Oh Hi Issue Three Zinefest ‘no frills’ version 2011
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Thank you: Katie Cheer Christian Hogue Gareth Warnock Martin Joe Elise Gregg-Schofield Adam Curry Melsa Davey Amy Shannon The Internet Destination Manawatu
The photograph used in the centre fold is of a painting I saw at Romantiques one day. Who ever did it, it’s real mean, and sorry for using it without asking.
Excuse my spelling, I know it’s shit.
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So here we are again. This issue is not complete, so you are unfortunate enough to receive this ‘no frills’ version sorry. The proper one will be done soon. Promise. This is still about creative minds in The Swamp, but it has come to my attention that there is a lot more to being creative than just thinking differently. There’s so much internal motivation and clarity required to put ideas into action. So that’s what this is about. People actually doing something, and doing it to their standard. Thank you so much for bothering to give this a read, hopefully you find something in here that you enjoy, and if not, please pass it on to someone who you think may. Thank you.
Christian Hogue Who would you describe yourself as? Who? Or what? Both, if that’s ok? Yea that’s fine, I have to think about that now. Well I’m basically a frustrated artist who has to make money in the real world, so. And not having studied art, or design, I did quite a technical background out at Massey, and I’ve always done a lot of photography, because that’s my true love, but I couldn’t see any way to make any money out of that back in the early eighties, which was when I graduated, that’s a while back. So basically went to the UK, on a grand tour, thinking I’d just top up the war chest before travelling on a bit, and then got sucked into, ah very early days of computer graphics, at a time when the industry there was rapidly changing. So basically have gone that way, with the digital ways through computer graphics, the really hardcore stuff, right up to much more easy to use stuff now so. Although I still don’t consider myself now as a designer, I do somewhat consider myself to be an art director in the sense that I’m cherry picking various talent, and working with them and putting them into client relationships I think might be appropriate for the client, and then offering technical support as well for the creatives. Because quite often they might be younger designers, I work with quite fresh talent. So at the moment I’m sort of kind of a sugar daddy meets frustrated artist. Kind of like a pimp, a digital pimp. Yea that sort of thing. That’s amazing. Yea, I’m not really sure what I want to do; even now, you just keep doing the fun things and hope it’ll take you in the right direction. That’s my philosophy anyway. It’s a good one. Yea. Avoid the business things. That’s really frustrating. I did that in the nineties, quite relatively successfully, those sorts of days when there weren’t so many people doing digital, and the equipment was expensive, and the expertise was quite hard to find. So, um, big money, special effects and animation. And I was actually invited to work on Terminator 2, after setting up a small shop in London, for a year. So I went down to San Fran to work on that, and came back with a lot more skills and ideas, and worked that though the nineties but basically got quite bored with special effects. Because its really a craft, rather than an art. Ah, but it’s great fun, seeing stuff up on the big screen, telling your mum you worked on this and that or the other thing. But at the end of the day, you’re really just pushing buttons for either the director, the visual effects supervisor, the art department, ultimately the people who are really designing the creatures. Even these days. I was quite lucky, there was only like thirteen people on staff when I joined so we’re all quite generalists still, although there was specialisation then. But now these companies, special effects companies, there are 600 people or more just for one film, some companies are 1500 staff and it’s all very
high client. So you might just be a foot modeller, a digital foot modeller, you know, and that’s what you specialise in doing for the rest of your life. If you’re lucky enough to have a job for the rest of your life. Because a lot of my contemporaries from those days are now sort of like itinerary digital fruit pickers, they go from country to country, where ever the film tax rates are the best, or the Hollywood studios where they send the work is not necessarily Hollywood anymore, so they have to like up stakes and head over to London, or go to Australia, and move around chasing the big films. No job security, they’re all contract or freelance, so it’s quite scary out there. They’ve never been unionised; they’ve never been strong with that. So luckily I saw that and got out of that quite quickly. So we hired some young designers rather than visual effects people in the late