Crazy...

Thinking of a treatment for a video that means allot to me at the moment. Emotion and felling are rife in the song I need to make the visuals for. I find it hard as I know it needs to come from the heart and also from the soul.... I return to the question of weather it is important to make this up or speak from inside. I've been pushing it away for some time now. Longer than I though,t but will I restrain it for a bit longer? Running the risk of loosing it for ever.



http://ninjatune.net/

Mistake...

Making mistakes again I see. Make amends but not too sure how to approach it. Take me far away, far far away to somewhere I have been meaning to go since I got lost. Losing it once more but if I fix it, it might be for the best, for the future and for the love of life. Maybe I wont be allowed back in? Take me home, please take me home.

When Will The Party End?

Good god, another blurry night to be had at the Red Gallery Shoreditch. Bare Bones and Le Gun not content with 2 rammed nights of booze and music there is another one on the way in the form of an artist Signing and farewell to the exhebition. All the crew will be there to sign away their weirs and escalate the value of EVERYTHING, so get down there and buy stuff. These people are one more show away from mega stars, cash in! Support! Support! Support! Support! Support! Support!

http://www.ourbarebones.com/

http://www.legun.co.uk/
http://www.redgallerylondon.com/

Making Personal Geographies - David Farrell

There is always one person you remember in your college years. The one pillar that you looked up to and constantly went to for advise. David Farrell was not only a great educator to me, but he also was and is an inspiring artist. Extremely respected, his work is insightful and beautiful. Touching on some dark subjects he manages to use the medium to an exact skill while being able to fill books with his ideas and concepts.

Research his work, he is one of the few true concept driven photographers who can think and execute great images.

 

*David Farrell was born in Dublin (1961), read Chemistry at UCD graduating with a Ph.D. in 1987. Currently working as a lecturer in photography in IADT-Dun Laoghaire. He has worked independently and on communion projects with Gogo della Luna (Gudòk). Received the European Publishers Award for Photography in 2001 for Innocent Landscapes and in 2004 participated in the European Eyes on Japan project. Crow, his collaborative multimedia film with composer Benjamin Dwyer, was premiered during the Composers Choice Festival at the National Concert Hall Dublin in 2005. He has exhibited internationally including Houston FotoFest 2006, on three occasions at the Festival Internazionale di Fotografia, Rome and more recently in Pinyang Festival of Photography in China in 2008.

His second publication, Nè vicino Nè lontano. A Lugo (Punctum -Autumn 2007) was a result of a residency project curated by Luca Nostri in Lugo in the North of Italy. David Farrell - Elusive Moments a documentary by Donald Taylor Black (Poolbeg Productions) was premiered at the Cork Film Festival 2008 and was broadcast on Irish Television as part of The Look of the Irish series on Irish photography. Since September 2009 he has been documenting his revisits to the sites of Innocent Landscapes and the ongoing renewed searches at some of these locations for those disappeared during the conflict in Northern Ireland at www.source.ie/blog.

His book Innocent Landscapes was published by Dewi Lewis in 2001.

Background information on this project at source.ie
David Farrell’s Homepage

* All the text was taken from Berlin Photo Workshops, more information here.

Point Me At The Sky...

Point me at the sky and send me off for a while. It shouldn't be like this and I think the trip I'm going on is going to be surprisingly hard. Frustrating and unbelievable the things we do and feel are uncontrollable. Like a slow song with a chaotic chorus it mirrors life more that you know. Take me away again.

"I Didn't Need A Maker Any More, I Only Needed Her"

Beautifully narrated.... Beautifully directed.

Plastic Bag by Ramin Bahrani
As told by Werner Herzog





http://www.futurestates.tv/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1023919/#Director

Grimes, Go Forth and Conquer

Back in effect and good god people be ready. Like a bat out of hell and Tasmanian devil on an ecstasy tablet bought from a spiky fringed young man in a shiny tracksuit from 1996, Ben is about to kick some proverbial. Be ready, be very ready...

She ain't bad at the aul writing either and can sing damn well too.

http://expectsomehope.tumblr.com/
http://www.models1blog.com/2011/04/return-of-girl-named-ben.html
Photography by http://www.leecropper.com/

I Had Allot of Fun.

With a Walkman, skateboard and my friends. Causing trouble but listening to the future and finding things to do.  Suddenly I find my self in the same situation as an adult. Having fun once more and not really worrying too much. Almost 2 decades later and I seem to have come full circle but bringing allot more to the table. Fuck knows what it means but it's certainly a good thing.



 

Bare Bones Sicks!

Tonight!!! Tonight!!! Tonight!!! Tonight!!! Tonight!!! Tonight!!! Tonight!!! Tonight!!! Tonight!!! Tonight!!! Bare Bones and Le Gun celebrate brand new issues and force the public to make screwed up faces in disgust. The honesty is unreal and the work is incredible. We will party to the Hot Girls Hot Boys Beer Beer Beer club and get rowdy all night long. Come! Come! Come! Come! Come! Come! Come! Come! Come! Look and Wonder!

 

http://www.ourbarebones.com/

http://www.legun.co.uk/
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"Porn Hurts Everyone"

Driving 6000 miles in three weeks isn’t an incredibly easy trip, even when planned two years in advance. We slept in tents and spent 70% of the time in the cab of the oversized truck we borrowed from fellow traveler Ed Pecis (James’s Dad, who resides in Weed, California). Regardless, we were always smiling and had one of the best adventures of our lives. I guess this project was a selfish exploration and introduction to a continent I love so dearly but didn’t really know. Before leaving I knew I wanted to find something to concentrate on and document – Christianity was one and the other was the bonding father and son, Ed and James, were taking on after the death of Ed’s father a year previously. Subtly touching on both, by way of it being there all the time, the photos took a course of their own due to the organic approach we took to the adventure.
The trip is about freedom in an isolated America. The idea of summer breaks, drinking beers, diving off rocks by small towns was everything I had hoped for. I got to meet a lot of different kids at campsites, riverbanks and in fairs from California to Idaho. Without using any form of itinerary other than a rough direction and what Ed recommended, anything discovered along the way seemed to be a bonus and intrigued me even more. The feeling of luck when meeting an interesting group of kids or random preacher who just happened to be there at the same time was second to none. Serendipity was a word thrown around a lot. The Christian element isn’t obvious in the work but it was constantly there, not always visual. In a way everything reverted to the fear of God and almost everything was labeled Christian, from all the bands in the Boise state fair to the 'Porn Hurts Everyone' sign in the yard opposite an adult store in Newport, California. Completely observational and not at all critical, I realised the importance of belief and opinion in small towns and rural America. There are some influenced opinions in USA for sure, but the people I came across were inspiring and craved to know about us and from where we had come. Their lust for information outside of the United States was intense, I just hope they get to do what they dream of. We just did.

Article for AnOther Magazine online. If you can be arsed to read it again the link is....
http://www.anothermag.com/current/view/988/Porn_Hurts_Everyone
Follow it, innit, on McQ's Tumblr
http://www.m-c-q.com/

"Porn Hurts Everyone" exhibition to be confirmed...