I'm real shit at..

REMEMBERING TO WRITE ON HERE! SORRY!

so my last real post was during.. CGen? yeah. so CGen and Brisbane was FANTASTIC! I really should have written up up as soon as I got home so it was fresh in my mind.. our awards ceremony was on the last day of our trip and my beautiful friend Zoe came! it was great, I didn't realize how much I'd missed her, so we got a sweet Polaroid of us together, being gangster and all:



and got a Polaroid of the CGen kids with Grant Marshal.. doing his trademark pose, ROCK WARRIORS! totally lame but also, totally kickass!



going home was sad :( and I didn't even get to have another look at GOMA. stupid Tim Rogers distracting me!

anyway, I've been back home for around 3 weeks and so much stuff has happened since then!

I had a workshop on Sunday as part of the REACH art program, and the piece we created that day will be exhibitioned in the local indie hip art gallery in town, Crate59! it's at 7pm this Friday and local indie band The Medics are playing so all you local kids should come down and check out some sweet art created by other local teenragers.

THEN next Friday night is the opening of the Energy Art Exhibiton at the Tanks Art Center in Edge Hill. not sure what time it starts but my photos of Kayla in the dinosaur suit will be there so come along and make me feel loved :D

that's all I can really think/be bothered writing right now. plus, my neighbor has been making Chewbacca noises for the past 20 minutes and I can't concentrate on what I'm actually writing.

Day Five!

TODAY, I MET TIM ROGERS.

yep, that's right. we were just walking through the GoMA (Gallery of Modern Art) gift shop today and I saw this guy looking at books in the corner, and I asked Liv "hoii, is that Tim Rogers" and her reply was "hmm no.. ye-no it's not.. OH MY GOD YES IT IS" so after I hyperventilated a bit, I went over and talked to him and he is seriously such a cool 'laxed guy, and we talked about film and how everyone is using all this fantastic new technology to re-create the look of old technology and how ironic that is, and I got an autograph and a photo, which I'll post on here once I get home and upload all my other photos. seriously, it made my year meeting him.

after that we went and watched another BIFF (Brisbane International Film Festival) film, this one was a German doco called Pool of Princesses and honestly.. I like docos with more of a storyline and a meaning.. Last night's movie Unmade Beds was AMAZING! seriously, it's in my top 5 I'd say. We saw that at The Regent cinema in town, and that place looked like a freaking cathedral inside! yeah, I took photos.

today we talked to some game developers from SEGA and this guy who creates mythical creatures for films, which was like a history lesson as well but I am really NOT good at drawing so I got a little bored after a while..

We're all trying to finish our vlogs again right now, hectic crazy madness! I really hope we get it done but the capturing of the footage is taking so long, it's ridiculous and I can't edit! Dinner is in 25 minutes. I hope we get this finished by tomorrow!

xx.

today and yesterday of CGen.

whoa whoa whoa, this whole experience has been FULL ON! yesterday we went back to the studio at Griffith to finish filming the music video for Tyrone's new song 'Tight Black Dress' with Grant Marshal. We split into two groups though, and I went in the group that was going to the stop motion animating studio upstairs. We hung out with this lad called Jason. He worked on both Wallace and Gromit 'Attack of the Were-Rabbit' and 'Mary and Max' as an extra animator, and just being in his presence was amazing. He knew so much about all his projects and all the techniques that make stop motion and claymation what it is, and even though I don't want to pursue it as a career, it has definantly been added to my hobby list. Me and this nice girl called Emma worked on making a girl doll, aka the girl from the music video. It was fun, even though she had massive Michel Gondry-like hands, and even though the plasticine made our hands smell feral.

Then after lunch we went back down to the band shoot, and as soon as I walked in the door I had a prop shoved into my hands and was told to walk through while the band was playing, thus I COULD MIGHT MAYBE might be in the music video. WEIRD but it was fun. Even under massive pressure Grant is still a real great, friendly and nice guy, and I really hope I turn out like that when I'm working as crazy and as full on as he is, though I doubt I will. I have vee low patience levels, and a quick temper.