nineties, um, one guy in particular, Alex Rudderford, who was at the Me company, we were doing a music video with them. I could see Alex had really good 3D skills, he was playing with very simple 3D, he hadn’t made it move yet, but design wise it was very interesting. So we hired him, and another guy who came out of The Attic, who were really big in those days, Leo Mark Antonio, his family, big old school advertising family, his dad did some very famous campaigns in the eighties and early nineties, and these young guys we basically stuck on our expensive computer 3D boxes, that were for special effects people and they stated to learn 3D and make it move and stuff. The first interesting thing they really did, well they did a couple of short films for the early onedotzero festivals, that kicked off in ’98, something like that, I think they’re about thirteen years old now so yea, and um, so we had a couple of the very first moving 3D, really the first motion graphics, the first motion graphics stuff basically, Alex and these guys were doing, with my company Lost In Space at the time. Funding it in our spare time and stuff. He moved on to um, he knew Chris Cunningham, so he did a little bit of stuff with Chris Cunningham and then next thing we knew we were doing a music video for Autechre, Gantz Graf. That was quite ground breaking in that it was a really big, full 3 and a half minute, a tracks worth of animating 3D in sync with the music, all quite abstract stuff. And again, it’s like visually ‘what the fuck’s this?’ A lot of people hadn’t seen that kind of a thing you know. They might have seen the Terminator Silver crew, the Terminator going, some teapots moving around that sort of thing, but the whole abstract, back to bare bones use of 3D for what it really is was a fairly new concept. So we were really quite lucky to be on that wave of change, and we slowly changed to be more of a creative company rather than a special effects service company, which is quite fun. But still, running a studio in London, with the overheads and stuff was a nightmare. At one point I though ‘fuck it’ I’m not really into shouting at my staff because of the stress of deadlines and stuff, it’s like turning me into a monster. I’d much rather just be doing cool stuff and not having to worry about that. So I wrapped up the full time studio, and basically invited everybody to stay on freelance, then took on some more people because we didn’t have to pay them, we could represent a wider range of talent. So we re-launched Lost In Space as more of digital studio really. One of the first virtual ones. We had quite a few American clients in the early days, they really liked what we were doing and strangely enough the Brits didn’t really get it, it was maybe a bit too avant garde for them, or maybe I just wasn’t spending enough time in the
pub with them or something. It’s kind of a difficult market, the UK one. But the Brits were like, they’d see your stuff at a movie or a festival or in a magazine or something and call you up and say ‘oh we really love this, can you do this’ so we’d do that. Sometimes we’d never meet clients, some of them I’d work for three years before I actually going to New York and saying ‘Hi, this is what I look like’. So that’s quite cool. Then eventually realised I didn’t want to spend too many winters in the UK, it was getting really expensive and very beuocritised in the UK, a bit like here really, it’s a bit funny here as well. Anti-slapping and strange things like that happening, and people just getting uptight in general. So in Thailand, if you stay under the radar, it’s very liberal, their kind of society is not overly regulated. So being interested in Asia, it’s a great place to be based, half way between NZ and the UK, China happening. We’ve had some work out of Japan over the years so that’s quite cool. I like Japan a lot but the recession doesn’t make it easy to get work out of Japan. But we did do some stuff for the World Expo a few years back, with the young Chinese animation directress. That was quite fun, and a few other smaller things. That’s pretty much what, and who I am. Well I’m a kiwi, obviously. Just in case that got lost somewhere. That’s amazing. Answered the question hopefully? That was very concise. I though I rambled a bit though. Nah, not at all. I’ll make sure my phone is still recording. I’m so paranoid. Yea, because I can’t repeat that.
Elise Gregg-Schofield
I think he will too. That band savings account is a good idea.
What would you like to know?
It is! It was Andy’s idea at the start because he’s been in a lot of bands, you know, so this time around he’s like ‘if we’re going to do this, we’re going to do it’ so um yea we’ve got a sweet amount so far and it’s grown pretty fast. So one of these days we’ll bowl in there. Because we’ve got seven songs now which is about half an hour of material, I think we should go and record that now and then we can like move on and start writing more material for the band and stuff.
