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Size doesn’t matter…

Posted in Animals, Children's stories, COMMUNITY, Illustrators, Love, Music, Poetry, Scripts, Short Stories, Sounds, Writing, tagged Inspiration on April 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Dreaming of toys

Posted in Books, Children's stories, MOVIES, Other blogs, Scripts, Toys, Writing, tagged AlphaAnimation, ChineseToyDeal, CPB:MrPandaLivesNextDoor, MichaelBay, Transformers on April 2, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Just read about this deal between Michael Bay (of ‘Transformers’ fame) 451 Media Group and (Chinese Media/Toy manufacturers) Alpha Animation, in ‘Variety’.

Does it mean my dream is possible; one day my ‘Mr Panda Lives Next Door’ Books/TV Series, could be taken to dizzying heights and merchandised?

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Wisdom Wednesdays – Keep Digging

Posted in Writing on April 2, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Hear – Hear!

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Begorrathon: Vaccuming

Posted in Begorrathon, Ireland, Love, Poetry, Romance, Sketching In Ireland, Writing, tagged IrishPoems, Love, PoemsWrittenInIreland, romance, SketchingInIreland on March 29, 2015| Leave a Comment »

St Mary’s Road, Midleton, Cork. 2003

Vaccuming

With every pull toward your body

you expect obedience.

Expect each tiny micron of dirt

to be sucked up and away.

Look at the attention you give stairs…

How do I become like stairs?

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Meet Sarah Garnett from The Footpath Library

Posted in Writing on March 26, 2015| 2 Comments »

Wonderful work!

WordMothers - for women writers & women’s writing

Interview by Nicole Melanson ~

Sarah Garnett is Founder and Managing Director of The Footpath Library, a truly unique library that gives away books to homeless people in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. The Footpath Library gives away 2500 books a month via mobile services and libraries it installs and stocks in homeless shelters and refuges.

Sarah is an Australia Day Ambassador, a 2013 NSW Australian of the Year Local Hero finalist, and a recipient of the 2013 Courage to Care Local Hero Award. She was also the subject of an episode of Channel 9’s program Random Acts of Kindness. Prior to her role as MD of The Footpath Library, Sarah had a successful career as a corporate communications and documentary producer.

The Footpath Library

Facebook: /TheFootpathLibrary

Twitter: @footpathlib

HOW DID YOU GET STARTED?

I was a video producer for 20 years before a chance meeting took me in another…

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Wordless Wednesday : Old but Beautiful

Posted in Writing on March 26, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Truly…

Retirement and beyond

Old building in Malta

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Meet Patricia Wood

Posted in Writing on March 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »

I’m inspired…

WordMothers - for women writers & women’s writing

Interview by Nicole Melanson ~

Patricia Wood was born in Seattle, Washington and currently lives in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her debut novel, Lottery, was short-listed for the 2008 Orange Prize for fiction in the UK. She has contributed a short story in the anthology collection Sunset Inn: Tales of the North Shore, which benefits Hawaii Literacy, and her latest novel, Cupidity, was recently released in December.

While Patricia has always considered herself a writer, she has had various careers from being a medical technologist in the US Army, to giving horseback riding lessons, to teaching Science to high-risk students. She has helped crew sailboats across the Pacific, done shark research at Midway Atoll, and competed professionally in horse shows with her jumper Airborne. While working on her PhD at the University of Hawaii, she earned her certificate in Disability Studies.

Patricia now lives on a sailboat with…

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Furnishings

Posted in Begorrathon, Ireland, Romance, Sketching In Ireland, Writing, tagged Beggorathon2015, LovePoems, romance, SketchingInIreland on March 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »

CastleRedmond Court, Midleton, Co Cork. 2003.

Furnishings

listening to shower

water rhythms

then silence as you

shave sans mirror

wafts of Gillette

down the stairs

zing straight to

my wanton womb

I mouth blues

chopping garlic

you appear saying

‘For some reason

I am suddenly starving!’

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10 Composition Tips with Award-Winning Photographer Steve McCurry

Posted in Other blogs, Writing on March 22, 2015| 1 Comment »

Excellent advice for photographers or visual artists in any genre!

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The COOPH (the Cooperative of Photography) explains 10 photo composition tips with the help of Steve McCurry’s incredible photographs. McCurry is an award-winning editorial photographer best known for his photograph, “Afghan Girl” (Sharbat Gula), which originally appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic magazine when she was approximately 12 years old.

Be sure to watch the informative video above. I’ve also written out the 10 tips below so you can check back on this post for reference. For more, visit COOPH and Steve McCurry’s official site.

#1 Rule of Thirds
Place points of interest on intersections

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Photograph by Steve McCurry

#2 Leading Lines
Use natural lines to lead the eye into the picture

composition tips with steve mccurry cooph (2)

Photograph by Steve McCurry

#3 Diagonals
Diagonal lines create great movement

composition tips with steve mccurry cooph (3)

Photograph by Steve McCurry

#4 Framing
Use natural frames like windows and doors

composition tips with steve mccurry cooph (4)

Photograph by Steve McCurry

#5 Figure to Ground
Find a…

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Posted in Writing on March 18, 2015| 1 Comment »

Take a moment to watch the video. It’s worth it.

The Verbal Spew Review

I had originally planned on sharing with you all an extensive Spew Guide to St. Paddy’s Day, but as I told Niall the other day, proceedings came to an abrupt halt following the “Knacker-Drinking on the Canal” segment. I had genuinely intended on completing it, but, well, I got kind of distracted.

So instead I will gift to you a charmingly precious recount of the Story of St. Patrick, as told by a schoolchild and recorded in a classroom in Dublin during the 1960s. These recordings were collected, remastered and animated by the Oscar-nominated Brown Bag Films, and would later become known as “Give Up Yer Aul Sins”. They would also prove that nobody tells a story quite like a Dub does.

Don’t forget that The Begorrathon, as part of Ireland Month, will be ongoing throughout March, and that The Great Irish Care Package will be up for…

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