So, since we have a plethora of stringed instruments at home and we don’t use them all, here’s your chance to buy a beautiful three quarter size violin for your budding Kennedy or Cora Venus. If that’s not your bag, instead you can buy a fabulous framed print of the violin by clicking the button above. Either way, your life will be enriched, so go on, do yourself a favour …
Hoisin Pork, Linda Reid stylee.
Ingredients:
2 x pork fillet steaks
5 cm fresh ginger, chopped very finely, pulped even
1 large clove of garlic, crushed
2 tbsp Hoisin sauce
2 tbsp dark soy sauce
2 tsp light soft brown sugar
1 tsp five spice powder
2 tbsp sunflower oil
2 tbsp honey
Method:
Trim any fat off the pork, leave them whole but flatten them a little. Place the pork and marinade ingredients in a plastic bag or sealable box and make sure everything is completely mixed and covered. Leave in the fridge for at least two hours or preferably overnight. Remove from marinade and cook over a medium heat until cooked through. Don’t pierce the meat unless you want to lose your juices.
If there’s marinade left over, I stick it in a pot and cook it up, possibly adding a little chopped tomato to make a pouring sauce.
A mate on boards.ie gave me a tip on achieving better digital infrared photography. Darren Greene suggests taking a custom white balance from a patch of grass with the Hoya r72 fitted. This will reduce the overall red-ness from the picture and will allow some blues through. He suggests f/8 for about 1 to 2 seconds in bright daylight.
I’ve come to the conclusion that MovableType is just too hard to work, so I’m moving lock, stock and barrel over to Wordpress. It’s much easier to use. As a result, I’ve separated the site into more sensibly laid out sub domains, the photos are here (photo.intercuts.com), the videos are here (photo.intercuts.com) and everything else remains here, where you’re reading this. I’ll try to update the navigation bars in each of the sub domains accordingly.
A blissful evening as the tide comes in a Bullock Harbour, near Dalkey, south of Dublin. An idyllic place to spend a few hours watching the world go by.
Another time-lapse from New Dublin at the Grand Canal Plaza. I like this part of the city at night time especially when the light show can be seen at its best, designed by Martha Schwarz. Actually, having moaned at length about the horribleness of what’s happening on the far side of the river beyond George’s Dock, I think this place is very cool. And it will be lent a certain theatrical credibility when the new Daniel Libeskind designed theatre opens here later in 2008.
Here is a short filmette of time-lapse material shot in and around Dublin over the last few months. These images were used in a project we’re currently finishing off at The Farm for South Dublin County Council, an exhibition space housed in Tallaght. The technique used is to basically plonk the camera down in some place with a visually interesting view, stick it on a tripod, set your shot and squeeze off a frame every minute or so. Then import the resulting images into FCP and what you see here is the result. The handy thing about this technique is that the images are pretty big to start with, so the sequences could be used at all resolutions up to 2k film if you’re careful. Enjoy!
This beautiful young woman was the hostess in a coffee ceremony I witnessed in a region called Sodo in southern Ethiopia. I made the trip to Ethiopia during Easter as part of a film crew, the crew was there to film a documentary about a young Irish girl who is hoping to make a difference to the lives of Ethiopian woman with an invention she devised.
There’s an account of the documentary and trip in a the works available soon
In the meantime, please drop by and have a look at my Ethiopian pictures on flickr.
Thanks.
This is Sarah, who is responsible for the props on the film Spacemen Three which I’ve been editing with Hugh O’Conor these last few weeks. Sarah has made intergalactic sand, batteries and other props for the movie, as well as being extremely photogenic. Her contribution is subtle, a bit like editing, in that if you’re too aware of it then something is wrong.
Spacemen Three is a short film about an unlikely odyssey into space with three astronauts and annoying toy, ready for the Galway Film Fleadh this summer. Written by John Butler and Hugh O’Conor and superbly acted by Michael McElhatton, Peter McDonald and Pat Shortt. Hopefully you’ll get to see it during the summer.
I took a stroll down the Shelley Banks, along the South Wall, looked back and marvelled at the setting sun over Dublin. I was quietly going about the business of taking a panoramic sunset shot, each of the four exposures half a minute, when I became aware of this quiet, calm sensation of something extremely large passing quietly nearby. The silence of this ship was surprising, a barely audible whoosh and low frequency rumble was all there was to be heard.
Which explains why I was a bit late turning the camera round to it.
Here, for your consideration, is the ghostship.