Ciunas Gan Uaigneas

A - Michael got you a night away in Ballygarry House for your birthday. You holed up and finally wrote the short story you'd had in your head for far too long. It's your love song to Tralee and all its head the balls. You dedicated it to Keith cause he understands. Noel O' Regan helped whip it into shape and published it in his Visions Anthology.

Ciunas Gan Uaigneas Short Story.

Just not yet...

A - You and Michael devised a script based on Micheal's idea about mysterious blue lights. Years ago. 2011. Ye came in second at the Dublin International Untitled Script competition. You got funding. Now it's 2015 and you've yet to put a shape on it. Anyway, you have not given up on it. The version you have does it's best to honour Michael's original vision but in doing so your voice is lost. So it's neither here nor there. Michael's given you his blessing. Now own the fuckin' thing. You've got a year ... it's the 10th of September now. I will be back to hunt you down.

So Words With Friends became After Words. You wrote this piece as a one room scenario, inspired by Twelve Angry Men. It would be cheap to make, yer calling card, a labour of love for a group of friends. Michael shot it. Gary L directed. James K produced. Bryan and Sean took the leads. Rhob did the music. It was great. Real hot throat stuff. Or so ye thought until the festival rejections started coming in. Fuck 'em. You like it.

After Words Script

A. Michael religiously shot the compost in the old burnt sienna Tupperware. You had great plans for this collection. It was to be a website I think but again, time caught up with you so you made him an A0 poster and got it framed for his birthday. At the time of writing, it is wedged in under the stairs because we haven't yet had the balls to drill into the 90 mm thick insulation of the new kitchen in Little Oaks.  We're planning to shoot a short film (Words with Friends) here soon so we might get it together as part of the production design.

Breakfast of Champions

A - Bryan's Breakfast Tray, remember? You and Michael wanted to thank him for marrying ye and for generally being Bryan. Michael had the gift idea of this breakfast tray based on his actual favourite breakfast which you got out of him in some roundabout way. George Doyle photographed it for us using a fancy overhead thingy up in the technology park. We should have let the tea brew more.

We presented it to Bryan in bed during one of his stays, having recreated the breakfast once again. Trés cool, non? The mad monk picked a very healthy breakfast - porridge, kiwi, tea, juice. Not a sausage in sight ...

Month of Mountain

A - When you first moved out to Carraigadav in 2007, you and Michael were fully committed to taking a photograph each day. Ye would photograph the mountain that lorded over your horizon. Big Leo came out and created a wooden perch for your camera. You insisted on using John Kelly's old Olympus. You would get the film developed every month. You would be devoted. You wouldn't miss a day. Keith even created a piece of code that would segment each photo into 30 pieces so you could stitch them together to form an overall view of the month.

You were optimistic...and deluded. Ye kept forgetting. Until the project lay dead on your hard drive.

Then in 2011, you and Michael agreed that you would give each other a photograph for Christmas. You found some old photos of the mountain on your hard drive. You had enough images to portray February 2008 in one image. The change in light was amazing. Even more amazing was the photograph of Leo that Michael gave to you. The Ruddy Chublet, in his red jumpsuit, smiling up from Nora's blue yoga mat. You realised that your horizon had changed.

The 5th Kerry Bicycle Festival 2012.

A. Best thing about this festival? Treasa being pregnant - she avoided a lot of cycles and then she and Keith told ye the news after the fact. You cried. And then months later Eanna came. You cried again. In gaining the little fella, ye lost Treas on the organising committee. Anyway, the bike fest? This was the year you organized the Postman V Garda bike race. The secret delivery address was 31A Strand Road. You called in to ask the occupant if you might use his obscure dwelling as a delivery destination for the race. The second he opened the door, you realised he was probably a crystal meth user. His skin was yellow and translucent, his teeth were rotten, his eyes were trying to keep focused. He was skin and bone. God bless him, finding you on his doorstop, with your friendly talk of guards and bicycles. When you asked if he would mind a volunteer hiding in his front bushes with a dozen eggs, he smiled and acquiesced immediately. I think he was in raw survival mode and had read the situation correctly. Just nod and smile and this woman with the huge hair will go away. He was right.

Other classic memories form the festival? Padraig Bailey turning up for the 60KM St. Brendan's cycle wearing dress shoes and a heavy coat. Jimmy Deenihan going AWOL despite us building the whole THOUSAND BICYCLES campaign on a line from his opening address the year before. 'If there are 9 million bicycles in Beijing, surely we can get a thousand here in Tralee.'

We got 823 or thereabouts - rumours of double tagging abound.

