New Chemical History
Progress - Siobhan & Harry
18 april 2008
Photoshop Express
30 march 2008
Adobe last week launched Photoshop Express which looks live a very cool addition to the on-demand image editing apps currently out there. Great to see Adobe launching some free on line suites.
However I can't seem to sign up. First day I went I got tot the reg page but fell off due to time, ever since can't seem to get anything on the join up page. Its like they've closed sign up for some reason.
Be interesting to see how this trend continues, Picknic were the trail blazers in this, Aviary look to have an amazing on demand image app, have used it and its pretty good.
Blurb announces international book competition
18 march 2008
Cool competition from Blurb can't wait to see what gets entered, judging from the shop the competition will be very high. Love Blurb have 2 books from them now extremely happy with both. If you haven't checked them out don't be shy you'll realise they've answered a lot of peoples dreams - self publishing
From Blurb- Photography.Book.Now celebrates the most creative, most innovative, and finest photography books – and the people behind them. Enter this international juried photography book competition and compete for worldwide recognition and great prizes.
Submit your book here by July 14. The Photography.Book.Now international book competition is juried by a panel of world-renowned editors, publishers, curators, and photographers, led by head judge Darius Himes. This is an opportunity to win the $25,000 Grand Prize or one of many other prizes to be awarded.
Photography books can be entered in two categories, General and Themed. The winners will be showcased at an awards ceremony in San Francisco, and winning books will travel via a salon to New York, London, and Cologne. The books will also have visibility online and at the half-day symposium featuring panels and presentations exploring photography books.
Get more information on the jurors, entry rules, event dates, locations, and prize levels at photographybooknow.com.
Just Started
15 march 2008
Bleep's top 25 albums of 2007
23 december 2007
Bleep have compiled their top 50 albums list of 2007 heres the first 25, Burial is up there as one of my favourites of 2007, great album.
- Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
- Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
- Björk - Volta (One Little Indian)
- Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (Ghostly International)
- Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline (Kranky)
- Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino)
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
- Field Music - Tones Of Town (Memphis Industries)
- Modeselektor - Happy Birthday! (Bpitch Control)
- LCD Soundsystem - 45:33:00 (DFA)
- Paul Hillier& Theatre of Voices - Stockhausen : Stimmung (Harmonia Mundi)
- Black Dice - Load Blown (Paw Tracks)
- Fairmont - Coloured In Memory (Border Community)
- Murcof - Cosmos (Leaf)
- Strategy - Future Rock (Kranky)
- Blonde Redhead - 23 (4AD)
- Holy Fuck - LP (Young Turks)
- Luke Vibert - Chicago, Detroit, Redruth (Planet Mu)
- Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English (XL)
- Alva Noto - Xerrox (Raster Noton)
- White Rainbow - Prism of Eternal Now (Kranky)
- Gosub - Watchers From The Black Universe (Citinite)
- Neil Landstrumm - Restaurant Of Assassins (Planet Mu)
- Future Pilot AKA - Secrets From The Clockhouse (Creeping Bent)
- Oren Ambarchi - In The Pendulum's Embrace (Touch)
Jim Rivers on Samurai.fm
20 december 2007
Samurai have a load of new shows up at the moment they've just down a refresh. As luck would have it they've added a superb mix from Jim Rivers, Elite Presents Jim Rivers live @ Gazgolder | Russia, check it out very nice.
Thirty Two Thousand Years Later: Painting at Pallas Contemporary Projects
7 december 2007
New show opening in Pallas Contemporary projects looks like a great show of Irish painting talent .
From Pallas Contemporary Projects
Preview: Wednesday 12th of December, 6-9pm.
Thirty Two Thousand Years Later: Painting at Pallas Contemporary Projects presents the work of a vibrant new generation of young artists who are revitalizing painting, making it ever more relevant to contemporary discourse. Foregrounding recent concerns, ideas and trends, Thirty Two Thousand Years Later, brings together a collection of Irish artists whose practice defines, through its richness of difference and the knowledge of its canon, the currency and impact of the medium today.
The exhibition involves a considered selection of artists who experiment with conventions of painting from diverse starting points. Their work examines materiality of paint and surface, narrative potential, landscape, abstraction, socio/political commentary, and allegory. The artists presented here, together for the first time and on such a scale, are successfully showing their work nationally and internationally, through exhibitions, artists' awards and residencies, engaging with current agendas within art practice and defining and redrawing the parameters of what it means to be an international artist.
Exhibiting artists are:
Michael Canning, Clare Cashman, Brendan Flaherty, Beth O Halloran, Cormac Healy, Nevan Lahart, Gillian Lawler, Colin Martin, Siobhan McDonald, Ross McDonnell, Hugh McCarthy, Paul McKinely, Carly McNulty, Tadhg McSweeney, Madeline Moore, Alice Peillon, Ann Quinn, Sheila Rennicks, Sonia Shiel, Leda Scully, Mark Swords and Keith Wilson.
Charlotte In The Night Garden
2 december 2007
Finally finished this one, quite pleased with the dandelion. Need to be painting more though taking ages to get one done and its just because its hard to get time to finish them once started.