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Fresh from winning the 2012 CREATIVE ARTS CATEGORY in the World Wildlife Fund Earth Hour Awards in New South Wales, GhostNets Australia have continued to impress.

The GhostNets Australia documentary, "The Young Boy and the Ghost Net" (which was previously selected from numerous video submissions, as one of only nine international documentaries to be highlighted at the 5th International Marine Debris Conference (5IMDC) Movie Night in Hawaii March 2011) is now going into the Rochefort Film Festival in France and another at Saint-Tropez!

The film was also translated into French and shown at an exhibition in Paris last year. Magnifique!

Far out, what a week we’ve had. The highlight was definitely filming for Tourism Australia for the launch of their campaign "best jobs in the world''.

Tourism Australia has teamed up with industry and State and Territory tourism partners in a new $4million campaign targeting the international youth market – a segment which last year contributed a whopping $12 billion in tourism spending. The Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP  flew into Cairns to launch the campaign.

On Wednesday morning (the 14th of November) Far North Queensland was treated to a once in a lifetime spectacle: a Total Solar Eclipse. Bright and early that morning Visual Obsession, Empire Entertainment, Dentsu Japan and Panasonic Japan began preparations to live stream the Eclipse using state of the art astrophotography equipment from 4 Mile Beach, Port Douglas. An estimated 30,000 spectators lined the beach from various hotels that back onto the popular tourist strip of beach, with the Sheraton Mirage Eclipse Eve Party taking place the night before. A second location setup was also organized at Fitzroy Island - to ensure maximum visibility, and also to provide a fallback for any weather conditions that may plague the visibility of the sun.

We drove up to Mt Carbine north west of Cairns to carry out some 3G network tests and document the rising sun. Why would we do that!! Panasonic Japan have contracted Empire Entertainment who in turn have contracted Visual Obsession to track, film and stream (on the internet) the Total Eclipse of the Sun on the 14th of November 2012.