Well Elise, I’d like to know…. Who you think you are? Who I think I am? Yea. Ok, I think, I would like to think that I am a friendly extroverted body piercer, who’s also in a metal band. I think the most, like the two big things in my life are like piercing body mod side of my life and music. That’s probably mostly what I talk about, body modification is a huge part of my life, I live and breathe it. You know, get up in the morning and go to work and that’s what I do. Can’t get away from it. It’s awesome I absolutely love it, I can’t imagine myself doing anything else and I hope that I never have to do anything else, it’s my life. Any yea, no I’m in an awesome band that I love. Agreed that it’s awesome. Yea it’s pretty cool, it’s something that I’ve wanted to do for a really long time. Because I did like a lot of vocals when I was a teenager in an acoustic two-piece band with my buddies but I was never really satisfied with doing that and I have always been listening to metal for a long time and it really is where my heart is. I actually feel really lucky and it’s really awesome to be in this band now with three really cool guys and it makes me really happy. That’s who I am. Fun. That’s a bad ass person to be. It is. I enjoy it. I’m pretty happy with who I am right now, in this moment in time. Life’s going pretty sweet. Good. That’s all you can hope for. Yea. So what are your plans with the band? Well, onward and upward. When we started doing this like less than a year ago started this band with KK my mum said to me ‘what’re your expectations?’ because my mum often worries that I shoot quite high for the things that I want and that leaves me fairly disappointed every now and again. So from her perspective she just wanted to know where it was going. And I said well I’d really like to play at Medusa in Wellington. It’s really the goal that would be a massive accomplishment for me and of course we just did it last night so it feels like it’s just opened up. Like that’s where my expectation was, that’s really what I wanted to achieve and now that we’ve done that, and it happened so much faster than I thought it would and it was so much easier than I thought it would be that it’s like well let’s record an album, lets do a tour, lets go to Aussie! You know, it’s just blown up in my mind now. I’d really like to play in Auckland to a big crowd and I’d really, really like to record an album, and have something to flick out to people, that would be really fantastic, and it’d be really good if we could do that by the end of the year. But we’ll see. Where do you think you’ll record it? At The Stomach, with Craig. He said from day one that he really liked us and would really like to record us, and it’s um like in Palmy it’s really awesome that we have that there. Affordable recording you know. And all of us have been saving up and putting money in a band account each week so we’ve actually got enough to just walk in there and pay for it and do it. So um yea we’ll definitely do it at The Stomach, Craig’s a really nice guy and he’s given us a lot of support since we started and um I think he’ll do a good job.
Have you only ever worked at C2C as a piercer? Yes I um I got my first proper needle piercing the day I turned 15, at C2C, and um that day I knew that was where I wanted to work. And I pestered and I pestered Clint to give me a job and he was like ‘ooooh I don’t know’ and I basically just researched everything I could on the Internet about body piercings because I am just really naturally passionate about it and it really interests me. I just read everything I could get my hands on basically about different aspects of body piercing, different cultures, different techniques. Started piercing up my family and friends um and then once I started doing that, and started showing him what I was getting done um he offered me a job. It came about at a really odd time in my life because I was really sick for a very long time, I just had a bad digestive system, and I had had this really amazing opportunity to have a consultation with a private doctor in Wellington who saw me once, and booked me in for an exploratory operation and cut out lots of ugly nasty growth from the wall of my bowl and then like the week after I got out of hospital when I was feeling really shit I got a phone call from Clint offering me this job. It was like the operation was this massive turning point in my life, all of a sudden I wasn’t sick any more, I felt amazing all the time, and I got given this job and I’ve almost been there three years now, and it’s fantastic. I’ve learned so much, and I’ve been able to do some amazing things, and I feel like I’m really good at my job, not to blow my own trumpet. No I can vouch for that, you’ve put holes in me before. Oh yea that’s right. And I am really passionate about it, and I do love my job. I love giving people a fantastic experience with their piercing, and I hope that feeling never goes away. But I can’t see it going away. I’ve been doing it for the last three years and I still get up and love my job as much as I did the day I first started. I had four days off the other day and by the end of it I was really amping to go back to work, I totally missed it. I missed the contact with lots of different people, and I missed piercing people and just giving people that buzz and a new piece of jewellery and a little bit more confidence you know. It is a really rewarding job, definitely. That’s cool aye. It is, I don’t want to say lucky because I feel like I’ve worked really hard to get to where I am, I don’t feel like there was a lot of luck that came into it. You know, I did prove myself to Clint in the early days and because of that he’s given me a lot of really fantastic opportunities. It wasn’t luck; it was just that I worked my arse off. And I am really passionate about it and he always saw that, you know. If you’re going to put your time and energy into someone then you want to have someone who is going to take it to the extreme, which I have done. I am doing piercings now that he wouldn’t have even done, so that’s really cool. You’re very determined. What’s the freakiest piercing you’ve ever done? Um well I guess in my mind there isn’t really such a thing as a freaky piercing.
