Yes dear readers I have been tagged with the label of being a dreamer at times. Which is totally true, if I had no dreams then what would be interesting as something to do in life? Simply doing this is a result of my dreams that have came true and there are more successful events on the way for 2009. Good grief it is not even 30 days old yet and this year is already looming as bigger and better than the success of 2008.
In the past I was a publisher and editor of several hard copy magazines this year I am back to writing for part of my living again with VITO MAGAZINE in New Zealand. The link will take you to my first published columnist blog post on the DREAM of being an actor, film maker or production crew member in the world of entertainment. Which reminds me the long process of auditioning and casting for the Fanging It ABC2 tv series which is doing a feature on me will be aired from April the 6th 2009 to the 27th. So tune in to see myself and the many other talented film makers discovered by this program.
It may seem to be a while between posts on my blog but much of what I do is a long dull process which can be labelled as creativity time I choose not to share that tedious process with my readers. Yes I do love you it is true and that is why I don't inflict that side of my work on you. The compilation of projects is like making and putting together a jigsaw puzzle at the same time while suffering sporadic bouts of colour blindness.
Welcome to 2009 all and enjoy yourself throughout the coming adventures you have and my ramblings that will increase in tempo as the year progresses.
Thankyou for your time and attention, Geoff
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Noostar Winner last week...
The "NOOSTAR" performers contest website has completed its dress rehearsal period. I was fortunate enough to finish in first place in the last week of the trial with the number of votes received. This would not have been possible without a lot of work on my part in contacting my various friends and fans on MySPace, Facebook and Reverbnation and asking them to check out my entries and to vote and rate them.
At last look there were only a handful of Australian performers on the UK based site among the singers, actors, magicians, poets and comics. I do find the title that the NOOSTAR admin gave my first audition vid a little embarrassing. I certainly don't believe or think that i am "Australia's Finest Comic". Comedy is an incredibly diverse medium, many fine comics have a core following of fans and people who appreciate their work. Yet ask almost anyone who their fav comic is and they will have a choice that is as varied as the colours in a rainbow. Just a quick vox pop survey of a group of people with say 5 world noted comics would have some say the work of one is funny and another's does nothing for them.
With my entries into the NOOSTAR comp I uploaded 6 vids that are all different, hoping that the variety would enable me to get votes from people that may like one type of vid and not another. Admittedly I have been promoting this to people who are my online contacts through various sites as mentioned above and now I am introducing it to another group of people at the ABC Contribute site.
Please feel free to check out my vids at Noostar, register and vote and rate my entries. I am currently in the lead for this weeks competition but every vote and rating counts. http://www.noostar.com/home
Thankyou for your Time and attention
Geoff Dening
At last look there were only a handful of Australian performers on the UK based site among the singers, actors, magicians, poets and comics. I do find the title that the NOOSTAR admin gave my first audition vid a little embarrassing. I certainly don't believe or think that i am "Australia's Finest Comic". Comedy is an incredibly diverse medium, many fine comics have a core following of fans and people who appreciate their work. Yet ask almost anyone who their fav comic is and they will have a choice that is as varied as the colours in a rainbow. Just a quick vox pop survey of a group of people with say 5 world noted comics would have some say the work of one is funny and another's does nothing for them.
With my entries into the NOOSTAR comp I uploaded 6 vids that are all different, hoping that the variety would enable me to get votes from people that may like one type of vid and not another. Admittedly I have been promoting this to people who are my online contacts through various sites as mentioned above and now I am introducing it to another group of people at the ABC Contribute site.
Please feel free to check out my vids at Noostar, register and vote and rate my entries. I am currently in the lead for this weeks competition but every vote and rating counts. http://www.noostar.com/home
Thankyou for your Time and attention
Geoff Dening
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Where's my tickets.....!!!!!
