Below are some projects I’m working on at the moment, or you can browse the categories to check out various videos and other art projects I’ve been involved in over the years.
I was in Newcastle recently for Climate Camp Australia 2008. It was an inspiring few days of workshops, info sessions, movement building skillsharing stuff and actions to stop coal trains from running to Port Waratah all day, in one of Australia’s biggest displays of direct action against exports from the world’s biggest coal port, one of Australia’s biggest contributions to destructive climate change.
It was also a convergence for some young folk who were covering the event independent media style. I was helping out organising the media space and doing a spot of filming/editing too.
Check out this video on EngageMedia of activists locked on to the coal trains on Sunday 13th July:
You can find more coverage of the camp and associated actions here on EngageMedia.
Ok, so here’s a recording of a song from our new band Suzanne Grae and the Katies first rehearsal with me n Killer n Lou, in Ogg Vorbis format. “Get your cake out before we make out”. Pertinent advice to those who are keen to bake while they’re on the make, but don’t want to burn their baked goods while gettin down to it.
Get the Cake Out (Undercover Butch) in ogg vorbis format
Update July: as listeners have pointed out, the Cake Out track contains a superlative performance by Katie G (killer) on the saxophone:
In her solo for Suzanne Grae and the Katies song “Get the Cake Out”, Katie G “breathes new life into the modern saxophone”.
Update August: we wrote a new song tonight here it is:
We’re also covering cult shitcore band from the 60s The Shaggs’ “Philosophy of The World”, which is proving a real challenge to actually work that shit out given their singularly unmusical compositions.
We just got the photos back from our shoot with Hunter. They turned out! Here is Hunter studiously reading Ned in his impromptu bush schoolroom.
Now we just need to work out which shots to use, and place the text around it. Jennie will be making and hand-binding the books with Marta in the next couple of months.
Scrabbled Eggs is a short I’m making with my friends Ashley Baker and Eva La Revolution.
It involves a dead gangsta rapper, scrabble and plenty of breakfast-related disses, but that’s all I’m saying at this point.