OFF THE CHANNEL NINE! it was about half an hour out of town, high up on the hill. We walked through and got ot see this lad editing a segment of The Shak, then we went downstairs and saw the actual set, THEN we got to meet the nerd character off the show, Curio. He's a nerd in RL as well. As we were walking back to the bus, we walked past the make-up room and we saw this old guy getting his face done up, and realized it was Wally Lewis off The Footy Show! Getting his make-up done! There goes all the manly-ness and brute of The Footy Show..

That night we went to another forum, but this time with gaming and mobile game stylus, and this crazy lad called Justin Brow was there. He reminded me a lot of my art teacher, not so much in appearances (he had dreadlocks and was tanned, my teacher is pale-ish with black brown short hair), but more in the way they talk and explain things with their hands. It kept me awake, seeing as I usually fall asleep when I get too bored; it's my reflex reaction to boredom.

We got the night off editing, so we got back to our rooms at about 10ish, so I charged my ipod, checked out the music that was already on the Mac laptop, and got a call from Mrs. Williams (my art teacher). She wished us luck, and said she was proud of us, and all that teacher-ish stuff. Still, it was lovely to hear from her.

TODAY we went back to Griffith and went up to the editing rooms to watch Grant and Jane edit the video from the past two days, and give us tips, MASSIVELY APPRECIATED! We got to edit our vlogs from the past two days, and that's what we're back at the hotel doing right now. Sitting in the William Jolly room, drinking V, watching people eat food, edit their footage and laze about.

But very soon we'll be getting ready to go to the film screening of Unmade Beds, which I'm so psyched for! Seriously guys, Google it, Youtube it, IMDB it, if it has a page.. it just looks good and I'm heaps excited, PLUS we get to have dinner at the Italian place again tonight.

So far this week has been so hectic and stressful, but it has been the most amazing few days of my teenage life. Getting a taste of the industry, the people, the studios, the editing programs, the whole damn shebang, and even though I'm basically dead right now, I wish this week could last a lot longer than, well.. a week.

ALSO, UPDATE: We have a name for our vlog group: Accidental Awesomeness.

ciao ciao!

Creative Gen!

Day two of this amazing trip! yesterday was far too packed to be able to take 5 to get on here, but the vlog we're uploading right now is taking fricken forever to upload so, stealthily, I'm typing out this. yes, I've already checked out my Myspace.

yesterday we arrived and settled into the hotel, rooming with Tasia. after that we, hmm, did something.. walked to the river to film some of our day one vlog, and we were so starved of creative ingenuity it wasn't even funny, it was sad. like when a kid is running and falls over, you WANT to laugh and you know you shouldn't. that's what our video was like. but we had dinner at this cute little Italian restaurant slash pub, and the pizza was heaps good.

editing our blog took longer than I thought and we got back to our rooms at around 11ish, got back, turned on tv and JAPANESE VERSION OF GODZILLA with vee bad Asian voiceover dubbing was on. wonderful costumes, it was purely glorious.

wake up time was 7, which is actually an hour later than when I usually have to get up. peanut butter SHOWER TIME, then breakfast. walk walk walk to this studio at Griffith University to.. wait.. record a music video for Tyrone Noonan from George, for his new song 'Tight Black Dress'. that experience was absolutely mind-blowing. I'm more unsure than ever as to what I want to pursue, being involved with every aspect is just TOO TEMPTING! I spent a majority of the time sitting around, filming some vlog material and shining a torch on the background, but simply watching everyone do their thang was great. I could DEFINANTLY get used to days like that.. only.. I'd be doing my thing, and not just sitting around like dust in the corner. my task this week is to be a sponge, absorbing all the info I can, and I'm writing all the little tips and tricks I hear on scraps of paper I find littering my bag. I plan to compile my own little bible out of them all.

walked to the post-production company Cutting Edge and had a peeksie around, saw all the different offices and departments and got to feel a little of what post-production is about.

got back to the hotel, ate food, left.

got to the forum talk at Griffith with 4 of some industry pros, and they told us about what they've done and achieved, told us what to expect of the industry and how to 'make it'. it's going to be mission impossible, but it's good to hear about all this BEFORE I invest my whole life in achieving a good OP for uni. coz I'm definantly not getting a good OP. I hate math.

the talk was great! and I won a tee shirt which is pretty sweet. I lack clothes, so donations are great for me. I wish we could have spoken to them a little longer but alas, monsuir bus man was waiting.

so now, we're sitting in the 'William Jolly' conference room, surrounded by Mac laptops, cords, PD170 cameras and sweet kids, and we're all attempting to upload yesterday's vlogs to the net, and I will post a link to our vlog page once I'm back home, or once the upload system starts working.

hey guys, what's up?

