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Perth Now
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Aussie couple's viral wedding video shot like Hollywood film
You're supposed to feel like the main character on your wedding day, but one Aussie couple would have felt like A-list movie stars as they watched back precious highlights from the occasion that had been shot in the style of a Hollywood film. But not just any film — a Wes Anderson-inspired short that had aptly captured the filmmaker's unique sense of hilarity, symmetry, and penchant for embracing the ridiculous. Newlyweds Stephanie Nguyen and Jia Truong got hitched in October 2024, and recruited Adelaide wedding photographers and videographers Lifesketch Weddings to capture the affair. Sharing results from the shoot publicly earlier this year, it was the couple's reaction video to seeing the film for the first time that has caught fire online. The short movie has now racked up more than 10 million views on social media. If you'd like to view this content, please adjust your . To find out more about how we use cookies, please see our Cookie Guide. Unlike typical wedding films where joy is the overarching theme, in true Wes Anderson style, this one sought to capture even the most inconsequential moments as the overlay of piano weaved each scene together. Beginning with a close-up of the pair, the camera proceeded to follow a couple of 'extras' — a city-dwelling pigeon, and an Adelaide Metro bus. Focus quickly returned to the newlyweds enjoying a pot of tea while staring down the lens, and continued to shadow the pair's movements around the South Australian city as they shared awkward moments in the company of friends. The film concluded with the couple approaching the camera, and pausing to lick an ice cream cone at what appeared to be their wedding venue. Ms Nguyen told The Advertiser, 'I really like the (Wes Anderson) aesthetic, the style, the colours and the symmetry is just really pleasing'. She said she had come across a similar video shot in Budapest by the team behind Lifesketch Weddings, and as a fan of Wes Anderson herself, felt the idea to re-create it was 'meant to be'. The Adelaide-based operation was founded by married couple Marie and Christopher Pittman, who have won several Australian wedding-related awards in relation to their work. Their website reads, 'Whether you're planning an adventurous elopement, an intimate ceremony with your nearest and dearest, or a ridiculously epic party with your cray cray famiglia and friends, we will bring all the vibes to capture every single moment for you to relive over and over again'. Their latest edgy concept has drawn overwhelming admiration from viewers for its originality and creativity. 'That is the best wedding film I have seen,' one person commented. 'Wes Anderson would hate this so I love it more 🌹,' another added. Wes Anderson is an American filmmaker behind a host of cult movies, including The Grand Budapest Hotel, and new release The Phoenician Scheme. Benicio Del Toro stars as Zsa-Zsa Korda in director Wes Anderson's THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME. Credit: Courtesy of TPS Productions/Focu / Courtesy of TPS Productions/Focu He is known for the use of confronting camera angles, pastel colours, and largely alternative storytelling techniques. Others fans of the couple's clip felt they had missed an opportunity to take an alternative approach in capturing the special moments from their respective weddings. 'I'm gonna have to marry my husband again now so we can have you as a photographer,' one viewer teased.
7NEWS
10-06-2025
- Automotive
- 7NEWS
Driver escapes serious injury as bus slips off O-bahn track in Adelaide
A bus driver is lucky to have walked away mostly unscathed when his vehicle slipped off Adelaide's O-bahn track, delaying traffic and public transport services during the morning peak hour commute. The bus slipped off the bus-only track near Klemzig, in Adelaide's inner north, just before 8am on Tuesday. The male driver escaped any serious injuries, and the bus was not in service and had no passengers on board. However delays were expected for commuters with a large-scale operation underway to right the bus and get it back onto the tracks. A large crane had to be brought in for the task. Buses using the O-bahn track were detoured around the site, however services continued mostly as normal. The 12km-long O-bahn track allows buses to avoid heavy traffic congestion during peak times, with three interchanges at Klemzig, Paradise and Tea Tree Plaza. As of 2020, the O-bahn was carrying approximately 31,000 people per weekday according to University of South Australia studies. However, it is also notorious for accidents with reports of cars taking a wrong turn onto the O-Bahn a common source of satire in South Australia. In April 2025, a pair of teens driving an allegedly stolen Mustang got stuck after driving nearly 2km on the track. Adelaide Metro said repairs to the track may be required after Tuesday's bus incident. 'Engineers are on site assessing the damage to understand what repairs may be required,' it told 'At this time, it is not known how long this process will take. 'The bus is currently in the process of being removed by a crane. This is expected to take a few hours. 'The O-Bahn track will remain closed for outbound services (towards Tea Tree Plaza) between Klemzig and Paradise Interchange and buses will continue to detour via the road network. No stops are being missed.' Citybound O-Bahn services are not affected. Adelaide Metro is investigating the cause of the incident.
