January 21st, 2010
I was shocked when I learned about the law that South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson passed a few days ago. This law bans all advertising of R18+ films in South Australia, including the requirement for DVD retailers to cover up the covers (banning the display of the cover), displaying only the title of the film.
This is a terrible blow to the Australian Film Industry. Film makers will have no motivation to push the limits of portraying the issues of society, like the South Australian film, Bad Boy Bubby. This is a multiple award winning film, which won four 1994 Australian Film Institute awards; Best Director (Rolf de Heer), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Nicholas Hope), Best Original Screenplay (Rolf de Heer) and Best Editing (Suresh Ayyar); also nominated for Best Film (Rolf de Heer) and Best Cinematography (Ian Jones), and not to mention the international awards it has listed on it’s cover.
If the VHS/DVD/Bluray cover of Bad Boy Bubby is completely censored, then people might skim past the film in the isle, and will not know about the success of this South Australian film. On the other hand, I haven’t read the details of this law, for example if the censoring outer covering of the movie case has to be a certain colour. If it is the same colour for all R films (grey, red, etc), these movies will actually stand out in the movie isles.
In my opinion, Atkinson has put this absurd law into effect such that if/when we get an R18+ games classification, the game covers will be covered (advertising ban), while the content not. What will be next? Magazine covers? Book covers?
What do the people have to say? Search for Michael Atkinson on twitter.
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January 20th, 2010
Another website I had the fortune to work on was Kseed.
Although Butter Creative made the design, I was responsible for converting the layout designed in Illustrator to an actual website.
Due to the need for a specific font, the website is particularly heavy with images.
A subtle addition is a dynamically width-changing top picture.
Take a look at Kseed.
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January 20th, 2010
Thought I would create a post celebrating the last website I worked on last year. I was responsible for the layout of the design, the coding, and photography of the site.
Have a look.
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November 20th, 2009
Photos from this evening’s party in Gouger st, featuring the cars competing in the Classic Adelaide Rally 2009.
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November 1st, 2009
1200+hp super trucks ripping up the roads at Mallala for the last time.
To add to the challenge, these photos taken were all taken from spectator only areas (without accreditation).
Order prints@augustography.com.au
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October 30th, 2009
At 10am I heard on the radio, “Ok, the Japanese team has just jumped into the Victoria Square Fountain”. I quickly grabbed my camera and rode into the city. As I got there the Nuon Solar Team had just arrived and jumped in also. This final shot is of the top three teams celebrating in the heat, in the very center of the city of Adelaide.
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October 19th, 2009
Photos from the launch of the 2 x 250km endurance race known as the Clipsal 500, raced on the streets of Adelaide. Driver appearances by: Steven Johnson, James Courtney, Russel Ingall, Tim Slade, Lee Holdsworth, Will Davison, Shane Van Gisbergen, Dean Canto, Steven Richards and Greg Murphy.
Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA on Friday the 16/10/2009.
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