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violins, vicissitudes and Simon Dallow
Comments Off | This entry was posted on Jun 28 2008
Hello there. Couple of points:
- Taught my last class at Remuera Music School for the time being. It was a bittersweet day, and I’m definitely going to miss the lively and outgoing violin students that made such huge strides and worked hard over the years. I got lots of thank you cards, and I have to say that I would love having kids if they gave me hand-made thank you cards. Yeah!
- Cheryl and Henry finished their last exams for the semester, which was great
- My general manager’s certificate expires in about a week, which I may consider renewing if I’m not too late
- Oh yeah, my work contract expires in about a week too! Some prayer/kind advice on direction could help!
Random aside: It’s interesting what camera angles can do to your perception of a television news anchor. As some of you may (or may not) know, Breakfast is a regular New Zealand show running from 6:30 to 9 am that gives morning TV viewers a good dose of happy cheery optimistic banter between two regular presents, who for 2008 are Paul Henry and Pippa Wetzell. This week however, 6pm news anchor Simon Dallow stepped in to co-host in the place of Monsieur Henry who is away on a 2-month break. When I’ve usually watched Dallow presenting the 6 o’ clock news, he’s always the epitomy of assured and gentlemanly, looking squarely at the camera to warn us about rising fuel costs, gang-related brawls, or perhaps those silly soft-bottom stories like “a dog ate a cane toad and didn’t die” sorta thing (yes, this was a legitimate TV news item one night).
Anyways, I caught a few minutes of Dallow on Breakfast, and left for my morning commute with the distinct impression that he was a sneaky guy. Why? Wherefore justification? Well, it’s merely from the fact that he didn’t look squarely at the camera once, and looked cross-couch to Wetzell with an almost leery expression. I wish I had a screen-capture of some sort to highlight this point, but I guess it goes to show that how you look on camera may just have an effect on your public perception (at least mine anyways).
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TGIS – keep safe everyone!