My Projects

At the mo I am working on doing visuals for this gig below, the TOM WAITS one.
How cool....visuals for Tom Waits lyrics.
When I get home from work I start setting paper boats on fire and throwing dice on them whilst trying to film them on paulas camera or try to make a spotlight out of cardboard tubing and a reading light to photograph a teddy gorilla (thanks dad) climbing up the curtains...LOTS more work to do...such fun. Now I just gotta learn how to use flash to put it all together. Hey so if anyone fancies going to this gig its on the 13th march and it will be cool.

UNAS FAVOURITE THINGS

Decided to put up unas favourite things cos some of them should be on mine too cept that i forgot.
I AM NOT A HIPPIE. I dont like hippies, they smell and are arrogant. ridiculous combination.

UNAS FAVOURITE THINGS


in the spirit of Burco being a hippie (jaysus, I'm turning into LiliTheHippieHater) I would like to add:

men walking small dogs

chefs on cigarette breaks

amyl nitrate

toy instruments

ice

collars for cats

blagging

feeding animals (especially goats)

neon signs

watching the extreme sports channel for 9 hours straight

checking in luggage that is JUST underweight

really fucking tall buildings

elevators

dancing so much you sweat like crazy (gross but cool)

puddles

bike rides down giant hills

REMEMBER LADY THAT BIKE RIDE IN FRANCE¿ MAN THAT WAS SO COOL.

drinking local beer (where ever, and even if it's less superior than other beer you could drink)

playing frisbee when you really should be doing something else

the moment a band comes on stage

people falling down

tents

fishing

my favourite things

My favourite things!

In no particular order

Tea.

Limes.

Small red pencils.

Having lots of juice in the fridge.

Hugs.

Giving lost people directions. (whether they want it or not)

Laughing so much you think you might die.

when you're thinking about someone and they text you or ring you that exact second.

Finding a tenner in old jeans when its 12 days til payday and you're totally broke.

Letters in the post.

Parcels.

Free stuff given out in the traffic.

Taking photos.

When you realise you need another beer and look up to see your best friend/boyfriend is putting one down in front of you.

Chocolate.

Lying in the sun and looking up at the perfect blue sky.

Setting up crazy lighting to light an apple peel you managed to peel all in one long strip.

Those nights that aren´t planned and nothing Huge happens but everyones laughing and having fun and making up songs and buying each other pints.

Surprises.

Lyon-Antwerpen.

Dancing doing the washing up.

Making it home when its freezing outside and wet and windy and you wore the wrong shoes and finding dinner on the table.

Lots more but cant think of em now.

Make lists! a perfect monday activity.

when your camera goes smash........

So does your blog......
bah.....
yes i know boring blogger these days although shock horror im not too keen on the whole blogging method of keeping in touch with everyone anymore......i know I´ve mortally offending some of my blogging pro amigos but there i said it...
but still...here i am....snoring away with another post......
hmmm lets see......I did see a big fat woman pee on the street after waving my parentals goodbye yesterday at sants bus station.
ooooh and i survived my first ever attempted mugging in barcelona, yes my grumpy phone is still mine loser mugger!
oh but twas so lovely having my parents visit, really it was and i miss em now.
We ate calcots yummy catalan onion leek things that are YAWM and fun to eat cos they serve them all charred in a roof tile.

booooo I had a photo of the calcots but it wouldn't upload and times up in this internet cafe.

Well I tried anyway.

So I´m totally pyschic

Like I didn´t know that already............

BABES

Myself and Paula dressed up and took accessories shots, only had time to do up one photo of the beautiful paula.




Kathleen-model for my shoot next weekend!

Make up ideas

if anyone (lili really) knows where i can find those photos of a girl with....hmmm they're like plastic tears on her face......well if anyone knows where i can find them please let me know!

Location/light tests for fashion shoot.

Very excited bout fashion shoot I'm planning with Kathleen and Sirrku, its gonna be shot in the raval so I did some tests last night and i quite like em!
Corina im still looking for a stylist so if you're free jan 21st?!

NEW YEARS EVE!

In Spain they don't sing auld langs syne. thats a strange thing to do here. What they do do is stuff a grape into their mouth for each of the last 12 seconds of the year....which is quite hard to do so i am very happy i managed to do it and get a photee of everyone else at the same time. PRO. And then at midnight every kisses and hugs with a mouthful of grapes. It's rather splendid.
Also splendid was our sixties themed partay. Una was over and gave it socks. Kike and Vicki and Diego came from Zaragoza. Our house was invaded for 20 minutes by a million drunk french people i didn't know but then they left.
Such fun.














