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So apparently when JZ fell over while doing his traditional dance at his fourth, er... sixth wedding it was actually part of the dance. If that is the case then he is probably the best dancer in the world as it looked so believable. "The "fall" was part of the Zulu dance, said Ngizwe Mchunu, who led the Zulu warriors who danced during the president's traditional wedding on Monday."I don't

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If you have purchased the latest Harry Potter DVD, you will have seen the Free Willy "Escape from Pirates Cove" trailer in the beginning. BlackGinger did almost 200 shots on the direct to DVD movie directed by Will Geiger and starring Bindi Irwin and Beau Bridges. The breakdown of shots was roughly a third completely CG shots, and two thirds comp or cleanup type work. I wont say much more than

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At long last I have the photo taken of all the BlackGinger staff men-bers who grew their face hair for charity during the month of November. In total I am proud to announce that we raised over R4000 and BlackGinger matched that total. So a cool R8000 towards CANSA. Well done all!There was an eclectic mix of styles from the regular to the extreme truckers. I must admit some of the guys went all

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I have been a bit silly this week.

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The month of Movember is nearly over and all the male staff, well most of them, at BlackGinger have been growing our moustaches in support of CANSA. We also got sponsorship from friends and family wanting to see how stupid we would look with the abomination that is a hairy upper lip.

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We finally finished the CG salmon job I supervised, shot on location in Hazyview and finished at BlackGinger. A great learning experience in dealing with underwater shoots and creating CG fish. Luckily we had a good portion R&D'd from Free Willy but there were still tricky bits we overlooked and discovered on our way.download here 15MBDirected by Slim of Egg filmsProducer - Gabriella HarrisFlame

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I really can't get over Thierry Henry, the way he celebrated as though he had done nothing wrong. It seems that since last Friday the French have really started to annoy me. My Mom's side of the family is Irish and I would have prefered the fun Irish fans coming to South Africa over the French.Enough moaning though... this is a prime example why football should adopt a TMO (television match

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sent to me by email - I do not know the original creator, but hats off to whoever it was.

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I have been a bit scarce for the past few months and there are several reasons for that.Firstly, I have been busy with work finishing a couple commercials and starting a few more.Secondly, the Currie Cup has been occupying my free time. BULLE!Anyway, one fun job that I was on shoot for was the Wildebeest ad for Garmin. Directed by Slim from Egg films, it shows how the Gnus actually get to their

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love it!

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Bakkies shows Kanko how many points the Sharks need to make the semis.And here you will find a great clip on the referee missing a few...

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Just a heads up to all SAfricans, "Up" will be released in glorious 3D by Nu-Metro on 18th September. Unfortunately it is not as early as the US release date of 29th May but I guess it will have to do.Here is a link to the offical site to keep you entertained until then.

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With South Africa being bowled out for 138 runs, at Durban in the 2nd Test against Australia, it was good to see at least a few South African cricketers doing something right over the weekend... unfortunately it was in a movie.During Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" a scene revolves around a cricket match on television where India's Sachin Tendulkar gets run out for 99 and it just so happens

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After numerous emails to the ticketing centre, they have addressed three of my concerns - the major one being the guest details. Here is their response."If you require more than 1 ticket on an application form, Guest passport reference details are mandatory in order to identify your guests and to facilitate the successful processing of applications. The data is required for purposes relating to

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Here I was getting all excited to apply for my tickets today but they have made it almost impossible to complete the form. As we all know, tickets are non-transferable, unless with the written consent of FIFA (good grief), and on the application form I have to tell FIFA who I am taking as my guest to each game I want to buy tickets for. I also have to give their ID numbers, date of birth and

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Holy crud - found at various sites, so I wont credit any site in particular, this is a gem - Christian Bale loses it with a director of photography on the set of Terminator:Salvation. "Loses it" is probably an understatement. He rips this guy a new one. He sure is full of himself as he goes on and on and on about how big a f&k up this was... get over yourself Mr Bale.Respect for Chris - GONE!

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"14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands."This short film was sent to me by a friend and it really cheered me up. As my friend puts it, "Now this will put a smill on yer face (unless you are of course a cynical bastard...No offense you cynical bastard!)"Taken from wikipedia"Harding was known by his friends for a particular dance, and while videotaping each other in Vietnam,

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This is pretty spectacular - it's a satellite image from GeoEye-1, the most powerful commercial imaging satellite in the sky, from 423 miles above the trampled grass on the National Mall during the inauguration of President Obama.Read the full article here

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I am back at work now for nearly two weeks and I must admit that I am almost back in the whole swing of things... like work, gym and general day to day stuff. There has been a long delay in posts until today because I have been away on holiday since the 19th December and then had to deal with all the beginning of the year crap.

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Now I normally would not use the word shoot and Beirut in the same sentence but on this occasion it was quite safe and this was also last year December, so no kak yet...

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The Blackginger website has had an overhaul. Now contains some "making of" and "showcase" spots. Looking better...

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Today I have some photos from the shoot of Bakers "Precious Biscuits"As well as "the making of" that Shy the Sun put together for us. Be warned the video is 12 minutes and 112MB...Making of -->downloadLo Res 49MBHi Res 112MBKids on location at Vergelegen wine estate. There were three locations within the forest where we shot the three parts, the beginning live action, animation plates and ending

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Say what? Thanks to ENGADGET for the pics and original story.This was how CNN decided to cover the elections - with cheese!Yellin 6MBThe first clip Jessica Yellin explains how the setup is working, multiple cameras shooting her at all angles in another studio, "35 HD-cameras in a ring around me... transmits what looks like an entire person" to the studio in New York. " The cameras here talk to

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Precious Biscuits is featured at ItsArtmag.com in and article with yours truly...Its Art mag

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