Binnsy's Hovel

I and my work colleagues sing for Haiti…

This is Binnsy of the Hovel, coming to you live from a cafe in North Brisbane, in the land where there aren’t many monarchs to be seen, contrary to what it says on the brochures.

My day has been truly epic. I was meant to pick up camera gear for this gig lastnight, but due to a number of miscommunications and the convenient tragic demise of my iPhone battery, I ended up having to go and pick it up this morning. I live in Dulwich Hill (Petersham area), the camera lives in Ermington (near Parramatta). My flight to Brisneyland left at 8:00am. Hence, I was up and about at 5am, madly packing and getting stuff organised, and I was on the road at 5:20, out to Ermington (30 minute drive) to get the camera from the poor guy who owns it. I then drove my car home, nabbed a cab, and hot-footed (hot-feet?) it to the airport, where I arrived in plenty of time.

Anyway. I am now in the odd, very wet, and backwards* land of Brisvegas/Brisneyland/Brisothersuffixhere. The gig is a bit up in the air; because it’s sport-related, we have to wait and see if the event will even be going ahead. Regardless, after being drenched betwixt my hotel and the cafe in which I now sit, shivering, checking emails and generally working remotely, I am slowly drying off and trying to get my bearings in this new city. I have been here before, in about 2002-3, but I was with family, and I was young, so the job of navigation/remembering landmarks wasn’t mine. How things change.

Anyway – will no doubt report in once everything’s sorted with the gig… check the Twitfeed for the latest.

Until next time…

* Not evolution-wise, just time-wise; Brisbane doesn’t observe daylight-savings time, so I left Sydney at 8am, and after a 90-minute flight, arrived in Brisbane at 8:30am.

All is in readiness for the second day of filming of Unravel Me on Saturday. It was a mad dash to the finish line, with camera equipment availability and casting to be done up until yesterday afternoon!

But I’ll be picking up the camera, kindly being loaned to us by a friendly fellow production company, and the 35mm adapter on Friday, and all will be well.

Lastnight saw me finish my second short film in as many weeks. I’m just super-crazy-productive at the moment. I hope I can channel this sort of enthusiasm into my Ph.D. writing when it gets going in a month or two.

Work has seen me production managing a shoot in Pakistan, doing some great creative work for a rather large and well-known multi-national, and implementing a stack of new management systems, mainly JobBag. I’m also organising contracts for a stack of short films (not mine, sadly).

More soon.

Until next time…

2009 was a big year for me, for many reasons.

Among many, many other things, it was a year of friendships broken and friendships made, of big connections established and of great things achieved. I wrote my Honours thesis, got second class, was offered a place for post-graduate work at UWS, and continued full-time work at Onion Media Group.

It was a year of great reflection, and contemplation, as the Black Saturday bushfires ravaged my home state while I watched from up north, floods hit the northern states numerous times, and closer to home, I left the confines of university accommodation to occupy a small apartment much closer to the city and to work.

2010 offers many new opportunities. I’m taking a year away from study to work full-time, develop my skills, write screenplays, stories and articles and generally build up a neat folio of work that will make me utterly irresistible to any and all kind of employer and female the world over.

I’m taking up piano again, finishing off my short film and sending it around the world, thinking up new things, playing lots of video games, getting fit, settling my debts and getting my car in tip-top shape.

I may also buy a PS3.

Most of all this will be an incident- and change-free year. If anything major happens, it’ll be of my own doing.

Until next time…

New template, to show that the blog is not being neglected.

Thesis continues as normal. Onion ploughs along.

Suffice to say I’m a tired Dan.

Until next time…

Whoa hey there. That’s my bad cos it’s a long time no see kind of situation. Been flat out with Onion and Video Ezy and what what. Haven’t really had time to sit or blog or anything much really. My Wii’s going senile from lack of use. Anyway.

This is kind of appropriate at the moment:

And I met these guys this week too:

Awesome.

So yeah, though it’s busy I’m learning lots and I think I may have some work in the future with them too. But it’s all good.

And in other news, this is my 500th post! Can you believe it? 500 times since October 2004 I’ve sat down and poured out my life and heart to you lot. Be thankful. No really.

Seriously, though, to those of you who’ve been reading for a while, thanks for making this worthwhile. Otherwise it’s just me typing into the ether.

And Cadel’s second! WOOOO! Moving on.

Until next time…