gladly my visual fingerprints could be
seen through out the night .. as shown below.






the video below is a collection of influences i had on the night
from my thank you from the band in their best band speech , to the
use of my doco footage in the bands profile to the performance
of feeding line where my projections are played behind the band.



below is the footage used on the jumbo screen behind the band
its almost like video collage , in it is the wide shots and
landscapes from the feeding line video , plus a plethora of
natural elements shot in close up around my local area plus my
first experimentations with time lapse and mixing time lapse with
photography in the computer..the result feels , i hope , a collection
of old " found " travel footage..