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Amazing video right?
How close does he come to his friend with the balloons?!? That must’ve been the most awesome thing to do.
But what is another cool thing about this video is it’s soundtrack. What an awesome track!
‘SAIL’
Just like OkGo, it is yet another example of a Youtube video rocketing a band to Stardom internationally.
AWOLNATION, thanks to Jeb Corliss and also maybe Red Bull, using their track in this clip has placed them on the radar screen not just in America but now all over the world.
Another example …

Yesterday all of us Hi-5 ‘ers landed in Singapore once agin. I always have fun here, the food is off the hook so is the shopping but there is also something very special about this country.
Special in the way that there wouldn’t be many places in the world where such a melting pot of cultures collide in such a small geographical place.
Not surprising I guess, given it’s place on the world map but also it’s constant history of international trade.
That’s not to say that we don’t have enough cultural …

Halloween is massive at my place!
Well, it’s getting even bigger now that more and more kids in the area are finding out where I live!
This year, Halloween started for me at exactly ten minutes after school finished. A car load of little fans came running up to me and from then on it was non stop.
Last year I went through well over $150.00 worth of candy and this year although I lowered the standard of the candy purchased, I ended up giving out well over 1000 …

When you go to see a live performance or show it in some ways is an illusion. If it all goes to plan you will see only performers and maybe just the head and waving arms of the Conductor.
However throughout the show, set pieces move across the stage seamlessly, banners fly up and down from behind the proscenium arch and then there’s that voice, the voice that can be heard over the theatres P.A system just before the curtain rises exclaiming how phone calls are not cool after a show …

You have to check this out! While we are on the subject of unique mascot routines, this is one of the best Mascot routines ever, you have to watch the whole routine though.

Hope you are well and happy,
Tim Maddren
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For decades now the ever present Team Mascot at major sporting events has had his/her fair share of rough times; for instance, tripping up on steps that couldn’t be seen, minders more concerned with watching the game than them, crash tackling teenagers, crash tackling dads, crash tackling uncles and now to top it all off….
Cheeky Cheerleaders!
Yip that’s it.
All over the world at the moment, cheerleaders are launching vicious attacks on their teams’ poor unsuspecting Mascot. Horrid.
Realising this, a very frustrated mascot leader, the Monarch of all Team Mascots ‘Morris‘ as …

Globally at the moment, I’m sure we’re all aware there is a real sense of financial insecurity. The poor leader of Greece over the last few days, has had to make decisions/plans to prevent what seems like the complete destruction of the Euro dollar. HEAVY!
Ever since that awful time in late 2008 when the financial markets around the world crashed, people have had to seriously change the way they, not only think about money but the implications that can happen when comparatively few individuals in a complete other side of …

Hello All!
I hope you are all happy and well, I am.
After the Hi-5 Australian Tour life has become a little more balanced for me, as you might be able to tell from my tweets.
Now I’m all for something new and creative, this piece of music is hardly ‘new’. When Handel wrote this Messiah, there were definately no blog posts, but there were Monks!
Here is Handel’s Messiah like you’ve never sen it….

Thoughts and Good Vibes to ALL!
Tim Maddren
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Hello world.
As you can easily pick I have been pretty much non-existant on my blog over the past months.
Since my last post I have toured Australia with Hi-5′s Turn the Music Up. Met thousands of little fans all across this massive country and crashed many an RC Jet into the ground. It has been very busy but a heap of fun.
I have many cool things coming up on the net. I had hoped my new 142pm website would be up by now but it has proven to be a little …

I feel a bit strange tonight, my family have been quite badly affected by the Christchurch Earthquake. We are blessed that no-one in our family has lost their life. So to those who have, my deepest condolences.
Two and a half weeks ago members of my family saw their houses, businesses, personal belongings and their city literally crumble in front of their eyes. A devastating site.
Hearing what they are going through at this time is incredibly sobering. So to see another part of the world also hit by a …