Okay members of the networked media world, what is happening to me? Slowly but surely, over the course of roughly 18 months, I’ve become one of those “media people”. The half-hearted battle I played out before signing over my soul to a full blown Instagram addiction was the first sign. Soon after, The Vine and PedestrianTV became interchanging homepages. The intoxicating world of Tumblr re-entered my life alongside the greasy hair and caffeine-fuelled all-nighters that I believed my 16 year old self had left behind for good. I got a kick out of a Twitter bio that referenced Helen Garner and described myself as a “Youth Worker & Journalism Student”, and tweeted about my love for mangosteens and dim sum and an addiction to fruit ninja and online shopping in the menswear section.

Blogging, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter etc. etc.

But tonight reached new heights when I found myself browsing other student’s blogs, following a link to a short time-lapse video of Melbourne, feeling inspired and subsequently perusing the Canon website for DSLR cameras and finally, receiving an email from the lovely Canon people confirming my purchase of a 700D EOS DSLR camera.

Feeling quite a few hundred dollars lighter, I’m in shock at the speediness of my decision making. I’ve never been super into photography or movie making, but the constant exposure to stunning examples of each, (combined with my recent education in the myriad possibilities of Adobe Premiere), lit a very keen urge to start creating my own.

This is the short film, (found on Bonnie’s blog:

This is another video that circled around facebook by a young Melbourne-based photographer that I admire shot in Thailand:

Thailand Travels from Nic OJAE on Vimeo.

You can check out some of his other stuff here.