Waitangi Day

Thousands of kiwis gathered in Parliament Square for the 4pm haka outside Westminster Cathedral and the Houses of Parliament...

And the ensuing debacle as every lightpole and statue gets climbed, while Parliament Hill erupts into a spontaneous game of rugby...

All in all, a good excuse to have a night out...

Jan-Feb round-up!

A busy film period for me! I finally got my new hard drive, so was able to log a couple of dozen tapes, contaiining all the footage of my spy film and the play I filmed. I also took another trip to Brighton to shoot more footage for the promo video for Pizz Studios, and did a couple of interviews with John Constable (aka John Crow) for my Crossbones Graveyard documentary.

I also filmed Codex Digital's Production 2.0 event for the film industry and quickly edited a nice film for their website and for the digital edition of High Definition magazine. (This will go online here eventually, but you can see the video here in the meanwhile.)

Last but not least I've been helping Andy edit his short film, I had a nose around Broadcast Live, plus I just read Mike Figgis' book on digital film-making, and Robert Rodriguez' inspirational "Rebel Without A Crew". All good for the spirit!

Anna and I have also been reasonably lively socially - I went to see a play adaptation of Kafka's Metamorphosis with a score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, while Anna popped along to the Buddy Holly musical. All this and Waitangi Day...