This video, poem and backing track was created on my 180th day in isolation. I wrote, recorded and edited it in my hospital room on my laptop. For a total of 6 months between Dec 2009 and June 2010, I had been living in a hospital room, isolated because of a case of Multi-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis that I picked up travelling overseas. This video allows you to join me, in my hospital room, for my 180th Day. I started Youtubing from inside hospital as "The Fully Sick Rapper" as a way to give a few mates a laugh, and keep myself busy, but it fast became a way for me to keep myself distracted from the health issues I have been facing, share my experience with the world, bounce positive energy off people going through similar circumstances, and escape the four walls of my quarantined room. This video was made 3 days before I was told that I was cleared to go home, and when I made it, I was unsure of when (if ever) I was going to be able to go home again. Youtube has just launched a global experiment to make a documentary set on July 24th, that will capture one day in the lives of thousands of people from around the world, and the director, Kevin Macdonald, invited me to put together a video of my own, to give you an example of the kind of thing that you could do, and to inspire you to do the same... Capture a snapshot of your day on film, then submit it to Youtube, and you will have the chance to be part of a groundbreaking documentary directed by Kevin Macdonald and ...
