SITE 09

Done and dusted! Last night we had the opening of SITE 09 the Graduate exhibition of the Dunedin School of Art and it went off! Hundreds of people showed up to see the 70+ students final works.

Today was the SITE festival day which was open to the public with many more people showing up.

Heres a few pictures of some of what was on show.

A ceramic work by John Paxie

Checkin out Emma Chalmers' awesome paintings



Installation by Shelley Harding


Me and Viets space, was hard to move at some points!

Leoni the head of the Art School opens the Exhibition.

GLOW WORMS!!!!

We recently discovered that theres an amazing Glow Worm community 5 minutes away from my flat!! What other city could you find glow worms or any native bush this close to the urban jungle? Only Dunedin! I took my tripod up and attempted to capture the little critters.

I ended up using a torch to light up the ferns and if you enlarge this image you can see the little blue lights of the glow worms.


This is the river you walk up to get to the glow worms

studios are funnnnnnnn

business cards, check

Got my business cards done finally, they are like this except i removed the list of areas (event, portraiture etc) and just added 'Bachelor of Fine Arts' in the bottom right corner. Didn't want to categorise my work too much until I fully have a business plan and defined my market a bit more.

Chill out bro!

After an intense day of trying (and failing) to sort out Site work I decided I needed a break to clear my head so Dan and I went out to the beach. We caught up with a mate Glen who lives in his truck. The waves were big and we didn't bother going out but it was good to chill out and watch the waves rolling in from the warmth of Glen's Truck.

John Browns Body

I photographed an epic gig on the weekend. The Blackseeds featuring John Browns Body. The Blackseeds were awesome as always they got the crowd of 700+ rocking, Sammys was cranking!

It was really good to see John Browns Body, a reggae band from New York. They played before The Blackseeds and got everyone amped up on reggae vibes. They are an 8 piece band with a unique rootsy reggae sound. Stoked I got to see them and have a chat to them backstage, awesome night!


Have a listen to them on myspace

wet sea dogs

Heres some pics I just scanned in from a film I took out at St Clair on 24/10/09 for the 350 paddle out. Not amazing quality but some interesting results. It was The first time I had used this plastic film camera with underwater housing. It was fun to use and I'll definitly be using it more in future with summer just around the corner.

Latu and Jayne 'the freeride crew'

Never seen so many surfers in one place!

Viety lovin it!

Perfect 1foot peak

Underwater selfy

Waiting for big Wednesday

This one is from Sandfly Bay the next day. Hang looooose!