She Swallowed A Fly

Here is a video of the performance I put on before Christmas

Design For Projections

Over the last week I have been designing the projected images for a play that will be performed in Ireland in late February and early March. The play, which is called The Same Old Moon, is a humorous account of a womans memories of Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s.

Since the play has quite a light hearted script, and the director is taking a rather playful approach to the text, I thought that I might also take similar liberties with the design. The projections are going to work as a visual narrative, establishing the time and place of each act, in the moments before each scene begins. As the play spans over 40 years, the real challenge for me will be trying to indicate the passing of time to the audience without being too descriptive.

This image is the first to be finished so far for the production. It will probably also be used as the poster design for the show... (Although, personally, I think it is a little too busy to function well from a graphic design point of view).

I will upload other images as I create them.

Some Images I took during our Collaborative Project

My Short Lived Career as a Graphic Designer

Here are some screen print posters i made for the band The Noen Flea Circus...
Check them out @

www.neonfleacircus.com

Lost Identity Collaboration

All hell is about to break loose... Our collaborative project is going to kick off this week.

It will be a three act durational performance, which takes place over the course of 3 days. For more information on the collaborative project check out http://www.theoverlook.co.uk/

So for now I am in the eye of the storm and I’ve had a moment to reflect upon the collaborative process so far.

I found this image which I think illustrates the process of collaboration nicely. It is called Lost Identity Collaboration and it’s by a really talented young graphic designer in Germany called Alexander Otto. Here is a link if you’d like to see more of his work http://www.diftnorm.com/

Not Very Green Graffiti

In the spirit of recognizing and recording, not only my successes, but also my failures;
this post is dedicated to possibly THE BIGGEST FLOP OF ALL TIME!

You may remember my previous post on Oct 20th 2008, about green graffiti, entitled “Theatre as Disposable Art”. Well... having researched different forms of environmentally friendly graffiti in the processed of writing that post, I decided I wanted to give it a go myself.

I made a mixture of moss and buttermilk and painted it on walls around London. The main idea is that the moss should grow in the shape in which it was painted. So, I painted a series of footprints on some already gratified walls across London. The foot prints were intended to grow into lush green plant life in the context of urban decay. I hoped that once the foot prints were fully grown they would possibly encourage anyone who came across them to consider the tracks we are leaving in our natural world as we expand and developed.

...The desired effect was not achieved, however...
Not by a long shot!!!
My poor little feet didn’t grow. I think I didn’t water them enough...

...bummer...