Ardmore, Co. Waterford

Thatch Cottage

Ardmore Beach

I recently saved up and treated myself to a new DSLR. I  chose the Nikon D3200 and headed to Ardmore beach to try it out.

Thurles

On Monday I did something that I swore I would never do. I spent the day in Thurles. I know - shocking. I was given the grand tour by Rachael Cooke and I was actually very impressed with Thurles. It really exceeded my expectations and I'm even planning on going back soon. There was one question I had that Rachael couldn't answer- I wanted to know if the 'Thurles' text in the logo for the shopping centre is a play on Thurles's connection with the GAA and Tipperary hurling or it it just me looking for double meanings in everything. If you know please leave a comment!

WTF?!

I was out for a drive last Sunday morning, when I saw that some sections of the hedges appeared to be haunted. Being the nosey type I had to stop for a closer look. What I discovered was: a thick layer of (what looks like) cobweb on the pegwood hedges. The cobweb was absolutely crawling with black maggoty things. It was gross! I've lived in the countryside all of my life but I've never seen anything like this before and neither has anybody else I've asked. So now I'm really curious. This is only effecting the pegwood/spindlewood sections of the hedges. So far I've only seen it on the back roads of South Tipperary. I really want to get more information and Google has let me down on this one. 

So if you know please leave me a comment!

Westlife Concert

 I bought my tickets for the Westlife 'Where We Are Tour' months ago, and because June 5th was so far away, I had kinda forgotten about the concert. So as the event draws closer, I've been looking online. I was most interested in seeing the set list. I found the set list for the London performances on setlist.fm. This will be my first time in Croke Park (surprising for a Tipp person!!) and I can't wait!

Photography

I can't believe that summer is here already. This semester has absolutely flown by. With my Work Placement with Place4u starting on Monday, I decided to catch up on some photography. This is a photo of some flowers in my back garden. Flickr has the rest.

Digital Expression 2010

 Here I am with my Photograph at Digital Expression 2010

Digital Expression 2010 was held in Tipperary Institute on Wednesday 31st of March. The exhibition featured work from renowned photographer David Creedon from his exhibition 'Variations on the Pianoforte', including a stunning photograph of Irish musician Laura Izibor. One of the highlights from the exhibition was the Dark Light Film Festival. This was made up of several short films, each more intriguing than the last.

The creativity of the students was well showcased with a haunting black and white exhibition featuring Holycross Abbey, entitled "Saints and Scholars". The open photography competition was judged by photographer and past student Brian Lanigan. Brian commented on the high standard of photography that was submitted by students. The winners were Barry Doyle and Rebecca White. There was a strong multimedia element to the event with animation and video work from second year students also being displayed.
The exhibition will run until May 31st in the Clonmel Campus of Tipperary Institute and is certainly worth a visit.

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Starting out in Multimedia and can't afford the software? 10000words.net show you where to find great alternitives for free.

Check out the speed of your internet connection here.

For help with Work Placement interviews.

Want to insult somebody, but too lazy to think of one?

Earings that were designed for Rachael.

This years Digital Expression will be taking place on Wednesday March 31st in TI Clonmel.

Best of luck to Queen of pots! (Susan Cloonan) who is up for best personal blog at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday March 27th.

Find your mind wandering?

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Here are some sites that I found interesting today.

Learn more about the evolution of man.

Ever wondered what happens when you fry crayons?


I'm saying goodbye to Google Reader in favour of feedly.


If, like me you love the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series you can get regular updates with Ross on Twitter. *Update the latest book in the series - Rhino what you did last summer - will be released on 20th September 2009. You should check out the website for more details and to read an exclusive extract*



Remember the dog screen cleaner? You can get more screen cleaner screen savers from here.

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The Laptop has been sent away to be fixed so I am writing this post on the painfully slow home PC. It will have to be wiped so I hope that I have all of the important saved on my external hard drive. Time will tell I suppose....

Here are some websites that caught my attention over the last couple of days:

I made this image ages ago using Photoshop brushes, you can also see it in my flickr.

Tipperary Institute's resident hero Clive Jackson saves a pensioner's life in Spain.

This site has a lovely design and a great range of freebies.

Some proof that rain isn't all bad.

Cool site for trying out colour schemes from random flickr photo's.

South-East radio stataion Beat remembers Michael Jackson.

Well done to Sean for an amazing new site design.

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I made this image myself using various photoshop brushes.


Here are some links for websites that have been looking at today.

For some tips on logo design.
A scientific view of type faces.
Short video of Michael Jacksons changing face.
View some really cool underwater photography.
Watch this amazing clip of the crazy Rube Goldberg Device, you will not be disapointed!
Keep track of time with this human clock.
If you have a couple of minutes to sapare why not look at these funny pic's?

Digital Expressions 2009

OK Digital Expressions happened awhile back but better late than never right? The event was a huge success. Rachael won a prize for her inspiring picture of hand prints and got into the paper. Congrats Rachael! All the images from the event can be found on my flickr, and if you wait long enough, should appear on the top right in the slideshow. Here is a video of myself and Rachael putting put one of the exhibits for the exhibition.



Needless to say we are all looking forward to Digital expression 2010 and will have more information on it closer to the date and of course everybody is welcome.

College Desk

Heres the story, I write for a website called mediavirgins.com. I have brilliant fun working on the site but naturally enough I wanted to set up my own personal blog. The only problem was I wasn't sure how to go about doing so. As I was so busy with college work I wasn't bothered with finding out. But a recent trip to the Irish Blog Awards had reminded me of my goal of setting up my own blog. Today in my Web Developemnt class my lecturer showed us how to set up a blog. Yay! But of course me being me I havent the time to post for awhile as I have loads of assignments due soon and an exam on monday (gotta love timing!). So I promise that I will get around to some serious posting but for now I'm gonna keep it light and quick.

If you don't believe that I am busy here is some proof: my desk in college.

"I'd be unstoppable if I could only get started"
Fridge magnet quote