100 dollar mower rims. I have a lot to learn about Australia. I find even our language is a little different.
That is a two way street.
And we get a far bigger exposure to all things American down here than than you are likely to in the USA but apart from what I have learned in my previous career I know very little.
I have been involved with 5 USA take overs of local companies, all have spent a fortune and ultimately gone to the wall.
We do things a little differently down here.
We take all the bad stuff from UK managment theory then combine it with all the inapproppriate bits of USA management theory and just so long as you are conservative and mediocre to the extreme, we seem to get away with it.
Many years ago in a different life a customer ran a video production house called Cherub, they still make a lot of video clips & the ocasional movie.
As part of a competition a local band called Silverchair ( ask your 20 year old daughter about them ) won and part of the prize was a video clip produced by a big gun US team.
There ended up being 80 people on set and the camera crew (12 of them ) nearly died when I turned up with a box full of roll ends which is what we shoot music videos with.
Then when I went to walk away they went berserk as each one expected to have their own gofer, as did the lighting technicians, sound team, art director, stills director, stills stylist ,stills photographer, etc,etc,etc.
The girls from Cherub copped an hour of abuse till eventually I found a spare driver to sit there all day.
They had to get 3 site catering kitchens to feed all of the crowd , the whole thing took a full week to shoot and flopped world wide.
Cherub reshot the clip with their normal team of 4, in one day ( 3 actually, 1 day each for set up & pull down ) and that clip went gold worldwide & platinum in the USA.