FEAST!!!!!!!!!!

Check this out!

Takeover 6 EP! featuring Redmonk aka Killiano & Ed Devane and Tim of course and other people I don't know but I'm sure are lovely gents.It is doing brilliantly..I reccommend you all to go buy it NOW!
Yay.


takeover website


REVIEWS:

We're loving this sick 4 track sampler from Belfast's Takeover label featuring a mish-mash of artists doing some ill underground breaks/electro and dub-style shit. This 5 tracker cuts a deep path thru electro, dubstep, breaks and dancehall with our fave being the Ed Devane/Redmonk/Thatboytim-produced "Guilty Feet Got No Rhythm", a firing slice of spannered breakbeat pressure.

on this site

AND........


The Belfast Takeover crew come up with another showcase for these new and not-so-new artists, fitting five tracks of varying style and consistently high quality onto a single slab of vinyl. Plenty of unexpected sonic treats here, with a common theme: bass. These five tracks cut across several genres - electro, dubstep, dub techno, breaks, dancehall, straight dub... there are some truly sparkling gems here from Black Sea Project, Deverb, Ed Devane, Redmonk, and Thatboytim.... so much talent in one place... great, innit?!

on this site!

GRADUATION!!!!!

I'll be honest I stole all these from lili's blog but only cos I can't do my own photees til I go back to Dublin...



I am so Smart. I am so Smart. S.M.R.T...

Ali McBeal and Alligators in the Floor

This morning was baaaad......I woke up with an ali mc beal song in my head after dreaming about a 4year old boy who had the best aim in the west shooting stickmen soldiers.......actually that dream was kinda cool but the dream I had before that......I was talking to Roisin about 'where my life is going' and I realised at the end of the dream that my life had gone 'so digital, sob'.........No clue what I meant by that but it explained everything for me in the dream..... it sounds ridiculously lame anyway.......
yeah so I woke up with an ali mc beal tune in my head and it was one of those mornings you CANNOT move........I tried to think of all the nice things happening this week- moving house, getting paid, killians gig, soup for lunch, mojitos on pay day, nice clothes to wear.......nothing worked...I would happily have given up all that for the morning in bed......but of course I did get up but didn't have time for breakfast and hurried about emptying the muesli jar and ladling soup into it because we'd left all the lunch boxes in work.....all the time fuming about that dumbass ali mc beal song and trying to figure out what 'my life has gone so digital' means.
Work started out SOOOOOOOO boring I felt like crying.....but then den den DEHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A giant alligator started breaking up through the floor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well thats what I thought....we didn't know what was causing it but the floor was coming up in the shape of a giant alligator....the tiles were cracking and snapping and raising up......Killian (the legend) started telling everyone bout that film the Tremors where the giant alligators break up through peoples floors......
Everyone was so freaked and screaming and jumping about.....Earthquake! Giant Alligators! Building collapsing!!!!
It was very exciting....
It's stopped now and everyone's back to work.... with a few worrying hills in the floor and burst open tiles.....I'm daydreaming the way I used to in school....maybe the office will have to be shut down for a week for repairs........like in Scoil Lorcain when the roof was leaky and we all got three days off........but stinker supervisor said that we'd work from the store-room if that happens......
In other news I have €6.30 til payday...which, thank god, is Wednesday...and James Blunt is playing AGAIN on the goddamn spanish radio....

PUPPIES!!!!!!!!!

While checking loquo for jobs or flats I always look at the pets section....NOT cos I'm getting a dog but just to dream......and cos Killianos laptop is sick and Eds moved out I cant do any of my own photees of dublin for my blog so I will put these up. CUTE!!!!!!

BARK BARK

I dreamt about the hound Jess this morning...we were on Killiney beach and I was throwing stones for her to chase and she was pegging it up and down the beach and we were both having the best laugh. Then I found a green tennis ball and threw it for her and it bounced so high and the two of us laughed and chased in and out of the spray and I think it might have been the best dream I've ever had.
She is a cool dog.

I WAS IN DUBLIN!!!!!

Photees on the way but here is one of me lili and una after the funnest night out ever. highlight was the dance off me and una had with these two losers in the george and totally kicked them off the stage ha ha...and docdocdocdoc doctor love ian and whats a walnut lili and kebabs and oh the guinness....yawm........
Dublin well and truly rocks.

aoife the other aoife

Emailed me this photo of the road to rio.
Where she is.
Deadly eh?
I miss that fantastic woman.
In case you're checking my blog, I have a bday pressie planned for ya lady and didn't forget I'm just an unpunctual eejit.