At last count there are 3,000 people who as life time supporters of Adelaide United fought and died in Two World wars, never voted for any politician who is responsible for the travesty of them not getting a ticket to the coming Asian Champions League match against Gamba Osaka at Hindmarsh Stadium. These people are all related to the other 100,000 people in Australia who also support teams who make finals in any given year who also fought and died in Two World Wars for this right and had at least one leg bitten off by white pointers while rescuing baby Harp seals from the culling clubs.
Without doubt it is obvious that as the author of the preceding comments and what follows, my affiliation to Al Quaida is certain. To be so un-Australian to be speaking out that the carry on from these fans who missed out on getting tickets, bore the living daylights out of me. If there was this much concentrated whining and whinging by a group of passengers in the bow of the TiTanic the iceberg would have shattered. Nor can the oversight of the State politicians over the past fifty years who have not built an inner city sports stadium be left out. It is imperative that $150 million be immediately made available to construct this vital piece of infrastructure or the State of SA will sink into obscurity.
Obscurity is the least of the problems associated with the lack of a premier stadium. As long as this is lacking, children will starve, the hole on the ozone layer will get bigger and those poor fluffy Harp seals that survive being hit over the head will be sold off to make fillet burgers at your nearest fast food restaurant.
Thankfully it has been obvious among the many comments online at The Advertiser site, soccer (football) fans are far more realistic about the lack of tickets than AFL fans. Among those who missed out on getting tickets venting their disappointment is a great swathe of balance from others. many suggesting that missing out on the ticket does not mean they can miss out on the coming A-League games including the Final replay against Melbourne Victory this Friday. Many comments referring to the 6000 empty seats in the game against Perth Glory last week. Where were these passionate fans ( "their beloved REDS, who they fought and died for in Two Wars" ) during this game as the REDS came from 1 goal down to win 2-1.
Sport is great fun, my passion for it is tempered a little these days. In fact some sports that once I played and followed, now make me turn away from on the TV or change channels. To be honest it is not the sports in fact that turn my head. It is the often embarrassingly incompetent Australian sports commentators, "at work, doing their job."
The desire to bury my head in a bucket of Vegemite until I lose consciousness almost overwhelms me. The tiresome, "wide-eyed Australian experiencing something foreign" act is the worst of all. As in touch with reality as the sight of "walking down the street amid a crowd of heads clad in hats with corks bobbing to keep the flies away." In 2001 there was an estimated 1 million Australians overseas at December the 31st 856,000 living and 250 thousand visiting http://www.southern-cross-group.org/statistics/stats_ausos.html Australians would on the average be very aware of international experience more so than many nations. Yet our lame sports casters persist in the cliche portrayal.
I am all for sports and the entertainment it provides. I even have three sports blogs plus a video series on YOUTUBE during the AFL season. All for the enjoyment the truly dedicated fans get from their passion, but absolutely no time whatsoever for the tiresome rants on Sport is more important than life... because it bloody well isn't.
Thankyou for your time and attention, Geoff
Without doubt it is obvious that as the author of the preceding comments and what follows, my affiliation to Al Quaida is certain. To be so un-Australian to be speaking out that the carry on from these fans who missed out on getting tickets, bore the living daylights out of me. If there was this much concentrated whining and whinging by a group of passengers in the bow of the TiTanic the iceberg would have shattered. Nor can the oversight of the State politicians over the past fifty years who have not built an inner city sports stadium be left out. It is imperative that $150 million be immediately made available to construct this vital piece of infrastructure or the State of SA will sink into obscurity.
Obscurity is the least of the problems associated with the lack of a premier stadium. As long as this is lacking, children will starve, the hole on the ozone layer will get bigger and those poor fluffy Harp seals that survive being hit over the head will be sold off to make fillet burgers at your nearest fast food restaurant.
Thankfully it has been obvious among the many comments online at The Advertiser site, soccer (football) fans are far more realistic about the lack of tickets than AFL fans. Among those who missed out on getting tickets venting their disappointment is a great swathe of balance from others. many suggesting that missing out on the ticket does not mean they can miss out on the coming A-League games including the Final replay against Melbourne Victory this Friday. Many comments referring to the 6000 empty seats in the game against Perth Glory last week. Where were these passionate fans ( "their beloved REDS, who they fought and died for in Two Wars" ) during this game as the REDS came from 1 goal down to win 2-1.
