On the set of the movie Aquamarine

On the set of Aquamarine 

They're filming the American mermaid movie "Aquamarine" a few blocks from our house at the mouth of Tallebudgera creek. This Sunday we all walked down to have a look. They've built an amazing set on the sand that replicates a 1920s beach club. When Kelly first saw it, she was angry because she thought it was a real development on the beach. But the whole thing is hollow, and only finished on the outside on the correct camera angles. There's a sign letting everyone know that everything will be removed and the beach "revegetated".

It's amazing how they have made the paint look weathered and beat-up - up close you would swear the building had been there for 40 years. There must be a real art to that kind of antiqueing.

Working with the blokes at Southport, on the Gold Coast 

This is what I'm leaving behind, work-wise. The top photo is the view from my desk - it's hard to voice your dissatisfaction with that kind of view. It's the Southport broadwater, just north of Australia Fair Shopping Centre.

It's a gilded cage, but I will be sorry to say goodbye to the good work friends I've made here, (above - Andrew, Derek and Edwin)

Barbies in Carbonite

My 7 year old, Sophia is a budding artist. Sage and Sophia have both really gotten into Star Wars. I bought the original trilogy on DVD a few months ago, and it has beaten out all of the disney flicks. I still fast-forward past the Greedo shoots Han / Han shoots Greedo part. Sophia decided that she wanted to freeze her Barbies in carbonite. After they came out of the freezer, she took them out into the yard and whacked them free with a hammer. Next we'll do the great Sarlac. 

My good friend and former boss at AUSTAR, Adrienne Tan has started a Product Management outsourcing company in Sydney, with her husband Nick. I’ve written a small article for the launch of their new company site. They liked my closing phrase, though I think it’s a little sermon-on-the-mount melodramatic: 'Between sales and marketing, sits the truth – and its shepherd, the Product
Manager.