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I unearthed some old videos I made a while ago as a mock-up of an add about poverty for an NGO. It is no good news they are still current. I hope these help a bit to reflect on our ways.

Bread: Food For Life.
This is a series of 3 ads done for a project at college, not at all associated with thehungersite.com (unfortunately!), and were never intended to be published.
The theme was ‘Bread: the food of life’. I created these mock-up TV advertisements based on the idea of the inexpensiveness of bread being a luxury for too many.

Bread: Food For Life I

Bread: Food For Life II

Bread: Food For Life II

By Bohoe.

Find out more about Blog Action Day at http://www.blogactionday.org.
And find out 88 ways we can all help with to do something about poverty:
http://site.blogactionday.org/poverty/fight-poverty/.
And you can find a list of Irish bloggers posting for the Blog Action Day in Chris Mehigan’s blog.

Here’s award-winning photographer Chase Jarvis, a Hasselblad Master, litteraly running throw the steps of a commercial photo shoot, right from contract to delivery.
Another reason to keep subscribed to his podcasts.

Close your eyes and listen to this tune from Vampire Weekend and tell me it is not as Black as a soul can go. Nevermind the video.

Mansard Roof

I see a mansard roof through the trees

I see a salty message written in the eaves

The ground beneath my feet

The hot garbage and concrete

And now the tops of buildings, I can see them too

The Argentines collapse in defeat

The admiralty surveys the remnants of the fleet

The ground beneath their feet

Is a nautically-mapped sheet

As thin as paper

While it slips away from view

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Slide Movie – Diafilmprojektor
an installation by Gebhard Sengmüller

Black cube installation: A film sequence (35mm motion picture, 24 frames/sec.) is cut up and the individual frames are mounted as slides. They’re then distributed among 24 slide projectors that are all focused on the same screen (the exact same point).
Via electronic control of the projectors, these individual images are then reassembled-in an extremely cumbersome way-into a chronological sequence.
The formula “one projector per frame” thus gives rise to something that at least rudimentarily (and inevitably very inaccurately, due to the lack of precision of the mechanical devices) suggests a motion picture. The film soundtrack emerges as a byproduct – the mechanical clattering of the projectors changing slides.

Via Gebhard Sengmüller

These are some old video projects I did for college and clients, some based on photo-animation, some just plain short films.

Reverse Perspective Interactive Holograms, 2005.



Promotion for Interactive Holographic advertisement, produced by me for Reverse Perspective in 2005.

Waiting for the Luas, 2005.



What do you do in the coldest winter’s night? You get your friends to pose for you at the Luas station, in front of the already-gone Fatima Mansions, and convince them to do what you say because it makes sense. Thanks to Thomas and Michael.

The project was to develop a narrative through photographs on a video’s time-line. Rather than creating different scenes, I decided to try phoho-animation. I never added sound to it.

Unfortunately, the compression of the AVI file I uploaded provoked a weird flow of frames. Well, is very close to the real thing.

Coffee, 2005.



As above, the idea was to create a narrative through photographs in a time-line. It is about the magic of the everyday.

Bread: Food For Life, 2004.


This is a series of 3 ads done for a project at college, not at all associated with thehungersite.com (unfortunatelly!), and were never intended to be published.
The theme was ‘Bread: the food of life’. I created these mock-up TV advertisements based on the idea of the inexpensiveness of bread being a luxury for too many.

Bread: Food For Life I

Bread: Food For Life II

Bread: Food For Life II

By Bohoe

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Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface

SWEET TALK 24. Candy in association with Mickey Finn present SweetTalk24 in Dublin.
Thursday June 28th. 7pm doors / 8pm show.
THE SUGAR CLUB, LEESON STREET DUBLIN. Admission: eur10, tickets only available on door.

WIM CROUWEL presentation.
http://www.swisslegacy.com Interview: One & Two
“HELVETICA – The Documentary” Irish premiere with director GARY HUSTWIT: http://www.helveticafilm.com
Followed by Q&A session chaired by Ciaran O’Gaora (Zero-G) with; Wim Crouwel, Gary Hustwit, Michael C. Place (Build, UK), Aiden Grennelle (Image Now, Irl) & Alastair Keady (Hexibit / CreativeIreland, Irl).

About “Helvetica – The Documentary”
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica will only have limited screenings worldwide and we are so happy to bring this unique evening to Copenhagen especially with both the director, Gary Hustwit and e-Types (the Danish strategic design agency specialising in graphic design, brand strategy and identity) speaking before the movie. The movie has played to audiences of over 1,000 in Berlin in the last few weeks and this might be your only chance to see this special film.

Read loads more and watch trailers in my previous post about Helvetica.

Via Candy Culture.

Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface

Global Photographies: Histories ¦ Theories ¦ Practices

Wednesday 27th, Thursday 28th, Friday 29th June 2007.

The Photography Program at the Institute of Art Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire in Dublin is pleased to announce that it will be holding an international conference on photography and globalization in June 2007.

Widely perceived to be the driving force of our era, Globalization has attracted much critical commentary within the field of visual culture. Despite interest in the correlations between globalization and the visual, however, there has been relatively little examination of the role of photography in shaping the global media landscape. Equally the impact of globalization on photographic and artistic practices has been an area that has not received much commentary.

This conference brings together photographers, curators and writers to explore the intersection of the photographic image and globalization across the discplines of photography, art, anthropology, architecture and cultural studies. Sixty speakers from nearly twenty different countries will deliver papers over three days of the conference program on a range of themes including; global archives and the image content industry, migration, photography and the war on terror, colonial archives and post-colonial identities, photography and cultural diplomacy, cross-cultural curatorial practices, photojournalism and the global media, trans-cultural media practices, urbanization, photography and Diasporic identities.

The conference program will also include a special screening of Allan Sekula’s documentary film The Lottery of the Sea.

Keynote speakers include:

Allan Sekula (Photographer, Film-Maker and Theorist) author of ‘Against the Grain’, ‘Fish Story’, ‘Dismal Science’

Shahidul Alam (Drik Photo Agency) Photographer and founder of ‘Drik Photo Agency’ Bangladesh

Iain Boal (Berkley, California and Retort) Contributing author of ‘Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in an Age of New War’

Steve Edwards (Open University)
Research Lecturer and author of ‘The Making of English Photography: Allegories’

NOT TO MISS:
THE LOTTERY OF THE SEA, Allan Sekula
As part of the Global Photographies Conference Programme, IADT will host a special screening of Allan Sekula’s Documentary The Lottery of the Sea at the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray Co. Wicklow on Wednesday 27 June 2007 at 6.30pm. If you would like to attend the screening please send a list of names to justin.carville@iadt.ie

Via Visual Arts Ireland. More info at Global Photographies Conference Programme website.