I'm going to Brisbane in 3 hours, that's what's up!

I'll post a proper good blog when I get back!

Creative Generations, oh yessir!

is this the start of me 'going places'?

"Congratulations Kelly! After a lot of competition and difficult decisions by the whole visual arts department, we are pleased to announce that your work "Dino 1" and "Dino2" has been submitted as one of only 4 entries allowed by a school in the 2009 Creative Generations Awards.

The Awards draw over 600 entries from across the state each year and your work will be viewed by a panel of teachers in the next week or so to determine if it will be shortlisted through to the final competition and eventually selected to be part of the exhibition of about 40 works to be part of the State Wide Exhibition that exhibits in GoMa (Gallery of Modern Art) in Brisbane. If your work should be selected as part of the State Wide exhibition (which we at Trinity Bay will have our fingers crossed for!) you will get the opportunity to travel down to Brisbane in September holidays for a full week of workshops with some of Queensland's top artists on site at the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University) and QUT. You will also be presented with your award by the Minister for Education at a ceremony to celebrate your success. Your work will tour around the state throughout 2010.

We wish you all the very best luck in continuing in the competition."

I'm already heading down to Brisbane next Sunday for the week long Creative Generation for Film and New Media workshop, and I'm so excited, I can't even find words good enough to describe my emotions :'D I'll be taking heaps of photos, that's for sure.

If I get chosen to this as well, I think I may combust from happiness.

An Incomplete Summary of my 5 Day Weekend

Thursday was excellent! brilliant really. is it just me, or does everyone need one of those days with a friend they can spend hours with and not get bored, and am just happy doing nothing really whatsoever? I do.

today I went into town with Marisa and we went to a few op shops (and I bought this DARLING blue polka dress, it's so adorable) and to the fabric shop (where I bought 3 meters of this gorgeous lacey threaded hemming which I plan to make a bag out of) and stole a few cute buttons ^_______^

we went to this bookshop down an alleyway (one I've never seen nor heard of before) and I walked in and asked if they had any Goosebumps and the 20 something girl was all "YES!!" and it turns out she's as big a fan as I am and we had a good chat for about 5 minutes. I just LOVE meeting strangers and having something fantastic in common.

Anyway, I plan to donate a few of my "Choose Your Own Adventure" Goosebumps books to the shop, even though we both agreed they were terrible, someone somewhere out there might love them, as she told me she'd put aside any new Goosebumps books they get in for me :D

Then Marisa wanted to check out the Asian Supermarket and we saw packets of STRAIGHT OUT MSG! haha! I posted a photo of it yesterday, so the proof is on this page somewhere.. and dried octopus in bags- eck!

and we had rice rolls for lunch, then just wandered around Cairns Central till around 3.

I got home and then PJ's sister drove me and PJ down to this paddock opposite Cairns Christian College and we painted her up and took photos! she's such an amazing model, she's up for anything :) I straight out love her, thanks Jaime (L).

http://flickr.com/photos/cupofchai

the grass made us quite itchy but it was definantly worth it.

Saturday night I stayed at Rik's house in Atherton and we spent our LAST $10 on a six pack of UDLs, so we're both officially broke as shite. But we had fun, and even though something bad happened, she was there for me and I truely appreciate having her in my life. I doubt anyone could have a better best friend than I do :)

ALSO TODAY my teacher told me that the piece I'm working on now (for film and television) will be the piece I'll submit to Creative Generations WHICH MEANS I'm officially an entrant! Happines and delight are running in full flight through my veins! I hope I get chosen, please wish me luck!

I'm thinking about starting filming my short film this weekend. The one due for school, not the Tristan one. I should start working more on that as well though..