Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Write on...

Today I have been feeling fairly productive with my writing - I have begun work on some new projects and resurrected some old ones.

However, I did just take the thought that I had not written anything for my Masters or for my job, which are probably more important than these tasks. It's the weekend however, and these are the "on the side" projects, which I am hoping will grow and grow.

I am not going to post the links to them at the moment, because they are not ready - some are active, but not ready.

Anyhow - yesterday we went to an event, where some guys from Tumblr came along and talked to some artists about using Tumblr to spread their creativity. What I was even doing there is a good question - but I tagged along as Francisca was representing the architecture and design firm she works for.

I asked quite a few questions, as I do already use Tumblr, but I was interested particularly in using it for I Love Chile and for creating some things to promote footbag. So in my mind, I was thinking these projects as we talked. The first is quite simple - and I have set it up already. It is simply sharing information about freestyle footbag.

The footbag community has really not done a good job of promoting itself with the social media platforms that are already available. I am hoping this will change it - and also give a voice from within the community, but give it a worldwide voice.

The second (well, third if you count I Love Chile), will be something I think has a huge amount of potential if other people start submitting regularly. The concept will be quite open: South American Freestyle. This will be a mix of "extreme" or "freestyle" sports, pictures, videos, interviews, events, whatever. The key will be it will be all about South America. So either the action happening in South America, or South Americans making the action happen elsewhere.

The key to this is maybe some rich companies will come along and find some cool stuff they want to have as part of their event, then maybe they will get me to be a part of the event and give me lots of money... after all, you never know your luck.

Next week I am going to head to the IV region to check them starting work on a new telescope - they are going to make a big explosion and it's going to apparently be a game changer for astronomy. That could be an adventure anyway...I've never been to the north of Santiago and haven't really gone too far south, so I think it's time to change all that.

I would like to buy a camera too...it's something I've been planning for a while, but haven't seen anything really catch my eye for the right price. I don't want anything special, just something I can take a few snaps with, and something portable - but not with the low resolution of my phone.

Opeth are playing in Chile in a couple of weeks...At The Gates in a few months, and Soilwork too...plenty to be excited about.

We are having our housewarming tonight which should be some good fun. I will try and keep up to date with my new projects and let you know how they all go. Let's see what happens...

Friday, September 30, 2011

Tomorrow is my Dad's birthday. Each year around this time he gets together with his mates from high school (and their families) in the Blue Mountains.

The Beach. The Beach is something that has been in my thoughts just as long, or longer than the Canberra Raiders. Funny to say that for somebody that has not spent a lot of time living by the coastline. I grew up in Bega (think cheese), which is on the south coast of New South Wales. The lakes of Canberra are not really renowned for their surf, but whenever I go home I try to get down to the water. This post is brought to you from a rather different beach, Lamai Beach on Koh Samui, Thailand. I just spent a couple of nights in hospital and now I begin my recovery period sitting looking out on the bay, thinking and writing. The photo here is of me and my Dad, taken at Middle Beach, Tanja. We lived just down the road when I was between the ages of 3 and 6. This is still usually my first pick of beaches to go when I go back home, although inconsistent swells seem to have moved Dad away from Middle as his first pick. Just last year we went together, as well as my sister, on a surf trip to Papua New Guinea. I’m sure that will come up again later as well, but this is one of my posts which will outline what I write about, what I will write about in this blog and some things that inspire and influence me.

I haven't got to go every year, actually I've only got to go a couple of times in recent years, but last year was Dad's 50th, so I tried to do something a bit special. What I did was to collect some stories, some great memories, mainly from these mates coming to the weekend away, also family and other friends as well.

The project really turned out so much better than I expected, with lots of help in the design from Francisca. If you have read any of the issues of Capital Eyes, you will notice my artistic pedigree is not very high.

It was great to find all these old pictures and scan some of them in when I was putting everything together. This is me, not sure what age, maybe about 3 or 4. I had those little trucks for so many years, but they had a mean rust on them after many years outside, but in this picture they look close to brand new.
Daniel is now living in Santiago de Chile. You can find some more writing at I Love Chile

Recent Issues of Capital Eyes zine:

Issue 12- Sticky's Target 168: Russia
Issue 11- Yoko Oh No, Elysian
Issue 10- Break Even, Alexisonfire (reprints)
Issue 9- Jerkstore, Ruiner, To The North
Issue 8- 4 Dead, Dangers
Issue 7- Polar Bear Club, Jungle Fever