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Trent Keegan RIP


TRENT KEEGAN (12 August 1974 – 28 May 2008)

A book of condolences has been opened at Bold Art Gallery on Merchants Road and will remain there for the month of June.

Melissa has a tribute up on her blog. Trent wasn’t so much her right hand man as her third, fourth, fifth and sixth arms, and two good driving legs!

Trent’s biography
RTE News

I’ve set up a facebook group as well.

Nikki Keegan has left a message below (click the link to jump).

PHOTOS FROM THE SALTHILL MEMORIAL ARE BELOW THE FOLD. [Read more →]

Off to the Coast!

The Connemara Coast Hotel, to be precise. I’ll have some live caricatures up from tonight soon. I’m also going to be in Halo nightclub on Friday night, if you’re there come over for a caricature, and I’ve a wedding in Wexford on Saturday. Busy busy busy!

When Charlie and Sandra got married!


Head’s a bit worse for wear today. Yesterday was the wedding reception of Charlie and Sandra. Charlie writes Double Vision every week in the Connacht Tribune. The reception was in Massimos and Mattie Hynes, Harriet Leander and a troupe of French people did an amazing job turning it into… well, a brilliant wedding reception venue! The whole place was trimmed with greenery and flowers, it was hard to believe I was still in Massimos, and it was packed to the gills with friends and family.

Me and Mattie.

Me and Martin Rowson
Charlie’s best man was political cartoonist Martin Rowson of the parish of The Guardian and other esteemed publications. We’d a great chat about scandal, satire and upsetting people: my theory is if people are getting upset by your work you’re doing something right, and Martin has a good deal of experience in that department! The photo is the obligatory take-it-yourself upnose Bebo standard, sorry Martin, nice to meet you :D .
As a present I did a signing board for the guys, it went down a treat, got great compliments for it and a few people accused Martin of doing it, which I take as a compliment.

An amazing night, all the best for the future Charlie and Sandra. Now I just need to pop these veins back into my temples…

Charlie counts the ways he loves the Wesht!


Over in London, supporting and being supported by my wonderful family, I am more than ever aware that this city of my birth is no longer my home…

Photosynth: Where do I begin?


I just watched this TED talk with Blaise Aguera y Arcas on Photosynth, a powerful application in development that stitches thousands of photos together and extrapolates the position of the photographer, creating a virtual model of the area photographed (found on BizarroBlog). A written explanation doesn’t do it justice, you really should watch the demo. I’ve just been playing around with the prototype on Microsoft Labs, it’s really incredible. This kind of thing is going to replace the linear, click-next-in-slideshow model of sites like Flickr and Photobucket, and what’s incredible is the complexity of the metadata that’s going to build up around each image: as people tag images in the likes of Flickr, that data is applied to all connected images. The best thing to do is try it, and if your computer hasn’t got the chops for it watch the talk on the TED site.