Avatar Way of water/Fire and Ash, Spider stunt double
Between Auckland, Wellington, and Los Angeles (over 2 years) was lucky enough to be one of the Stunt doubles for Spider for both of the films. Met so many great people and learnt a heeeelll of a lot
This picture is one of the only pictures I have from the whole time as spider and was taken during the filming of movie 3 in LA
Big thanks to @94stunts our NZ coord, @garrettxwarren the 2nd unit director/Stunt coordinator and @stevebrownwrestler (thanks for looking after me in LA) the assistant coordinator as well as all the other assists, performers and riggers. You are all legends
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#avatar #stunts #spider #wayofwater #fireandash
Everything, Ben Howard
1 take upload, trying to work on the pressure of having to make everything be perfect which stops me from wanting to post anything. There’s a lot wrong with this recording/video from the sound quality, wind and dynamics of my playing but that’s the point
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#guitar #benhoward #acoustic
• Mad Max Furiosa•
The most insane, awesome, amazing job I’ve ever worked on, from the middle of the Australian desert to a billboard on time square, and somehow making it onto the movie poster.
Can’t thank Tim Wong and Guy Norris enough for bringing me onto this one and for all the other co-ords and team members for making it the best one ever, 8 months with my best friends and making so many more great friends along the way.
Life’s been a big game of snakes and ladders lately, and the last 8 months has had its large share of snakes, it feels pretty good to get on a ladder 🪜
(Big ups to the friends and family that’ve been there for me, you know who you all are ❤️)
🎧 via luna - if you can’t vibe with the peter criss jazz, you must be dead
first collab entry of the year ⟡˖˙⊹ had fun on this jam with @scottbmarsh 🎸🥁
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#vialuna #mathrock #indie #midwestemo #altrock #cover #instrumental #riff #guitar #bass #drums #collab #nz #musiciansofinstagram
• 162.5km • The Tarawera 100 mile Ultramarathon
Over 3000km of training runs since April 2023 leading to this one weekend. Pushing my body and mind to its absolute limits for almost 28 hours beating the course cut off time by over 8 hours and placing 116th out of 450 athletes on my first ever miler, by far the hardest thing I have ever had to do.
Only made possible through the help of my one of a kind support crew filled with all of my best friends @glitterstarfish@joshkylepearce@jarrodericksen@danielkinsman31@orlzzo123@_eden_michaela@bazza_basil@callumjude@oliviacbray and of course the best mum anyone could ask for, my number one supporter @carollaw655 .
I had so many low points and rough moments that I only got through because I knew you’d all be waiting for me at the aid stations and finish line and with love and support like that giving up was never an option. You all mean the world to me and I can’t thank you enough for giving so much time and effort to support my silly endeavours ❤️
• 62.5km, 3134m elevation gain •
Completed my first ultra marathon today (hunua hillbilly), was raining the whole time and pretty much one big mud puddle. Had some pretty rough moments late on but managed to place 18th out of 113 with a time of 9:40:00 huge huge huge thanks to my support team @tasha_felila and my mum and for @jarrodericksen and @glitterstarfish for being there to cheer me through the finish
Drum progression // 1 month
Really really enjoying learning this instrument, so so so much to learn and watching back this footage makes that more apparent so hopefully in 3-6 months I can look back and laugh at this
12 weeks of super consistent training paid off pretty good came 3rd in my age group got a trophy and some 💵 , ran a 1:33:03 in the Rayong half marathon, 30+ degree heat and some heavy head winds for the first half had me a little worried but gave it a good push.
#running #marathon #halfmarathon #rayong
• Hammer Time • Had the absolute time of my learning to blacksmith and make a hammer the other day, definitely didn’t look crazy carrying it back home on the train. #blacksmithing #hammer
