“Once we were ready we headed over to Ray’s farm to be there by 9.00 am. Ray was nowhere to be found.”

Stopmotion animations by Fabian

Posted: May 16th, 2008 | Author: Davo | Filed under: Boree Creek, Hume Weir, Short films, Trips Away | No Comments »

These animations were drawn by Gold participant Fabian Hernandez. Fabian made these short films with the help of the Gold crew after our first visits to Boree Creek and the Hume Weir.

Fabian arrived from Chile a year ago and is currently doing year 12 at school. Over the past 12 months Fabian has worked with Gold, learnt English, and has found lots of good things have happened in his life. He is a talented artist and is interested in graffiti and street art. For these stopmotion film Fabian decided to experiment with charcoal and enjoyed shading with this medium. As Fabian drew from memory a single image was captured every 4 seconds while the drawing progressed.

 

 

 

 

The film below was made after the Gold team first visited Grahams farm ‘Oakvale’ in Boree Creek, NSW. It was the first time that Fabian had been to a farm in Australia. Two big differences he noticed were the drought tolerant saltbush shrubs in Grahams garden and the tractor out the front. These things are different to farms in Chile where its green and mountainous and where they mostly use bullocks and carts.

‘Spirit Gifts’ was made after Fabian and the Gold team first met Ray, a farmer and Gold participant from the Hume Weir in Victoria. Fabian chose this image because he felt it captured the ideas that Ray was discussing at the time about what the earth gives us and what we have to give back to maintain the balance.

 


Future food

Posted: May 7th, 2008 | Author: Davo | Filed under: Boree Creek, Farming, News, Photos | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

Farm Soundscape Workshop with Graham

Boree Creek farmer and Gold participant Graham Strong was a guest in last weeks SBS program ‘Insight’. He was invited to contribute to the debate on the long term effects of GM crops. To find out more and watch the program online, click on the link below:

http://news.sbs.com.au/insight/future_food_545143


Boree Creek Eye - the video

Posted: May 7th, 2008 | Author: James | Filed under: Boree Creek, Farming, Short films, Trips Away | 1 Comment »

At long last - here is the video of our trip to Oakvale, Graham Strong’s farm at Boree Creek.

It shows some of the planning and rock moving that went into making the Boree Creek Eye.


The Eye - update

Posted: May 5th, 2008 | Author: James | Filed under: Boree Creek, Farming, News, Photos | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Heather, Steve and Graham have been adding some materials to the Big Eye, at Boree Creek.

Boree Creek on Google Maps

Here is Heather’s quick report, and some great pics that she has taken.

“We have been building the wall up around the glass section and the pupil. Graham spread out some top soil and sowed some barley seeds in the iris. The contrails are from a jet flying over when we had finished today.”