the funklab

My amazing aunty (a veritable star wars freak) pointed out this striking resemblance…

This is my son.

Oxford Lewis McRae

Born at 9:50 pm on the 25th day of July, 2006 years after the birth of Christ.

7.9 Pounds.

Natural birth with forceps, no painkillers involved.

Michelle is well, rather exhausted.

“Next time i’m gettin’ an epidural.”

I’m gonna need 3 years of therapy after watching my wife give birth.

Dang.

Fun all round.

So, it has finally finished.

The NTSC version has been seent out to be replicated and will be distributed there soon.

Working on this project has been one of the most stretching and rewarding experiences.

There are some productions that you totally immerse yourself in. Day and night, it’s all you think about. Going through each day, you mentally cut shots, move edits, and play the whole thing in your mind. It churns inside your head, simmering like a great bolognese sauce, each flavour adding to the other. The music and vision get into your soul and meld together.

Then you sit behind the computer. Its all easy then. You cut what you’ve seen in your mind.

It’s funny how when you create something, its like a little piece of you is in there.

I love making life.

Back sometime in 2004, the mustard crew banded together and put on a whole series of shows down the east coast of Australia. It was the release of Brethrens new album Beyond Underground. Hoodsta and Playdough came along. Playdough is a great artist from the states, and one of the things that we did was make a music vid clip for him.

saddle up, by playdough

We picked some great locations (This is it in richmond and Giant in west melbourne) and shot it all on my PD 150. Editing was abit messy, as it was a bit of a transition from doing the cutting in premiere and colour correction, vfx in after effects on a pc to using after effects on a mac. In hindsite, it would have been heaps easier if we kept everything in Final cut, and just sent the shots which needed vfx to after effects.

A little messy

But it is now finished