As promised (to whoever may be reading), here are photos from Sunday 26th July at the Kings Of Concrete:
Artist: Splinky
That's my boyfriend with the camera 😀
for the website http://www.irishundaground.com
Right, well, that’s enough for now. My eyes hurt and I dream about layers and presets these days, but it was all totally worth it!
If you want to see more Kings Of Concrete photos, you can check them out here.
‘Til next time yo!
Yes! It’s that time of the year again, when I get to be an official photographer for the Kings of Concrete festival, woohoo!
The Kings of Concrete is a 2 day festival held in the ground of the Dublin Civic Offices in Wood Quay, Dublin. It’s a brilliant festival that features and focuses on mostly ignored activites, like skateboarding, parkour, B-boy dancing, MC-ing (not sure what the verb to MC is), graffiti/street art, rollerblading, BMXing…and that’s all I can think of right now but there’s also workshops so anyone can learn these same skills. You can learn how to print your own tshirts, how to breakdance, do caperoia (prob spelt wrong, I’m tired right now), how to MC and lots more.
It’s also a chance to be able to approach graffiti artists, which isn’t something I can normally do. I managed to overcome my aweness/shyness and talk to a few of them about their work and just in general talk to them.
So, here are some of my favourite street art pieces from Saturday 25th July 2009:
Happy Martian by Gene
Angry Bear by iamdoom
Deer playing Organic Violin by iamdoom
Colurful Face
Monopoly Guy gets Arrested by ADW
Lion by Master Z
Spray Boy
Nothing To See Here by Canvaz
Deer Heart by iamdoom
And here’s other shots from the day:
That’s all I’m gonna show you of Day 1, but there’s more on my Flickr page!
Day 2 pictures will be put up sometime this week, my eyes need a rest from going through 1000 photos!
Oh and one more thing: a poster that I made of His Noodliness, Flying Spaghetti Monster proclaiming his love of the Kings Of Concrete
He loves the Kings Of Concrete!
This post is all about papercraft. For those who don’t know me, I spent a year and a half working in IT services in an university . During the summer, exams, mid term breaks and all that sort of thing, the uni gets extremely quiet and there’s very little to do, except make use of full access internet and a colour printer. (My StumbleUpon ratio was ridiculous!)
So, in order to keep my sanity sort of intact, I began making papercraft models with templates I found on the internet.
If you’re interested in making them yourself, there’s LOADS of templates online that are free to print out and make. They can make great little presents for people and I greatly enjoyed making them!
Here’s a selection of my favourites models that I made (links to original sites included):
Milky & Girlfriend
Brain Slug
Gir!
Earthworm Jim
Futurama Death Clock
"No Face" (Kaonashi) from the Studio Ghibli movie "Spirited Away"
Portal
Cat Bus
I made several papercrafts over the space of about 10 months, most of them in work. I gave them away as my final parting gift to my job:
Goodbye Papercraft!
That’s all for now, I’ll update again soon!
Today I’m going to show you some of my photographs that I’m quite pleased with.
November 2007 - "Sun Rise Light"
February 2009 - "Trails"
June 2008 - "Beautiful Morning"
February 2009 - "Swan"
December 2007 - "My dog Sammy"
September 2006 - "Sleeping Narnia"
February 2009 - "Egyptian Necklace"
February 2009 - "Moon"
March 2009 - "Misty Cherry Trees"
November 2008 - "Frozen Leaves"
November 2008 - "Walking To Work" (UCD)
November 2008 - "Moon Over Sea"
March 2009 - "Misty Cherry Flower"
That’s all for now. I tend to be quite critical of my work so there’s not many in this list (that and I have over 20gbs of photos which I’m not prepared to go though each and every photo!). The rest of my stuff can be found on my Flickr and DeviantArt page if you’d like to take a look! (My Flickr page is updated more often than DA.)
If you are having a look at my photos, check out my papercraft and art sets to see what else I can do!
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