Shoot Yourself

Anyone can be creative without quitting their day-job. The herds of digital media artists stampeding from novice to intermediary has driven the rising “prosumer” market. Cheap and simplified tech has made moving and still images easier to take, photos and videos are easily shared online, so the demand for high-end

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vulnerABILITY

Dr Brené Brown hits on some simple truths about how people connect with one another. Accepting your vulnerability by having the courage to be candid about your shortcomings is essential to making real human connections. This may seem obvious to you, but I am perpetually amazed by the way social

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Foggy Bondi thongs

Have the Gods of Australia Day taken umbrage with a PR event, summoning a thick fog to try to obscure the spectacle of a thousand-plus swimmers straddling giant Havaianas thongs in the surf of Bondi Beach? The clear early morning weather presented Bondi naked in all her glory, but at

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Life In A Day

Next week at 11am EST on Friday January 28th Life In A Day will stream live, the product of 80000 YouTube videos from 192 countries totaling 4500 hours. The most ambitious crowd-sourced documentary yet undertaken, presenting Earth as it was on July 24, 2010. Weaving stories spanning the world into

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Flood of Emotions

This is the Brisbane house I lived in for two years. I finished my Honours degree while living with an Italian, two Brazilians, two Japanese and a couple of fellow Aussies. I hosted parties that are still discussed in reverent tones today.  I ran naked in the rain with my

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Slow Motion

Life bounds by us like stampeding mountain goats, fleet of hoof and flared of nostril. Everywhere we look images demand attention. Its no surprise the simplicity of slow motion film has become so intoxicating and such a trend in commercials. I can’t be assed researching the precedent for the present

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Storytelling evolves

This is a re-print of a guest post for Jye Smith Not to condescend to animals, but what distinguishes us homo sapiens from the rest of you vertebrate riff-raff is creativity and empathy. While you dilated your cloaca or increased the musculature of your prehensile tail, we evolved our hairy

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Island eye-candy

Just wrapped post for Barkins Spring/Summer fashion film, my favorite shooting location ever (sorry Buenos Aires). Shot on Magnetic Island, a young woman re-explores the idyllic location of a reminiscent childhood vacation. That’s why she stares sultrily, strolls sensually and lolls languidly, absorbed in blithe ethereality. Cause I totally do

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ElectionWIRE

The Federal election is coming up and pundits who paid attention last time us proles went to the polls will point out that the youth vote could again prove decisive. While politicians scramble to figure out these new fangled social media thingamajigs on the interwebs, VibeWire in collaboration with Google/YouTube

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Sight Unseen

I recently worked with Mark Bowey, creative director of Foxtel Design, on a commercial that looks a whole lot different from what we shot. Produced for UK cable channel BBC Knowledge, we shot footage in an office adorned only with tracking markers. No set design, the only lighting some intense

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