Sport is great fun, my passion for it is tempered a little these days. In fact some sports that once I played and followed, now make me turn away from on the TV or change channels. To be honest it is not the sports in fact that turn my head. It is the often embarrassingly incompetent Australian sports commentators, "at work, doing their job."
The desire to bury my head in a bucket of Vegemite until I lose consciousness almost overwhelms me. The tiresome, "wide-eyed Australian experiencing something foreign" act is the worst of all. As in touch with reality as the sight of "walking down the street amid a crowd of heads clad in hats with corks bobbing to keep the flies away." In 2001 there was an estimated 1 million Australians overseas at December the 31st 856,000 living and 250 thousand visiting http://www.southern-cross-group.org/statistics/stats_ausos.html Australians would on the average be very aware of international experience more so than many nations. Yet our lame sports casters persist in the cliche portrayal.
I am all for sports and the entertainment it provides. I even have three sports blogs plus a video series on YOUTUBE during the AFL season. All for the enjoyment the truly dedicated fans get from their passion, but absolutely no time whatsoever for the tiresome rants on Sport is more important than life... because it bloody well isn't.
Thankyou for your time and attention, Geoff
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
How much can you create, to entertain...
http://www.reverbnation.com/geoffdening G'day All, A supposedly casual day of rest as usual does not happen. Admittedly since 2006 I have probably had about 10 months of R and R in my opinion. It would be more apt to call it creative development time so there is no guilt. A lot of time is spent creating developing and producing the next projects to do.
It is just that "doing nothing' does not sit comfortably with me and that is simply an observation in hindsight has not been the case. Developing a new round of creative projects unleashes this awkward feeling of frustration in my mind as the bits all coalesce into a body of work. Success does not just happen the result is always highlighted when it happens but that is a very small part of what has taken place to get a result. Even when something does not succeed to expectations the same amount of work is put into a creative project and the most valuable quality to have is patience with a dash of confidence.
The added commitment of Jury Service during October put a bit more mental pressure on me. In a round about way though, concentrating on the case as I sat in the Jury Box was a good thing and helped me relax. taking me out of the self generated enclosure of the work in hand was a bonus. When the individual bits form into the body of the idea and what has to be done to create it that is all I am focused on. It is very easy to forget to eat, clean and socialise when I am buried in the moment.
Roll on 2009 hahah I am sure I will get everything done.
October has been the month on the rise for me Now the 3rd ranked comic on REVERBnation out of 560. ABC2 TV's "Fanging It" are doing a feature on my films and career. And "Footyhead" is in the running for a tv gig as well. Plus tonight I am doing a live to air radio interview with a Queensland station.
Thankyou for your time and attention, Geoff
It is just that "doing nothing' does not sit comfortably with me and that is simply an observation in hindsight has not been the case. Developing a new round of creative projects unleashes this awkward feeling of frustration in my mind as the bits all coalesce into a body of work. Success does not just happen the result is always highlighted when it happens but that is a very small part of what has taken place to get a result. Even when something does not succeed to expectations the same amount of work is put into a creative project and the most valuable quality to have is patience with a dash of confidence.
The added commitment of Jury Service during October put a bit more mental pressure on me. In a round about way though, concentrating on the case as I sat in the Jury Box was a good thing and helped me relax. taking me out of the self generated enclosure of the work in hand was a bonus. When the individual bits form into the body of the idea and what has to be done to create it that is all I am focused on. It is very easy to forget to eat, clean and socialise when I am buried in the moment.
Roll on 2009 hahah I am sure I will get everything done.
October has been the month on the rise for me Now the 3rd ranked comic on REVERBnation out of 560. ABC2 TV's "Fanging It" are doing a feature on my films and career. And "Footyhead" is in the running for a tv gig as well. Plus tonight I am doing a live to air radio interview with a Queensland station.
Thankyou for your time and attention, Geoff
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