I got a call from Dick Smith out of the blue just before christmas. “Dan, I got your number from Andrew Denton, I want to make an ad” Why not? He’s an Australian legend. Sounds like fun. So I wrote the funniest script I thought I could muster on our tiny $10k budget. Then convinced [...]

In october 2011, I went to Afghanistan on a trip with Forces Entertainment to entertain Aussie tropps in theatre. It was one of the most amazing trips I’ve ever done. The following is a series of web videos I initially made for Fairfax Media. You can read about my trip here on The Punch PART [...]

Read my rant without irony about the death of television whilst steadily being employed by television in one of Australia’s best television and film industry verticals, Encore Magazine… READ IT HERE

Ed Milibot   Ed Miliband went into high PR gear in this interview with ITV’s Damon Green and gave the same answer six times in two minutes to multiple questions… which begs the question. What is Ed Miliband Hiding? Is he a robot? The original video has now gone viral in political and news circles [...]

Hungry Beast S3 is over and has been put to bed. Weather we are going again is not a questions I can answer. All we know is that we’re done for now. One of the great experiences of this show in the third season is the ability to push through and make some really great [...]

When I was in New York City last year I had a great meeting with Fred Seibert the founder and CEO of Next New Networks. A company that you may not have heard of but whose videos you certainly would have seen. Auto Tune The News, The Key Of Awesome, Barely Political, Obama Girl are [...]

James Pender (Ronnie Johns) and I wrote and directed a little film over summer called Y2GAY. The gate keepers over at Tropfest have deemed it good enough to sit in their final 16. It stars the very excellent, very funny and talented Kate Worsley, Dave McLaughlin, and Nick Mattick (Smart Casual). So James, Peter Slee and [...]

If you only caught parts of Rally For Sanity on TV, or the net, you could be forgiven for wondering what exactly it was all about. Even Stewart himself acknowledge the ambiguity in his own message “What exactly was this?” For me yesterday’s Rally is an extension of what Jon Stewart has been doing since [...]

NEW YORK: @jeffjarvis is associate professor and the director of new business models for news and interactive journalism CUNY’s Graduate School for Journalism. As a long time follower of Jeff’s it was great fun to sit down with him and briefly talk about the state of digital media at a NetSuite event inside the boardroom [...]

Today was my first US network television appearance, (I was shown in the audience of the Colbert Report once but cable doesn’t count.) It was Australia Day today on the CBS Early Morning Show (six months late) because Tourism Australia’s Regional General Manager, Daryl Hudson, was interviewed on “What’s New Down Under”. To help the cause [...]