Saturday, August 15, 2009

WEIRD WEEKEND SCRAPBOOK: What Lizzy Did On Friday

Day three of my first Weird Weekend has dawned and I feel a lot better than I did. In order to better concentrate on the talks last night I consumed much less alcohol. Having said that, I still managed, somehow, to suffer at least one hallucination: I could have sworn Charles Hoy Fort was brought in to do a speech but I must have imagined that one.

Lectures were interesting and varied: Oll’s Kraken was up first and we also had young Maxi on cryptids in pet shops (I later held a cockroach but drew the line at millipedes). Tim the Yowie man was a very interesting way to end the evening (I apologise to the speakers I have forgotten to mention but we were up till 3am listening to strange music and my brain is rather less than in gear so far).

WEIRD WEEKEND - FRIDAY

Max Blake
Tim the Yowie Man

Jonathan McGowan

Charles Hoy Fort




WEIRD WEEKEND SCRAPBOOK: What Olly did Next

Friday was a big day for me as my talk, ‘The Kraken and the Colossal Misunderstanding’ was the first talk of the weekend, just after the ever so slightly surreal opening ceremony.

The talk went more or less OK despite several technical hitches, and I even managed to finish on a joke.

As well as speaking I am CFZTV’s main cameraman for the weekend so this means I have to keep pretty much on the ball in order to follow the speaker around the stage and generally show off with slow zooms and panning shots.

THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE GROOVIEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR

L-R Richard Freeman, Rat Scabies, Jonathan Downes, Charles Hoy Fort