Vanessa Hughes : Creative Work

New Under Milk Wood Trailer

Vanessa Hughes — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:05:06 +0000

Check out the new videos we’re making in our trailer for our production at the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2010.

Melbourne Fringe 2010

Vanessa Hughes — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:57:50 +0000

Sucking strawberries on a wall

Vanessa Hughes — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:43:55 +0000

Between rehearsals we’ve been squeezing shoots in. Looking to use more video than last time, which was audio-heavy to be sure. Editing all day yesterday and started to go stir crazy. Here’s a snippet:

Waffle.

Vanessa Hughes — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:56:09 +0000

“Have we really, at least, as far as we are represented by our politicians, become a nation which has exchanged the bird’s eye view for that of the slug?”

Bill Henson talking forever at the Melbourne Art Fair, mixing metaphors and writing badly.

Miniature stories

Vanessa Hughes — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:30:53 +0000

Experimenting with miniatures for the new conception of Milk Wood, continuing on from our topographical map of a set in Sidetrack with little lit houses on the floor. This video from 2005 was my first of many trials where I combined improvisation and autobiographical storytelling in a composite of miniatures.

CRASH.

Vanessa Hughes — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:51:56 +0000

The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at about 100 to 140 kilometres per second (62 to 87 mi/s),^[59] so it is one of the few blue shifted galaxies. The Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are thus expected to collide in perhaps 4.5 billion years, although the details are uncertain since Andromeda’s tangential velocity with respect to the Milky Way is only known to within about a factor of two.^[60] A likely outcome of the collision is that the galaxies will merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy.^[61]Such events are frequent among the galaxies in galaxy groups. The fate of the Earth and the Solar System in the event of a collision are currently unknown. If the galaxies do not merge, there is a small chance that the Solar System could be ejected from the Milky Way or join Andromeda.^[62]

Oh, Hubble.

Vanessa Hughes — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:05:26 +0000

Fate

Vanessa Hughes — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:27:44 +0000

“Let us now look forward rather than backwards – as forecasters rather than fossil hunters. Stars will survive the crash with Andromeda but in about 7 billion years the Sun will swell up, engulfing the inner planets, and vapourizing any remaining life on Earth before it throws off its outer layers. It will then settle down to a quiet demise as a white dwarf.” – Stephen Hawking.

Fire/Wood

Vanessa Hughes — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:58:53 +0000

Time to knock over a bank

Vanessa Hughes — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:18:33 +0000

I’m not sure there’s anything I wouldn’t do for this.