Mon 27th Oct 2008

Heres a pic of my great great grandfather Hongi Hika of the Nga Puhi My great great grandmother was his third wife Tangi Whare.

After my Grandfathers Mum died in the flu epidemic he was raised by the aunties in Kaeo till the age of 7 when he was taken to Dunedin and orphaned

Sunday 19th Oct:

The savage saga of Alex and Monteith.
Two ducks from the creek nearby had taken to hanging out in our backyard where we took to feeding them scraps and bread. I had grown fond of seeing them every morning and having breakfast with them. I named the Monteith and Alex after the artist Alex Monteith. About 2 months ago Alex dissapeared only to arrive a few weeks later much to our delight with a dozen new ducklings in tow. The whole neighbourhood was very protective of the wee buggers and would go to great pains to chase dogs and try and runite Alex with her ducklings when she got seperated, an event that happened at least 10 times a day and involved much distressed peeping and loud quacking.

The tradgedy began with the gradual lessening of the number of ducklings, each day there were one or two fewer until sadly there were none left at all and Alex was left mourning and trying to poach a duckling off the next duck down the creek. Her and Monteith readjusted and it was back to the breakfasts in the backyard with just the three of us. Then this weekend I returned home to find some cunt had run over Alex out on the street in front of our place. I knew it was her straight away and had myself a sad wee duck funeral burying her next to the small rock pond in our backyard where her and Monteith would float together filling up the whole pond. Monteith still comes for breakfast but its not really the same with out Alex.

Sat 18th Oct:

Took to cleaning up the house which had become dreadful. I found this cute wee bugger in between two thermoses at the back of the pantry:

Friday 17th Oct:

Was treated to the singularly entertaining and frightening spectacle of my new flatmate Matt Middleton creating lentil bread in true CRUDE style:

the dough starts to take shape	mystical passes of the hands	the finished dough
hmmmn	messy	adds air holes after folding in the lentils
the raw lentil bread	it goes in the oven	lentilbread dance

Tues 1st july 2008

I dont like paying bank fees especially on a tuesday when they use up all of the money in my account and leave me broke. But I really meant to say Dunedin Winter Solstice kicked serious ass this year, I managed to squeeze out a vid clip n get it up on u tube. Hopefully it look alright as I bin learnin to tweak the export setting to optimise for u tube...

Tues 3rd June 2008:

steve irwin and saddam hussein graves found at random uni flat in dunedin

Wed 24th April 2008. Doing a postgrad at art school in dinedin. moved into town to N.E.V s ok... been out graphing the spraying moon...

Jeremy's staying out at our place for a while

Mon 17th Sept 2007: Strange Russian Poster appears around town, I am seeking a translation for it. Ive heard rumours of amzing things... pix here

Sunday 3rd June 2007. Crikey this working full time takes up some time and makes it take longer to get any real work done. Went out with Alan the other night photographing Tofu
which proved to be more photogenic than one may reasonably expect.

went to the 'loo'
party at the opera house in waitati hot tub action

Other than that the 48 hours has been the biggest lark we managed to aquit ourselves quite well and it was a testament that both Mark and Matt were both able to be there full power challenge man!. It gets judged on thursday so...

Ah yeah forgot meant to write here alot more, now its Mon 19th March 2007 my my how time flies. I'm now a salaried technician at the University of Otago, my new documentary 'WHARFIES' is doing well and we shot a wee film in January called 'Josephine' that Mark is slowly editing up in Wellington. Will get a pic or two up one of hese days. Other than that buzzing around madly doing a bit for Rachel's Koputai Gallery website

mark filming Sashi Mukti for 'Josephine'

Sat 23rd Sept 2006

Its the start of the Dunedin Fringe Festival! I'm to film at least 30 events as official videographer. Our Mexican exchange artist arrived yesterday to spend 3-4 months with us Aleta Del-Toro Madrigal is a real gem, she is lovin it. I finally got final cut running on my new emac so at last after 8 months im able to work on my documentary project: The Other Dunedin Sound vol 1 The Hardcore Years. Spring is here flowers everywhere. I found a copy of Delay 1968 by Can, this is dangerously obsessing me and involves alot of staggering around in wonderment. Look out for the opening of the group show Locale at the Koputai Gallery in Port Chalmers on the 1st Oct. I have a video installation planned...

Thurs 14th Sept 2006

Only two sleeps to our house warming party 16 Grey st Port Chalmers if you wanna come. Been scoring sounds from real groovy $4 a cd! ive bought 8 now some of which I actually like especially Valis 'Deconstucting Syntax' I'd give 'Trans Tasman Drum n Bass a miss though - too comercial... Oh I finally got this site back up but someone pinched my www.variant.co.nz domain its now a bland corporate portal this really sux thank god I have some new cds ae! anyhow make sure you turn up should be a good nite

Wed 13th Sept 2006

Its been a year since my last confession, I have long left Invercargill behind. After a sojourn in Waitati I have ended up in a grand house in Port Chalmers. Busy port much throbbing and clattering at all hours, huge mounds of logs, ships in and out and an adequate supply of arty-intellectual types. I have just returned from an epic 8 day tramp on the south coast of Fiordland real wilderness for real people but almost no other humans to seen despite the savage beauty... but now i'm getting this site up again and making a website at www.koputai.co.nz for Rachael...

