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It's been bloody ages since I shot a self-portrait.It felt so odd. And I was cranky. And sick of being sick.

So when I was wandering around the stage at work today, I had a chance to shoot in the wonderful sound stage work lights. Couldn't shake the cranky face for the photo. Sorry.

They're on a welded metal stand, and are a giant, bare MR bulb that looks 6 inches across.

These lights cast such a lovely, soft, warm glow (not really a workable light at all) but I've always wanted to shoot with one.

So I snapped this off, and you can see another behind me.

I think I'll try and nab one at one of the many Hollywood depot second sales that seem to be going around.

A nice light to shoot by, that's for sure. Would love to have had my Crown Graphic with me!

 

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A question I get asked a lot, is "why are you vegan?".

So, here goes. 

When I was nineteen, I was unemployed. On the dole. Playing in a band (making no money). 

Basically, I couldn't afford meat that much. So I started eating meat just once a week. 
I felt a whole lot better. 

A bit of background, I was a fat kid. I'm talking fat. At eight years old, I was in weight watchers, which is AA for those who struggle with food. EIGHT. Think about that. 

It was super tough. I was bullied all my life for being fat, and it was awful. 

The peak was at 17, when I clocked in at 112kg (246lb). 

As the immigrant child of two immigrants, we didn't eat what would be know as standard Australian fare. Chops? Steak? nope. 
Tails, tongues, hoofs, trotters, all the bits of the animal the butcher wanted to do away with, my Mum would get off of him and make "food from home". Which we ate. In abundance. 

As both my folks were once refugees, their continuing mission seemed to be to shovel as much food as possible into the mouths of their children, as a sort of victory over the lean/scary/frightening times they had lived through. It's a common thing amongst survivors. 

So - here I was at 19. With a diet that had been meat, meat, dairy, sugar, meat sauce and a side of potatoes - all ingested with a fairly hefty lump of compulsive and emotional eating. 

And after cutting back on meat, suddenly for the first time in my life, I woke up feeling better every day. 
As I ate less and less meat, I felt cleaner, lighter, more able. 

This went on for a while - and when I was 21, I moved in with my first full-time girlfriend who happened to be lactose intolerant, so dairy went out the window.

Without a doubt, this instigated the most profound change in my body since I changed my eating. I could smell again. I could see colours brighter, my skin cleared up, I didn't stink so much. I could taste things in 3D. 
If you stop eating one thing, make it dairy. Amazing. 

I lapsed a bit when it came to food for a while, and started to go on a 'window diet' which meant that if I could drive up to a window and buy it, I would eat it. 
Not the best idea, and the kilos came back to stay. 

So here I was, in awareness of what my body liked and didn't like, yet kind of ignoring it - when I saw the film "Baraka" in particular, the powerful "chicken scene". 

I was clearly already primed for my decision. We were at a vegetarian restaurant in Byron Bay called "The Piggery" (an ex-slaughterhouse turned-vege restaurant to reverse the karma on the building) and they had a cinema in the back, where we saw the film. 

I thought to myself "I don't want to put anything into my body that has lived like that."
And so chicken was the first to go. 

From there, after sporadic episodes without it, red meat followed a few years later, and finally all fish. So there I was at 25 just eating free-range eggs as my final animal product, which I eventually stopped eating at 28. 

I was pretty aware of how much the production of animal protein impacts our planet. 
Being acutely aware of how much land/resources go into creating 1kg of plant protein vs. 1kg of animal protein, it was an easy call for me. 

Though my body felt better because of it, and there was a moral aspect - the moral aspect erred more on the side of not wanting a meat-based diet due to the enormous excess of factory farming. I could get along just fine without it, so why eat it?

I swayed to and fro in and out of animal rights, and I know I'll disappoint a few people here - it was never my main goal. However, that I get to not participate in factory farming is a blessing. My choice to not eat the animal starts at the farm, not in the truck, not in the feedlot, not in the slaughterhouse nor the processing plant.

I believe in my heart that a low-impact vegan diet is one of the best things you can do for the environment. 

Also, as I do believe in karma, I'd rather not kill anything so I can stay alive if I don't have to. But I do recognise that I have pointy teeth and meat-digesting enzymes in my body. But as Chris Rock would say, "You can drive a car with your feet if you want to, that doesn't make it a good idea." Well, a good idea for me anyway. 

Which brings me to my final point. 
My diet has nothing to do with you. I couldn't care what you eat or don't eat. Of course, I would hope you'd like to feel healthy and not be wasteful with your dietary choices, though it is up to you where you draw the line, as it is also up to me. 

The way I eat shouldn't make you feel anything, and how you eat doesn't make me feel anything either. It's a very personal and private choice where a vegan draws the line. 

So here's how I'm also NOT a vegan. 

I shoot film (made of cows)
I wear a leather belt (as above)
I eat honey (bzzzz)
The shoes I wear when I am in a tux? Moo. 

But I'm ok with those choices, I am grateful to the animals that gave their lives for me and I'm mindful of how those choices impact the world I live in. I am also at peace with the karma that this brings me, and I try to take steps to reverse that karma when I choose to wear/use these things.

In fact, the only thing I'd want for anyone, is to know where your food comes from. 
Meat is packaged on pristine styrofoam, shrink-wrapped platters in the meat case. 
The country farm where you think it comes from? Probably a fantasy. 

So to sum it up, I'm vegan because I feel healthier, my body reacts well to it, and I feel spiritually clear with my dietary choices. But it's a personal choice, that has nothing to do with you. I really don't care what you eat. Really. It's your body, it's your choice. 

Just don't be afraid or angry about it - that goes for vegans too, because we are all free to choose our own input and output. 

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PS: This is probably not all I'll have to say on the matter, so I reserve the right to add on and subtract as I go along - and also I'd appreciate a dialogue, should you wish to contribute.. 

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"What's a weekend?"

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