Theoretically, this is the “Precinct” production blog, but clearly, over four years, it’s become “David’s blog”. Since there’s not too much Precinct news at the moment, I will probably talk a bit in coming months about the little short I’m now making, called John Howard’s Knees. I’m VERY VERY excited about it for reasons I’ll…
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Comedy Festival posters: the Facebook quiz
I spent some time with Sarah yesterday going through the Melbourne International Comedy Festival program and enjoying the head shots and ads. Clearly there’s a number of quite specific poses comedians default to when they’re getting their photo taken (this chap pointed one of them out here). So we separated the many shots into a…
John Howard’s Knees
About five years ago I wrote a script for a short film called “The Ballad of the History of Trying to Break John Howard’s Knees”, a lovely singalong tale of how our then-Prime Minister, John Winston Howard, has always had to escape brutal knee-beatings. Those knees secrete some kind of powerful magic, tempting violence from…
Precinct Cop Action Survey winners!
Five very helpful people who helped me and The Precinct out by filling in our Cop Action Survey will now be receiving an original Precinct drawing by me. I won’t announce who they are, but I now have to draw Precinct characters: in a shower scene, with rude bits obscured by “PG steam” “in space”…
All plans and no followthrough makes David edgy
I spent 2009 planning and scheming and writing and talking and thinking. Lots of thinking! This was all good stuff to do, in addition to the freelance work I had. But I did very little MAKING of STUFF! I made a zine of some of my old articles and prose writing and took it to…
POWAAA!
The video art piece I’ll be remembered for after I’m dead. Funny for Back to the Future 2 fans. Maybe. At least it’s out of my system now.