UPDATE: Click here for Parade route.
I did a photoshoot for the Macnas last week to promote their upcoming parade for the Galway Arts Festival: Apocolopolis. I’m on a float with a disturbingly shallow wheelbase, but it’s actually quite steady, and once I get past that initial 15 seconds of telling Debbie the director that I can’t do it, it’s fine. I had my own trusty photographer with me that day: my son Naoise, who held his own among the likes of Joe Shaughs and Andrew Downes. The following are all his shots.
The parade is on this Sunday the 20th July. I’ll put a Google Map up of the route when I know what it is!
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Robert Rauschenberg RIP
Just spotted on Boing Boing that he passed away last night. Wikipedia entry.
Oh Ireland, my friend, with this singing turkey, you really spoil me!
Collectively the Irish are some of the smartest folk I know, yet for the longest most painful time, they have been unable to see that what the rest of the world has known all along…
Wedding Entertainment- Caricatures in the Clarion Hotel, Sligo
Caricature Artist for Weddings: for my very latest caricatures for weddings please click here.
I was entertaining the guests of Joanne and Sam at their drinks reception in the Clarion Hotel, Sligo on Saturday. The weather was fantastic, but of course the big draw wasn’t the sun, it was me, and I’d a brilliant spot right in the middle of the floor which ensured a large audience. There are two advantages to the earlier gig: I don’t need a light on the easel and I get to meet more of the kids. There’s always one or two budding artists among them, and they usually score a few pens from me when they say so, which is worth the smile it gets! There’s more pics below the fold.
Brilliant Artists’ resource online
Via the indispensable Drawn Blog I found this fantastic 3d model site called Pose Maniacs. It’s a variety of poses which can be rotated. It’s your very own écorché model, without the mess. Brilliant stuff.
Artists ripped off by Hong Kong Publishers
Quite a few artists have had their work scrapped from the internet, along with plagiarised interviews, and compiled into the above book which is retailing at 100 dollars. If you see it, don’t buy it, the artists don’t get a penny. You can read the full story here and here.