It’s taken me a few weeks but essentially I was waiting for the full connection to be on at home which happened today. YAY! So here it is, the episode of Aussielicious TV covering Kakadu. It’s only when I was editing the footage of the trip that I realised in the first bit talking to the camera, that I have sunscreen on my nostrils. It looks like I’ve been hanging out with Lindsay Lohan and partaking in some of Columbia’s finest. Oh well…
It’s taken me months from the first idea for this routine, finding the music, learning too many new tricks and getting distracted, injured and frustrated, to finally getting it together. It still definitely needs work which you’ll see when you watch it.
My timing was a bit off and when my mohawk fell off towards the end, I got flustered and didn’t unwrap properly, which is the reason for all the faffing around. Then I was too close to the ground so didn’t finish the routine off as well as I would have liked but hey, we learn from mistakes. A couple more run throughs and I’ll have it down better.
I’ve often been intrigued by the way different artists and photographers can view the same subject. I have taken the very lazy and easy way out and rather than spend a while on google searching for a particular person, I pillaged my own files. Over the past 6 years since I’ve come back from London I’ve posed for several photographers. Granted that sounds really narcissistic, but I genuinely enjoy being part of the creative process, with a healthy chunk of vanity thrown in. Even in the several different shoots that have been nude at the beach/on rocks, they look quite different.
Last night I decided to put a bunch of my photos together in a video. I know a lot of the shots have featured on here before but it was more of an exercise to keep myself motivated now that I’ve done a few shoots and I don’t want to lose the momentum. Sadly it’s getting cooler here in Sydney so outdoor shoots might be out for a while and I don’t have a studio setup which is a challenge.
This is a very short episode of Aussielicious TV. It’s three of my five turns on the flying trapeze from saturday, so much fun. I was the only one to get both my catches! A couple of the poor girls were so scared and couldn’t make themselves jump off the platform, so the instructors kinda make them, by pushing them on the back of the knees. It’s quite funny, they scream at first, but then start laughing.
This is about as fast as I think I’ll ever put together an episode of Aussielicious TV, but I didn’t take a lot of footage, so you get it tonight. That and the longer I put off going to bed, the longer I can prolong still being on holiday.
In this episode you see my friend Russ passed out on the lounge the first afternoon before I went to the wedding, me making a very un-glamorous naked entrance into the tea tree lake at Tyagrah and a little bit of me looking a bit sad in the car on the way to the airport to drive home.
The photoshoot with Kieran on Friday night was a really good experience. He was much more comfortable this time, both physically (not anywhere near as cold) and with me, as we got to hang out a bit more and chat and get to know each other.
I really wanted to drape him naked on one of the expensive cars down in the garage but thought that setting the alarm off on someone else’s car at 2am might cause a few issues in the complex where I live. We had already organise that if we heard a car coming in the first roller door, we’d grab his clothes and dash upstairs out of harms way.
Today I finally got around to editing the footage of the other 3 guys having their shots done at last week’s shoot, along with the group shots at the end. Sadly these guys didn’t pose naked, or I would have given strict instructions on underwear. It’s a fairly long episode this one. I’m going to have to learn to be more brutal with the editing.
Update: I’m sorry. I didn’t realise I’d set it to private. It should be public now!
Now that I’ve got one episode of Aussielicious TV under my belt and more planned I’ve been thinking. Aussielicious TV needs music to go with the imagery that I’m going to be putting together and the idea came to me that there are loads of very talented people out there hoping for any bit of exposure. This blog doesn’t reach millions of people but it does get to a few thousand people per day. So, if you are a singer/musician/band and you’ve got some original material that you’d be willing to share with me to use on Aussilicious TV then email it to me and I’ll try and use it in a future episode of Aussielicious TV.
Tonight I’ve come home in a bad mood from class because although my hamstring was feeling much better and I was still being very careful, one small move and it’s been re-strained ever so slightly. So now I’m in pain and very frustrated wondering if I’m going to be able to even do the last two classes of the term.
I’ve also come home to find that youtube has deleted my Aussielicious TV video because of supposed terms of use violations. I’m sorry but I’ve seen dozens of cocks and arses on youtube. My video had nothing offensive or sexual in nature on it. It was a video of a fit body, done. SO in rebellion, I’ve taken Aussielicious TV to Vimeo.
Yesterday morning was a lot of fun. I was up at 6, which on a saturday is a bit brutal, but I went over to pick my friend Russ up who was coming along on the stripper photoshoot to video it for me. The poor thing was out til 3am and was still drunk after 2.5 hours sleep when I collected him and I can’t work out whether it helped smooth out camera shakes or made them worse.
A bit after 7 the strippers turned up on the beach and to say these guys look after themselves is an understatement. Holy SHIT these guys were fit. I started shooting with Andy first, as I’ve already shot with him and it’s very comfortable. As you can see from the video, he’s not shy at all!
Welcome to Aussielicious TV!
Update: I’m cranky now. The video was deleted from youtube just for having a bit of bum and cock in it. I’ve seen lots of bums on youtube. What’s the bloody problem. So, I’ve taken it over to Vimeo. It will be up shortly.
