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Nerves. I Have them.

by frogpondsrock on September 27, 2011

in film making,potential insanity,real life,vimeo

Today I go and introduce myself to some teenagers and see if they want to make some films.

I am incredibly nervous. I have already thought up and disregarded a zillion different reason why I cant possibly go in and work with these kids.

The physical manifestation of nerves interest me and as I am typing this I am trying to work out how my body is reacting.

My hands are cold and I have a whole colony of butterflies fluttering about in my tummy. My ears feel blocked and I am a bit light headed.I have a slight tightness in my chest and I need to go to the loo, again.

Ack. Why do I do this to myself? Why do I put my hand up and say yes I can do this when I have only just worked out how to make films myself?

I feel sick.

BUT.

I am well prepared.

I am going to introduce myself and talk about my work. I have one of my ceramic shells that I am going to take in as well as one of my dead bird bowls.

I am going to talk about being a storyteller and how we all have stories to tell.

I have ten minutes worth of short videos to show as examples of different styles of film making.

Here they are if you are interested.

And then I am just going to make it up as I go along.

I am now going back to reread all your wonderful comments on my last post on this topic.

But I might just go to the loo and throw up first.

Nerves. I Have Them.

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Occupy Wall Street.

by frogpondsrock on September 25, 2011

in real life

The text in bold is from the Occupy Wall street Website.

Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions.

The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%.

This peaceful protest has been going on since the 17th of September.

You can find more information here at Occupy Wall Street

As far as I can gather there has not been any coverage by the mainstream media at all.

This media silence bothers me.

You can watch the live stream here

Follow them on twitter here

or follow the #occupywallstreet twitter feed here

Ps. If you are looking for my Sunday Selections Post, Veronica is hosting it this week.

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An Open Letter to Dick Adams Federal Member for Lyons

by frogpondsrock on September 6, 2011

in arseholiness,headfuck,On my soapbox,politics,real life

An alternate title to this post could well be Dick Adams staff don’t care about his constituents opinions.

Dear Mr Adams,

Yesterday I decided to ring your office in Perth, Tasmania and voice my concerns about the offshore processing of refugees.

Your own website Mr Adams clearly states that

My priority as the Member for Lyons is to listen to the community and work in the best interests of all my constituents.

As your local Federal Member of Parliament, please feel free to seek assistance from me if you have any enquiries in your particular area. My priority is dealing with those issues that are directly related with Federal Government such as Centrelink, Veterans Affairs, Health, Immigration, Superannuation to name a few. I know there are other issues that cross all government boundaries and I am happy to help with those as well.

So I felt pretty confident that I could ring your office, politely tell you that I was concerned about the offshore processing of refugees and then I could happily go about my business, secure in the knowledge that my federal member was listening to me.

What I didn’t expect Mr Adams was your female staff member to be extremely condescending and dismissive of my concerns. I did not expect to be rudely asked where I had received my information about the governments refugee policy. I certainly did not expect to hear a tone of condescension and incredulity when I told your staff member that I receive my information about current affairs via twitter.

Twitter? She scoffed, as if I had just said I received my news bytes via the fairy telegram service at the bottom of the garden.

That was the end of the conversation as far as the office lady was concerned, I could hear the derision and laughter in her voice as she dismissed me as another bleeding heart, lefty, greenie nutter.

And that stung.

Way to go Mr Adams.

I would like to remind you Mr Adams that it is the 21st century. It is also the 21st century in Tasmania.

I use twitter as my main means of information gathering about all world events.

I tweeted my displeasure at your offices condescension and dismissal of my concerns to my 1518 followers

frogpondsrock Kim

just rang Dick Adams office to say I was concerned about offshore processing of refugees. Office girl was very dismissive of my worries.

My tweet was then retweeted by two twitter friends within Tasmania with a combined following of 4053 people.

You do the maths Mr Adams, three people in Tasmania with a follow count of 5571 people between them, tweeting the one message.

That is a lot of fairies at the bottom of a lot of gardens.

Yours in despair,

Kim Ponds Rock

Southern Midlands.

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Last night I watched The Cove.

by frogpondsrock on August 29, 2011

in Animal cruelty,arseholiness,environmental stuff,politics,real life

I didn’t want to watch the documentary, The Cove. It wasn’t high on my agenda as ideal background noise as I faffed about on the computer after a long day at work.

But inertia won as I was loathe to get up from the coach to find the remote.

So I finally watched The Cove because I was too knackered to change the channel.

I don’t know how to describe how I am feeling today.

I think I am in a little bit of shock still.

The film was very distressing

Even though I knew the dolphin slaughter was coming I was unprepared for the psychic impact of hearing the dolphins distress.

The sound of dolphins screaming isn’t easy to ignore.

I honestly dont know if I have the energy to focus on dolphins as well as all the other horrible things we do as a species.

We have a long list of awfulness to our names.

The Australian Kangaroo cull comes to mind then there is the factory farming of domestic animals.

We can also own up to the practice of shooting Brumbies from helicopters.

Designer pets and puppy farms. Sharks caught soley for their fins and then thrown back into the sea alive.

Poisoning of our wildlife with the horrific 1080 poison.

The list goes on and on.

But for the moment I am trying not to listen to the echoes of dying dolphins in the back of my psyche.

You can watch the cove on ivew if you missed it.

You can donate to Save Japans Dolphins

Or you can google any of the other appalling things that I have mentioned here and then come back and tell me what you think we can do.

I don’t know what I am going to do as I haven’t had a deep think about it yet.

Our planet is at tipping point. The ocean is in crisis.

Where the fuck do we think our grandchildren are going to live if not here on this dying planet?

We need to find some solutions today people. Not tomorrow.

Otherwise we wont have a tomorrow.

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Featured artist at the Off Centre Micro Gallery.

by frogpondsrock on August 26, 2011

in Arty stuff..,real life

Is Bianca Blackhall.

I quickly snapped a couple of photos of Bianca’s work through the glass at the Off Centre Micro Gallery as I was keen to share this young artists work.

I think Bianca Blackhall will be an artist to watch out for in the future.

Bianca writes,

This art is my examination of modern culture and the garbled cross overs of belief, opinion and lifestyles.

I am amused and horrified by the contradictions of our society.

This art is the product of that examination

Enjoy it.

Bianca’s work will be on show at the Off Centre’s Micro Gallery, ground floor, Salamanca Arts Centre until Wednesday the 31st of August.

Please mouse over the images to read the title of Bianca’s work.