Nick Hodge's Blog

Sydney Harbour bridge, lit up on a rainy night in January 2004

Finns concert, 2-Dec-2004, Bondi

Statue in Korean War Memorial

B52 in Distance, War Memorial in Seoul

C-??, War Memorial in Seoul

Plane, War Memorial in Seoul

T-34, War Memorial in Seoul

Helicopters, War Memorial in Seoul

T-34, War Memorial in Seoul

Sherman, War Memorial in Seoul

Planes, War Memorial in Seoul

More Planes, War Memorial in Seoul

Anti-aircraft machinery, War Memorial in Seoul

Tracker, War Memorial in Seoul

Bofors, War Memorial in Seoul

Midget Submarine, War Memorial in Seoul

Various Captured Russian/Chinese Tanks, War Memorial in Seoul

Entrance to War Memorial in Seoul

Captured North Korean Fighter, War Memorial in Seoul

American Guns, Korean War, War Memorial in Seoul

F-4 Phantom, War Memorial in Seoul

F-86 Sabre, War Memorial in Seoul

Various Tanks, War Memorial in Seoul

M1 Garand Clips from Korean War, Korean War Memorial. Dec 03

Various guns from Korean War, Korean War Memorial. Dec 03

Plane from Korean War, Korean War Memorial. Dec 03

Adobe After Effects Techniques from Angie Taylor
Angie Taylor

Adobe Illustrator CS Printing Guide for Service Providers

Adobe InDesign CS – Eyedropper Across Documents
Cari Jansen
Behind the scenes – the eyedropper

Adobe InDesign CS Printing Guide for Service Providers
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An essential guide to getting the best output from InDesign CS

Changes in InDesign CS’s scripting

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InCopy CS Tryout, MacOS

InCopy CS Tryout, Windows

InDesign CS 3.0.1 Updater (MacOS)

InDesign CS 3.0.1 Updater (Win)

InDesign CS Tryout, MacOS

InDesign CS Tryout, Windows

InDesign CS vs. QuarkXpress 6.0.

InDesign CS: Prepress Overview
Nick Hodge
New features of InDesign CS specifically for Prepress professionals

Print Service Provider Resources

Looking out the Door of the Lord Nelson

Lord Nelson in the reflection of Marks MINI

MINIs in the Sun, Lord Nelson

Nicks MINI Cooper S at the Lord Nelson

Smurfin in the Rain, Audley Weir

Gathered at Audley Weir

Gathered at Stanwell Tops, again.

Gathered at Stanwell Tops, too quick for a Hotdog.

MINI and the BHP Steelworks… at the gong

Nicks MINI Cooper S at the Woolongong Lighthouse

Blowing at the Kiama Blowhole

Nicks MINI Cooper S at the Kiama Lighthouse

MINIs at Woodbyne Restaurant, south of Berry

Stranger Than Fiction

After leaving school in 1986, Michael Hill, Michael Luscombe and I started a small band called Stranger Than Fiction. As fans of what is now known as 1980s New Wave; bands such as Split Enz Talking Heads and the like – we created and recorded our music for a very, very small audience. (a picture of me at about this time Nick’s Old, Original MINI)

Using a four-track recorder, we knocked out a quick album called A Carriage Off the Track. After I purchased an eight-track recorder, and as many effects units as possible, we quickly re-recorded two tracks from the first album and two new songs in an interim release.

The major, and to be final album, was called Happily Marooned. The two tracks below are my instrumentals from this album. There are other songs, but as I didn’t exclusively write them (I co-wrote lyrics and music) I am not going to publish them to the world without permission. One day I will be brave enough to publish the lyrics I wrote. This was a lifetime ago, and it’s been difficult enough to gather courage to publish these tracks!

To complete the story, we drifted apart. My eight-track is in storage in Adelaide. I got married. Life goes on. In 1997, Phil Mills remastered my only cassette master onto audio CD. In 2003, using Adobe Audition, I cleaned up the audio and created the versions below.

As was not a vocalist, I largely stuck to instrumentals. The keyboardist in Split Enz and the originator of ENZSO, Eddie Rayner, was my personal guide to the acceptability of this from an acceptability point of view. Songs such as Albert of India and Pioneer (lead in song to Six Months in a Leaky Boat) acted as thematic pieces for the band’s album releases.

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On a Pilgrimage started life titled Isolation, but was renamed as it sounds like a movement song.

download MP3:

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Isolation is my attempt at a 100% orchestral piece.

download MP3:

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The music on this page is ©1987 Nick Hodge, and can only be used for personal listening pleasure.

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Piha, June 2003

Piha, June 2003

Piha, June 2003

Piha, June 2003

Piha, June 2003

Piha, June 2003

swamos collects nhodge from the Sheraton

AussieMINI collects his brand spanking new MINI Cooper S

AussieMINI collects his brand spanking new MINI Cooper S

AussieMINI keeps his new baby under 4K RPM

Brisbane MINI2 Crew: Snoopy, AussieMINI, JaseMini, Cjay and Swamos; check out the AussieMINIs new baby. Outside Toowong Pyschology Centre.

Brisbane MINI2 Crew check out the AussieMINIs new baby

Lights of Brisbane from Mount Coot-tha

Drive up Mount Coot-tha with swamos

snoopy and cjay check out the digital pictures, Mount Coot-tha

My MINI gets married

My MINI gets married

The lovely couple, and some MINIs

The wedding party with the five MINIs