What’s the most obscure then? Well I guess for other people, the male genital piercings. They’re always a big deal, they’re really difficult to do, there’s a lot of other stuff that comes into play. There’s a lot of acting that comes into play. You have to pretend like you have your shit together the whole time even if you feel like you don’t. There’s a lot of acting, a lot of being confident. Because if you waiver in your confidence ever so slightly that persons just going to freak out. So they are never ever allowed to see that side of it. I have to have my shit together, at all times. But I’ve gotten pretty good at it, I know how to do it. And these days it’s not hard because I do have my shit together and I know exactly what I’m doing. But yea, male genital piercings are always a bit tricky. It’s awesome you know, I really enjoy doing them. Not in like a… I don’t enjoy giving people pain. Sometime I get people coming in saying ‘oh sadistic as, you like hurting people’ but that’s really not what it’s about, that’s not what it’s about at all. It’s about the happiness that people get afterwards, not about inflicting pain on them. I’m not like that. That’s not what it’s about. Where do you see things going, and what do you want? Well I mean, for me, and my base being Palmy, I love that there’s just so many new bands here at the moment you know, and you can only hope that that’s happening across the whole country. I mean if there’s not young people picking up new instruments then the whole system just collapses on itself. And um, I just hope that more people decide to pick up guitars and start like playing the drums and just find that little piece of confidence that goes ‘you know what, I’m going to do this, I’m going to fucking do it’ and if that keeps happening you never know, we’ll get more shows, other people will get more shows, and we’ll all move our way up the ladder and that’ll be fantastic. Did you hear that Ulcerate got signed to Relapse? Did they?! Yes, that’s pretty awesome news aye. So that sort of stuff to me is really promising for being a musician in New Zealand, in a metal band in New Zealand! To see New Zealand metal bands getting real recognition and real respect for it. And Ulcerate, they’ve been around for a real long time and they are some really hard working guys. They’ve put in the time and the effort, and the blood and sweat and tears, and they’re getting something tangible back for that. That’s awesome; I mean that gives all the rest of us hope.
write music, you start a band so you can share it with other people. And all of a sudden there’s all these possibilities of being able to share it with such a massive audience, its’ really exciting. Fuck yea. You summed it up. You’ve said everything. I kind of did. Bla bla bla. I’m sure you’ll have enough there. What’s your favourite drink? My favourite drink is coconut rum and pineapple juice. So tropical, holiday drink. Is there anything else you’d like to say? Um…. Come into C2C, get a piecring. And come to a Cephalopod show as well. Our next show is on the 3rd of December at The Royal with some really cool bands. Where can people hear Cephalopod? Um, people can hear our music usually at the Royal, we’re getting ready to release some music, or you can find us on Facebook. We’re putting up some demos soon. So at least there’s something. I kind of didn’t want to do that, I didn’t want to have some half ass, live recording of us but I think, because we’ve got over two hundred people on our page now, it’s like hrmm, I mean we’re a band but there’s nothing to listen to. So I think a half ass live recording is better than nothing. So we’ll be putting up some demos soon. We did get a pretty awesome recording from Swampfest, so I might chuck up a couple of songs from that, but yea, any day soon we will be recording an album which will be released just through me. Chucking it up on the Internet and taking it to shows and stuff. Cool. DIY. For sure, that’s the only way to do it. I found all these awesome CD cases, you know the slim line ones and they come in like ten different colours and they’re all really neon. Everything about our band is bright and colourful. For a metal and it’s totally like not… Nah it’s good. It is good! Because I am like a bright and colourful person, and I feel like that has to be portrayed through us as well.
