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Back in 1997, travelling through Berlin, I was lucky enough to stay in a couple of amazing rooms in an art hotel called Kunstlerheim Luise. There’s a hostel just down the road called The Circus (Am Zirkus) which had just opened six weeks earlier — but it was full. Their helpful staff suggested trying Kunstlerheim Luise. Little English spoken, no advertising, and a very special find.

Every room is designed by a different artist; it’s amazing and still going today. I wish, wish, wish, I could stay in this room today. Or that I had a thick black marker and a spare room to outline myself.

So Designmycard.com.au is a great idea, right? You get to put your own photo on your credit card or bank card. Lovely. They have a long list of exclusions (no logos, phone numbers, etc.), but ANZ is all too happy to hide behind today’s scaredycat copyright bullshit.

We don’t want a cheesy shit photo of one of us mugging for the camera, so we sent one of our best photos, of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone. Colour corrected and saturation boosted, because it’s going to last a few years.

They just rejected the photo, without giving a reason, and stating they won’t enter into any discussion about it. So… the photo looked too professional? Could maybe be copyright by someone else? We’re signing terms and conditions that already say it’s not, motherfrackers. Only crappy pictures allowed? Please. Making me angry, and it’s too late at night to be angry.

(Earlier, my stripes were accepted for my card. I like stripes. I guess no professional artist ever used stripes. Right?)

Don’t think I’m jumping on a bandwagon just because I’m embedding a video from YouTube on my blog. It’s my team’s entry from the recent Brisbane 48 Hour Film Project, that’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it. Hope you like it!

So we just got back from the 48 Hour Film Project: Brisbane screening. Sadly, our film, “5”, didn’t win any of the big prizes, but happily, I did win Best Editing! Yay! So big thanks to everyone on the film (if you need to contact them, email film at funwithstuff.com) for doing a great job, making the editing a pleasure. Until the horrendous audio nightmare.

Yay! Woooo!

Just a quick life update. Met some great people from Second Life recently. Always odd to meet someone for the first time after talking with them for over a year. Lots of private work on; some local, some London-based. More animation and film-making activities after the recent 48 Hour Film Project. How did we do? It’s hard to say; I’m too close to the film. But I think it’s pretty good, and the edit went well. Shooting with 2 cameras made for plenty of 24-style splitscreens and “real time” action, but mostly it was made great by the actors and their supreme improv skills. Actual filmmaking! Working with people on imdb.com!

My only real concern is that the film is, once again, too weird. If the choice comes down to too boring or too weird, I’m happy with weird. Next time… I have some more ideas.

Eep! Class time. More later.