Will put a proper version up when I can.
Ahn Do's baby brother Khoa won the DigiSPAA contest with a true refugee story. His film is called Missing Water.
Ahn Do told the Screen Producers of Australia Association conference about the Do Family's story of how they were attacked by pirates on a horrific trip out of Vietnam on a boat.
Khoa is a former young Australian of the Year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoa_Do // http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1072796/
Ahn Do got a job as a lawyer in some big shot firm and then decided he'd rather do comedy and film.
I took a video of my sister and her girls putting up their Christmas tree thinking I'd edit on my laptop.
But it was no small job. Yes the Flip video camera takes wonderful HD pictures but you need to have a proper computer to edit the video - not a toy. The Flip's edit is basic but effective. You can choose your own music or use provided music which isn't too bad at all.
<p>Decorating the Christmas Tree from Lisa Yallamas on Vimeo.</p><p>My sister and her girls putting up the Christmas tree on the weekend. My little 2005 laptop struggled for eight hours to render this three-minute video which I edited on the Flip video camera's basic program. High Def data and low grunt computer are not really compatible. Beware when you buy the Flip.</p>
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Set myself a job to make this video animation for my Christmas DVD.
Not perfect but not bad for five hours work from scratch. Santa goes a-hunting reindeer.
Santa interrupts reindeer Ho-Down from Lisa Yallamas on Vimeo.
Just how does Santa catch his reindeer if they can fly and he can't? He's magic! Of course.
Galapagos turtle - this 49er's winning from Lisa Yallamas on Vimeo.
It's a tortoise, aged 49. It's feasting on life, despite all the distractions, annoyances and perceived shortcomings - it lives in a zoo, in Sydney.
This 49er's belongs on a different island - where kids can't pat its back. Where it can eat without being talked about.
Lettuce ponder... what's on the menu at your zoo this Christmas? Better not be tortoise! Some Tortoise Facts
Oops! It's aged 59.
You can break into a Mercedes quite easily, is the consensus of roadside assist men. But you can't break into a VW Beetle.
"Built like tanks" - that's the consensus.
Deadlocked with one click - other cars you have to click twice to deadlock.
Great time to find this out!
When you've locked the keys in the boot (that's trunk to anyone outside Australia).
Dance choreographer and theatre director Jacqui Carroll let me film a rehearsal of Frank Productions' work-in-progress To Have Done With The Judgement of God. It's alternative theatre based on a form out of Japan called The Suzuki Method. Very dramatic. Jacqui and husband, actor/dancer John Nobbs, have been adapting the classics for many years and now have quite a repertoire for their ensemble. The creator of the method Tadashi Suzuki has invited Jacqui to create a piece for his annual festival held in his home town of Toga - quite an honour.
This is hard core training. I've attempted it once. It's designed to bond the body, spirit and voice. This is their first all-male piece.
This Frenchman was way ahead of his time - he attacked America as a "baby factory war-mongering machine". The radio station which commissioned him to write it pulled it at the last minute and the censorship raised the hackles of other artists such as film director Jean Cocteau. God is found to be an organ pulled out a corpse on the autopsy table.
BTW: it was a hand-held shoot of a few hours.