There used to be this mentality of ‘oh you’re a New Zealand band, you’re never going to get anywhere, this is just fun and games. This is just a band for the sake of being in a band’. Where as now days I feel like we have way more hope for actually getting somewhere, if that’s what you want to do, getting out there and actually achieving real stuff. Getting signed to massive record labels, touring the world. You know, it’s a real, tangible thing to think about. That’s what’s exciting.
It’s kind of like a point of difference as well, without wanting to have one.
It’s possible.
It’s funny how everyone just listens to you when you have a microphone.
Yea it is possible. It’s not just a fairy tale, it can happen. But you know it takes a lot of work, a lot of time, a lot of effort, a lot of stress. But at the end of the day, if you work all those years, play all those shows, write all that music, and you’re going to get signed to a record label like Relapse then surely it’s all worth it. You know? You’re making albums that’re being released worldwide. All these different people are going to be hearing your music. And I guess at the end of the day, that’s all it comes down to. We can all say we play music for ourselves and a lot of it is, you know, I do write music for myself and a lot of it is very self centred, very selfish, but at the end of the day I could keep all of this to myself and never let it go. But there’s no real satisfaction in that you know. You
Yea. It is exactly. It’s a point of difference just because that’s who I am. I like to be loud and excessive, and in your face. It’s a good thing if you’re the front person of a metal band, maybe that’s why I’m so happy doing this. Finally found the thing where I’m allowed to be loud and obnoxious and get away with it.
I know it is aye! No matter what you say they just stand there and listen. You can just abuse the shit out of them and they don’t even know. Not that I do that! Do it next time. Yea maybe I should. Ha. Well thank you. No thank you.
Photography by Katie Cheer.
Martan Joe
Sweet. So do you want to take your video stuff further?
Who are you?
Yea yea… um, I don’t know. My main passion was actually photography so I’d prefer to do that but when I got a camera that could do video I was like ‘oh I’ll chuck the video on as well’ and now everyone one like knows me for my videos, and not really my photos. So it didn’t really go as planned, but yea. I knew this would be awkward.
Oh my god… Martin Joe, that’s me. That’s it, that’s all I have to say. What do you do? Um… you should’ve prepared me for this!
It’s not awkward! I’m having a good time. I did! I said ‘I’m going to interview you’ and you said ‘ok’. Ah... So what do I do... I don’t know. People know me as the dude who takes videos, I do that. And that’s about it. Oh it just turned off.
Ok, cool. I don’t like the lights on me, I’m just the guy who chills out at the back and you know, just gets stuff done. I’m not really the type to have the lights on me. Anyway, yea. So what else do you get up to?
Nah it didn’t, we’re safe.
Yea that’s it.
Take photos, you probably deducted that already. And I skate; you’ve probably deducted that also. I like to make music. Oh yea, so that’s my next little thing. I’ll make videos of people playing songs; maybe I’ll do some videos for my own songs. Well I’ve done one already actually. No ones probably seen that, it’s got like one hundred views.
Who have you taken videos of so far?
That means a hundred people have seen it.
Um, well it all kind of started with skate videos, because I’m a skater. So yea I started with skate videos, and with the whole culture of skating there’s always the dude getting the videos, photos and videos, the coverage. And there wasn’t really one in Palmy, so when I got my camera I though I’ll do that. I started putting them on YouTube, didn’t expect anything to happen, but just like normal people started to watch them, not just skaters and then I don’t know, people started to get me to do other things. So I’ve done a couple for like other things, Massey and stuff. Now I’m trying to do music videos. Yea, yep.
Yea well, ninety of them are probably just myself looking back. Critiquing it.
Ok well, yea. If I’m ever to be known for something, it’ll be taking videos, hopefully. Cool.
So you know with the show things you’re doing, what made you want to do those? My original big passion was music, probably before I’d even picked up a camera. It was kind of like, my first expression of myself. I’ve always still been in there, with the music scene so it was kind of natural I suppose. Just join two and two together. Cool, so where can people look at your stuff?
Cool. Do you have any particular influences?
Sure?
Um, YouTube.com/xjapan yea, that’s my channel. It’s all just skate videos so far though. I hope you like them. Or look me up on Facebook, be my friend, that’d be good.
Or life?
Cool, that’s it!