Mon 10th October

The change has come over me. Suddenly my whole being is infused with high vibration physical energy. I have entered on an abstinence kick. No overeating, no alcohol, no chemical 'life enhancers' This is about day three and initial shock and sense of vulnerability is turning into a medium sized rebirth experience. I am facing my feelings and coping, albeit barely. Out of this I hope to: Get fitter, lose weight, obtain a degree of inner peace and land a decent job or start a production company. Time will tell. I have been reading Philip K Dick again his books get better each time I reread them. This time it is "Maze of Death" I also watch dvd movies at the rate of about one a day... This is my first weblog entry ever... will endevour a nod in the direction of regularity. I just applied for a job in Australia.

Tues 11th Oct.

Well another normal day. Have not heard back from the aussie job or the outfit I sent a script to last week. Sent a dvd of my new short film 'Writhe' to a screening in Dunedin. Crawled through another hairy day of diet and abstenence, thought I had clinical depression. All is chatter. I want to go back to the ashram. For fuxake do we all have to go and get jobs and shit now, go and take part in this immoral society, Jesus give me an alternative. I really want to get back to my people but am afraid that they don't exist. Hope my brain chemistry levels out soon and I get back on top of this shit the way I usually woud be. At least I'm eating better and getting more excercise... later

Thurs 13th Oct

Hey its 8.30 am. brain chemisrty leveling out, it looks like I'm gonna be OK after all. The world premier of the Worlds Fastest Indian last night in Invercargill. I saw Sam Neil, Roger Donaldson and NZ prime Minister Helen Clarke all on the red carpet. Theres something sorta pathetic about being on the outside looking in, tickets cost $100 so.... Anyhoo gotta getta work on this business and legal assignment. Looks like another 'nice' day. The days here are getting longer as we move towards summer, soon it wont get dark till 11pm, I prefer the dark...

Sat 15th Oct - 8am

Well two nights of beer and cones has not lessened my resolve. Still there is a strong sense of things coming together, the brain chemistry is back on track and with it the motivation and inspiration squared. Looking into feature film funding and posting off dvds. My new film 'Writhe' and my new documentary "the Other Dunedin Sound' are both watchable now and are getting some good feedback. Invercargill is a strange wee place but not without it's quirky semi-charms. These are photos of my street, Centre St. I live behind the shops in the photo on the right.

Sun 16th Oct - 5pm

Oh my god I screwed up the Southland TV shoot today, I was on camera and the interview came out smurf blue! Some times I wonder, mind you I have never been taught how to use the freaking thing properly and have not had that problem before. So what does it mean that it is midway through October? What does october mean to me? Oct = 8 , well thats meaningless it is the 10th month. Heard christmas mentioned today so we are on the slide down to that salubrious event. Lets hope its less tsunami ridden this year. I just started assembling a new computer agin but my cars blown up and my amplifier only goes on one channel.

Wed 19th Oct 10.30pm

Shit time is flying, I've been getting up at 6am and working through till 9 or 10pm on 4 hours sleep. I am feeling fantastic. I strongly reccomend a low calorie diet free of sugar an shit. Been workin on this production company idea and it's starting to look do able. Scary though to finish a degree and head out into the real world. Been feeling grateful to Invercargill and the S.I.T because this has totally changed my prospects. Quite exited at the idea of becoming self sufficient for the first time in my life. Thanks Osho. Thanks Patrick. And most of all I can thank myself because I did it, I knew I had it in me but to feel it is something else. Ruling. Heres a couple of pics from my Savage Invercargill series.

Spencer putting on a record on monday

S.I.T Mac Lab, one of 4 rows of emacs we use

Savage Invercargill

Our old flat at 218 Crinan St. Invercargill

The Flatties, from Left: Claudia Christie, Spencer Hall, Mark Wambold, Analise, and Katy Williamson!!

Friday 21st oct 6.30pm

Buck is back in Invers! You may be fortunate enuff to catch site of the hapless but precious creature at spencers house tonite or at the chick dj gig at eltigre. I'm going to one blue dog to check it out for a music vid shoot then onto the gathering at spencers. heres a pic of buck but he turned just before it went off, still a handy identification guide.

Mon 24th Oct Labour Day!

Another special day watched 3 movies and two making of featurettes. 218 went to the cinema to see The Worlds Fastest Indian. A strange experience as we are in Invercargill. We like it. We all enjoyed buck including a bbq at his folks place in Otatara. Perhaps I'm not quite making as much sense as could be possible, but hey. I may be sick of this blog thingy but I want to put more pix up 4 u. This is the bus from photo above now burnt out and melted like so many things in this town. On Ya.

Well some time has passed and so much has happened. My life now is centered on one thing, I want to know what I want. Do I have to get down on my knees, weep? God knows I've tried to forgive you but I fear I may never, or that I must seek revenge. But the others don't realise what has happened to me, I'm just going to keep quiet and act like normal, they may never know.

Hey Daniel! Matt Says Hi. The other guy is 'Mark', have I mentioned Mark? Ah well...

Anyway we had a few beers round at mats. Mark got exited and began gleefully reving his engine, I tried to coax him to beep his horn but mat was picking the neighbour's flowers so he wouldnt incase he alerted the man. Mat and I let off the most kik ass fireworks, I was gobsmacked. Anyway I wanted to show you a picture of marks datto:

Mark