| Propaganda |
| 1.The idea of control through the media or public relations, typically associated with politics. 2.The spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution |
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| 300 |
| Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
Well, 300 mania is starting to hit australia. I remember telling people about working on 300 and after about 2 weeks they would be like, hey what film you working on. Idiots, anyway, everyone keeps telling me about 300, jesus, I gots to find some friends that remember things longer than 2 weeks, they only remember long enough to remember they just got paid. Get drunk, and forget until next time money happens to go through those big internet pipes, along the conveyer belt superhighway (why does no one say this anymore except simon), and into their thin cards that fit in their wallet, manbag, hobo pockets.
anyways, I hope this film is good, cause I didn't work all those hours to have my name spelt wrong on imdb for nothin.
Also, why don't people say flavour instead of later, seriously.
Flavour,
-JLabels: 300 |
| posted by Jamie Nimmo @ 4:52 PM |
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| Singapore |
| Saturday, January 20, 2007 |
Made it to singapore this morning, after getting up at around 5.00am to get in a cab to the airport I was feeling okay. Okay as in, I haven't registered that I'm awake yet. After sleeping on the plane for the first time, getting weird sleeping sensations from the increasing and decreasing cabin pressure. All is well. We are staying in an area called little India and had a fantastic indian lunch from a restuarant thats been around for about 25 years, or so the indian guy sitting accross from us was saying (yes I know, pretty boring fact no.1).
After sleeping in our room for a couple of hours, again waking up with little boy sweat around my collar, damn humidity, I suddenly had a realisation of what I had just ate, or maybe a sensation. Too much curry in one day is BAD.
Anyways, besides that its just kinda raining. I'm sitting in a sickly warming room typing on a keyboard thinking I should have another glass of carlsberg and annoyed my gameboy won't charge(boring fact no.2 ).
Hope to see you guys soon,
-Jamie |
| posted by Jamie Nimmo @ 10:59 PM |
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| Phi Phi and Phuket |
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Well,
Since arriving at Phi Phi islands, very beautiful, I managed to fit in 7 dives in the first 3 days of being there. I was able to test out my underwater camera and it surprised the hell out of me. It managed to survive the 6 dives I took it on, go down to 30m twice. Out of about 160 photos I managed to get about, um... welll.... 10 good photos. I had this habit of taking a shot either too close, or the wrong focus, but I can't wait to delevop the roll I took snorkeling at maya bay "The Beach", didn't see our friend leo there, although there was this crazy british chick trying to convince everyone to start up the perfect island community, weird. It has been the most relaxing place so far, so relaxing the thought of typing an email to let you guys know whats happeing seemed like to much effort.
Besides the diving, I took sophie snorkeling for the first time, just off a beach at first, then 2 days later we took a boat tour of Phi phi lay (where 'the beach' is). We went to some amasing reefs, so many fish, so beautiful. On the boat, nath, an american guy from south carolina, and myself could throw tiny bits of bread around sophie and his girlfriend and fish would swarm around them. It was so much fun, hearing the girly screams.
Did lots of lying around, watched heaps a movies on the pay channels, watched some thai boxing, watched lots of the scandinavians, man, so many swedes, and im not talking about the vegetable.
Anyways, at patong beach now, on phuket, man, every guy here has a thai girl attached to them, either that, or a thai guy. Its such a weird place, think The cross on steroids, massive bars, girls, people offerring lots of shows, fire shows, dancing shows, ping pong shows, noodle shows (was intriged by this one), mouse shows (I just didn't want to think about that one). So loud, we got a backpackers room accross the road from the main strip Bang la. I think the sub woofer under the floorboards stopped around 4am. I managed to sleep like a baby for once, but soph didn't. The beache's here again, word of the email, amasing. The music choice on the other hand, really bad. I have no idea why emotional rock is a tropical soundtrack, its like everyone who runs a bar has growing pains to get through, or they put on donovan and simon and garfunkel, I can handle that a little, or a early 80's cover band doing donovan or the funkelmaster, whats the deal. The only escape is to find the sweet sweet sounds of bob marly.
Today hopefully we can find a place to stay and fly to singapore tomoz, again another early morning flight.
hope you'all's doin well.
cheers,
-jamie |
| posted by Jamie Nimmo @ 10:57 PM |
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| New Years and bangkok |
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Howdy all,
New Years in Honkers was great, hanging with the teale man, making BBQ, drinking Sing Tao beer till the cows come home, watching the teale speciale countdown, was such a great night. After a bit of a recovery the next day with Yum Cha, I couldn't get enough of yum cha in honkers, every place I went to had something that was excellent. Got a little bit of chef nimmo shot, thankyou Teale and P, without you I wouldn't have been able to organise such a well organise shoot ;)
After that it was off to Macau with Teale and Phil, it was great having you guys along, esspecially phil's excellent mandderin interpretation. After seeing the sights, not many to see in Macau, we headed for beer. It was such a mission, I couldn't believe that there was no bars in Centro, so we headed to casino central, walked around a casino, got lost, got kicked outa vip areas sent from one end to the other and back again and decided that going to a all you can drink for $20 bar was the go. After downing a few beers and the happy hour ran out, we soon discovered it was a strip club. funny that when the happy hour runs out the shows begin and the beers quadruple the cost. We decided to leave the place and grab some beers from the 7-11 ( the best place to buy beer everywhere it seems except australia). Ended up in a portugese style quad with a fountain and drank with the locals.
again suffering a hang over, we ended grabing a pork cutlet in a bun for breakfast, apparently famous for its pork in buns, and headed for anywhere that served some kind of coffee. Packing our bags Soph and I left adam and phil to continue to Bangkok.