Either or, both…
Yay, five minutes.
Well there’s a really cool video, it’s called ‘how bad do you want it’ you should YouTube that, and it’s about this motivational guy that’s like ‘how bad do you want it’ like, I don’t know, ‘if you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, that’s when you’ll be successful’. That’s probably the biggest inspiration of my whole life, just that one quote. So yea, look that up and be ready, oh just get ready to be really inspired aye. Yea. It’s the best video out.
Yep.
On my videos?
You should probably cut like eighty percent of that out.
Gareth Warnock/ Ride for Cancer. So, what are you up to Gareth? What do you mean? With your bike stuff. Um, can we start again? No. I’m currently training for the cycle challenge around Lake Taupo.
will then just go into a total that I’ll give to Addis House. Possible you know a week after I’ve finished the race, as I’m probably aware there’s a few people who have agreed to pay me a certain amount of money once I complete it. So yea. Just don’t get too big headed about it. Just you know, appreciate the money people give, I know it’s, I know people are always pretty wary of who they give money to for um donations and sponsorship and funding but I feel I’m not really putting any pressure on anyone to give money, just give them that option and whatever they can afford is much appreciated. Nice. So what do you hope to achieve from this? Finish it.
When’s that? 26 th of November. What’s involved with your training? Um, lots of riding. Lots and lots of riding. Enough so as I can get around the lake in under five hours. It’s quite a bit I guess. At the moment only about three hundred kilometre metres a week but it’ll be adding up over the next few weeks towards Taupo. Where abouts have you been riding for training? Hill training, which is pretty important for Taupo, been to Totara Reserve, up behind Colyton, behind Massey, and just getting base training in. So essentially just long hours on the bike at a set pace, building leg strength up and stamina and endurance. Cool, so I hear you’re raising money for doing it? Yea, probably, about five, no six, no maybe five months ago when I decided to do Taupo, decided to raise money for the Addis House, the Cancer Society House in Palmerston North, to repay back what they gave me when I was battling through cancer. So now that I’m in remission, still, I feel like I should do something for them seen as they rely on sponsorship and funding to help support families in Palmerston North and I feel that getting sponsorship for completing the 160kms would be a good way to say thank you I guess, to show my gratitude. Just support something that does a lot for a lot of families and a lot of people. That’s sweet. So what’s the easiest way for people to help you out with that? Um, the people that know me can contact me, the people that are interested but aren’t aware of what I’m doing, I guess I’ll have a few posters around in certain places to let people know what’s happening. Otherwise I guess word of mouth through the cycling community. Which seems to have already spread a little bit, because you know I’ve only started the actual sponsorship part of it in the last week and it’s already got to some people I’ve never met before so it’ll hopefully pick up in the next few weeks and if enough people that are interested in it will be able to donate money, or sponsor me for a part of the race which
Apart from the obvious of raising money and finishing the race. What are the other motivations behind it? Yea I guess um I’ve always been one to talk about getting something done but I’ve always ah talked a good game for a lot of the stuff I’m in but it’s um it’s going to be pretty, I don’t know how to say it, I guess I’ll just be proud of myself to have stuck to completing something such as that. Like I know, I’ve obviously been training for it but there’s nothing really, I haven’t done it before so I don’t really know what I’m getting myself into but I know once I’ve finished it I’ll be pleased that I’ve stuck to something. I guess it’ll make a lot of people proud who sponsored me, a lot of people that believe in me, and hopefully it just makes me a stronger person. Cycling’s something that’s been that sort of release as well as my music, but something else to put effort into as opposed to just working and then doing nothing in the evenings, it’s nice to look forward to going out riding after work or riding with friends. More of a social environment is always nice. Yea. Don’t know if that made a lot of sense. It did. Can people follow your progress with this project on the Internet or anything? I guess the event page on Facebook is the best way to follow seen as that’s the only way most people communicate. It’s called Ride For Cancer 2011, so if anyone types that in they’ll find it. Those that want to attend can follow my progress, I’ll be posting in there how my training is going and how the sponsorship money is adding up, ah, certain people and places that are helping out the most. I’m not sure what photos will be available but I will be using a GoPro camera for the race so I’ll have quite a bit of footage from when we leave to go to Taupo and during the race and on the way home, and probably get one of my friends to collate the footage and make a video and put that up for people to see how it went. And I guess photos; there’ll be the normal photographers that are there at races so they’ll um I’m sure there’ll be a few photos to put up from the ride so yea. That’ll be the best way to follow what’s going on and stuff will slowly be kept being put up on there. Nice, good luck! Thank you.
