File listing for the first montage
of
Dick's photos. & some notes towards musical styles?
Last night, Dick was in Melbourne and
skanking to the wee hours at a gig - one of his favourite ska
bands.
This
afternoon he has driven back to Melbourne and we are conducting
a long interview with him in Digital Zoo’s meeting room.
It’s 1:30 and we have spent an hour to setting up the room before
Dick arrives. The forecast for today: fine, hot, then partly
cloudy with light N & NE'lies. – in fact the temperature will
get to 32.
Interview
Lost Highways
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Trannies tripod
2002/3/24 15:18:43
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Gradually the outside heat and sunshine
combined with the lights inside make the room warmer and warmer.
Combine this with Dick’s fatigue and it is a low energy day.
We go through a pile of prints and transparencies with Dick
– him talking about each shot as well as answering my questions
about his motivations and methodology.
(One thing we don’t cover in the doco is the fact that Dick’s
skills extend well beyond photography – he’s does very cool
illustrations. Exhibit A: Dick’s pictures have graced the many
of the CD single covers of the Australian ska band, Area 7.
Appropriately his work includes the song: “Nobody likes a bogan.”
- featuring a mulleted flannel shirted bogan & girlfriend in
front of his Aussie Muscle Car…)
Of
course one of the best moments we capture is when we are packing
things up and Dick starts talking about the time he approached
one of the oil companies.
So by the end of the day it feels like I really have enough
material to put something together.
And, like so many stages of this production, I still think this
will only be a matter of weeks…
