Canberra at 4.02am

…a truck carrying milk from Dairy Farmers went off the edge? Actually, I think it is the one point around there where you could see all the old farms?

I remember going up there with a mate once and he proceeded to undertake some “circle work” only to have a naked bloke (clutching whatever clothing he had nearby) come up from the trees below yelling abuse, naked woman right behind… hmmm… SPRUNG!!!

RuffnReady said :

PS Best view in the city is from Dairy Farmer’s Hill. Let’s see how many of you know where that is? 😉

The top of the Arboretum. Ten points if you can tell me how Dairy Farmers Hill got its name.

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=dairy+farmer's+hill+canberra&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=53.600649,64.599609&ie=UTF8&ll=-35.272532,149.088593&spn=0.376155,0.504684&t=h&z=11&iwloc=B

yep http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

Ari: That I am =)

Dairy farmers is near next to the Parkway, opposite the Aquarium no?

I can’t say I’ve ever been there …. I can’t believe I’ve been deprived of the best view in Canberra for nearly forty years!!

RuffnReady said :

PS Best view in the city is from Dairy Farmer’s Hill. Let’s see how many of you know where that is? 😉

The hill between Russell Offices and Duntroon? There’s an old dairy shed on that, although it looks south.

Wouldn’t you need a turntable for those … you’re pulling my leg, Danman!

: P

Granny – just get VLC media player – it plays everything, LP’s and 33’s included 🙂

Thank you, You! I think you’d better meet me first before you decide if you want to cook for me …. I might have a face like a lemon and warts on my nose!!

: )

I love hanging out with other Rioters. Everyone is always welcome to trivia on Mondays!

Granny, you seem pretty damn cool.

We should totally hang out some time. I can cook!

Got it now! Well, it’s rather beautiful but not familiar to me at all. I am probably the exception that proves the rule however (and I also have a memory like Dory the Fish).

: )

Oh – where do I get that?

Granny: Winamp plays .ogg files, and will see more use than Quicktime.

Gerry-Built said :

BerraBoy68: I’d be stoked to do a RA video – I was just posting back here to offer to do that. I can use the equipment from school. Anyone interested, post back here (including what capacity, ie, I’m better behind the camera – I have a face for radio)!

I’d be happy to capture and edit…

As a bit of a luddite I’m not sure what I can contribute other than my time and presence but, yea… I’m in.

BerraBoy68: I’d be stoked to do a RA video – I was just posting back here to offer to do that. I can use the equipment from school. Anyone interested, post back here (including what capacity, ie, I’m better behind the camera – I have a face for radio)!

I’d be happy to capture and edit…

Very nicely done 🙂

Yep! We’ll be cheering you from the stands boys! Can’t wait to see your next project.

: )

Well done fella’s nice editing and a good emotional feel to the narration. Looking forward to some more of your excellent work this year in media. I agree with Vic, you are destined for big things.

What an awesome video, as the others have said emotional and brings on memories.

The young fella who wrote and edited this (he’s in the credits, but I can’t remember!) is very talented and is destined for bigger things, I’m sure!

well Lights, Canberra, Action is coming around again (27 FEB start – for 2 weeks of filming) – I always plan to enter this and never get around to it…

If I do write something this year maybe I’ll put the call out for some volunteers.

http://www.eormedia.com.au/lca/home.htm

Gerry-Built said :

what a sweet little video.

Those making all the other Canberra YouTube vids shown in recent times are working toward this kind of work… it is a learning curve…

This vid was really well edited and flowed to tell a story, albeit minimalist… I’d be really excited if my students produced work like this!!!

Hey GB – I like your comments about working with kids, their efforts etc. How about you work out a story board and we just do it. Whether it’s done as an example to others, or just for kicks it’d be fun. I think you’d find a lot of RA folk would volunteer their time (my hand’s already up!).

That’s the thing about this video. It really does elicit such a range of emotions and half-remembered happinesses. It communicates on an emotional level even more strongly than an aesthetic one – and it is very aesthetic!

I really enjoyed seeing this short clip about Canberra. Nice to see young men doing something creative and appreciating their home town. Well done! Look forward to seeing other posts from them in the future. Who knows, this could lead them to more creative movies.

That’s my second random exposure to Mezzanine today (it was also being played at Smiths Bookshop). Always welcome in my ears.

More importantly, the lads have made a good video. This town feels like a completely different place in the wee hours and they captured that street light-lit stasis very well.

Great video!! Reminds me of about a decade ago working stupid overtime for the public circus and riding home from Belco to the Inner North down the Barton Hwy at 3am no hands and no traffic either. Or the August morning I rode up Black Mtn to watch the sunrise with only magpies for company in the stupid cold – and the head-numbing wind chill on the way down.

