March 14, 2007

The Beyond Babes Project


Welcome to Beyond Babe’s Blogspot. This site is devoted to telling stories about women, who are, or do extraordinary things. Elka Kerkhofs, and Kye Plunkett travel on an overland route, from Darwin; down the Stuart Highway, stopping off at places such as Katherine, Alice Springs, Uluru, Coober Pedy, Adelaide and finally Melbourne. The search is on to discover women who either have extraordinary jobs, live in extraordinary places, have extraordinary hobbies, or have had a significant life-changing event, about which they speak. Whoever they are, they are women that want to make their mark in the world.

At each of the stops, we will blog about our adventures, logging each of the characters we find along the way. We’ll fill the blog with written stories of each of the women, (or men, if we find some that meet the criteria) combined with a personal travel log of experiences had while traveling the Stuart Highway.

On our return to Melbourne we will cut together video footage that we have captured of the women, and create a series of four minute portrait documentary’s. These portrait documentaries will be a combination of animation, stills, and video footage of the outback women, made ready to be screened on the Internet. When you watch these portrait documentaries, you’ll see people doing what scares them most, taking risks, and seizing the moment.

contact us on beyondbabes@gmail.com

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