Connector Volunteer Requests … 28th Jan '09

by connector on January 28th, 2009

Does anyone know anyone suitable for these two opportunities … ?

1 – The Dublin Fringe Festival are looking for interns … via an email from Tom Lawlor – More Info >>

2 – Acara are looking for Video Editors … here is what Colette O’Sullivan (an old connection of mine) emailed me earlier … maybe someone can help these guys out and get a great programme onto Irish TV. Contact colette [@] acara.ie

“Acara undertook a build project on Lesotho, Southern Africa in October 2008, where a group of 60 Irish build the first ever safe house for orphans, in just 14 days.

We had a camera crew there and currently have 50 hours of footage (which we is being condensed as we speak) and we will need to get this down to a 1 hour documentary.  Both RTE and TV3 have expressed an interest in it.  The footage taken is completely different from say “the Niall Melon project” – we worked very closely with the local trades people, children were visiting us every day and there are really heart wrenching interviews taken off site covering the whole are of HIV and Aids.”

“In the next couple of weeks myself and Helen (my business partner) are sitting down with the producer to work out the story line.  Once that is done a script writer friend of mine is going to come over from London at which point we would love to have also secured an editor.

As you can imagine we don’t have a budget for this but neither did we for the build project itself (and we did it) so we don’t let things like that stop us.  We would hope to have the finished product ready to air in March, which will be just in time to launch next years project.

Dave O’Rourke is currently digitizing the footage to make it easier to work with. I’d appreciate it if you could rack your brains to see if there is anyone you know who would like to get involved.”

Connect with Hugh Cooney

by connector on January 15th, 2009

Heard about Hugh Cooney the other evening from the mad Carrie dolan but his videos were as she had described … very far out but very entertaining !  Check out Hugh’s YouTube videos and I hope to have more about Hugh soon.

Connect with the Greens Viral Video Competition

by connector on January 7th, 2009

While I acknowledge that I don’t agree with unsolicited emails, I feel that Michele, Alexia & others have said enough on how this competition was ‘seeded’ with Irish bloggers.

To be fair Damien did apologise when I asked him to unsubscribe me, wondering why I was on his list.  I was totally unaware of the spamming furure until he told me.  But his project is similar to a recent competition I promoted for Screenclick and is worth mentioning for my video production friends.

The best entry for Screenclick to date is from Dan Dalton which is a great clip.  More about Dan soon.

Green ‘Viral’ Competition

Contest aimed at promoting green messages and engaging with creative community

The Green Party has launched a competition for filmmakers and animators, who are asked to submit short viral videos promoting green messages. First prize is €1,000 and the winner will be selected by delegates at the Party’s Convention in March 2009

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Connect with Ireland's biggest viral experiment

by connector on December 5th, 2008

Here is an interesting proposition passed onto connector.ie by our good friend Patrick from Screenclick.com

Screenclick.com are going to be trialing the first performance based viral campaign showcasing the best of Irish videography talent. This is your chance to become part of Ireland’s biggest viral experiment. We will also choose 15 virals that will be used for the 2009 campaign, one will be made into a TV ad.

Each week the best performing virals will be SHOWCASED on Screenclick.com and voted on by the public. Remember the better your viral the more people will sign up for the free trial.  YOU GET PAID €10 PER TRIALIST !!!
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Connector Meetup November – Booked Out !

by connector on November 11th, 2008

This ‘social networking social event’ for the 13th November in the Odessa Club has proven to be hugely popular and we only have 100 places and they are now reserved unfortunately.

We are keen to look after everyone where possible so by all means, please express your interest to conor [@] connector.ie and we will see if we can accomodate you.  Hopefully people will cancel and we can add others  to the guest list.

Registrations were taken by RSVP & on the connector Facebook Group.

Connect with Rose Lawless

by connector on November 5th, 2008

connector.ie is very pleased to introduce some serious musical talent to the November Connector Meetup on November 13th.  I won’t allow it be said that the Connector Meetup was brilliant fun, very informative, seriously connectful but there was not enough cabaret !  Not enough cabaret ?!  Never say those words !

So we are delighted that the delighful Rose Lawless will delight the guests with a few songs from her personal collection.  Expect to be moved, amused and charmed by the one and only, Rose Lawless !!

