I’ve now got some photos online from the Orange open movie project pre-production workshop in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago.

Another four weeks, and we all have to head back again to kick off production on September 1st. Hooray for jetlag!

Well, I’m home again, and have no idea what I’m doing up at this hour of night. Sleeping all throughout yesterday and last night felt great at the time, but it probably wasn’t the best way to shake off this jetlag.

I had a most awesome, productive and interesting time in Amsterdam, and a chaotically exciting few days in Tokyo. Thanks so much to Blender international translation coder Shizu and friend for meeting up on Sunday, showing me around and being patient with my horribly broken Japanese. It was fantastic and much appreciated! There’s tons of work waiting for me here now; expect to find out more about what went on, over the coming days.

Tomorrow I leave for a week-long Project Orange pre-production meeting in Amsterdam, returning back to Sydney on the 12th of July. Thanks to this wonderful thing called the internet, life will go on and I’ll be reachable via email as usual. I’m flying with JAL (on the same plane as fellow blenderhead Lee), stopping in Japan very briefly on the way to Europe.

On the way back I’ll stay three nights in Tokyo, which I’m really excited about! It should be an interesting opportunity to try and brush up on my steadily disappearing Japanese language skills, not to mention fun! Are there any Japanese visitors here with any recommendations for Tokyo?