The Guardian
31-05-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
‘It's a shock': if you think Adelaide housing is affordable, think again
When people think of Adelaide, they may ponder its good food and wine or its many churches. Historically, it was viewed as a well-priced place to live and work. But years of surging property prices have made it less affordable than some of the world's most famous cities, including London and New York, when income levels are factored into living costs. Even those with a front row seat to the change have trouble comprehending it. 'It is a shock for someone like myself, who was born and bred here and always thought of Adelaide as being one of the most affordable places to live with the quality of lifestyle that we have,' says David King, a property agent who assists buyers entering the market. 'The traditional first-time buyer is now being priced out of houses and that has led to a quite large increase in unit prices across Adelaide. Now even a unit is becoming out of reach.' King, a buyer's agent at property group Cohen Handler, says prospective buyers in Adelaide are frustrated. 'There are people who come to us often through a level of frustration that they've been out there looking and missing out on so many different properties. They are just sick and tired of being out there every weekend.' Adelaide is the sixth least affordable metropolitan market listed in the recent Demographia International Housing Affordability report, which measures housing costs to income in 95 markets across eight nations. The South Australian capital, which is less affordable than global cities such as San Francisco, Chicago and Toronto, is now Australia's second-least affordable city, after the perennially expensive Sydney. While Hong Kong is at the top of the list, it is suffering from a depressed housing market, in a trend that will probably soon give Sydney the unenviable title of world's most unaffordable city. Demographia blames a global affordability squeeze on governments using urban containment strategies, which it defines as a focus on densifying housing within city boundaries as opposed to expansion. Australia has also been gripped by concerns that state and federal government policies are fuelling demand through their policies, without adequately addressing supply. While housing affordability across the country deteriorated during the Covid pandemic, as wages fell behind rocketing home values, most of Australia's major cities have been expensive for decades. Some of the biggest price gains occurred in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with near double-digit annual percentage gains, backed by the 'increasingly significant role' of investors pumping up demand, as noted by Treasury at the time. This coincided with the Howard government's 1999 decision to reduce capital gains tax for investors. Home prices as a multiple of Australians' incomes have more than doubled since 1980, according to the OECD's measure. The same figure has only risen by half as much in the UK and barely moved in the US. Sign up for Guardian Australia's breaking news email Prof Hal Pawson, an expert in housing policy at UNSW, said that affordability has deteriorated faster in Australia than in most comparable countries as bigger tax exemptions allow investors and owner-occupiers to pour more money into the sector. 'Australia's a country that, probably to a greater extent than even other anglophone countries, has an obsession with property as a place to put your money,' Pawson says. Geography also plays a part. Australia's layout and remote centre mean people congregate towards big coastal cities, contrasting with the more common practice across Europe and the US of inland cities. Adelaide, now less affordable than the more heavily populated Melbourne, is a good example of a city being squeezed by its terrain, given that it is locked between the ocean and the hills. Recent coverage of Australia's housing crisis has focused on soaring demand and sluggish supply of new homes, with growing city populations held back by rising construction costs and lengthy project approval processes. But in Germany, which also faces those issues, incomes have grown faster than home prices over recent decades, making property more affordable. Housing enjoys fewer tax breaks in Germany, while rent caps and stronger protections for tenants mean much of the population is happy to rent long-term. Christian Danne, a Berlin-based economist, says price-income comparisons hardly apply because half the population isn't looking to buy a home. 'Ever since the 1950s, it's a renters' market,' he says. 'The most prized possession in the UK and Ireland is your house, but for a very long time in Germany, the most important status symbol was your car.' More than half the German population rented a home in 2024, whereas only about a third of Australians are tenants. Amid a shortage of housing stock, rents for new tenants have been rising fast in Germany, putting pressure on young people and migrants entering the market. But those already settled into a rental are usually spared the steep increases. 'Price increases are very predictable once you're living in a place, so there's literally no incentive to buy and own a place other than personal preference,' says Danne, a consultant at DIW Econ. Australia has seen bigger hikes in both existing and new rent costs in the last five years, with average rent prices up nearly 20% and the advertised price of new rentals up nearly 50%. Affordability advocates in Australia are focusing their attention on rental rights, which are a state issue. The thinking is that improving tenancy rights may lower the value of rental properties and depress rental prices, easing affordability at the expense of landlords, as it does in some overseas markets. Bruce Djite, the South Australian executive director at the Property Council of Australia, says Adelaide's past affordability advantage has been 'completely eroded' and policymakers aren't reacting by increasing supply fast enough. 'We are not acting like we're in a crisis [but] a lot more needs to be done,' Djite says. 'If we continue on like this, we will get a reputation for not just being unaffordable, but being completely inaccessible.'