Here is the battle cry from Rose from her web site >>

My Declaration

I’m Rose Lawless. I’m kind of a rich girl gone wrong. My pedigree is dark but dramatic. I’m the fallout of an illicit passion between a romanian street entertainer and an Irish diplomat’s wife.

My life, like my art, is like the international scandal they could never manage to hush up. I sit on a barbed wire fence between heaven and hell and sing my blood red songs of longing and rage.

Welcome to the Cabaret. This is my world. This is my roar!’

Connector, Actor, Designer … 3-in-1

by connector on October 20th, 2008

I connected with Galway native Padraig Mannion first when I was watching ‘Storytaker‘, a play he was lead actor in during the recent Dublin Fringe Festival.  It was a great play and he gave a strong performance – guess who wrote & directed the play ?  Answer here >>

Next thing I spot him talking to my Eighty:Twenty colleagues at the Prosperity Digital Marketing event and I was confused … and impressed.  Turns out he actually has his own creative content business called Studio Rua and he works for Eighty:Twenty occasionally.

Studio Rua produce Animation and Motion Graphics that focus on powerful and cutting edge visual communication.  Padraig is well worth talking to for digital marketing work and he was also at the October ‘Connector Meetup‘ so knows a thng or two about connecting too.

Best of luck to Padraig in all his varied endeavours and hope we’ll see you in November.

Connector October Meetup

by connector on October 6th, 2008

connector.ie organises a monthly event in Dublin city centre for friends, contacts & connections to meet up and share a pint or two. Click here to join the group on Facebook or just to learn more >>

Next event is on Thursday 16th October 2008 in 4 Dame Lane Bar, Dublin 2. All are welcome & it is free of charge and there willl be a few quid behind the bar if you get there early.

You can expect to see a wide mix of people including people from web, web video, marketing, design, fashion, PR, arts & drama and a nice mix of nationalities.  See you there.

Connect with my poetry …

by connector on September 2nd, 2008

A few years ago, I had a burst of creativity and penned a lot of poetry.  Some good, some bad but it was a good outlet for me at the time.

A couple of my poems were selected and published in an Irish online poetry collection called ‘Electric Acorn 10′ from the Dublin Writers Workshop.  Here is a poem called ‘Who Am I?’ which I wrote about my esteemed mother, Mammy Lynch !  The ‘Second Spring’ is about an ex-girlfriend who was having a lot of problems starting to affect me at the time.

Electric Acorn 10 – Who Am I?

As I made friends with the dark
You were the light above my door;
As I emit my own rays
I’ve not forgotten.

As you fingered my page
And I mumbled a sound;
How I’ve learnt
I’ve not forgotten.

As you eyed the coat you never had
And forgot the trip you never made;
All foregone but
I’ve not forgotten.

As you reflect on all you’ve done
What’s come and seemingly gone;
You are who I am,
I’ve not forgotten.

Electric Acorn 3 – Second Spring

Left eye fear
right eye hate,
hold my two fingers
while darkness lingers.
a new past beckons.

Thread bare resolve
long worn-thin;
will time dilute
ease or dissolve this dusk?
Don’t fear, daylight’s near.

You lived through your nightmares,
you slept through your dreams;
you scream at the dawn
after you whispered it goodnight,
let existence become life.

Lonely child with
smiling eyes and salty cheeks;
the louder the untold pain
the deeper the echo,
but cries of laughter
now fill our days.

Curled up lip, talk to unzip,
smile to unleash
day by day memories fade and decay.
Childhood’s summers passed you by,
come flower in the Second Spring.

Connect with talented young Polish actress, writer, photographer, model …

by connector on August 20th, 2008

This is Natalia Kostrzewa and I was connected to her by her friend Iwona and we met for a coffee (& Earl Grey tea) in the great IFI Cafe in Dublin city centre.

Check out her impressive web site for some great photos just look at that lovely eye ! I expect her web site to see some more visits in the coming days.

Natalia is an accomplished young actress and is creating lots of small projects in Dublin while also spending time in Amsterdam & her native Poland.

She has also done lots of modelling, written an award winning play called ‘Morelight’ (aka ‘Hunger’), featured in some TV commercials (about mental health) and she had me scribbling furiously trying to keep up with her exploits !

Every resourceful, she is working on some short movies with another young Pole Tomas Kulesza who I hope to meet soon to hear his story or meet her dad who is an accomplished painter living in Dublin now.

I enjoyed my coffee and I expect we will see more of Natalia’s creativity in the coming years.