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You Can’t Touch This

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:04:12 +0000

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Villa Bravissimo

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:26:18 +0000

A short story following a teenager in Argentina. He works for pocket money at a local old folks’ home for elderly Germans. The home is in a large barricaded enclosure. The Germans are so old they were confined to their wheelchairs even when the boy’s father earned his pocket money there. The boy has a friend who is undergoing a sex change, he steals this other boy’s medicine and feeds it to a German. These he has realised are old Nazis – people who had used others and are now to be used themselves just for fun.

3 Would-be Solutions

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:27:47 +0000

These were intended for Wicklow County Arts Office. They went with the nicest one anyway.

Vacant Lots

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:31:49 +0000

Dublin is full of empty retail spaces. As was the fashion, they all have full glass fronts and no letterbox provision. A gap was left under doors for the postman to slide mail in.
It would be great to slide in a flat packed object that could be raised inside, just as they do with ships in bottles. Maybe something organic like seeds in a planter. Maybe a boat. Maybe fill the room with a huge balloon. Or maybe file charcoal dust into the space and blow it in.
I never have the time to do these things. But art is ideas and these are mine.
Edit June First 2010: I’m glad this was an unused idea – it seems someone else had the same idea, but they saw it through.

Anglo Irish

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:48:47 +0000

I have wanted to do a series of imagined spaces from a recession-depressed viewpoint, based on this.

Pigs might fly…

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:44:06 +0000

…but swine flu

sorry.

You Probably Have to Irish…

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:33:46 +0000

…to understand why “Hell is Full of Our Souls”

Nourishing

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:45:35 +0000

This is one that didn’t make the cut. I really like it but the one the client chose was probably better. Anyway the idea was about art as spiritual nourishment and the connection between food and the creative urge.

What Might Have Been

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:13:17 +0000

All I have been posting here is, I suppose, a series of cases of what-might-have-beens. That said, this is the one I was most gutted about. The logo was for Cow’s Lane Fashion Market and the idea was simple – the origin of the letter A as an upside down heifer’s head. The version here is not the properly typeset version but just represents the idea. I looked forward to the execution and having HUGE As everywhere.

Cows Lane Identity

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My two favourite parts of it were that the N, S, E & W were all together like a jumbled compass and that it kind of read like it said “any fashion market” (N E Fashion Market)

Free Ambient MP3s!

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:00:27 +0000

This was a major Lost Cause for me. A few years ago I wrote a few pieces of ambient electronic music. I have no grounding in music and little or no understanding of it beyond an unsophisticated appreciation. As a result I have been reluctant to “show” these pieces. I will put them up on A Worthy Cause over the next week, as long as I can get over my abiding sense of musical inferiority. They are collected under the name Silent Memories.

Silent Memories