Circular breathing

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Circular breathing… The art of breathing in through the nose while simultaneously blowing out through the mouth in order to bring constant air intake to some kind of instrument. If you succeed in doing this fluently and continuously into the hollow end of a eucalyptus trunk, you’re on the way to becoming a real didgeridoo player. I won’t say I’ve already mastered the technique, but since the past couple of weeks, Jean-Paul has been vibrating at a more constant tempo.

Last week, after watching our video inscription to Van-tastic contest, Southern Cross CEO, who has allowed us to camp on site for the last six weeks, asked me to produce a one-minute promotional video for the tour they provide in the nearby National park. One day of film shooting and a later exchange of services, HERE IS THE RESULT. It’s a little bit more conventional than what I’m use to produce, but they are absolutely thrilled with the final product. The video is currently running in a loop amongst other films, in all the area hostels and in tour bus, meandering around the streets of Agnes Water every morning at 10 o’clock. Not bad for a first corporative production featuring real people instead of vectors and polygons. Watch it and give me your input; you might also recognise a very familiar face quite a few times.

In the Bush, on a clear night, the amount of stars visible to the naked eye is just crazy. Even more surprising is to realise what a wide open lens aiming at the southern version of the Milky Way can catch. Not always easy to find the correct balance between aperture and exposure time, but I was able to capture a few good prints of the sky above our little tent in the Australian Bush. The Southern Cross proudly adorning the flag, besides a scaled down version of the Union Jack, and which, in the sky is aiming at the geographical pole is always very clear at night. She also is used as a beacon for sailors, indicating their latitude. Here, she is very low, 25 degrees above the horizon, reminding us we are at the edge of the Tropic of Capricorn, at the boundary line separating the South more favourable climates from the soon to be hit by tropical storms of the North. Up until now, we had planned to continue driving on the road to the Equator, but we are less and less convinced it’s a sound plan. The problem with Australia is the enormous distances between landmarks… Since we came all this way up, it would be a shame to go back on our tracks because of a little rain. The other option would be to go deeper towards the Red Rock and exchange torrential rains for drought and heat only deserts can produce. We’ll have to think a little more about this one …

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