January 14, 2012
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Now that we’re all back to school, this is what our kitchen table looks like most evenings. Ally’s current art assignment involves an A1 sheet of paper and a pointillism/sgraffito task. I wasn’t sure what either pointillism or sgraffito were, … Continue reading
October 3, 2011
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Something that drove me just a bit scatty this evening until I found out how to do it…. I opened up 3Ds Max, started up our latest project, and there was my ‘Move Tool’ (or xyz arrows as I call … Continue reading
September 28, 2011
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We’ve started using 3Ds Max in college. My first basic design, which involved shapes, text, lights and cameras, was this: I spent this evening going through Tutorials from thenewboston that I had downloaded from YouTube. They were really well … Continue reading
September 27, 2011
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Curiosity got the better of me this evening. I decided I HAD to see just what this new ‘timeline’ stuff is that everyone has been ranting about. So, I applied to be a Facebook ‘Developer’ (which is, apparently, the only … Continue reading
September 15, 2011
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No, this is not an announcement for a forthcoming blockbuster movie in which relatives of the infamous Annoying Orange will star. This blog post is about an irritating red box problem that I’ve had since this afternoon……no wait….that sounds wrong….. … Continue reading
September 14, 2011
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Ally started a Fetac Level 5 course in Portfolio today. Last year she studied Art and Design (also a Fetac Level 5 course) in the local Technical College, partly because she was quite young when sitting the Leaving Cert, and … Continue reading
January 26, 2011
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At Tipperary Insitute we’ve been working for the last couple of weeks on a new production for local radio station TippFM. Thanks to TippFM, Conn Ó’Muíneacháin of Edgecast, and Bernie Goldbach, Lecturer at Tipperary Institute, we (2nd year and 1st … Continue reading
December 10, 2010
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I spotted the above when I was in Cork a couple of weeks ago. Night club goers there appear to be getting much younger, if this scenario is anything to go by. Pubs and clubs may need to consider the … Continue reading
October 14, 2010
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I spotted these t-shirts over on Zazzle.co.uk earlier on and I’m tempted to get one. Thursdays have to be my favourite part of the week at the moment, with video and photography classes spanning my entire college day. I don’t … Continue reading
September 9, 2010
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Yesterday I came across an interesting Audioboo shared on Bernie Goldbach’s Facebook page. It was a recording by Paul O’Mahony (Omaniblog) entitled ‘Education Today in Tipperary: the Goldbach papers (1) – an open letter to multimedia man. In this Audioboo, … Continue reading