Not a bad flight, we landed in bangkok greeted with "Taxi, Taxi, Taxi, where you heading, how long you been here?" Hmm after being ripped off in china we grabbed a metred taxi and head off into the city. Now this is where I found bangkok to be one big tourist town, I couldn't believe it, the whole place had that crappy vibe of dumb tourist walking around everywhere and I was there adding to it. Damn, wasn't quite sure how to take it, so we headed to Khao san road to live the travelling dream. To exist in a place completly dodgy, unlike the culture of the place, expensive beer and people wanting you to buy heaps a crap over and over no matter how many times you say no. The only thing going for it, is that its real easy to chat to other travellers, compare who has been ripped off the worse, or whos been the sickest from the local food. Unfortuantly for me the only stories I could tell were some ghost stories, oh well. Although, later back at where we were staying I scared the crap out of another traveller with ghost stories, water started streaming out of his eyes during the juciy bits. Its funny how people react to the super natural. Not to make fun of him, but it spun me out that you could affect people so much through story. |
| posted by Jamie Nimmo @ 10:54 PM |
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| Hong Kong - Christmas |
| Tuesday, December 26, 2006 |
Back in Hong kong again.
Man what a journey to China. The last 5 days have been a very interesting experience.
Christmas in Hong Kong was great. Tim and Ali cooked a fabulous 9 Kg turkey, thats right, a whooping 9kg tukey using a 1950's recipe called a thompsons turkey. Using eggs mustard and flour to create a coating that goes black, but onced removed is a delicious moist turkey inside. It was basted every 15 mins for 5 hours. After eating it for around 2 hours, we had only eaten one side of the breast for 4 people. I was so stuffed a had a tummy ache when I went to sleep that night. The beer, champagne (verve my favorite), white and red wine and finshing with whiskey could also have something to do with it. It was such a treat travelling and having this amazing christmas dinner, thankyou Ali and Tim. |
| posted by Jamie Nimmo @ 8:37 PM |
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| China - Part 2 |
| Saturday, December 23, 2006 |
Well, after my initial shock of comming to china, I have become more accepting of travelling as a minority and/or general freak show. I wonder aimlessly now not worrying about the judging eyes. Instead, I love the interaction with the people who are very nice and friendly. I am totally amazed that I was able to buy a whole new designer outfit, jumper, jacket, 2 x jeans and a tourist shirt for $110 AUD.
For brunch we went to the guangzhou restaurant for Yum cha. It was the most amazing Yum Cha I have ever had, the dim sum here is awesome. For lunch snack, I grabbed BBQ squid from the street, hmmm.... still not sure how it sits, tasted good, but sat weird like the frogs legs. Anyways, enough about the food.
I find myself totally amazed at how some of the american tourist treat people in shops here. Getting annoyed at them for not understanding what they want, so they think that yelling at them angrily will make them understand better. Its funny, cause I can see the shop keeper getting angry back and just double or triple the price. The best advice I was given was a phrase book, it is so much better to try and engage them, and surprisingly, this leads to laughter and a more friendly vibe.
Bartering is a crazy system, but when soph and I tag team together we were able to get a great price, not good but great, or greater, ah engrish.
-J |
| posted by Jamie Nimmo @ 9:58 PM |
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| China - Guang zhou (2 hrs from Hong Kong) |
| Friday, December 22, 2006 |
Crazy China,
China, weird smells, looks, lanuage, general feelings of everything. Culture shock, minority for the first time in my life. Strange food, I think I ate frog legs, just pointed to picture, I wanted something challenging, but once eaten, well, not sure how it sits. Pint of beer, oh beer oh beer, how familiar you are no matter where I am. Thinking I should be stickering, but once out, too many sounds, sights smells, people to take in. I forget I am hungrey till I take rest. Too bewildered to look where I am going, tripping, falling, tripping, bumping, knocked around and bumping into things. I am feasting my eyes to look where I am going.
bargin clothes, bargin food, universal attitudes of youth around. Laughing, have had some fun trying to communicate. Mute, mute, mute I find I have lost my voice, my mode of communica, my soul of expression that definds me. all I do now is point, point point. Look, laugh, show some scribble in a book, ah.... kind of understand, look down, around, at them, are they just as embaressed as I? Who am I if I cannot yell out to the world through lanuage.