"Just stash it and forget about it"

A - What fun this project was. From the very first day you waddled down to Strand Road (Noni in belly) to the day that you premiered the film in the KDYS cafe. You, Mike, Kev, Neil and five lads from the Connect 7 project. You helped them write a script and then Mike helped them film it. At home random quotes from the script would find their way into your everydays. "None of the cheap stuff from Maxol", "Just stash it and forget about it", "Hopefully".

You made fake blood from a Bobby Chrome recipe (there was golden syrup involved) and had your LIDL popcorn denounced by the boys as 'that cheapshit from LIDL'. Kaleli Kebabs did good business on a Thursday night. The boys wanted a suicide ending, you didn't. Discussions began. There are alternative futures. Maybe.

Raggsy the Runner Shooting Script

And the beat marched on ...

A - you submitted a quote as part pf the Upstart poster campaign during the 2010 General Election. It read:
Romantica Ireland's dead and gone,
It's Viennetta from here on in.

Rhythm Manifest[o] thesis.

Rubberbandits' Roisin video.

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First story of Time, Trilogy.

A - You wrote this short story when you were living in Linenhall with Orls and Nic. You were in the thick of the Whelans madness. You were drinking and smoking a LOT. You wrote it in one sitting. You then got carried away with the idea and wanted to make an interactive web story. You planned to have the 12 households on one extended horizontal cyber timeline. You gathered together actors and props. You set up in Belgrave Square, on the steps of Joe D's house. You were ridiculously under prepared yet optimistic that things would simply work out. But they didn't cause optimism is not enough. People were so good to come and pose for you. You never forgot that. If people are going to be good enough to give their time, you better get your shit together so you're not wasting their time or yours. Nothing ever came of the idea but the story remains.

One of the characters, Lavy, makes it into Molly & the Cyclops.

The Clock Short Story.

The Kelly Collection

A - In one of your many attempts to streamline and simplify the workflow of one Michael Kelly, (remember his hard drive collection called after his aunts?) you designed a template for his DVD output. There were so many crackin' little films to clothe: Gunns, Delaneys, Small Benners. You may have cursed the ever- jamming CD printer at 2am on a Tuesday night, but you loved doing this part with him. And of course, he made Marathon Woman. With the patience of a saint, he tracked your progress as you trained for the Saharawi marathon. And you did it. 16 weeks pregnant with Leo and a thirst on you like no tomorrow - explained a few months later by the diabetes. Anyway, you loved Kelly and his collection. You still do.

You thought you were gas.

A - you submitted a quote as part pf the Upstart poster campaign during the 2010 General Election. It read:

Romantica Ireland's dead and gone,
It's Viennetta from here on in.

As I said, you thought you were gas.

You submitted your own design (the green one based on Leo's babygrow that day) but they went with a uniform one of their own instead. Michael photographed it by the Anglo-Irish bank.

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Africa Day Celebrations

A -  You first got involved with Africa Day celebrations in Tralee in 2008. You bowed out gracefully three years later. This was a collaboration with KADEYou, Mary Mc Gillicuddy and the Kade crew had some good times. You learnt a couple of important lessons on year one. The most obvious being never show a film in public without having watched it yourself first. Remember the three hour opera in Xhosa? In a polytunnel on Gortbrack organic farm. It was April. You all freezed your nads off and there were no Africans in attendence, much to your dismay. It was a Miller Ad rather than a Benetton one.

You had a minor meltdown in 2010. You were pregnant with Leo and very hormonal. Also, you were bang smack in the middle of the Kerry Bicycle Festival. You got a thousand full colour exhibition programmes back and there, right in the middle, bang smack on top of some African lady's head, was a cyan blue box which had been a placeholder in Indesign. You locked yourself in the bathroom and called Michael to come get you. Tom in Kade was dotey beyond belief with offers of water and comfort. Mary was brilliant. She got 1000 stickers made and all was well. You have never since used those placeholders in Indesign.

A collection of screengrabs from some interactive projects.

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Webshit. Not your strong point.

A. For some reason, not yet understood at time of writing, you got into computers and fancied yourself as a bit of a web designer. I think the spark was seeing Morgan Stack downloading free music from Napster in HC13. You thought, 'Hmmm computers - there could be something in this'. Turns out there was but just not for you. Before you found this out you did a FÁS course and a Masters in Interaction Design. You worked with Tricycle.ie. You were miserable. Remember that. You don't work well under stress. You get cranky and teary. Not a good mix. Anyway, here are some of the websites  that you enjoyed designing.