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What a special way to reconnect with the pure intention of this craft, to share story and provide it as a gift. I interviewed my two dear friends as preparation to write a wedding speech for them, and filmed the process. The result yielded it’s intended affect - that is, watching these two beautiful lovers blubbering in front of the telly.
Dad always dreamt of “Xanadu” and one day decided to create it. A few thousand dollars in seeds, soil, fertiliser and a couple visits to the physio later he had his Xanadu. UPDATE: What amounts more today to something of a weed garden - remains a fertile place for bugs and bees to eat and rest.
B-Sides from a Baseball documentary
Red Komodo / Angenieux EZ Zoom / Schneider Optics Digicon filter
I shot a documentary about Baseball Australia in Japan back when COVID restrictions into Japan for foreign tourists were still in place. I remain grateful and fortunate to have seen a version of inner city Japan that i’ll likely never see again - one without tourists. We’d been greated atleast once a day with the phrase “Sorry, no foreigners,” on a venture to a watering hole or dinner. One doesn’t get offended in a place like Sapporo or wider Japan for the anti-foreigner notion, where the distinctly clean, functional and cohesive social rules are something to be marveled at. Not, I think always compatible with an Australian mindset - but why force my perspective on them? I came to respect the place and it’s people, and thus felt compelled to film the city during my time off.
I think I’ll pay my buddy Marcus Friedlander to colour this one day, it deserves a better treatment than my LUT. Anyways, this is what I saw.