Building a Dedicated Observability Kiosk for My Proxmox Homelab
A practical architecture note on turning a Proxmox homelab into a visible, rack-mounted observability system using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, PULSE, and a Raspberry Pi kiosk.
Melbourne / Remote · For studios, producers & agencies
The Ghost in the Machine.
The aesthetic draws you in. The logic is why it stays. I work where both are true at once.
Twenty years across finishing, immersive media, music, workflow design, and increasingly security. The throughline is systems: how they behave, where they fail, and how to make them reliable under pressure.
ISC2 CCRMIT Cyber SecurityGrammy-nominated music collaborationExpo 2020 / UAEMelbourne / Remote
Selected Work
Motion-first, but not motion-only.
The work moves across finishing, motion, immersive formats, editorial structure, and the systems underneath all of it.
How I Work
Form equals function.
My work spans colour, finishing, motion, and editorial, the craft you'd expect from any post house. But a lot of what I actually do happens earlier, in the decisions most reels never mention: how a project is structured, where the files live, how the work survives three rounds of notes and a delivery spec that shifted on a Friday afternoon. Those choices are what keep a creative process from quietly coming apart once the schedule tightens.
I care about both halves because they aren't really separable. Something can be beautifully made and still be a problem if the pipeline behind it is held together with guesswork. When the underlying process is solid, the work holds up: through revisions, under pressure, and well after the deadline that made it all feel urgent.
Finishing
Colour, editorial, motion graphics, and delivery for commercial and branded work that needs to hold together under pressure.
Workflow
Creative infrastructure, delivery systems, and process design for studios that are tired of avoidable chaos.
Security
A systems-first move into cybersecurity, informed by infrastructure practice, workflow auditing, and the habit of finding weak links early.
Coaching
Resolve, Adobe, and production workflows taught from real constraints, not tutorial theatre.
Writing
Technical notes here, broader essays elsewhere.
The on-site blog stays focused on post-production, workflow, and technical practice. Cultural and broader essay writing lives separately on Substack.
Technical Blog Workflow, tools, colour, infrastructure, and practical post-production systems. Substack Broader essays on culture, technology, media, and the stranger edges of the machine.
Grade with Intention
After many years of teaching colour and post-production, one pattern kept repeating: students knew how to operate the tools but not why. These are the courses I built to fix that.
When 4K Has to Become 1080p Without Falling Apart
A practical breakdown of how to downscale intricate 4K imagery to 1080p while preserving fine detail, gradients, and texture with a controlled ffmpeg workflow.
Start Here
Post-house quality, without the post house.
Producers, agencies, and studios come to me when the work still has to be excellent and they'd rather keep things close than route everything through a bigger machine.