Finally convinced the Apple Silicon (fanless) MacBook Air to heat up. 45 minutes of 4K video render in Final Cut Pro in an Australian summer.

I'd like to say that I'm doing this due to popular demand, but the truth is, only 3 people asked. So based on that small cohort I've assumed that everyone would like to purchase on of my favourite photos I made from 2020

Next month I’m talking at the Wedding Business CEO Summit. But because I can’t be there in person, I recorded it today. Start saving your pennies though, I’ll post about it when there’s tickets available to attend online.

Is the @remarkable the best tablet for a wedding celebrant? Here's my Celebrant Institute review.

Best Australian TV ad of 2020 has to be this banger from BCF

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“They try to get their users to do things that their advertisers want them to do, because that's how you sell advertising”

Matt Stoller in ‘We can have Facebook, or we can have democracy, but we can’t have both’

Just Britt and Luna two years ago breastfeeding mid-walk on the Venice Pier as Britt mothers our two month old daughter in Los Angeles as if it’s her twentieth child. You’re a wizard, Britt, I’m so proud of you.

There are two types of Australian online stores. The first doesn't ship to PO Boxes and doesn't take American Express. The second is everyone else.

I’m pretending like everything is fine, please hold your applause til the end of the performance.

Palmy Army

Light and cameras explained in the most technical but easily understood way. If you want to actually understand how a camera works, read this through.

I could watch this YouTube channel all night long

Finally mapped out my talk for next month’s wedding business summit, now I just need to find a quiet place to film it

Just received an awkward phone call from someone contracted by a real estate agent, to wish me a Merry Christmas “on behalf of” the agent.

I’m not as well financed as the agent, so can I ask each of you to randomly dial a phone number and wish that person a Merry Christmas on my behalf please.

I’m forecasting that within 12 months the remaining non-greys will be turned to the grey-side as we embark upon what will be our busiest and most taxing year ever. 2021 sees Britt and I with a newborn, a toddler, new 2021 weddings and elopements, and also most of 2020’s couples.

My friend Geoff at Motion Art Cinema said we should take before and after photos to see how 2021 ages us.

Bring it on 2021!

Whatever your wedding photographer is charging you, Luna will beat their packages by 10%.

Wedding has to start after her midday nap and she’ll need a never ending supply of Smarties.

Nashua

and roundabouts

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Report: Humanity not ready for aliens to be ready for humanity to be ready to find out that aliens have told the USA and Israel that humanity’s not ready for aliens.

In honour of my birthday today, please make a donation in my name to the Human Fund, money for people.

Photo by human, Jason Corroto.

Three weeks into taking a shot on Qoin, an Australian crypto currency launched by Batercard that you can actually use in retail and for services, and although I have not spent money yet, I’ve sold a few second hand things and from that injection of AUD I’m 12% up on Aussie dollar valuation over three weeks.

I wish I knew more about crypto currencies, but then whenever I look I feel like I know everything there is to know, so maybe it’s just all Wild West?

The reports of my 39th birthday are greatly exaggerated. I’m actually only 12.

A story about an Aussie athelete who posted himself in a crate from the UK to Australia, disappeared from Adelaide after he was charged with conspiracy to import cocaine, sentenced to death for drugs offences in Sri Lanka, but only spent five years in jail in Australia.

I'd neglected to mention weight/size in my reMarkable 2 review - so it's been updated. The reMarkable is 18% smaller than the iPad Pro and weighs 15% less. When you're talking about gadgets held in hands, that's a difference.

I’m starting to focus on self portraits

Luna, teaching bubba to swim

This is Maddie and Casey’s elopement, with me creating the marriage ceremony, photographed by Bec Zacher Photography for The Elopement Collective on the Sunshine Coast.

What do I actually do?

I lead my whole life in preparation to be your celebrant. Living the joy in my own marriage, leading my family, enjoying my friendships, travelling, living, drinking, sleeping, and eating, preparing for this succinct and breathtaking moment in your wedding. We’ll have meetings, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, coffees and beers. We email, talk, text, and DM, over months and years.

You walk down this aisle, everyone cheers, and then the crowd hushes.

You’re standing here, holding hands, and everyone waits for me to start talking.

What do I say? How do I say it? What vibe do I leave? How long do I speak for? Will it be too long or too short? Do I say and pronounce your name correctly? Will my PA speaker system actually work? How will everyone feel? Will I do anything awkward or weird? Do you trust me? What kind of marriage are we talking about?

It all comes down to that moment where I bring the microphone to my mouth and starting dropping syllables.

Someone watching me create a ceremony recently said that I just “ad-libbed” the ceremony because I didn’t read from a script. It’s so much more than that. I have to stand there confident about what I’m going to say after asking myself all those questions I just mentioned, and do it with a calm and happy demeanour, without burying my face and voice in a script.

I arrive an hour or more early, and I wait while you’re late, then stay around after to help with group photos or to help your Nanna to the reception.

I live an entire life preparing for these 18-minute-long moments we call a marriage ceremony. And it’s amazing, I’m so grateful I get to be that guy. Thank you for inviting me in.

Looks like a glasshouse ...

Aircraft doing hard time

Feels good to be back, standing outside the Gold Coast Qantas Club with a bunch of other members moments before it opens, as each new person who would imagine the lounge to be open by now, stridently - almost aggressively - walks past the congregation, gets to the automatic sliding door and their face sinks as it doesn’t open.

It’s been nine months, I miss you Qantas frequent flyers, you bring me joy.

Sunset from Mooloolaba to the Glasshouse Mountains

Ok, it’s competition time, let’s do this.

Best palindromes, go!

The first rule of drone club is don’t take your drone swimming.

Today we find out if my iPad Pro is for sale

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