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

On Thursday I was planning to go to the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference in Dublin, but given that I’m currently listening to the podcasts generated at the Reboot (human) conference in Copenhagen, (and asking Clare Dillon for access to the slides and recording from the conference) I think I might be able to pick up the necessary.

And saying the word conference a lot.

The reason I couldn’t go was because I’m doing some voluntary work for the Cork Midsummer Festival. Most of this work involved heaving boxes of event flyers and books to stops around the city (mostly libraries and shopping centres). The energy level in the offices (administration and box) are high… the events and gigs start in about a fortnight.

Tips for distributing these around…
1)Don’t hit between Thursday and Sunday. The weekend is fairly busy but the free sheets arrive on a Thursday so space is limited. If the venue asks for more however, ignore this tip.
2)Take note of the venue. If it’s a library with a large children’s section, then they will actually want the kids information. Obvious but its easy to miss.
3)Take note of the venue. If there isn’t a information point in the shopping there isn’t really a chance of getting stuff in there. In general however, Tesco’s information point, which is also a shop counter, is more accommodating than the customer service desk in Dunnes, which is purely an office point.
4)Take note of the venue. If there aren’t any other flyers, or if there are a handful which look like the are related to the centre, chances the centre isn’t going to be interested in them.

Now I’d like to ask, is there anywhere else (on the North side of Cork in particular) where these flyers should be going?

Tags : Microsoft, podcast, Reboot, Clare Dillon, conference, Cork Midsummer Festival, library, Tesco, Dunnes, shopping centre, Cork