February 2012
27 posts
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Solstice Cork - OPEN Call for Submissions... →
I’m proposing. Are you?
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Last Ever Set played in POD nightclub Dublin... →
Samy Kay’s uploaded mix of the last ever session in POD.
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How do you communicate:
Your thoughts?
Your imagery?
Your self?
Has it ever changed?
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What does it mean to communicate?
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External Memories →
I’ve just finished reading this book and i’m in a position of contemplation now. Something very important has happened to me.
Firstly. I dropped my iphone into the toilet last week. A tragic event. But it left me moderately less connected to the world than I was before. Which if you are a connected maniac like I am was an unsettling experience, initially.
What?
Well. Recently, i’ve been...
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C E L T I C R A D I C A L →
A friend and colleague of mine is exploring cultural identity and using the Irish language Gaeilge as an entry point.
Also. Tomorrow is the European Day of Mother Languages. Bhfuil teanga mar sin agat? Teanga anam?
The Insanity of Silence →
To my Deda. Love you.
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WatchI’ve recently been reading a lot into memory and theories on “how we remember”. Starting with http://joshuafoer.com/moonwalking-with-einstein/ I am becoming a little obsessed with my mind. I’ve just finished reading the fascinating and arguably dubious story of Daniel Tammet the worlds most acclaimed savant and I’ve discovered his TED talk which I have previously not...
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“Even the simple act which we describe as “seeing some one we know” is, to some...”
– Swann’s Way (via oisinbyrne)
This reminds me of a quote by Anthony De Mello “You are never in love with anyone. You’re in love with your prejudiced idea of the person.”
In many ways this reminds me of how our voice work as well. There internal perception we have of what we sound...
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“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back— Concerning...”
– Goethe (via oisinbyrne)
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What is a sexy Voice? →
A fantastic article from Voice Coach Mel Churcher who puts it better than most can.
What is the sexiest female voice?
What does that mean in terms of voice work?
Can we make our voices sexier?
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Learn to Beatbox with the best Females in the... →
Acapella group the Boxettes just brought to my attention a set of workshops on Beatboxing which includes a session with their very own BELLATRIX who is the Female World Champion no less. Check them out, I love me a good set of female voices.
Habitual Tensions are..
a lifelong decentering process.
Breathe.
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Ono no Komachi →
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Call For Artists...
OPEN CALL for Visual Artists, Graffiti Artists, Illustrators, Set Designers…
Artist needed for a project in development for presentation Summer 2012. I am searching for a collaborator on a performance installation piece that will incorporate illustrations by Sidney Sime.
If you are interested in hearing more about this project, I would be delighted to talk further with you…
email...
January 2012
28 posts
Sidney Sime →
“No-one has ever captured the spirit of fantasy more perfectly than Sime”
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
I Literally Love this. →
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Give Voice to the Youth at Home. →
A subject close to my heart and my mind. I live in London but I am constantly turning my gaze home in thoughts of being part of the recovery. The count of my friends in London at present is 20, with more en-route over the next few months. Its not that its GREAT here, its just that its better than home. I want the skills to return to be part of the change. The phone-calls from my mother sound...
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“How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when...”
– Phillip Massinger
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“There is no index of character so sure at the voice”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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I really enjoy this meme. →
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It is the woman who pays →
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I know what love is →
Fast becoming my favourite website, another golden letter from photographer Ansel Adams to friend Cedric Wright.
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“I love being a girl. I can feel what you’re feeling as you’re...”
– Eve Ensler from her book and directly taken from her TED talk ‘Embrace your inner girl’
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SOS - For those moments of unknown →
Martin on his female characters
Facebook question for GRRM: What was your intent in providing such female characters of strength in a genre that typically reduces them to witches, wives, and whores?
George R. R. Martin: To be fair, I have my share of witches, wives, and whores. But I try to make them fully fleshed out human witches, wives, and whores. It all goes back to what I said earlier about common humanity. It seems strange that I have to say this, as a sort of weirdly radical statement, but women are people and they are driven by the same desires that drive men, I think. A desire for respect and power, a desire to protect your children. Greed for money, for acclaim, everyone wants to be loved. It is all common humanity. I just try to write my female characters as I write my males characters. I do take into account it is a very patriarchal society. They are limited to certain roles, some of them fit comfortably within the roles their Westerosi society assigned them. And some of them cannot fit comfortably into those roles, and therefore encounter a certain amount of rejection, or tension, or ridicule as they try to pursue their own dreams or as they frustrate their own dreams. All this is great, all this is conflict, it is character tension, it is what story is all about, the human heart in conflict with itself once again. One of the things that pleases me to no end is that I have so many female readers. They do write me, all the time, that they do like my female characters, and I am very pleased with it.
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This American Life - Mr Daisey and The Apple... →
One of the most interesting and engaging podcasts i’ve listened to in a while. I HIGHLY recommend it. Gives a lot of food for thought as to the idea of ‘hand-made’ work and technology. Have a listen on walk or a commute.
“The Voice is a second face”
– Gerard Bauer
Listening to Poetry →
God Bless the BBC.
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Matthew Rhys
Has a lovely voice.
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Nothing Good Gets Away →
Delicious letter from John Steinbeck to his son. I wish I had the courage to mail my parents in a way that would befit a response like that.
