Iced Coffee: peggy sue #2
Another shot of Peggy Sue. She’s just so sweet, most of the time.
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Pana-Vision: Arty Weather Balloons
As I mentioned the other day, the above installation was put in place for the Culture Night last Friday. I’m not sure how long they are going to be there but they remind of an ad for Channel 4 when I’m driving into town and see them from across the river. Does this constitute art for you?
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Glasseyalley: A Study in Texture…
...taking the rough with the smooth. In sharp contrast to the coarse, gritty sand. Sitting on a beach on Inishmore island, enjoying the sunshine.
Iced Coffee: belfast rebranded
Back at the beginning of the summer Belfast city council unveiled the new logo and branding for the city.
It acts as the heart of Belfast, reflecting its warm and welcoming nature.
It also shows the city as welcoming, dynamic, vibrant, energetic and inspiring.
We hope that the brand will:
- make it easier to attract visitors and investors to the city
- help us to sell products and services related to Belfast
- provide direction for all marketing activities associated with Belfast
- promote Belfast as the main economic and social hub for Northern Ireland.
Try to excuse the bullshit copy, but that’s how they attempted to sell this overpriced mess.
When I first saw it I thought: “That’s a piece of shit.”
It was later I discovered that on top of being awful, it cost £180,000 of tax-payers’ money and took over a year for London firm Lloyd Northover to produce.
To top it all, this very logo is not unique. In fact it was used by Devon organisation Food & Drink Devon, BabyBoom Records, Swedish-based VoIP service Rebtel and similar to French company Mr Bricolage.
Who gives people like this responsibility!
Here is the new improved logo as seen in Belfast:
Much better, don’t you think?
McAWilliams: NAPP’s Photoshop CS4 Learning Center
The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) have created an in-depth set of video overviews and tutorials that take you deeper into the new Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 4 program. Hosted by Scott Kelby, Dave Cross and Matt Kloskowski (The Photoshop Guys) also Featuring Corey Barker and RC Concepcion.
This videos show whats in store for everyone waiting to get their hands on Photoshop CS4. The Camera RAW features that have been added make this for me a worthwhile looking product, with the ability to dodge and burn, sharpen add brightness or contrast all of which is non destructive, this really makes RAW in photoshop so much better!
Scenes of Ireland (and more): Crows
I have an affinity for Crows and even my husband has to admit, wherever we go they tend to turn up to say hello. On the shores of Glencar lake a murder flew overhead, then one ofthem spun off and sat on the bench beside me as I took photos of the lake. He kept us company for a good while, then we moved up to the Waterfall carpark - where his mate sat on the wall in front of the car and posed for half a dozen photos. I love the intelligence of crows and you have to respect their place in the food chain :) When we were kids, one Christmas my parents rescued an injured crow whom we nicknamed Max and nursed back to health. My evil sisters released him while I was out one day, leaving me heartbroken because he never got to say goodbye. But since then he's been around in one way or another....
inphotos.org: The cars of Cape Clear
Cape Clear Island, or Oilean Chleire, is only 3 miles long and 1 mile wide, but it’s only 40 minutes by ferry to the mainland so it’s fairly easy to bring out vehicles. In fact, I saw many more cars on the island than I did on my last trip.
As you may have guessed by the photo above, once the cars get here, they really don’t go anywhere else, and many of them are in a bad state of repair. On a previous trip, my father and I were driven up a very steep hill above the harbour in a multicoloured VW Beetle that was literally falling apart with rust. I’ll post a photo of the hill in a few days.
There also isn’t a police force on the island. I don’t think cars here are insured or taxed and you can forget the NCT ..
Apart from the two taxi vans sitting on the quay when we arrived, the newest car was a 1999 model. The oldest was a 1986 Renault. The taxis were had 2004 reg plates and in good condition.
I’d love to how or why the van in the far background got to the Island. It looks abandoned now.
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