09 May
What is a blog?
Perfectionism, introversion and rethinking the basics While chatting with a friend recently, this question came up as I was expressing some difficulty in keeping up with the blog while being on the local organising committee for the IAMCR conference, and finishing up on teaching, supervision and assessment duties. Also, being a consumate introvert (an INFJ
06 May
Strangely mesmerizing – spinning hard drive at 1…
Strangely mesmerizing – spinning hard drive at 1000 fps http://j.mp/LBc0At And 7 more everyday things in slow motionhttp://j.mp/IBwBEe
29 Apr
Isometric
This is one of the designs I recently did for the cover of an academic report on diversity. The isometric shapes are largely coloured in monochrome black and white, or the two main colours that complemented the logo’s colour scheme – orange and blue. The one green and one red shape are to represent ‘minority’
09 Nov
Audio Practice
The brain has let the thesis go, for now. Last week I took a tentative look at my notebook where I keep sketches of my artistic projects. I also had a few days work on an audio-visual project that got me reacquainted with a lighting and sound desk, as well has spending time with a
27 Oct
Grey
If a feeling could be a colour, grey it would be, post-submission. Not terrible blackness! Not joyous white or refreshing sky blue, but that grey, cloudy colour that signals inertia, an in-between state of the post-PhD emotional world. I think this feeling is to the fore because in between the submission and the viva is
13 Oct
Submitting
I finally submitted my thesis yesterday, having first submitted it to my supervisor for corrections. Actually, that submission, in hindsight, was more significant than the one to registry. My supervisor congratulated me on the work, on having put together this body of research and for the slog. He was even looking forward to reading the
03 Aug
Game Design – Someone Else’s Shoes
I have been working on a pilot game project called Someone Else’s Shoes. This is a ‘serious’ game project, created by members of the School of Communications, aimed at 11-15 year olds. It aims to educate students about the causes and effects of migration and to explore intercultural relations between people in their wider social
16 Jul
Balancing
I have been somewhat in blog hibernation, writing and editing the thesis. I have been very fortunate to have been ‘donated’ a holiday home in the Wexford countryside where I can be out of the city and have no distractions other than wild birds and more recently, a poorly hedgehog to tend to. My routine