Wishing you a happy new year and all the best for the year to come.
Fireworks on New Years Eve in Melbourne
As in previous years, we ventured into the city to see the fireworks. I took my camera and filmed the complete New Years Eve 2012 fireworks show from the Docklands, Melbourne. Watch the show in High Definition on YouTube.
Melbourne is always full of surprises. On most weekends we can take a walk down to Federation Square and discover an event taking place. This weekend it was the turn of the Fair Trade movement.
At the Docklands, we found a series of Dragon Boat races taking place. Below are a few photos from the event and a short film. In the short time we watched it was difficult to determine what was happening and when, but those taking part looked like they were having fun.
Dragon boat racing at the Docklands, Melbourne
State Emergency Service (SES) looking after the boats
Dragon boats lined up to race
Dragon boats preparing to race
On one windy day in Melbourne I managed to take some footage of a fun and playful wind sculpture. The sculpture is part of the Docklands, Melbourne, and situated within a children’s playground.
Watch the film in High Definition on YouTube.
The sculpture appears to be referred to as the “Blowhole” and “Docklands Playground Sculpture”. An earlier form, or variation, appeared as part of the “Sculpture by the Sea” exhibit in Sydney in 2000 with the title “Windy”.
Update October 2011: A metal plate in the near by children’s playground explains all. A photo of the plate appears below.
Blowhole by Duncan Stemler - Click for a larger version
Windy, Docklands Playground Sculpture, Melbourne
Looking through to the Docklands playground wind sculpture
The artist credited with “Windy” at the “Sculpture by the Sea” and this sculpture “Blowhole” is Duncan Stemler, and the engineers of this sculpture appear to be Design Stainless Industries Pty Limited.
This afternoon we visited Melbourne’s Docklands to see the Japanese Summer Festival 2010 (メルボルン夏祭り2010開催). I had fun capturing and editing together some of the summer dance performance.
Watch the High Definition (HD) edition on YouTube.
Once again this short film was taken on a Canon SX200IS and edited with iMovie on Mac OS X. I continue to be impressed with the quality of the footage from a point-and-shoot Canon. iMovie’s stabilisation feature has been great for making more of my shaky footage useful.
iMovie on Mac OS X