NIDA

II was raised in the Western Suburbs, with both my parents working, I soon found myself working as well afterschool in my adolescent years. At school I excelled at most of my subjects and gainedentry into university to study Software Engineering at UNSW. At university, I was involved in creating a comedy sketchrevue on campus, with a computing and engineering theme. Being directly involved in the show, directing, acting,designing, writing, construction, and tech work, I developed a love for popular theatre. I then taught myself how touse design tools, and film editing to make little shorts, and special effects videos, mainly choreographed kung fuaction sequences. I was also approachedby various coop groups to design sets for musicals, plays, dance shows, and alot of experimental theatre around Sydney.
My creativity is driven by showing audiences, both thespian and general public alike, something new, fresh, and innovative.Something they haven't seen before. Being technically minded, I believe there can be so much more done in terms of showingaudiences live effects, to enhance on stage action. Like magicians and the circus, using technology, and tricks to showa story with alot more "magic" of the theatre.

Very interested in building custom control systems for lights,sound, AV, and set electrics. To enhance live performance, and give this new generation of people who have been broughtup with the marvels of computers and the internet, to have interaction, and something "cool" happen in a artistic, andtechnically brilliant way. Does this mean there should be a new type of technically driven theatre? Is TV, and live musicthe pinnacle of this? When film and TV immortalizes scenes and distributes it cheaply and possibly makes a profit.

I am here at NIDA to basically learn how to learn how things are built, learn carpentry and steel work. So I can become a better set designer, so I can see things through from the bottom up, to be economical with materials and time. I believeI'm economically shrewed, and have the passion drive and ingeniuity to make something

Where am I now? I would say I am enjoying being here at NIDA alot, techniques, and the cross course education is great. Meeting alot of very talented staff members and all who have the respect and mentality for working in the arts. Although I do feel that there is something missing, a real cohesion of the student body, there is no interactions between the respective courses, and it feels like there is a sense of self proprietary that exists with individuals above that of a community level. Being very involved on main campus across the road, I find it quite sad as extroverted, and seemingly socially artistic people do have a veneer of snobbery. It almost feels like high school again, which is quite sad in my regard.

Other than that, Tony is a great teacher, and I have a lot of respect for Nic Day and how he is running the production crafts of the Play Production program, which I find to be the most exciting part to my day, to slave away at something you love doing, working to entertain people.

Student Nutrition

-Nutritionist

-"Metabolism" funky catchword now used by marketing.

-Simple definition
-DIgestion

-Increased levels of amino acids and glucose

-Glucose is food for your brain. Rice Pasta Cerela
-Everyone has different energy needs

-Exercise will increase your body mass which means your metabolism goes up
-Fats have most energy per gram

-Water and alcohol gives you alot of energy
-The infamous food pyramid is replaced by the food PIE!
-Recommended served 5 serves of vegetables of today

-Multivitamids do not work it is the actual composition of the vegetable

-Recommended intake is 1/2 cup cooked, and 1 cup salad.

-2 pieces of Fruit per day
-Great source of carbs is Bread and cereals
-609 serves a day, a serve is 2 slices of bread, 1 bread roll, 1 cup of cooked pasta, 40g of cereal etc.
-Calcium is needed. Fortified Soy
-Daily FoodsBreadMilkMeatFruitVegies and LentilsUse olive Oil
-Garlic Capsules
-Buy Frozen Vegies

-Buy meat and bulk freeze

-CAnned Fish

-No Frills Milk

-Large yogurt Tubs

-Staples: on special, tomatoes, pasta/rice

-PLAN YOUR COOKING

An Inconvienient Movie?

-WHat is fact and fiction?
-Al Goreism
-How politically motivated is Al Gore in this?
-How much does he want to show how humanistic he is?
-How much bitterness does Al Gore show?
-Good people who are in politics from both sides, and need moral imperative to make changes that effect the history of humanity
-Earth Rise, 18 months, modern environmental movement has begun.
-Most commonly photographed picture in human history
-Grade school teacher story, did the contienents fit together, science advisor in the current administration?
-Reflecting the scientific theory of that time.
"What gets us into tourble is what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just aint so."
-"The earth is so big, we can't effect it at all.
-Atmosphere is very thin, thin like a coat of varnish.
-Not because of foriegners
-Roger Revelle, first person to propose the CO2 emissions connected to temperatures
-Designed th experiment in 1957-Middle of the Pacific, area that was remote
-First hearings of global warming in congress-1994 went to the senate
-Carbon Tax-Kyoto 1997
-Real impact of the photos of the glaciers and
-40% of people take their drink water from the Himalayan water
-Ice glacier, medievil warming period
-Temperature is directly related to CO2-300 Parts permillion. of CO2
-Not political issue
-This is more of a moral issue
-Is this story compelling enough to make thishurrica a moral issue
-Al Gore's story of his son, personal story to make more people relate to his cause
-Trivial and insignificant, is that what we are in the greater scheme of things?
-We are the first species with the technological capapabilities to change their environment,
-Cheat inevitability of death
-Man's intelligence got him out of the caves, what abou now?
-Jeatwave that killed 35,000 people/
-India went into 50 degrees
-ALl these high temperature records
-Increase in hurricaines-Record for Typhoons
-Temp increases, mosture increases, and gets larger and stronger
-Infrastructure still pays respects to the lecturers
-Americanism, how in the world can this happen in america?
-So arrogant, and really stuck up
The Era of Procrastination is coming to a close, in turn we are entering a period of consequences
-Undecided presidency
-The amount of frustration what Algore is trying to say
-America is still by far the worst contributor to that problem
-Connections to deadly species-SARS-Avian Flu-West Nile Virus
-Coral Reefs are bleeching-Canary in the Coal Mine
-Fear Makes people react quickly, and controls our society.