Category: Personal

Lots going on in my life at the moment…hence the lack of blog updates…here are some subjects I’ve been meaning to blog about:

– I’m involved in trying to set up a new school in the Greystones area (this one I will be posting about soon).
– I’ve started teaching animation for a few hours a week in the IADT in Dun Laoghaire. I’m loving it!
– (I have a hard time actually saying this next one. It’s just like when I go to open a bank account and I’m asked what I do for a living, I get all embarrassed saying “I’m an artist” like it’s actually coming out, “I’m an ahhhh-tist dahling”) I have a new photography business. In the past few months I’ve been having a great time shooting businesses, products and people as well as events and family portrait sessions. And it’s all because of this blog!
– The computer game, Sega Superstars Tennis, I’ve been animating on since May wrapped up and will be released early next year. I can’t wait to play it myself, the animation was so much fun, plus I think the level artists did a fantastic job on the locations:

Ok, ok, I guess it’s only fair that I finally allow someone to point a camera at me for a change! You guys have asked to see a photo of me so here’s one that’s very recent…just a couple of weeks ago in fact at my DaDa’s birthday/retirement party. This is a shot of the man of the hour with his grandkids…well, most of them, three others weren’t present because they were a little too young to be at the party. I’m the one in the centre to my DaDa’s left. I know a few of my cousins check my blog out from time to time but they’re all so fabulous-looking I know they won’t mind me showing them off.

One thing that’s become a bit of a tradition with these cousins is that when we all get together we re-enact a photograph taken over twenty years ago (1985 I think it was, or was it 86? Maybe one of my cousins can correct me). It was taken one Christmas on the stairs in my grandparent’s house in Glenageary. I’m sitting right at the top left, aged about 13, and my little brother (who may just kill me) is the one on the bottom right with his finger wedged in his nose:

This one is from 2000, at my grandparent’s 50th wedding anniversary (just to show my brother turned out to be a very respectable young man despite earlier bad habits, he’s the one on the bottom left):

And then the latest one from the party a few weeks ago (with the addition of Shauna at the front, who was only a twinkle when the first photo was taken.):

So there you go…not just one photo of me but a whole family history 😀