Katie Cheer Hello. Hi. How are you? Great, how’re you? Good thank you. This is pretty standard. What do you do? Um, I do a few things. Most currently I’ve played in a band tonight. We’re called Robin. I think you’d enjoy it if you heard it. Um, and I take photos and I paint some times. Oh yea, so describe your creative process. Which creative process? Do you have one process or does it differ between music and art? I’ve never really thought about it. You have to now. Ha, um. I guess if I think of something I pursue it, then I go until it’s done. And then it’s done. What are your plans with art? Ah, this year I was kind of just doing it for fun, to keep up with everything, and next year I’m going to study and hopefully head towards a career in some form of art. Who are your main influences? Um, mostly contemporary artists, like James Jean quite a lot, a dude called Eric White is really good. Um, there’s this guy called Justin Williams who’s really cool because he’s from New Zealand but relocated to Australia and I really like the work he does. These people are all painters so um yea, mostly painters and illustrators are the people I look at I guess. That’s good. So you take your camera to shows a lot. Yea. What’s up with that? I just enjoy shooting I guess, and people seem to like looking at themselves so it goes hand in hand quite nicely. What’s your favourite subject to shoot? Live stuff is pretty fun, but I did a lot of portraiture last year and that was also pretty cool. I liked it because I worked in film a lot. Which is, the process is, I don’t know, it’s a lot longer but more effort makes it seem nicer in the long run. Like you’re way happier with the product when you’ve put more work in I guess. So what gear do you use? I, pffft, not very good gear really. I’m in the process of upgrading. But I use a 450D cannon SLR mostly with a fixed 50mm 1.8 lens, mostly for live stuff, because I want to get the most light in. because it’s usually like dingy venues and stuff. But for film I have like a, well your, 3000D with just the same lens. Usually shoot like quite fast speed stuff, like 400 asa+ so yea. What about your music? Um, I play drums. I play a few other things but not really in front of people. That’s just for myself. I don’t really own much drum gear; I also need to get onto that. I borrow a lot of things from people who are really nice to me. But I just purchased some really nice K high hats,
which I need to add to. Who’re your influences music wise? I listen to a lot of Pelican, a lot of Russian Circles, quite a lot of post rock stuff recently like This Will Destroy You and stuff. That kind of thing. But also a bunch of hardcore and other stuff. Cool. Who’re you going to vote for? Anything left. So, but probably Labour. Because I want anything to prevent Donkey from getting back into parliament and Labour has the best chance so I’m going to go with them. If you could have one thing written in print what would it be? No idea, can’t answer that. Anything else? You got anything else to ask? You’re running this shit. Where’s the first place you’re going to travel to? Um, going to go to Melbourne in January, which I’m quite excited about because I’ve never been there, and I hear lots of great things about the city. Lots of people are relocating there so I guess it’s for a reason. They were voted like most liveable city in some survey that they do every year like just an annual thing. Should be quite fun. Why do you wake up? Just to do the things I like and be happy I suppose. No like bigger purpose or anything. What do you think the best way to be happy is? Find what you like and do that, and don’t worry about other shit that’s not important. Sweet. Our band is pretty mean, where can people hear us? Yea Robin, ah we’ve got a band camp, you should look it up. Hopefully we’ll play a show in Palmerston North sometime. Oh we will, on the 16 th of December at the new Youth Space, I think it’s going to be at 6pm, sometime around then. Do you have a website? I don’t, because I’m a bit useless, but I should get onto that. I‘ll get back to you. I put like all of my live stuff on my personal Facebook page, because I guess mostly the people in all the photos are mostly my friends so they get to see it. But yea I’ll do like a portfolio type based website thing soon. Mean, thanks. Thank you.
Artwork opposite and on next page by Katie Cheer
Issue Three Zinefest ‘no frills’ version 2011