In our film class we watched Crocodile Dundee and the Proposition which were both really good movies.
On to work:
Justina and I are making a collection of Brett's old work, using only one of each photo instead of all the negatives. It's fun going through the old stuff. I found Christmas pictures, and Brett told me the girl in the photo is his now 16 year old daughter when she was 3. It was pretty cute. It was also interesting seeing how he's modernized what he used to do with film. Whenever Brett works for someone he makes them a storyboard on Photoshop (Justina does it now) of all the best of each shot from the day, unedited. Anyway, so in one of the folders today I found a white paper with small prints on it, and it was how he used to do story boards. It was really cool and happened to be for a Valentine's Day spread so it's really pretty.
I feel like Tim and I are slowly working better together. Thursday he trusted me to edit the photos he'd taken on his shoot in Adelaide on Wednesday. It helped me learn a lot more by actually using the tools he was showing me in editing. I'm starting to figure out lens correcting, for when the lines aren't straight. He also told me about why that happens, and Brett let me play around with a lens that can rise and fall (up and down), scan (side to side), and tilt. I learned how you can make the Earth look small, using the tilt and changing the depth of field. For example, a picture of the earth should look all in focus, but you can use tricks of the tilt to make just one part in focus. Tim also showed me how people can do that after shooting, on photoshop. It's a cool concept, much cooler in camera, and I'm debating getting one of those lenses.
Friday we went to check out where we're going to be shooting cars and we ended up discussing a lot about his business, and also about religion, because of my major. I also met his daughter and her husband and got to see Tim's house when we took them home from the airport. It was nice getting to know him more.
This weekend has been a lot of fun. Friday night I cooked with Ariella and we ate Joey, Jon and Ari. It was nice doing our own Shabbat. Then Saturday, Lindsay brought a pretty big group of us to the Surry Hills Festival (Lindsay, Julie B., Chris, Justina, Belinda, Jessica, Melanie, Kathleen, Sarah, Julia, Andres, Hillary, Jackie, Rachel) . It was really fun. It was in a park 5 minutes away, and there were all these free things. We got free mini cupcakes, a book that comes with a cd, samples of waffles, fresh squeezed orange juice, waffles, some healthy weird soda/juice, cake on a stick, and chips on a stick. The chips on a stick were a big thing here, it was basically a potato just sliced and on a stick, kind of tasted more like wedges than chips but delicious! Oh and every time we walked by the guys with the packages of gummies we took more and have a big collection now. Food was not the only thing there. There was this cool tent basically made of scarves, which was really pretty, and at one end was a counter where they sold Chai and then the other end had a small stage and it felt like an open mic night type atmosphere. The guy we saw was really good (Julie B., Kathleen and I popped in for a bit). We also met these people who are doing a photo series on faces in Sydney, and are trying to get pictures of 50,000 people (1/8 of Sydney's population). There was also a big outdoor stage where we saw an Aboriginal dance, and another stage with more dub step music. Julie and I also found a bathtub full of wheat, and if you sifted through there were pieces of paper with love poetry. It was pretty cool. And there were canvases with paint by numbers, which I didn't do since it was Saturday, but other people did and it was a really cool idea to have it there. Basically it was a lot of fun (and I accidentally got a bit sunburnt... whoops).
I then spent the rest of the afternoon on the roof reading with Julie, Chris, Lindsay, Andres, and Sarah, and when the sun got blocked behind a building everyone left and Sarah and I chatted for a while which was just nice chilling up there. Julie then made crepes for Chris and I (next time, Uncle Paul, I'll be the one to make them with your recipe and we can compare), and she made a delicious bread.
We wanted to go to Oktoberfest in Glebe, but it was closed when we got there, but at least I tried to get a bit of Miriam's vacation (my sister went to Oktoberfest in Germany a few weeks ago).
Today I went to the Norton Street Italian Festa in Leichhardt, a suburb nearby, with Little Italy. It was a fun place to take pictures. I got tastes of fresh mozzarella cheese, mushroom olive oil, hearts of palm. I saw people making gnocchi from scratch, and there was a place for kids to make pasta. There were people dressed up, and people playing music. There was also a stage with musicians. It was fun wandering around. Then I headed off with Chris and Rachel to Paddy's Market for souvenir shopping.
That's about it for now, I have 2 papers to write but I'm sure more adventures will come up soon.
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