PhotoIreland is the countries first International Festival for Photography. There’s a load of cool shows on; I recommend getting down to see The Gift by Giorgia Fiorio in the Gallery of Photography, Inspiration curated by Perry Ogden at the Sebastian Guinness Gallery and The Thing That Bruises You in The Back Loft, La Catedral. Super photo guy Daniel Holfeld has some pieces in The Thing That Bruises You, you can check out more of his stuff on his site (which I designed… shameless plug).
Marty you’ve got to come back with me! Back where Doc? Back 25 years ago when Back to the Future was released!
Yes, this week sees the 25th anniversary of the release of Back the Future. I’ve great memories of watching this a kid, it’s up there with the Empire Strikes Back as one of my all-time favourite movies. I wanted a Delorean almost as much as I wanted KITT from Knightrider. It seems to be one of those films — like the Goonies or a Connery Bond — that you watch whenever it’s on TV. Might head off to Lazer tonight and see if can rent it…
Homemade: Fresh Turkey, Sprouts, Swiss Cheese, Purple Onions On a Baguette. Scanned in collaboration with Microsoft’s Deep Zoom.
People that know me know I love cooking, baking, making any kind of delish food. Basically I’m a feeder (like me da). So it makes sense that one of my favourite blogs is Scanwiches, brainchild of Jon Chonko. Basically it’s really nice sambos scanned on a flatbed scanner. The simpleness of the idea goes really well with the outwardly simple nature of a sandwich, but there’s a depth and quality there, as there should be in all the best sambos.
My own personal fave sanger is smoked rashers, fresh tomatoes, a bit of oak leaf salad, some red sauce, maybe some Dubliner Red Cheddar and a Birdseye Potato Waffle on a ice bit of toasted wholegrain. Dammit I’m hungry now, lucky I’m of to the folks for a feed!!!
I got to work on a really great project recently called Cosmopolis: a festival of words, images and sounds to celebrate and explore the universal human practice of making stories which was held on UEA campus on 5th June 2010. Oddly enough I got to do the whole thing from start to finish: website, posters, flyers and guide.
I also got to go over to Norwich — the land of Alan Partridge and Stephen Fry — to visit the festival and meet the lovely Jessica and Landa from Tibor Jones, who I’ld been working with on the project. There was a great series of lectures by a tonne of writers, artists musicians and storymakers including Amit Chaudhuri, Dayanita Singh, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Geoff Dyer, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Richard T Kelly.
The annual bike rally celebrating Bloomsday going down Capel St. The video was taken from the Zero-G studio on my iPhone, which iPhone guy fixed for me.
