"Trust" by Red Symons and John Howard

I had the pleasure this morning of being a guest on a pilot for a new TV show on the ABC. The hosts are Red Symons and Nathan Cochrane. It was good to finally meet Nathan in person because we have some friends in common and he's part of the Fairfax IT mafia. It was also great to meet Red, as I've been a fan of his since I was a kid. For those of you who live outside Australia (or too young to remember), Red is (according to his Wikipedia profile)  "probably best known as lead guitarist with the (chart-topping 70's Australian band) Skyhooks and as the snide judge of "Red Faces", a The Gong Show-esque segment of the long-running Hey Hey It's Saturday variety television show. He currently hosts 774 ABC Melbourne's breakfast show."

One thing I learned today is that he likes to spend his off-time geeking around with video editing tools and his particular thing is to take video footage of speeches from politicians and mash them up into a song. He showed me one today featuring George Bush which was brilliant, lots of 3D rendering, just amazing. And here's an earlier one he did featuring Australian Prime Minister John "I never made that deal" Howard called "Trust". Check it out, I think it's cutting edge stuff!

Comments

[Trevor Cook]

I guess you're kinda getting in the TV appearances before this sad old medium takes its cue from billg and trips the light fantastic.

[Jodie Miners]

Hi Cameron, What's the show? when can we see it on air? Were you talking about podcasting or Napoleon or robotics or MMORPG or one of your other many topics of interest?

[Cameron Reilly]

Jodie - it was a pilot for a new technology show and I don't know how top secret it is so I don't want to give too much away. And I was talking about podcasting.

Trevor - yeah exactly right. When I'm explaining to my grandkids what "TV" was, I'll of course want to use clips featuring me. :-)

[Rob Irwin]

TV going away? LOL... yeah, righto. Whatever :)

[Cameron Reilly]

Geez Rob, the things I need to write these days to get you to stick your head up! How ya been buddy?