June 2nd 2009

Castlepoint

Castlepoint

 

A bit of a hairy drive over the Rimutakas in a gale but getting to explore Castlepoint was well worth it!

 

May 28th 2009

Snow on the Rimutakas

snow

I'm not sure how safe it is getting sent to the top of the Rimutakas in a snow storm?! It's certainly not the easiest getting back down when your windscreen looks like this! I heard the shots looked good though!

 

May 15th 2009

Napier Seige

Police Cordon

 

LAV

 

AOS

 

My first solo SNG job and it's a holed up gunman whos shot dead a cop and wounded three others...I spent most of the first night stuck inside the police cordon until we were told to get out...A crazy few days!

 

September 21st 2008

Te Apiti Wind Farm

 

 

 

It seems like forever since I've updated this blog - I guess thats what having a proper job will do to you! Anyways, yesterday I took a drive up to the Manawatu to check out the Te Apiti wind farm, it was a bit of a gamble since it was getting late, I really didn't know where I was going and there really wasn't any signposting (other than the giant propellers on the hill!) but after a few wrong turns and a 10k drive up a dirt road I finally made it. It's an awesome place - strange and kinda eeire and yet quite beautiful at the same time.

 

I'll try to update this thing a bit more regularly from now on!

 

 

July 24th, 2008

C.W. Stoneking

 

Last night I got to see the amazing Australian blues man C.W. Stoneking. It's quite a strange experience seeing someone on stage that really doesn't match the sound coming from the speakers, to understand what I mean you can check out C.W. here.... The only downer to the night was the amount of people who thought it was a good idea to have a yarn with their mates by yelling over the music...that's what the bar is for dick! Grrrr.

 

July 3rd, 2008

The Valley on a Foggy Night

 

July 1st, 2008

Raetihi's Abandoned Mental Asylum

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Simon and I were up in Hamilton for Onge's 30th a week or so ago when we heard about this place. Worzel told us there was an abandoned metal hospital in a little town south of Ohakune, and it even had baby sized coffins still sitting in the basement! It sounded like something out of a horror movie, we had to check it out.

 

It turned out it wasn't a mental hospital at all but just an old hospital, still it was pretty creepy and messed up - the pouring rain and low cloud didn't help brighten things up too much either. Luckily we somehow managed to avoid those baby sized coffins!

 

 

 

 

 

When it comes down to it, I'm not always the best at keeping in contact with friends and family and letting them know what I'm up to so I thought I'd keep a bit of diary of adventures n' things just in case anyone's interested. Hope you like it Mum!

 

 

Just picked this up from the library, should be an interesting read!

 

 


Take the crazy-assed guitar of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and add the insane rhythm monster that is Zach Hill and you have what is easily my favorite album of the last six months or so!