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The Aston Shuffle (feat. Danimal Kingdom) — Do You Want More

Published on July 19, 2009 in Acting, Photo Gallery and Video. 2 Comments

A music video for The Aston Shuf­fle based around the theme of a Japan­ese eat­ing con­test? Why not! Yes I do get eaten in the end by a really hun­gry Japan­ese girl and yes, those foods do look a lit­tle bit strange on screen but I assure they they were more tasty than they looked.

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Love My Way

Published on June 30, 2009 in Acting and Video. 3 Comments

The Aston Shuffle Music Video

Published on June 12, 2009 in Acting and Music Videos. 0 Comments

The Aston Shuffle Music Video

So it’s 1:38 AM and I’m in bed ready to catch some zz’s. Film­ing for The Aston Shuttle’s new music video took the entire day but dang was it fun. If you count run­ning around in freez­ing cold weather wear­ing a sports sin­glet the entire day fun then sure, it was pretty darn cool.

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Despite the early stages of onset hypother­mia only delayed due to strateget­i­cally stand­ing in front of gass heat­ing and the pre­sen­ta­tion of two Japan­ese warm­ing packs by the makeup artist (thanks for them!), I had a blast play­ing one of the char­ac­ters in the ensem­ble cast; not to men­tion that we were all well feed and coffee’d up. (The mean­ing will become appar­ent when the music video is offi­cially released.)

Well it’s 1:45 AM now and I’m ready to bajoinker out.

Catch you all later,

Kym

Costume Fitting for “Dark and Secret Places”

Published on May 1, 2009 in Acting and Movies. 0 Comments

Check out the top secret pho­tos taken dur­ing the recent cos­tume fit­ting for “Dark and Secret Places”; an inde­pen­dant fea­ture film writ­ten and directed by Claire McKenna.

The cos­tumes are sorted, the return of the direc­tor immi­nent, and the film­ing set to begin. Col­lec­tively… ohhhhh!

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Filming on the Set of ‘The Sebet’

Published on April 9, 2009 in Acting, Movies and Random. 0 Comments

Here are some pho­tos I took (sssssssssssssh!) between takes dur­ing the film­ing of the bat­tle scene of ‘The Sebet’, an orig­i­nal inde­pen­dent fea­ture film con­cept cre­ated and writ­ten by Lisa Cam­pos and Cresta Nickl.

Unfor­tu­natly for the voyeurs out there, there’s noth­ing too reveal­ing in these pho­tos as reveal­ing behind-the-scenes pho­tos are a big no no. So maybe some pho­tos of grass, moun­tains and skies will be suf­fi­ciently inter­est­ing enough to con­vince you that I was there and that it was actu­ally pretty neat-o.

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An inter­est­ing day run­ning around wav­ing swords and shields and pos­ing with strate­gi­cally placed angels in menanc­ing bat­tle poses and for­ma­tions. The dark side got to shout obscen­i­ties and grunt a lot how­ever. Turns out being a mem­ber of an angel army requires composure.

Despite this, the day wasn’t with­out inci­dent. One girl had to be taken to hos­pi­tal as an errant sword caused a minor cut in her lip. Turns out psudo bat­tle scenes can be quite dan­ger­ous after all.

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More Infor­ma­tion

Sebet Pro­duc­tions have pro­duced a three minute pitch­ing teaser directed by Lukas Strautins of Sprocket Films along with indus­try pro­fes­sional, Direc­tor of Pho­tog­ra­phy, Trish Keat­ing.

On the Sev­enth Day before he rested, God cre­ated The Sebet. These angels who would become the guardians of sin, bestowed with the duty of watch­ing over man.

The great bat­tle between Lucifer’s army of demons against the Sebet has raged over cen­turies. After fail­ing to fol­low God’s order to destroy Lucifer, the Sebet would fall from favor in the heav­ens; ban­ished to the land of men. Stranded and deserted, the Sebet accept Lucifer’s offer of immor­tal­ity cursed with a thirst of drain­ing the blood from every sin­ner and deliv­er­ing them to the fires of hell. It is with this unend­ing thirst that the first vam­pire is cre­ated. With every pass­ing year, the Sebets’ bond with­ers and their thirst grows stronger.

Will they reunite to redeem them­selves as God’s angels or will they for­ever live in dark­ness, cursed by Lucifer?

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‘The Sebet’ Costume Fitting

Published on February 26, 2009 in Acting. 2 Comments

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What do you get when you cross a guy with too much spare time on his hands who suf­fers from some from of atten­tion deficit hyper­ac­tive dis­or­der, with strangely pro­por­tioned demon pants that hap­pen to look exactly like angel pants (which are the pants I was sup­pose to wear, but I used demon pants instead so they had some form of ref­er­ence given the sup­ply of angel pants had run out pre­ma­turely)? Some­one who has trou­ble wear­ing pants of course.

After much falafel and jump­ing back and forth try­ing to some­how get those wide-hipped battle-pants on, I some­how got it look­ing respectable-like… but only by going out­side again and ask­ing wardrobe to assist by pro­vid­ing me with an exten­sive how-to on the pants. (Wardrobe even­tu­ally gave up and came and did it for me woooo.)

