[CARTERTON DAFFODIL CARNIVAL PHOTO GALLERY] [CARTERTON VIDEO LINK – 04:20m – 160×120 – 3.37mb] George, Sarah, Jill and I woke up way to early on an extremely blustery Sunday to ride a train to look at some flowers. Every year the New Zealand Cancer Society has a steam train that travels from Wellington to the […]
[WIND TURBINE VIDEO LINK – 30secs – 320×240 – 1.11mb] Wellington’s one and only wind turbine. Long movie file to to the right to pick up the vibe. With real life turbine sounds and whistling wind. They really could use more of these turbines like in Northern California. You could power the whole Wellington area […]
[CASTLEPOINT PHOTO GALLERY] Castlepoint and its lighthouse on the Wairarapa Coast, east of Masterton. I had been reading a bit about this place and George said it was nice, so Jill and I did the extended Sunday drive through lots of rural farmland on our way to Castlepoint. On the way there was a huge […]
This is tragic story of a little camera that could. The previous evening I went out to the coast to shoot those boulders. Well, it was really nice out, but I was about half an hour late, so I decided to try again tonight. Early in the day I told Jill to grab her camera […]
GO-KART PHOTO GALLERY I came to win, but I was born to lose. Or second to last. After work on Saturday the Daytona Raceway was booked up for Weta and we drove around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around… 60 times to be exact. Those little buggers are fast. You have […]
[KIWI AUDIO LINK – 22secs – 200kb] Off to the Te Papa Museum. It’s a everything you ever wanted to know about the history of New Zealand museum. Te Papa = Our Place. Ok, it comes down to this. Kiwi’s, sheep, glow worms, and mountains. New Zealand in a nutshell. The little Kiwi carries the […]
It was pretty cold last night. (How cold was it?) It was so cold, that when the sun came over the hill and hit the roofs, they all started steaming like they were on fire. This is the street all the people who are late to work have to park on. The residents can get […]
All I hear them saying is… “Cunningham, have a seat, we need to talk”. You’d think one of them could muster a smile. Eating outside at the Chocolate Fish Cafe on a day without a single cloud. The waiters have to run across the street to bring you your food. So just how far south […]
[MAKARA BEACH PHOTO GALLERY] So, what did you do today? Crazy/Beautiful. Go ahead, click through the gallery.
What it’s like to be a lighter. Go to dailies. Stare at your screen. Poke the mouse. Stare at the screen some more. Surf the web. Check the render. Poke the mouse. Try to figure out why nothing works. Deal with it later, surf the web. Check the render. Go to lunch. Check the render. […]
Uh oh, dork alert. Over in the Weta workshop they have all sorts of cool shit. Much more interesting than the digital side of things. Giant statues, set pieces, minatures, etc. As of tommorrow this statue of Lurtz [LINK] is on it’s way to England for the premiere of “The Two Towers” in December. It’ll […]
[WETA’S ON FIRE MINI GALLERY] Weta’s on fire! Ya know, I sat through at least twenty Imageworks fire drills, and not one of them yielded interesting results. I’m here less than a week and the damn place goes up in smoke.
Happy Independance Day! Hold on, they don’t do that here. Oh, well next best thing. A car auction! Friend George [LINK] needs a new car because basically his sucks. So we head off to an auction in my cool ass rental car with cd player and overhead light that no one else can seem to […]
Alana Gentry [LINK] and “friends” at “The Gig”. Sandro [LINK] emailed me this flyer of a friend of his that was playing at “The Gig” Saturday night. He thought I’d be interested. Well yeah, a girl with a guitar, count me in. Try finding parking around Melrose on a Saturday night though. I almost drove […]
Today was one of those days with one cloud in the sky, sparkly blue water, and a fire red sunset. Spent Father’s Day down at my parents and bar-b-queing out on the boat. Cruised around the harbor a bit and just relaxed till I slowly slipped into a food coma. It was a hard day. […]
The mathmatical formula of babies. Charles and Lisa’s little girl Isabella. She needs to start walkin’ and talkin’ real quick so we can drag her around Ireland. She’s the coolest little baby, but vacations are now on hold for a bit.
Little secret here. Mother’s Day at Magic Mountain. The only time of year to go because you pretty much walk right on to all the rides. Not a lot of Mom’s want to go to Magic Mountain for Mother’s Day. You’ll find them at Disneyland where the lines are longer. Of course you get motion […]
Jeff “Flounder” Macare and the newly crowned Rachel Macare. Talk about a lightning strike, he met a married Rachel in less than a year. Um, in the meantime, I put in a bunch of overtime at work and read Harry Potter. Anyway, only 4 of us sat at the table for 8, so we all […]
Went out for a visit to my sister’s. Affordable homes, lots of land, 3 car garages, easy freeway access, beautiful scenery…. um… ok, that’d be no on the last one. Lovely Corona, California where the hills are not alive with the sound of music. In fact, most times you can’t even see them.
More behind the scenes of the entertainment world. This note just had to be on a BMW SUV too… Apparantly you got to pull the ‘tude to show ’em who’s boss. Let’s see, stage 25 is the set of “The King of Queens”, it’s a lead actor…? So Alex, what’s your prediction for the big […]