ArtLinks Survey 2010

The South East’s free and unique Arts Resource Service Artlinks is currently calling on it members to complete an online survey.

Recently celebrating it’s 3rd birthday, the ArtLinks community has grown to nearly 1500 members so far and is responsible for organising the first local arts training opportunities in the South East.

They are currently inviting “all who are passionate about the development of the Arts in the South East region to contribute to the future direction of this programme“  by taking a couple of minutes to complete the online survey. And there’s a €100 book voucher to be won too!

The survey contains a series of questions about courses, art development programmes, financial support and internet services you use or require for your Arts development, it will only take you 5 minutes but it’s very important for the future of ArtLinks.

The ArtLinks 2010 Survey is open to all members; amateur and professional individuals, groups and venues involved in Dance, Drama/Theatre, Music, Literature, Visual Arts and Film and the survey will run until the 26th of May.

The key findings of this survey will be available on ArtLinks.ie before July 2010.

If you’re not already a member of ArtLinks then you can sign up for free here and you can complete the online survey here. Spread the word!

Selfish Bass – Behind The Scenes (Photos)

Here’s the first batch of behind the scenes photos from ThanklessFilms music video shoot for Diarmaid O Meara’s ‘Selfish Bass‘.

Taken in my apartment on the first night of the shoot, where we slowly got our heads around the equipment, assembling the mannequins, dressing them, laughing at their weird mounds and trying not to drop them.

We shot a variety of stop-motion and puppetry sequences involving the main character as he prepares for his night out. We also shot two green screen shots, a leg-crossing shot and a TV screen replacement.

The leg cross was improvised and rushed so it never really worked out in post and was scraped. There’s a slight camera movement in the TV screen replacement shot (featuring Dave running me over in Turn Around!), I tracked the shot for the mask but couldn’t manage to get the colour/shine right on the screen before the television turns on.

Other random trivia:

• For some reason the gels kept melting on the lights all night.
• Mannequins can take a good slap when dropped on their faces.
• One of the mannequins had a very strange hole in a very strange place… before we took him out of the box!?
• One of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen is Dave & Der showering a mannequin!?

You can check out my favourite photos from the bunch here on the Oss237.com Homepage with links to the rest on Flickr and if you haven’t watched the music video yet then click here.

More photos coming soon!

Lancelot Link – Studio Promo Shoot

I’ve just uploaded a bunch of new promo shots for rock three-piece Lancelot Link, taken in the HotShotz Studio in Callan last week (thanks Benny).

I can’t find any sort of web-presence for the band yet but it features two former members of Mata Hari who I did a shoot with last year.

The new band are currently working on their debut E.P which will be released this Summer and they needed some clean promo shots for the artwork.

Shot on my 18-135mm at F8 160 with a four light setup in the studio. The lads got clean images but I’ve added some vignettes to mine.

You can check out my favourites here on the Oss237.com homepage with links to the rest of the shots. I’ll post some links to the band when they discover the internet!

Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay? Forgot to Pay! (Photos)

Following Devious Theatre’s production of ‘Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!’ in the Set Theatre last month, I’ve spent the past few weeks quietly battling a severe case of what is commonly known as “post-show blues”.

I’ve had withdrawal symptoms for everything from wearing orange dungarees to Angela’s obsessive manners!?

My memories of the week of the show (and the weeks before it) are a crazy blur of colour, sweat patches, laughter, sessions, swanky surroundings, shenanigans, hilarious moments and madcap farce!

The production definitely goes on my list of favourites for so many reasons, going into them further would probably just make me sad all over again.

Today, I realised that I had completely forgotten to upload the only photos I took during the production, a collection of shots taken during Act One of the dress rehearsal before I made my entrance as Luigi… god I miss Luigi!

You can check out my favourite photos here on the Oss237.com Homepage with links to the rest on my Flickr.

You can also check out all sorts of behind the scenes bloggery, reviews and info from the show over on DeviousTheatre.com.

Veggie Kilkenny: “11th No Meat & Greet”

Bulls, Koalas and Addicts

Finally, 20BullsEach make their return to Kilkenny, it’s about time as far as I’m concerned.

The Bulls are currently writing songs for a new album so expect the gig to be an awesome sneak preview of hardcore things to come. You can check out tracks from previous releases ‘Lost Causes’ and ‘The Incompetence To Follow’ here on the 20BullsEach MySpace.

They’ll be joined on the night by English punk rock quartet Koala Attack, they’ve only got one track up on their MySpace but it’s pretty awesome. Local support comes from Chemical Addiction.

It should be an awesome gig and what else are you going to do for a fiver on a Wednesday night!?

DON’T MISS IT!!!

Public Enemies

The entire cast of Devious Theatre’s ‘Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!’ have been branded public enemies!

You can read interviews with Kilkenny’s Most-Wanted over on DeviousTheatre.com and we’re also hi-jacking the airwaves on the Edwina Grace show on KCLR96fm this afternoon around 4:15pm.

Tokyo/Glow

Check out this awesome short film, Tokyo/Glow written and directed by Jonathan Bensimon.

It follows the journey of an illuminated man from a crosswalk sign as he embarks on an adventure. Shot on location throughout Tokyo using thousands of individual digital stills, the light suit was constructed using hundreds of feet of high-voltage LED rope and a translucent nylon outer shell to achieve the striking effect of the illuminated man.

Post-production included weeks of extensive roto-scoping and compositing, a colour grade, and once the effects were complete the thousands of still images were pieced together. Quite simply it’s amazing!

One Week To Go!

Today marks one week until the opening night of Devious Theatre’s production of Dario Fo’s ‘Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!’.

Make sure and keep an eye on DeviousTheatre.com for all sorts of behind the scenes bloggery, news and updates.

Behind The Scenes on BLACK (Photos Part1)

I’ve just uploaded my first batch of photos from behind the scenes of SAW Films first short film production BLACK.

The group was set up late last year by local film makers Kevin Hughes, Pat Kenny and Damien Donnelly; to establish a network of local film makers with a view to enhancing film production in the South East.

They used the ArtLinks forum to organise weekly meetings and assembled a crew varying from first-timers to industry professionals, to work on two short film productions (BLACK and Bitche’s Coven) shot on a RED camera.

BLACK was my second opportunity to work as a Data Downloader with a RED and despite the technical nightmare it turned into and the fact that the crew spent a long cold day shooting in a muddy graveyard in the grounds of Shankill Castle in early December, it was a lot of fun.

The films are currently in post-production, I’m hoping to get a look at the early cuts soon and I’ll talk more about the shoot in the next few weeks.

For now check out the first batch of photos from behind the scenes on BLACK here on the homepage with links to the rest on Flickr. Plenty more photos coming soon.

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