Job search in Barcelona

SO.......

I miss photography...I'm planning a fashion shoot soon with model and make-up artist and quite a kick ass idea too if I say so myself so thats cool....
And every week or so I look at loquo, a site to find flats, jobs, roommates, adopt dogs, buy bikes......everything I need in barcelona...
And I always look at the artist jobs even though its nothing but jazz pianists and guitar lessons but still I look.....all the photography jobs are porn. NO KIDDING. Now I wouldn't mind so much if the 'photography' jobs were taking the porn pictures....c'mon americans spend more on porn than they give to charity (bill hicks said so and I believe it) so it's a valid industy..not my first choice but at least its a real photography job if thats your buzz...but its not even taking the porn photos- its modelling in them...of course they're advertised as 'photography job'... For a while Ed and Killian would email me or show me ads but everyones copped on now...BUT........

I saw this ad and I thought...oh......a real photography job..how odd...wow imagine, I could get a photography job....wow it could all start here....

busco fotografo para sesion
But of course.......when I clicked it......

Modelo de 21 años con algo de experiencia busca fotografo para hacer sesion fotografica tipo Playboy.
Agradeceria seriedad y buen gusto.
Al responder remitire diversas formas de contacto asi como muestra fotografica

Even if you don't understand spanish 'tipo playboy' kinda gives it away...

sigh.......

How funny

Aoife

You are fairminded, wise and peaceloving and are always willing to help others. Your mental capabilities and creativity are well marked with wonderful and original ideas which you need to bring to tangible fruition. Perceptive and understanding of others your positive approach to life and influential nature means that you have leadership qualities. There is great potential for success both financially and spiritually.


Killian
Little warlike one : Irish

You have great self-confidence and a charming personality which attracts many friends and admirers. Your innate sense of personal power and ability to lead are ideally suited to positions of authority. Being so versatile and seeing the big picture your ambitions are high and much is usually expected of you. With patience and tenacity you will certainly fulfill the great potential you have for success.



LITTLE WAR LIKE ONE!

A bit strange cos Killian always has dreams of battles....

birdies

I've been wondering lately bout the birds. THE BIRDS! ha ha....
no but I have been wondering- about now all the birds in Ireland fly south, seeing them on the wires always reminds me of going back to school when I was seven and school was fun and Maire my teacher describing how the birds all sit on the telephone wires to have a chat about the best route south for their holidays and if you're lucky you'll see them all take off at the same time...and I always liked to imagine them flying south to spain and africa......and if there was anyway I could go with them and how did they fly over the oceans especially in the dark.......
NOW the thing I'm wondering is- do spanish birds fly south too? Like do they go further south? And also- might we have Irish birds in Barcelona this winter? or is this not far south enough....I daydream A LOT at work and when it gets really boring (which is all the time) I think about these little birds with Dublin accents going wha's the stooory bud to all the little spanish birds.....

Blocked Drains and Custard

So tonight was the first night in a gazillion years that i had the flat to myself..I actually got excited at the thought of having some hours on my own...don't get me wrong my flatmates are without doubt the finest to be found but I like time on my own too.
So I started making custard for dinner..I can see the horror on killians face already..but its what i wanted..
Then I noticed the drain was still blocked in the sink in the kitchen and full of mank mank MANK water....now as Daniel will confirm, I HATE sinks full of manky water and plates and forks swimming in water filled with soggy lettuce and bloated pasta.....if anyone's making a list of how to annoy me thats gotta be near the top...although I think only myself and Daniel make those lists for each other...
So I donned the big rubber gloves ed bought and spent 6 hours trying to unscrew the costic soda bottle to chuck a load of it down the sink...my spanish doesn't stretch to costic soda instructions so I decided chucking 4 shakes down would do it....then I realised that I dont really know what costic soda does or whether I should be chucking it anywhere and these gloves don't really look that tough.......I started imagining my arm melting like in who framed roger rabbit when they have the green goo to kill all the toons......that film rocks...yeah so my arm didn't melt off but my sink is still blocked...
The other thing I did tonight was talk to my mammy which always leaves me feeling so happy.
And then my pops emailed me this photo of him and my mum at my dads do in Doheny and Nesbitts.
I think they look fantastic.