Fever Ray

A mesmerizing stage set up from Fever Ray at Electric Picnic 2010 was one of the reasons I chose to edit lamps for some of my assets. I would like to re-create that stage by animating the images in Flash or After Affects, I just have to learn how first.

Here's a screen shot of the stage by Breyzipp. (August 2009), live @ Pukkelpop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBw_RQMXWdY and below it a screen shot from the music video for the song 'Keep the streets empty for me' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWFb5z3kUSQ

Sound in Film

After the Voice and Text lecture I was reminded of the animated film, Belleville Rendez-vous, by Sylvain Chomez. There is great use of song and sounds and very little dialogue.

Inspiration Station

I've been trying to find some inspiration for some projects and came across some photography by a guy called Trey Ratcliff at the Burning Man festival http://stuckincustoms.smugmug.com/Burning-Man-Page In light of some of the discussions in Media & Culture it reminded me that some people are not only living a second life online but they are creating one for themselves in a place that is open to it!

Northern Periphery Programme

Here's a link to a website my previous employer created, http://www.mycreativeedge.eu/ It is a creative platform to showcase designers, artists, filmakers, sculptors etc from Sweden Finland, NI and West of Ireland as part of the Northern Periphery Programme.

Adobe Campus Tour

Enjoyed this seminar which taught me some interesting new techniques in Photoshop and allowed me to check out Premiere Pro and After Effects which I'm not familiar with. Fun day and nice lunch too! It was the same day that Adobe confirmed that 2.9 million customers may have had private information stolen during a cyber attack on their website http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24392819

Media & Culture

Edward Tufte is someone I enjoy reading about, there was an article about him recently in the Irish FT Weekend Magazine which was centered around graphics. Something I find amusing is his take on Powerpoint presentations as this is an area I've been working in  http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint

Design & Digital Media

In our first lecture in Design & Digital Media, David McCandless was mentioned. I remembered a site that was sent to me a few weeks before starting the course http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/, I liked the styles on this site so much I went out and bought the book by David McCandless.

Exploring the sites and doing a bit of Wild Swimming with friends

My move to Edinburgh