I have wonderful memories of pre-Xmas champagne and chicken on Dairy Farmers Hill then trying to ride back down thru the pines without wiping out.

You should check out the Massive Attack video for this song on You Tube. Is a great vid.
Here: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=fG8eQBSp9Ao

The sound is a bit like Clannad’s sound, with the Harry’s Game theme being my favourite. Well not really, but after having my musical cred chastised, some restoration is required… 🙂

I shall do that Deckard.

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Let me know, next time, Danman. I am usually awake in the wee hours – sometimes even out and about. I don’t love the camera, though, and the camera certainly doesn’t love me.

*sigh*

Maybe you could give me a taser and I could be the bodyguard! I’ve never played with a taser before ….

*heh heh heh*

what a sweet little video.

Those making all the other Canberra YouTube vids shown in recent times are working toward this kind of work… it is a learning curve…

This vid was really well edited and flowed to tell a story, albeit minimalist… I’d be really excited if my students produced work like this!!!

I love abandoned post apocalyptic evoking scenes that is canberra early AM.

Something you can never appreciate living in bigger cities.

Would love to capture some scenes like this with subjects in them, but never have anyone keen to be my bodyguard or subject 🙂

Granny said :

But I also love this ‘Teardrop’.

You should check out the Massive Attack video for this song on You Tube. Is a great vid.

I can’t seem to play .ogg files in IE7.

I keep getting the message, “You do not appear to have the XiphQT component for QuickTime. QuickTime cannot play Ogg files without this component. Please download XiphQT or choose another player.”

So I have followed their link a couple of times which has gone to the Quicktime site. I’ve downloaded and supposedly successfully installed the blessed thing several times now and nothing works.

*sigh*

Rephlex … a Richard D. James fan, eh?

By the way, this is Adagio for Strings.

Most people will recognise it, think “Oh, thats the music from movie/film/video game, so _that_ is what its called…” for as long as they remember it, and _then forget it again_.

Well done guys!

It is so good to see young people being creative. Such a contrast to the teen thugs bashing lone teens and the palm tree pyros.

Don’t worry, Gungahlin Al, I am ignorant also! I knew that would make you feel better …. *chuckle*

But I also love this ‘Teardrop’.

I, too, was reminded of going hiking with the girls when we were kids. We’d pack some lunch and a drink and just head off …. Made me long to be back there, and also glad that this is still happening for some kids.

The beachball was just a metaphor for fun and youth and innocent craziness to me …. Why has nobody invited me to play beachball at four in the morning? Do I have to think of everything?!

; )

Thanks folks – some music on my shopping list. ‘Scuse my ignorance… Surprised it hasn’t popped up on a Body Balance routine yet. (No doubt half the RA readship just went “Huh?”)

After watching this about 4 times now, have to say I find it reminiscent of the days when mates and I would wander around the streets in the wee hours, just sucking up the calm and the atmosphere of having the place pretty much to ourselves. No need to go tagging or damaging anything – just pleasant activities and mellow company.

Teardrop is one of those bits of music that creeps in everywhere, but nobody ever remembers the name of (like Adagio for Strings).
José Gonzales’ cover wasn’t bad either.

Noice 🙂

Mount Pleasant takes some beating Ruff 🙂 Loved this video apart from some amateurish camera work but the concept and music were wonderful.

well done lads loved it.

Mezzanine is genius, the best Massive Attack album IMHO. How can you have never heard Teardrop, Al? It was huge in about 1996, and has since been used as background music on just about every TV montage of any kind! lol

Onya boys, nice work. I ride down that hill twice a week on my regular 30km time-trial/smash-it-out-and-see-how-exhausted-I-can-get rides.

And as for the ‘Berra, I love and appreciate everything it has to offer and always will – it’s a gorgeous city.

🙂

PS Best view in the city is from Dairy Farmer’s Hill. Let’s see how many of you know where that is? 😉

Very cool

GA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzanine_(album)

Agreed Granny. A top piece of work. I particularly like the beach-ball as a metaphore for a long night out – starts out strong but gets tired and deflated as daylight breaks.

What she said^^^.

Not a bad little place we live in is it?

And what is that music? I want to go buy it.

Anybody who can go out and play with a beachball at 4:00 in the morning is my kind of person! I really enjoyed every second of this video. Sometimes when the boys were standing there looking out over their city it was very evocative for me of those pictures of aboriginals surveying their land – you felt like there was a real love for and enjoyment of their city.

All I could think was, “I wish they invited me!”

Great job, guys!!

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