This piece is a compilation of two trips I’ve taken with research missions. The Oceania project August of 07 is studying the transitory Humpback whale population in Hervey bay, Queensland, Australia. Having spent the winter in the Great Barrier reef, giving birth to their calves, they journey down the coast of Australia returning to the Antarctic for the summer. The vessel was the Moon Dancer, and a small group of us had paid to volunteer to help with the research undertaken by Trish and Wally Franklin PhD. Spanish dolphin EarthWatch expedition: Sept 06. The mission started in 1992, after the Toftevaag had been restored and refitted The first project was the study of a mass die-off of the striped dolphin off the coast of Spain. Recently they have focused on monitoring of cetacean populations that have been suffering a regression in the Mediterranean over the last few decades. The research site chosen is the Alboran Sea, the transition zone between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
Stream of consciousness. Short clips of life in Sydney Australia, put to music.
A video of bugs shot mostly in Australia with macro. I've been collecting these little clips of insects for a while now. Suddenly had enough to string together into a short video with a bit of music to keep the pace up. Mostly glitch with a bit of Hiphop (all done with Acid.) Featured are a lady bug, a Weta from New Zealand, two beetles (one green and the other iridescent,) and my finger.
APEC ‘the group’ doesn’t upset me personally, but our local government’s efforts to curb our right to free speech got up my nose a bit This includes buying a water cannon truck that didn’t get used, and probably wont ever (this is Australia for petes sake.) Bit of a laugh when the demo reached the park, and I saw a long line of protestors trailing back from the back of an Espresso truck. The govt don’t need no Pepper spray to stop a protest action over here. What they need is a high mobility beer tent It's amazing how many cameras were being lugged around. Any bit of action that ‘went down’ was captured from multiple angles.
Very Zen, very duck.
This event was held on Sunday off Sydney’s Eastern beaches. The course drawn between the first two Surf Life Saving clubs in the world. Starting in front of Bondi Surf Club, runs out from Bondi, around McKenzies point and down the coast into Bronte Beach. A distance of 2.2 - 2.5km (depending on the positioning of the buoy off McKenzies point).
This event was held on Sunday off Sydney’s Eastern beaches. The course drawn between the first two Surf Life Saving clubs in the world. Starting in front of Bondi Surf Club, runs out from Bondi, around McKenzies point and down the coast into Bronte Beach. A distance of 2.2 - 2.5km (depending on the positioning of the buoy off McKenzies point.) A final event was the Dash for Cash, where a group of boys, and a group of girls got to race each other out to a marker buoy, and back to the beach. First through the gate wins five hundred bucks.
Back in the Nineties, I was a bit of an Acid Jazz freak. Dig was one of my favourite local groups. Recently they played at the Darling Harbour Jazz and Blues festival in Sydney. This is a video of them performing Dreamtime. I remember this song being a lot more 'pumped' ;-)
This is a video I took recently of a soccer game between Australia and Uruguay.
Montage type photo cut ups of the Danks street festival that was held a few weeks back. The Danks Street festival is held a district that attracts artists and galleries. The music is a performance by the local band The Super Heavy Weights.
Skies over East Sydney captured with time-lapse.
Skies over East Sydney captured with time-lapse. Some sunrises, a few sunsets, a bit of stormy weather.
Over processed video of guy fishing on rocks
Walk Against Warming 07 Our country elects a new government in a week’s time, so the local enviro groups organised a ‘Walk Against Warming’ march through the city streets. The band is Watusi who played to entertain the folks who walked. The music is South American inspired. About twenty thousand people turned up, which is pretty poor considering the number of bodies living in Sydney.
This year Sydney celebrated the Queens birthday long weekend, by having either the worst storm in ten years, or the worst in thirty (depending on which paper you read.) This is a video of some shots that I took over the weekend. Note all the sand that was washed out of Coogee beach and into the surrounding countryside. The big weather didn't stop the water sports or the joggers ;-)
Time-lapse video set to music, of the Sculpture by the Sea event in Sydney Australia This is one of my favourite events in Sydney. Sculptures are placed either side of a path that traces the cliffs above the coast, to the East of Sydney city.
Time-lapse video set to music, of the Sculpture by the Sea event in Sydney Australia This is one of my favourite events in Sydney. Sculptures are placed either side of a path that traces the cliffs above the coast, to the East of Sydney city.
Heavily processed video, over electronic sound track.
More on the Surry Hills Fest. I like these community festivals cause all sorts of folks can be found wandering between the stalls. Lots of dogs and kids about too. This video is of the dog show, the seems to be traditional at these events.
Second in a series of three videos that I shot down in a local bay.
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