When I was working in India earlier this year I worked with a fantastic NGO. You can read more about it here and here…

We did this little video interview with a single mother who got given goats! It was delightful to see how grateful and excited she was to share her life with us.

Why not give all the tricky people in your life Goats? Or maybe all the people who don’t know what they want for Christmas? These gifts really do make a huge difference!

Or maybe you prefer the absolutely wonderful and my personal favorite… Organic farming training!! This beautiful man loved his farm and how it has changed his life!

To find out more go to the Useful gifts website! HERE.

I am so very excited to have just completed a new film for a wonderful food photographer!!

Julie Renouf is amazing. Her work is very sought after and featured in many popular books!! You may even have a cook book in your house that she photographed!! Julie is also a beautiful soul who has been a kind and generous friend to me for many years!

I am honoured to know her. Take a look at her fantastic site here.

Here is the film!

Can you feel summer is nearly here? So excited! Let’s all go swimming!

But first you will need to buy some gorgeous swimwear from the super cool Billi Jade swimwear! I did this cute little promo video for them. Hope you enjoy!

To find out more head to Billi Jade on Facebook.

Happy summer!

We have been very busy here! So many fun things to share in the coming months.
I have a lovely friend helping us with the blogging so hopefully lots more blogging soon!!

For now a lovely little chat with the very wise and beautiful Suse.

Suse Says -episode 2 from hailey bartholomew on Vimeo.

Thanks to Natala for helping out with editing this video!! SOOO GRATEFUL to you!!!

Want to see some more of Suse?? Check out these links:
Suse says episode 1.

or another chat and photos!

Here is the video/promo and intro into our latest project.

We are a little excited about this and have been a tiny bit distracted working on things to do with this ENORMOUS project.

Hope you enjoy!!

Want to help fund this project? Or become an associate producer?? Check out this fun site we have listed our project with. It is called indiegogo!

Now back to our regular programming!

Here is a photo of our extremely cute Earnest. He has grown up too quick! This is a puppy photo of him we have just sold to a pet food company in the U.S. He is going to be famous!

Here is a photo of an ordinary seagull sitting on the edge of a cliff.

I like this photo – I like the seagull’s skinny legs and littleness. Compared to the expanse of his surroundings, he is tiny!

I kind of feel like this bird. A couple of days ago we launched a new website and a few months ago we started serious work on our first documentary film. IT IS A HUGE PROJECT – not only is it a lot of work but actually kinda scary work!

You’re wondering and hoping it will work, hoping that people will connect with the content, hoping that you can still support your family and hoping that you actually can do what you set out to do!

So I looked at this little bird and then the other shots of him soaring into the sky and I felt inspired. He looked amazing as he took flight and did what he was made to do…

I think I might have been made to do this… (I hope that feeling is right!)

So without further delay I am happy to present the website for 365 Grateful – a documentary and project about gratefulness and how it affects happiness. My mother Toni Powell and I are directing and driving 365 Grateful, but we are all working on the project. Andrew designed the spiffy new site and our girls are always involved in their own way! I hope you come along with us for the ride!

As it’s the end of another year, I have been  reflecting over all that has happened. It’s  just amazing to think of all the wonderful people we have met, the travels we have been on, taking on projects that we’ve wanted to do for ages, the fun that we had, and the amazing, exciting and challenging work we were hired to shoot! 2010 was a great year for You Can’t Be Serious! and for us as a family.

We feel really grateful to all the people who have hired us and companies that have trusted us to deliver great work to them. We want to wish all our clients, friends and family a wonderful 2011. Thank you for your support! Also many thanks to all of you who stop by our blog from time to time. It is so great to have your company, comments and thoughts!

Wishing you all a most wonderful 2011, full of colour, fun, sunshine and love! This video is for YOU!

Can you believe we are nearly at Christmas?!?!?! How did this happen?

Quick I better post this video we shot in November!!

I have been doing a few of these web-intro videos and each time I make one I learn sooo much and meet amazing people. This time was no exception!

When I started thinking about what to do for Pobke Photography’s video I knew Christine HAD to be in it!! Christine is amazing with kids – my girls loved her in about 5 minutes!! She is totally delightful and fun. Even after 2 days of filming and sticky hot weather and 15 kids crowding around her she is smiling and patient!

Below are a few behind-the-scenes stills of the filming for this video. Including some shots of more super talented photographers turned clowns – Samm Blake and Dan O’Day Also a shot of my mini director – Poppy!!

Here is the video!! Hope you enjoy!

And now for something completely different!

If you’ve looked at our film website recently, you might have seen a trailer for one of our short films – ‘Ruby Who?’ It’s about a little girl who wishes for everything, gets it, and then realises it doesn’t live up to it’s promise. It doesn’t make her happy.

Ruby Who? has been a very successful little film, screening around the world at dozens of film festivals and winning several awards. We started to cotton on to a new life for it though, when we were approached by a number of schools and groups who wanted to buy a copy of the film to show their pupils – especially primary-aged girls. The feedback was that it powerfully communicated the message of how important it is to know yourself, and be yourself. What you have and what you look like does not make you who you are. It was the message that originally inspired us to make the film – being a parent to two very observant girls we kept coming up against a need to explain how wishing to be like others, or have what other people have, can be a trap and will not make you happy.

So we decided to develop supporting materials, in consultation with childcare workers and teachers, that would help other parents and teachers who are trying to discuss the same topics with their kids. Which brings us to a new site we are launching called ‘I Like To Be Me!‘ Initially it is a way we can market the ‘Ruby Who’ DVD and all the associated products like worksheets, colouring in, badges, stickers, tee-shirts and a soon-to-be-completed illustrated kids book. But over time we will be adding more resources – films, articles, books and so on that will further help support parents and teachers in their bid to boost the self-esteem of little ones and provide a way to discuss sensitive topics like body-image, gratitude, positivity and the consumerist society.

We’d love it if you would take a moment to check out some of the material on the site, maybe buy a DVD or some of our cute badges for a special little person!

Let us know what you think!

Friends, you feared it might never happen. You assumed we were just hot air. That our repeated assurances of ‘our new site is under construction‘ were the online equivalent of ‘the cheque’s in the mail‘. But I, Andrew, am here to tell you to put your slippers on and gather your kids because I have some news…

You Can’t Be Serious is proud to announce the official launch of their new website www.youcantbeserious.com.au! *cue streamers and thunderous applause*

Featuring a sparkling new landing page that effortlessly directs you to the various sub-sites, we think that you will now be able to get a feel for the broad range of work we are able to do. There’s short films, web promos, music videos, commercial photography, graphic design, fun personal projects, kid’s animations, and links to new projects that we’re working on as well.

Special thanks must go to our tireless online consultant programmer developer genius technician… guy…  Keiran for putting up with my repeated changes of direction and design. We were unable to present him with a challenge he couldn’t overcome… although we gave it our best shot!

Hailey has edited together a very entertaining showreel which is supported by a very sprightly backing track kindly provided by the fantastic local lads Hungry Kids of Hungary. Definitely check them out if you feel your feet tapping.

And lastly, we’d love to connect with you via Facebook or Twitter so please click on the link on the main page to make sure you never miss out on what we’re up to.

Hope you enjoy looking around and feel free to get in touch if you have any queries about our work!