A brief haitus

It has been quite a while since I updated here. Mainly because I haven’t had anything to say, partly because I have been busy and partly because I missed the boat on a few recent issues.

The AVN (Australian Vaccination Network) have been a popular target of skeptical comment recently since Channel 7 produced an episode of their Sunday Night program exposing the dangerous nonsense that is spouted by the anti-vaccination lobby. Something that I discussed quite a while ago.

I couldn’t build up enough enthusiasm to tackle the media-hyped “Swine Flu” outbreak. The Daylight Saving referendum didn’t seem to be half as interesting as the local Perth media tried to make it and things have seemed pretty quiet on the Western Front.

I participated in the making of a film for the 48HOURS film festival in New Zealand. Not that I went to NZ, rather some NZ expats (formerly UK expats) who are friends of a friend of mine, entered and I was part of the team. The basic idea is that you are given a genre, a line of dialogue, a character and a prop and then have 48 hours to make a 1 to 7 minute film based on these. We were given real time (think 24), “It doesn’t fit”, Alex Puddle and a rock.

So we went with speed dating and wrote what I believe to be a cracking script. Filming took place at my house over the course of a Saturday and editing then took the rest of that day and night. Much fiddling with encoding and uploading later we had finished a really good film, made even better by the excellent cast. My personal contribution was Mac guru, script contributor, music and general dogsbody. It was so much fun we’re going to have a go at a short feature sometime soon.

Anyway, I have the bit between my teeth again now so you can expect to see a great deal more here soon.