Photography I Created
Palm Beach Boardriders
The Gold Coast property market right now …
Use Vegemite.
You know you’re reading an article not for you when the first interview question is answered by beginning with “we millionaires”.
Minutes before this screenshot I was on the front page of Hacker News, which is all a nerd honestly wants in his life.
I can die happy, affirmed by the nerd community now.
I’m titling this sad piece “July 2020, an infrequent flyer”
The Facebook news ban hammer fell on our training business a day after I posted an article on surviving a Facebook ban lol … you’re great Facebook, thanks m8
Dear DJI,
I’d like a new Mavic model please.
In late 2016, five years ago, you set my heart on fire. I’d been watching the Phantoms ghosting through the sky making aerial photography for three years. Your Inspire line had inspired me for over two. But the Mavic, the sweet little foldable package with a great camera, won me over, be still my beating heart.
That first relationship with the Mavic Pro was like the first time I drank whisky neat. I knew everything before then was wrong, and only this was right. I saw the Platinum and the Air taxi onto the UAV runways of our hearts and knew something bigger was coming.
And in late 2018 that Mavic 2 boarding call sounded. I fell in love all over again. With the choice between a Zoom model or a Pro model with that fat ‘Blad camera, I knew the Mavic 2 Pro was for me, and boy did we see the world. That Mavic 2 Pro and I, we travelled far and wide. Through America, New Zealand, Bali, Iceland, and all over my home that they call Downunder, we made photos and videos and had so much fun.
In Iceland in late 2019 my little Two Pro got a little bit confused - I think we were too close to the Arctic polar cap - and despite my best piloting, the compass wanted more, and she flew into the distance, and I’m guessing the side of a mountain about 25 minutes flight time away. Luckily for me, the DJI Go app data saved my bacon and a warranty-replaced Mavic 2 was in the mail.
In late 2020 the drone and my relationship had blossomed to the point where I felt like we could expand our boundaries and try new positions. On this one sunset afternoon one of us got a little too close to a wave, and then amidst the confusion, we got a little too close to a rock pool, and the rocks, and the pool, and things didn’t end well.
Alas, now I am drone-less.
I even received spousal approval for a new purchase as a birthday present last year.
But I look at the DJI product lineup and can’t help but feel like it’s missing a Mavic 3. In the intervening years new Airs and Minis have been released, so your passion for small has not waned. Yet the Mavic line of spectacular cameras, rocking some sweet sweet Hasselblad glass on a small and foldable aircraft, has gone wanting.
Please put a new drone into my hands, DJI.
Please don’t make me buy whatever Sony is selling.
“Why Josh was never invited back onto Studio 10”
A screenshot, circa late February 2021.
Note: First recorded use of the term PoN, an acronym for People of News.
What a beautiful time to be alive in Australia
Luna vs. Shark
Hanging out on ABC radio this morning
I’m (apparently) the celebrant you call when you want to find out if you have to have sex with your new spouse on the wedding night …
The most fascinating element of big tech is when a newcomer has such a good idea that it’s deemed stealable by the incumbents.
Twitter launches Spaces, a Clubhouse copy.
Butterfly on inside of the windscreen. Circa February, 2021.
Babymoon @ The Calile
Tuesday sunrise because sleep is overrated // Jolly’s Loookout, Mount Nebo
6:29am and the staff member at the hotel lobby bar & cafe says to the barista, “you know what I like” and smiles.
Yet the barista did not know what she likes.
Thankfully I said, “long black with cream, please” and then smiled.
