David Blumenstein, director of such acclaimed (?) short films as “Herman, The Legal Labrador”, “Kickin’ It With Mr Flig” and “Fart That Out Your Ear” (upcoming), is making a new short animated musical called “John Howard’s Knees”, and requires a singer. The three minute cartoon will tell the story, in song, of how John Howard’s…
Precinct planning resumes
I went to COMICS CAMP a couple weekends ago, and since then I’ve been hard into (my day job, my freelance work, and also) my two current projects: a short film called John Howard’s Knees and the animated cop show currently known as The Precinct. While I was on comics camp (which I blogged more…
Go see comedy
It’s April in Melbourne again, which means one thing: I will miss a lot of good Comedy Festival shows. Two that I won’t miss (because I’ve already gone to see them) are the Bedroom Philosopher’s Songs From The 86 Tram and Adrian Calear’s Code Grey: Adventures In Public Health. This is the Bedroom Philosopher’s third…
Changing channels
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…
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…