“But hang on a bur­gundy sec­ond Kym! What in the galactic-monkey are you talk­ing about? ‘The Sebet’?

‘The Sebet’ is a movie about angels, demons and vam­pires. The primeval strug­gle between light and dark has torn the world asun­der and in epic bat­tle, that dates back to antiq­uity, angels and demons meet to wage war upon each other. Vam­pires some­how fit in between. Sounds EPIC doesn’t it?

Today was the day I went in to be fit­ted for my cos­tume for the movie. Film­ing will take place this Sun­day. Next time you’re at the cin­ema watch­ing a movie that has both angels and demons in it, pay close atten­tion, espe­cially to any big bat­tle scenes. More specif­i­cally, check out the angels because I am an angel.

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Dark and Secret Places Rehearsal 1

Published on December 17, 2008 in Acting. 0 Comments

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Dear Blog,

So uhhh… back from the first day of rehearsal. Meet­ing every­one, hav­ing a “read through” of a new, revised script and what-not. Kinda cool. Kinda fun. Kinda nice.

Out­side was pour­ing with rain. I could almost swim in the street. There was enough water any­way to the­o­ret­i­cally drown given that appar­ently, you only need 2cm of water to drown; thus why a friend-of-mine’s grand­mother has a fit every time she sees her walk near a puddle.

“No Tar­lina!! No!! You will drown!! Stay away from that lit­tle pud­dle!! You want to what???! Swim at the beach??! Have you gone men­tal!!!! My grand­daugh­ter. Oh my dear grand­daugh­ter. Lord what have I done to deserve this?”

We did a few scene run throughs where I die and the female lead screams out, whilst try­ing to pro­tect me from the evil clutches of the evil guy, repet­i­tively, “Nooooo. Noooooo! Nooooooo!! NOOOOOOOO!!” It was rather hilar­i­ous to be hon­est, mostly because I couldn’t remem­ber my lines, and was try­ing to do my best imper­son­ation of the girl from The Exor­cist whilst we were accom­pa­nied in the back­ground by some errant tunes of upbeat folk music. I had to sti­fle laugh­ter while pre­tend­ing I was dying… say what?

So check it out. Am I like… nay actor or what! At least my goal of hav­ing a spec­tac­u­lar onscreen death will be ful­filled at long last… unless you count my pre­vi­ous adven­tures as Sars Boy.

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More Behind-the-Scenes Candid Shots From Racist

Published on December 12, 2008 in Acting. 7 Comments

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Check it outtttt. I gots blood… in my mouth… all over my face… kinda outta place… but some­what cool… too kool for skool and any­thing else that rhymes… sub­lime. Just some behind-the-scenes can­dids I took on the day’s shoot. Blood… blood… every­where. How Twlight-y. Speak­ing of vam­pires… I’m a fan. Big fan.

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On the Set of Racist

Published on November 22, 2008 in Acting. 0 Comments

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So I’m sit­ting on the set piano play­ing a few tunes whilst the direc­tor is think­ing to him­self, “Damn… Kym looks like he’s com­ing down with some­thing. He’s look­ing a lit­tle pale…”

Lit­tle did he know… I had just come out of hair and makeup and was sup­pose to look dis­eased. I was dun dun dunnnnnnn… SARS BOY!

Just a lit­tle scene I did for a short film. I’ve always wanted an on screen death and my dream was ful­filled when in a moment of absolute sarsi­ness, I turned to the cam­era, blood­ied with fake blood mixed with BBQ sauce, opened my mouth, gushed tor­rents of scream curl­ing blood, and died in a aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing man­ner. The blood tasted good though.

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Coming Soon to a Film Near You: Racist by Andrew Dunstan

Published on September 22, 2008 in Acting. 0 Comments

img 0861 Coming Soon to a Film Near You: Racist by Andrew DunstanSo I went to an audi­tion the other day for a zom­bie com­edy type film called “Racist” writ­ten and soon-to-be directed by Andrew Dunstan.

I was so sure that I wasn’t going to be doing it as I could have sworn that God had sent me mul­ti­ple signs that I would not be doing this.

Firstly I had missed the first audi­tion date as I was trav­el­ing despite my numer­ous email exchanges with Andrew. Sec­ondly I had left my record­ing ses­sion an hour early to make it to the audi­tion on time and on my way, the train cross­ing bar­rier stopped work­ing sud­denly and traf­fic became con­gested. It took me half an hour to escape.

Thirdly after escap­ing from the traf­fic I changed into a clearer road where I find, to my dis­be­lief, road­works that have expanded across the entire six-lane road includ­ing two lanes for the pub­lic tram sys­tem. Unbelievable!

I was going to be late to the audi­tion; there was no doubt about it. I was sorely tempted to just go home. By some mir­a­cle I even­tu­ally arrive at the audi­tion… 15 min­utes late.

So in the audi­tion I’m asked to impro­vise a scene where I’m a lazy bum who doesn’t want to help his friend move a couch. I ended up going Haydn-trained-me-today-so-I-fainted and laid face down on the ground for the entire sce­nario. The strange thing is, I got a part.

So I guess the next time you see me on film will be as a deranged zom­bie; woo!

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