Wild Beasts - The Devils Crayon

Word and image

Humans are programmed to store more pictures than text in their long-term memories. In fact, according to research cited by educational psychologist Jerome Bruner of New York University, the average person remembers only 30 percent of what is read, but nearly 80 percent of what is seen.

“Thought is impossible without an image”
Aristotle

Word & Image

When is a word an image?

When is an image a word?

Billy's Eleven

Billy mawhinney also gave us a presentation on his top eleven advertisers today, also with a hangover. This is due to catching up with Max Forsythe, lol. The designers he mentioned are, Jeromy Bullmore, John Wester, David Abbott, John Hegarty, Dave Trott, Steve Henry, Alfred Marcantonio, Alan Waldie, Paul Arden, Walter Cambell and last but not least Billy Mawhinney the man himself. He showed us a range of advertisements and the one that stuck out was 'Tango', it brought back memories from being at school. This video was produced by Steve Henry.

Max Forsythe

Max Forsythe is a well established photographer. He gave us a talk on his work today that was extremely interesting, even though he was battling through a bad hangover. He proved to me that you don't need to do a photography course to produce powerful photographs. He believes in vibrant colours as he shows in his series of colourful houses around Ireland. This photograph shows an amazing landscape in Ireland and dotted in the middle a bright yellow farmhouse. He has showed me that producing a series of photos works well and gives meaning.

Pixel Portrait (Me project)

Pixel Portraits (Me Project)

Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing 2

OMG

After 3 months I still cant work out how to upload videos from You Tube, I'm still unable to upload material onto the viscom blog, getting really pissed off. F*@k F*@k F*@K!!!

Jamie O'Neill

Jamie O'Neill has been inspiring me ever since I was a young kid. He went to the University of Ulster and studied Fine and Applied art and in my eyes he is one of the most fantastic artists i know. He can turn his hand to almost anything. This is a video is of him and his work. I just think its a real quirky animation. If you would like to see more of his work click on to this link http://joneillart.moonfruit.com/cgi-bin/confirm.cgi?todo=email;user_id=4006216034;md5=94e764de7c53e484a4ccdde8b3a40d02

Alison Parks aka Ali P is a really good friend of mine, who completed the Visual Communications course a couple of years ago. Alison inspired me to take on the course and go further with my education. Ali P did this 15 second animation for the Queens film festival in 2008. Its an excellent piece of work and reflects her personality really well.

Visual Communication

These are a few images I have taken of the old toilets on the Dublin road in Belfast.

Visual Communication