Australia - This is just about top of my worst film of all time list.

I only saw it because a good friend and colleague had a large role as one of the bad guys. (And because I had free tickets). He now owes me three hours of my life!

Who keeps giving roles to Nicole?! Did anyone tell her that this was apparently a serious film, not a pantomine! And what's with her face and forehead - nothing moves??

Almost everything in this film is fantasy, but the Director is trying to push it as reality. Australia (the country) is neither as bad or racist as this film tries to push.

They couldn't even get basic documented historical facts right; what battalion do we see stationed in Darwin, when did Japanese troops raid islands below New Guinea, Liberty ships in Australia so early in the war, did we really send aboriginal kids out to an island that was never in reality invaded. There's just too much to bother mentioning.

For you people of other countries who see this drivel - please understand - this is not the reality of our wonderful country, it has more fantasy than Lord Of The Rings. The Director is a typical Western hating lefty.

You got one thing right though Baz. There is a great country called Australia, and it does have a town called Darwin, but you failed on almost every other point!

Russell Crowe - Smart move to turn down this film.

Hello to everyone. I've been a recluse. It's been a year since I last submitted anything. Just been too busy to do any art, or talk, or browse.

During the last year I have worked camera, sound or edited several Documentaries, TV commercials, Cinema Commercial, lots of Corporate BS, boring Govt Minister speeches, Bureau of Meteorology climate scare propaganda, Dairy Australia, Massey Fergusson, Volkswagon, Skoda, Mental Health - it goes on.

Anyway, last week I tore the muscles in my calf, and now I am a total cripple, still can't get a shoe on my swollen foot, and my leg is one large painful bruise. On the good side, as I have been unable to walk, I am forced to slow down. This means that I have been able to do some art.

So I drew "Strasse Krieg" in the last few days - my first non work related art in a year. Now I suppose I will draw something else. Oh, yeah, I changed my style somewhat.

Well we have just come back from one of the greatest weekends we have experienced in a long time.

The largest World War 2 re-enactment in Australian History was held in our vicinity and we were engaged to photograph and video the event. And what an event, the costumes, the vehicles, the weapons, explosions, rocket launchers, cannons, everything except for dive bombers.

I was despatched to the German camp and was soon clothed in a German uniform and fitted with a full pack of field gear. Before long I was on the front lines in full defence against a determined British-American-Polish-Dutch allied attack force.

The running battle continued for the next 10 kilometres with us Germans fighting a gallant retreat until we re-grouped and charged the Allied flank. Our Niebelwefurs took out their light armoured vehicles and then us grunts charged their trenches. It was just like playing Call Of Duty2 (except for running with a full load and trying to take pictures - I'm not getting any younger!).

The Germans won this battle, just as they did for real in 1944.

Probably the real highlight was to get to speak with real veterans who were there in WW2. Amazing stories from amazing people. The pain and scars (emotional and physical) that these guys have lived with all of their lives is truly sobering. Anyone who thinks that they have problems should talk to some of these vets.

And to those of you out there who condemn this type of activity, you know, those of you who think Anzac Day means nothing, and that re-enactors are just war mongers glorifying violence - remember - those who forget history are doomed to repeat it's mistakes.

Some pictures from the weekend [link]

Coming soon! Yes, I have finally done it. I have drawn a fairy for the first time ever.

Posted soon on a Deviant Art site near you......

I've been lying low and licking my wounds for the last few months. I hadn't been to a Doctor in about 18 years, then something happened and I had to go. After much prodding. scanning. sampling and testing it was confirmed that I was suffering life threatening injuries/illnesses, including damage to major organs.

Now my body has been through more than it's fair share of trauma and I've probably earned the damage by not getting it seen to properly at the time. But hey, I'M A MALE, AND INDESTRUCTIBLE - right men? - you know the attitude.

The main problem is that this has put me three months behind schedule on everything that I have been working on. Especially "The Maiden". I will contact everyone involved over the next few days to get everyone up to date on the progress (or lack of). Sorry for the lack of communication but I have been concentrating on still being around when my kids grow up.

Anyway, I'm just about fully healed now, about 90%. I will be fully healed but I have to make some major lifestyle changes.

On a brighter note we recently replaced our monitors with 22" widescreen LCD's. Kat has a new super fast computer with fantastic graphic capability. And I bought myself a new Wacom Intuos 3, because I could never get our other Wacom out of Kat's grasp.

Now I can finally work on some more art.