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How awesome is ACMI!

I've been looking at this exhibition the wrong way though. As soon as I heard of it, I thought, perfect, I'm gonna shoot there. But the bigness of that idea has probably prevented me from actually going.

I just wanna go and play games! After that, I'll think about whether or not I want to shoot there. My sister's coming down from Perth tomorrow, I'll try and convince her to come. I think she'll just get flashbacks of me kicking her ass at Mortal Kombat when we were kids, essentially killing any interest in games or competition for the rest of her life. Sorry Sara. I think I'll have to bring my other sister instead... we've spent probably around 3 years trying to clock Vice City... and then settling for leaving Tommy in a quiet car on the beach so we can just listen to Wave 103 in the background.

And on a random sidenote... when I was studying animation at Deakin, I had grand plans of directing a music video for Datarock (who kindly gave me permission to play with their music, thanks guys!), for their crazy cool tune, Computer Camp Love. I envisaged a Summer Camp fantasy with Kip from Napolean Dynamite as the hero, intercut with big band/80s staged dance shots and animations from a Commodore 64 (and since I have no access to one the closest my imagination could get was an Atari). Obviously my glad plans were way too big for me... but it gave me a chance to try and learn a bit of Flash and After Effects. This is the first 8 seconds of my video... which is coming soon... promise.