This is Peter Gowen
he is currently appearing as “Yank” in Corcadorca’s production of “The Hairy Ape” by Eugene O’Neill.
And I think it’s a cool picture. And given the date, it sort of fits.
I’ll be uploading more pictures from the play to my Pix.ie account. They will all be tagged with “Corcadorca”. Let me know if there are any which stand out to you.
take care,
Will Knott
“So when are you going to upload those photos?”
John, the stage manager wanted to know.
“I’ve uploaded the first lot, Well there is a bit of editing to do, and I’m getting home late, and I’ve an exam…”
“So you’re lazy?”
Well now with the exam over (this morning) and a bit of time, I’ve finished editing the 230 photos from my second night of stewarding Corcadorca’s production of “The Hairy Ape” by Eugene O’Neill.
The delay is caused by the photos themselves, and the fact that I try to take them circumspectly during the show. The first lot has blurring problems. The easiest way to fix this is to reduce the shutter speed… but I’m taking photographs in low light. Reducing the shutter speed simply makes things darker.
So I have to increase the gamma levels on each photograph. And yes, I love the gimp right now.
Which means you can take photograph files like this…
and turn them in to something like this…
or even better.
this dark and hidden photo…
can turn in to this
where you can make out the faces of Peter Gowen (seated at the bottom) who plays “Yank”, Hector Harkness (standing) who plays “Long” and Will O’Connell (seated on the top with the bare feet) who plays “Stoker”.
Also
Here you can clearly see Frank O’Sullivan, who plays “Paddy” when he was an indistinct mass on the unedited photo. The main problem is, you need to edit every photograph to see if there is any salvageable data in there.
I know I would have simply deleted the “empty” shots before now.
take care,
and take a shot of the dark.
Will Knott
All shots taken at the Lord Mayor’s Picnic in the Park, but some are weirder than others.
Given the copyright concerns, I don’t think I’m going to have a large number of Festival shots.
First off. A pair of men dressed in rubber
Since the entire event took place in a park with an open bank on to the River Lee (in places) there were search and rescue boats on stand-by (as well as an odd Hawaiian like boat where the punter rowed). I think that they ducked out to see the band.
At least I assume that they were with the boat.
And this squashed lady
is Svetlana Flamingo who seems to be made of rubber. She took on other amazing poses, but this is one of the few I can show.
Well,
she was exhausted by the end.
like me,
take care,
Will Knott
I’m tired
and this is why.
I agreed to volunteer for the Cork Midsummer Festival before my course started (didn’t expect the call) and now I’m burning the candle not only at both ends, but in the middle too. Just hoping the first exams aren’t until the week after the festival
Caffeine is my friend.
Fiend?
take care,
Will
This is Ocean, she is a Doodle.
Actually she is a goldendoodle. A what? A Goldendoodle is a cross between a poodle and a golden retriever. The dog is especially useful as they don’t shed. And this particular dog was being cuddled like a teddy bear by every child that came across her at the Picnic in the Park (she was very tired by the end of the evening).
She is also a working dog. A fully trained Guide Dog. And a cuddly one at that.
Why bring her up, well it’s a cute picture. And almost a cover star.
And it has nothing to do with naked people in Cork.
take care,
Will Knott
Well done
maybe a little too well done.
Had fun at the Lord Mayor’s Picnic in the Park this afternoon. The gallery of shots is online. And I have so much more to do with the Midsummer Festival this week. Some of it literally clean fun…
Can’t say more.
take care,
Will Knott
While in Doneraile, we stumbled across a giant squid
Ok, we didn’t. It’s a fallen tree, but the missing branch and trunk shape would certainly make Bruce Schneier shiver (or whatever it is that he does when he comes across another giant squid for his collection).
The funny thing is, the “eye”. It seems to be looking at you. I know it’s really a hole in a piece of once animate material, but isn’t that what an eye is (he typed conveniently forgetting everything in an earlier post).
At this time this arrives, I should be sitting at the information desk in Fitzgerald’s Park at the Lord Mayors picnic in the park (part of the Cork Midsummer Festival). I’m really hoping that there will be food, and there might be photos from the event here too.
Yup, I’m bringing the camera and keeping an eye on things.
but not this eye.
What was that quote about an abyss staring back at you?
take care,
Will Knott
Its another Doneraile Park shot I sort of wandered off down a dark footpath, and came across a few things. Given that most of my 50+ shots of the deer were all out focus due to an incorrectly attached lens, I’m pleased with my dark shots.
Image via Wikipedia
This shot, appears to have the outline of a tiny torso. Do faeries (or fairies) shed their skin like lizards and some insects?
What happens at the bottom of the garden? With extra naked fay?
No wonder roses blush.
And speaking of going bare, I’m volunteering with the Cork Midsummer Festival, and it likes I might be helping out with the “putting together” / “herding” of the Spencer Tunick photograph taking place in Cork on Tuesday 17 2008. I doubt I’ll see anything with wings.
And no it is not going to be a photo walk!
take care,
Will
UPDATE 16 June 2008. I won’t be involved with the Spencer Tunick photographic shoot. I’ll explain in person.
Its a press release, but it might be of interest…
Cork City Libraries has begun to extend the resources of the Local Music Archive. The archive will collect two copies of recordings by Cork singers, musicians, groups, choirs, quartets, bands and orchestras across all genres of music : pop, rock, indie, jazz, traditional, classical, operatic, etc., plus 2 copies of music books and scores of Cork interest. we would be grateful if any individual, musician, group or music shop would alert us to any new material by Cork artists.
In addition to new material, the Local Music Archive will retrospectively collect material by Cork artists already released in an effort to make the archive as comprehensive as possivle.
Contact :
Cork City Libraries,
Local Studies Department,
Rory Gallagher Music Library,
or the eLibraries Services
I suppose all those mobile phone videos and bootlegs of the gigs at the Cork Midsummer Festival or the Live at the Marquee event (or anyone with a bootleg of the now ledendary Nirvina concert at Sir Henry’s) should get in contact. I’m sure IMRO won’t be contacted… but I haven’t asked. You might want to.
take care,
Will
tags : Cork, Cork City, library, Cork City Library, Local Music Archive, Music, Local Studies, Rory Gallagher, Rory Gallagher Music Library, eLibraries, bootlegs, Cork Midsummer Festival
Another sighting of a blog post on the Cork Midsummer Festival, this time its BifSniff on Meat a sordid affair for which he designed the poster.
I’ve heard scary things about this play. I wonder if that says anything about him? Hmmm. Must get to know him.
take care,
Will
tags : Cork, Midsummer Festival, Meat, BifSniff