Who are these people, why do I feel as if everyone is out to scam me. Who has tarnished their minds before I have come here? Who has given them this impression of me, they do not know me, but the colour of my skin, the colour of my money. Children walk with me holding out there hands. Beggers grip on to me and will not let me pass, shouting at me, I cannot understand, but I know they understand, I am a walking bag of gold, if they hang on to me, it will spill out, showering them in good fortune.
I know this is culture shock, and fuck anyone who thinks I am arrogant or biggoted. I just want my tongue to reach out and touch them in understanding. Alas, I am a lonely voice with the wrong characters in my voice. I want to laugh with them.
China is a weird place for me, hello guangzhou, you are now part of my life.
Just a few thoughts on china.
-Jamie |
| posted by Jamie Nimmo @ 11:16 PM |
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| Taiwan |
| Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
Howdy peeps,
On monday I boarded my first overseas flight. After a shaky and very noisey take off it was all good. The service was great and the tv screens in the back of the seats were quite novel. After the first couple of hours the reality of being stuck in a metal cylinder flying through the air at 500 km/h set in. After a couple of movies, 4 beers, a bit of drawing, listening to music, and talking to the people next to us we were finally arriving in Taiwan.
It was 7pm there and we got shuttled off to a golf resort about 25mins from KCS international airport. There was no bar, no atmosphere and nothing around it for kilometers. So we went to sleep after surfing the 100 channels of asian soaps. We decided to go to taipei the next day but the resort the airline supplied us didn't do a bus to taipei and after a $50 AUS, $850 NT taxi into the city it was well worth it. The building are all tiled and it was kinda a slight ordered chaos. We managed to take the MTR, eat a bowl of wonton noodles, lined up behind a bunch of locals for a street fried dumpling (damn good pork centre). Found the shuttle bus back to the airport $125 NT dollars. When we got back to the airport our flight was cancelled, but luckily we were there quite early and we were put on a early flight. Got on the plan with a horrible meal that smelt like feet and taste like feet, but the melon dessert was awesome. After and hour and half we arrived in Hong Kong.
-J |
| posted by Jamie Nimmo @ 1:29 PM |
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| Fly away Jamie |
| Friday, December 15, 2006 |
As of monday I will be flying away to south east asia.
My travel agenda is:
A night stopover in taipei(taiwan), hongkong, china (guangzhou, shenzen), back to hongkong, macau, bangkok, phuket, phi phi island (scuba diving), singapore, wet coast malaysia up to Kuala Lupur, cameroon highlands, back to Kuala lumpur, sydney.
This is going to take me 40 days, and I'm thinking when I get a chance to get near the internet, i'll drop a post here so everyone that reads this can see what i'm getting up to. I guess thats going to be Ross and Mark, maybe.
I have been having many restless nights this week in anticipation to going overseas for the first time. Well, if I don't get to see you before I head off, farewell, I hope all my peeps out there have a great holiday season. I hope all the people going to peats ridge have an excellent time, and to the people playing, good luck.
cheers,
-Jamie |
| posted by Jamie Nimmo @ 3:26 PM |
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| Top 2% own the world |
| Thursday, December 07, 2006 |
Have you ever got the feeling sometimes we are moving towards a corporate monarchy. I was reading an article on the BBC website that was based on a UN report:
The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of all household wealth, according to a new study by a United Nations research institute.
The report, from the World Institute for Development Economics Research at the UN University, says that the poorer half of the world's population own barely 1% of global wealth.
The article goes on to explain briefly what it means by wealth:
What they mean by wealth in this study is what people own, less what they owe - their debts. The assets include land, buildings, animals and financial assets.
This is interesting, especially from what Ross is saying. This gives us an indication of what percentage of people can bridge the gap, from spending, to be able to own assets. With pushes from both sides, the government and the corporations to spend. No wonder wealth generation is hard for the average. I wonder what the current education is given to youth in their teens about 'the market', or even business plans.
Its funny, the older I get, the more I think that economics and politics needs to be taught as standard subjects in high school. Not as whole year subjects, but at least a term or two each year. From year 7 to 12. Just to make sure people know how to vote effectively. The difference between local and federal government. The constitution and law systems. Basic economics, market forces, economic indicators, externalities, etc. I think this would be a lot more effective than placing a chaplain at every school.
I remember a little about the politics that was taught in primary school. But that said, primary school is too early to really understand what politics is about. You are still trying to figure out the politics of the schoolyard and gender roles. When I got to high school it was elective, if was even offered.
Will education about politics and modern economic markets help close the gap? Or should we follow the american university system and make each first year student cover at least one subject in each faculty? Or is it a bigger problem with the way international markets are constructed?
One last note, whatever happen to the G8 pledge to help eradicate poverty in Africa? |
| posted by Jamie Nimmo @ 10:14 AM |
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| About Me |
Jamie Nimmo
and Ross Jones
Jamie, Sydney Australia. Is a visual effects artist working for Animal Logic.
Ross, Melbourne Australia. Has a degree in Commerce and is currently a financial Anaylst
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