Thanks Karen :-)

Boy, you were quick, the ink's not dry on it yet and already you've viewed it and reviewed it!

she lives inside her computer, vimeo is her home innum

That's what happens when you take 3 online classes, you sit in front of the computer a lot. Especially since one of them is screen writing. I just sit here and type type type away. I also never sleep....ever. haha.

I reckon you're right about Karen living inside her computer :-)

I get home from work in the evening and Karen's icon is on Vimeo; I take a quick peek at Vimeo again just before bed - and Karen's on Vimeo. I get to work early the next morning and Karen has beaten me in - she's already on Vimeo.

But that's one of the great things about Vimeo: people (like Karen) take it seriously - which, in turn, makes others take it seriously, and this inspires people to do good work.

Thanks for the inspiration Karen!

Hahah here's the thing about that..i NEVER turn off my computer. It's always on. And for some reason (because of cookies or something, it keesp me logged onto vimeo. I could turn off my computer start the browser and I'll already be on vimeo logged in. Haha. To be quite honest, I"m not on here nearly as much as I used to be which is scary how much I was on here. hhahaha

Hi!

Thanks for taking the time to watch the film - I'm very pleased that you enjoyed it.

A wonderful thing about the Sydney Opera House is that you can get right up to it and touch it. The sails start at ground level so they're very accessible - that's how I got a number of the close-up shots. It sits serenely on Bennelong Point - jutting out into the harbour - and no matter where you are, your eye is drawn to it. It is also has the grand arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge behind it in a wonderful supporting role. Inside and out it is wonderful in its satisfying simplicity. I never tire of looking at it.

Yes - you must! As one of the world's grand buildings it is incredibly accessible. You can touch it, lean on it, wander around inside and out. You have no idea how many people - locals and tourists - go there each day just to see and experience the building. It is glorious. Jorn Utzon did a fabulous job imagining it, and the engineers did a spectacular job building it. As you can see, there aren't very many straight lines or flat surfaces - and this adds to its mystique.

Thank you for watching :-)

im glad someone is as passionate about human superstructures as i am.

Hi Brett. If you have a spare 2 1/2 minutes, you might care to look at my film called Ben Bullen. It's another building, but a heck of a lot different to the Opera House ;-)

It does have wonderful textures and other details which give it an absolutely unique character.

Hi! Thanks for taking time out to watch. I am very pleased that you enjoyed it so much :-)

The Sydney Opera House is one of those rare things that you come across that look wondrous from a distance but which reveals itself in greater and greater detail the closer you get. As you can see, the tiles on the sails are arranged precisely in the most incredibly intricate patterns. And because the sails start at ground level you can walk right up to them and touch them. There's nothing between you and the building. If it was a piece of art - and it is - you'd expect it to be cordoned off to keep people back. The intention was to build an opera house for the people -- and the people of Sydney - and visitors from all over the world - possess it every day.

Yep - I do have a Flikr account. You can find me at: flickr.com/photos/totalisator/

Thank you Remyyy!

G'day Irina. Thank you such wonderful praise.

To be compared in any way with a Soviet Master is, in my opinion, a compliment of the highest order. Thank you! I moderate a channel called Cine-Eye which is based on what I have learned from my study of the works of Dziga Vertov -- the father of cinema verite and "unstaged" documentary film-making -- so your compliment is even all the more special for me.

I am also pleased that I have a soul-mate in the love of Philip Glass' music :-)

You also won my heart by mentioning formalistic compositions -- "composition" and the arrangement of successive images in a style that I have derived from Russian Montage is probably the key thing to my film making.

Thank you for taking the time to watch and for making my day :-)

Arnold! It is amazing that you love so much Vertov. We are big his fans too. And personally, I'm working now on one project in Moscow at the film studio, which is called "Vertov. Genuine movie." Good coincidence. :))
Thank you very much for fixing our film to the channel "Zoetrope"!

As for the Philip Glass - it is a great composer. I don't know more cinema-music than which he writes!

Thank you!

Thanks Mark. I like the concept for the channel and have it in mind to do some more.

G'day Michael.

The "spears" (at 0:46) are actually the railing of a fence which separates Bennelong Point (where the Opera House sits) and the Botanic Gardens. The fence is made of steel rods set into a carved sandstone base - I'd say that the fence runs for about at least a kilometer and Sydney photographers often use it to juxtapose the openness and natural beauty of Sydney Harbour against the man-made barrier of the fence.

I appreciate you watching and commenting. Thank you!

Hi Mariya -- thank you for watching :-)

Hello Matt.

Thank you for the kind remarks. And yep, I agree, the Sydney Opera House is wonderful, not just from a distance, but also close up. You can see why so many people come to see it each day.

Hi Jason. Sorry for taking so long to respond to your comment -- I lost a disk in my computer at home and it's taken a couple of days to get things back to normal. In any event, thank you for the generous comments!

G'day Pierre.

Thank you for your comments which are gratefully received. I agree with you about filming the "simple" things. Over the years I've tried to train myself to see the picture within the picture -- the things that a lot of people overlook when they're taking in the view or composing a shot.

And you're also right about a shortage of camera movement in my work. It's something that I've been aware of and have recently started to work on. In fact, a week ago I went out and shot a short film vimeo.com/1063169 with the deliberate intention of moving the camera. If you get a chance please take a look.

I must say that I do enjoy "shot composition" but from now on I will try to include more movement. For this reason I ordered a new Manfrotto tripod and head last week and I'm counting the days till it arrives. BTW: the only problem with living in Australia is that if something has to come from overseas (like Italy) it takes a while to get here! Aussies refer to this as the Tyranny of Distance. Mind you, the distance from anywhere else to here also keeps us out of harm's way a lot of the time :-)

See you later!

Kindest regards,
Arnold

Hey Arnold, your new tripod with a good fluid head will be a blessing four you. Glue the thing on your camera.

Will do!

G'day 2MM.

I'm very pleased that you liked my film -- and I really appreciate that you took the time to watch. Many thanks!

Kindest regards,
Arnold

G'day Tim.

One of the really wonderful things about the SOH is that it's not just a rectangular block -- its sails describe wonderful arcs through the sky and intersect in marvelous ways with the massive arch of the Sydney Harbor Bridge in the background. As you'll have seen, you can walk right up to the sails and see and touch the individual tiles. Jorn Utzon deserves full credit for having designed one of the iconic structures of the modern world - for me it holds its own against the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Colosseum and the Parthenon in Rome, the Acropolis in Athens and the Great Pyramid of Giza.

You must come and see it for yourself one day :-)

Kindest regards,
Arnold