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the blog redesign - at last!

djp729/7/2008

well, it’s taken way too long… but the blog is back and all new!

now you can glance down to the blog’s footer for this information but i just have to say a MASSIVE thank you to:

the amazing and generous Pat Loughery for helping with the overhaul. Pat’s insightful and rewarding blog is at www.patloughery.com and you can follow him on twitter: twitter.com/patl

the inspiring and creative Todd Hiestand for creating a great wordpress theme and then giving it away for free. Todd’s blog is at www.toddhiestand.com and his twitter: twitter.com/toddhiestand

the entire wordpress universe. what an amazing, enabling platform & resource!

YOU! thanks for being patient while this blog became a catalogue of all my twitter tweets! That “feature” is now turned off. so be don’t be afraid to subscribe to the blog, because there is some actual writing coming soon, not to mention the podcast is going to roll out, newly overhauled as well. some great interviews coming on the dj paine show so stick around.

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a few days at “The Spot”

djp7222/4/2008

yesterday {monday 21st april 2008} and for a few scattered days over the next 2 weeks i will be doing some workshops and hanging out with the kids at The Spot.
my first introduction to The Spot was a couple years ago when my man Charlie T; “the educator” from the winnie coopers was working up here and i came up with him to check it out… now my mate Warren M; “Rezadent” from the hip-hop duo Fortune - is the co-ordinator at The Spot for the “Get Ready For Work” programme. and for the next couple of weeks the spot’s in house designer is on his honeymoon, so i’m there to give the kids a fresh perspective and do some photography with them… it should be interesting.
it is also interesting having to travel to “work” as someone who has worked from home for the last few years, it is a big hoo-har to have to co-ordinate with benita and juggle our one car. i’ll keep ya updated.
anyway, here are some shots from day one at The Spot: {taken with my phone and the spot’s beat up canon 300D}

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still waiting…

djp7222/1/2008

i’m still waiting news on the Compassion job…

in the meantime here is my exchange from this afternoon with my main man aaron:

aaron: “What about your inside man, has he had any intel ?”

djp: “they wouldn’t tell him anything because they realised he was snooping for me”

aaron: So he didn’t go about it very cleverly then?

Your Guy: “So what do you think of that Darren guy?
I think he’s the best by a mile, oh man, you gotta hire him,
you’d be stoopid not to”

Them: “How do you know Darren,
you weren’t here when we interviewed him”

Your Guy: “What me, ahhh, oohhhh, I just read his resume,
yeah, that’s it, just read that pretty pink resume he did,
it’s obvious he’s our man hee, heee”

Them: “Can someone call security and have this guy barred from future meetings?”

LOL.

djp: “pretty much.”

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the weekend of meg & dj’s wedding

djp7214/1/2008

last night we got in back home to southport from our trip to sydney, just benita and i, the boys stayed here on the gold coast with my folks…
it was a massive weekend- and to tell the story right i have to give you a little back story…
here’s the rundown:
the end of 2007 & the first week of this new year, benita and i have been talking and praying about what are we going to do in this new year… what does our Father want for us? where is this road taking us? where do we want to go from here? it’s not a mid life crisis {well maybe if i die at 70} but we feel that change is brewing out on the horizon. we talked about taking my experience and skills with the christian music industry, my passion for helping people and not to mention my photography and using all of that in an organisation that is actually doing something worthwhile…. names like “Compassion” & “the Bible Society” came up and we prayed about it….
wednesday 2nd jan - benita finds a job advertised for “Event & Partner Artists Relationship Manager” for Compassion Australia. applications close in two days on friday 4th.
thursday 3rd & friday 4th, struggle through and write a resume, first real resume i’ve done in over 14 years. i email it off by the cut off time…
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fast forward a week.
friday 11th jan - wake up at 4:44am here on southport, gold coast. my mum comes over around 5am to pick us all up and take benita and i to coolangatta airport. it is pouring down with rain, and i mean pouring. we arrive 5 minutes after jetstar’s check in time cut off and have to pay $120 to get transferred onto the next flight to sydney. thanks jetstar.
say goodbye to my mum the boys, no tears so that’s good. it’s the first time both benita and i have left both of them for a night, let alone three.
the flight to sydney is only just over an hour, but at the moment new south wales and the south eastern states are all on daylight savings and we are not, so we leave around 7:30 and arrive in syndey at around 9:45; loose an hour. Matthew “mistery” Peet picks us up 10am {sydney time} and we head back to his place in Auburn - on the way to his place i get a phone call from Liz from Compassion, good news; i’m on the short list for the job, and since i’m in sydney {i had mentioned that in my email} am i able to come up to newcastle for a “pre”-interview” with one of the men who will be doing the real interviews next week. “no problems!” i say “see you at 1:30.”

we drop matt and turn around and drive straight to newcastle. get there on 1:30 and head in for a two hour chat with the very enlightening David Harrison of Compassion. benita sat in on the interview too, and it went great. after confirming i definitely should make the actual interviews with the rest of the decision makers on friday 18th, David showed us around the very impressive new compassion complex and we waved goodbye around 4pm.
we jumped back in to mistery’s old Hyundai Excel and drove directly back to sydney, to a pre wedding family dinner with the Keegans & Proctors at the Keegans house in Quakers Hill. David & Claire were invited too, so we had a wonderful dinner with all the wonderful family. catching up with always great Kyle Keegan.
we then drive over the tracks into seven hills and stay with our dear friends Keren & Claudio “wizdm” Rodriguez for the night.

saturday 12th jan - it was team DJP all the way - me, b and dave & claire faulmann {benita’s brother}. we do the boys at the keegans, we do the girls at the proctors, ceremony, afternoon tea/reception, family shots, bridal party, the couple… from 9am to 9pm. the couple: meg & DJ, are incredible. i’ve known them both since they were kids. seriously. i first met DJ when his family came out to australia from the USA in 1991, he was 5. they are great friends and just two of the most beautiful people ever. it was an honour to photograph their day, and in all seriousness, we did an amazing job. world class. award winning. we are awesome.
back to Keren & Claude’s for the night.

sunday 13th jan - had a nice slow morning catching up with claude & keren at their place, we did a little shopping, repacked everything, bought some plane tickets for this coming weekend, had lunch with them back at their place, looked at keren’s latest europe photographs and then we headed out to “The Embassy” and got to hang out with them for their first service of 2008.

The Embassy is a very casual church run by Evan Peet {mistery’s “little” brother - pictured} our one and only “fake aunty” Kristy DeLaney goes there as well and it was her birthday on thursday the 10th, it was also marcelo “oakbridge”s birthday so we went out to Happy Chef in the always fun suburb of Campsie. a quick dinner with the gang and then off to the airport.
we lost an hour coming back - left at 9:25pm and arrived at 9:45pm - not bad. my oldest mate Aaron Spence came and picked us up and dropped us back home where we fell into our water bed and collapsed of exhaustion at around 11pm…

phew!
what a weekend!
and back to newcastle i fly this friday…
in the meantime check out these shots of team DJP at the end of a massive wedding shoot:
the always spectacular claire & david faulmann:

benita the angel of light and the dark one:

and if you read all that. you are awesome.
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