My Amazing Girlfriend...!

This post is to say well done to my beautiful and amazing girlfriend Miss Ellen Rosemary Findley for Graduating with a First Class Honours in Event's Management and getting the prize for Best Dissertation on her course..! Well done baby I'm more than proud of you...!




Let's hope i can do half as good as she has done..!

Alun.

Beautiful Brecon Part Two!

Here are the other pictures I mentioned from the even bigger and better waterfall. Seriously if you or a friend of your has a car and live within an hour or two of the Brecon Beacons it's a must visit...! Not just for waterfall jumping thrills, it has some really nice walks and some beautiful areas you can just sit down, have a BBQ, a few beers and admire the wonderfull scenery!

Alun.

First Attempts At 'TiltShift' Photography

Here are some images I have taken in the past and have recently used Photoshop to turn them into TiltShift images, I would love to have actually used a TiltShift lens and not Photoshop, but being a student there is no way I could afford that kind of lens at the moment! They aren't great but its my first attempt at it so I do hope to improve! I hope you like them.

Alun.

Beautiful Brecon!

Before the amazing few weeks of brilliant weather took a turn for the worst me and a few friends took full advantage and made several trips up to the Brecon Beacons, basically we went to a waterfall near by but it didn't satisfy our need to see some waterfalls of outstanding natural beauty, so we asked a few friends and searched on the internet for a few more, luckily we stumbled upon these 'badboy' waterfalls bellow and had great fun jumping off a few of them!

There is still a few more pictures to come of the bigger waterfall....I hope you enjoyed!

Alun.

Hologram

Here's the Intro for another one of Nick Richards videos "Hologam", Filmed by Nick and Edited by Nick and Huw Caddy. A very nice use of after effects and some well though out skating to go with it! I hope you enjoy..

Hologram Introduction from LovePaste on Vimeo.

Alun.

Merthyr Edit

Here's some another skate video filmed and edited by Nick Richards featuring myself, Kane Nugent, Josh Underwood and Gareth leak.

Merthyr Edit from LovePaste on Vimeo.

I hope you enjoyed...

Alun

Some HD Footage

Bellow is a HD edit that was filmed and edit by Nick Richards of Hologram and Crayon Skateboards. This edit features Gareth Leak, Mike Hellier and myself and was filmed on Monday the 11th of January 2010. I am going to meet up with Nick later on today to experement with some greenscreen editing, he's built a ramp and painted it green and wants to experment with editing the ramp out of final video edit. I shall post that up when it's done untill then I hope you enjoy the video...!

First HD edit and go at twixtor from LovePaste on Vimeo.

Alun.

Competition Brief

We were set a competition brief in uni a week or two ago, which isn't due to be handed in to the client until April sometime, but for uni we had two weeks to produce two outcomes for our lecturers and peers to asses. We were asked to design two book covers for a Puffin book and Penguin Book, the books being Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Patrick Suskind's 'Perfume the story of a murderer'. I know there is a spelling mistake in the authors name and the image desperately needs to be re-done on the 'Perfume' cover, plus the typeography on the 'Alice's adventure in wonderland' cover needs to be completely re-done..! Anyway here is what I came up with within the two weeks we had. I shall update them over the christmas holidays make ammendments to get them all sorted nice and early for the real hand-in in April, but for now you can take a look at my first designs bellow.



Alun.

Individual Print Work Outcome

Here is my final design for the individual print work we were set as part of the Sustainable:Me brief. It has very close links with our group print work and uses similar methods to raise awareness of sustainability to working professionals out there on the market. If the brief was not hypothetical and was to be a real live project, I would distribute my design to working professionals via a mailing service.



This piece of design is targeted at working design professionls in industry and would be made using 100% recycled paper, soy inks that use much less petroleum this being a whole lot better for our environment. It has no bleed so there would be no inks wasted in the process of making it, and finaly the deisgn packages itself by using seven folds and two tucks to create an envelope..hence the text 'this is not your ordinary envelope' on the outside. The inside of the design contains the title 'thinking is a renewable resource' a quick explanation of what the design is about and then it carries on to raise awareness of myths about recycled products that may have detered designers from using them in the past.

I hope you like my design!

Alun.

Quick Flops...

Bellow are two designs I was asked to produce for a group of UWIC third year Events Management students. They needed someone to brand a vending machine that sells "Quick Flops" which is the product they have had to re-brand, they also needed a simple poster design, so I was happy to help them out plus it's good work experience for me. I don't really like the Type on the vending machine but that's how the group wanted it.
I hope you like them!

Alun.

Sand Drawing..!

This is amazing..!

Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist, She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.

Hope you enjoyed!

Alun.

First Term Of Uni

The first term of Uni this year is going really well, we were set a brief with the title of SUSTAINABLE ME, we had to produce two group outcomes, one as print outcome and as a website using either Adobe Flash or Dreamweaver, we were also set the task of doing an individual outcome, which we were given the choice to decide what medium we wanted to produce the outcome in. At first I was really interested because we were learning a whole load of things I bet most people never knew about recycling and sustainability. For a while in our groups we were unsure of how exactly how we were going to produce a good solution to the brief, which didn't really help with my motivation towards it.

It's now about six or seven weeks since the brief was set and things are really getting on well despite not 'hitting the nail on the head' and really getting started with both groups for a week or two into the brief, it really has come together very nicely in both my print group and my web group. I am also really enjoying my own individual piece of work. It's good because I really never thought I would get my head around using Adobe Flash, but the website we have constructed which is very near to completion, looks wicked as does the print outcome! There's only days left until the hand in but i can't wait to see our final outcomes...!

Bellow are two screen shot's showing my print and web groups work in progress,




I hope you enjoyed..!

Alun

A Little Bit Of Carmarthen Skate History

I logged onto my Youtube account to have a quick look around see if there was anything decent to watch and struck gold! Bellow is a video filmed and edited by Mike "Tidy" Pearson, who used to live in Ferryside which is near Carmathen, he started filming with skaters and has now become quite well known for it. Mike now works for howies in Cardigan. I have skated in Carmarthen for about eight and a half years an have skated with Bryan for at least seven. I've only ever see him skating in Carmarthen over the recent years where it's not really possible to skate too many spots anymore, but watching some old school Carmarthen skate footage was a treat..!

I hope you enjoyed the video.

Alun

Cardiff Bay Barrage Illusion

I have known about Felice Varini's illusion art work in Cardiff bay for a few years but thought I would share it on here with you because I think it's brilliant, large scale art illusion at it's best. You have to find the exact spot in this Bay barrage to see the illusion perfectly, like in the first photo below. The other two photos show you how this "art installation" looks, when viewed from other places. For more of Felice Varini's work click her name or click here.



I hope you enjoyed this post!

Alun

BCN 09

It's been another long time since I last blogged so I thought I'd better start catching up with what's been going on recently.

Me and six friends of mine took a week long holiday in Barcelona over the summer holidays from the 5th until the 12th of august, our soul reason out there was to skate, enjoy the beautiful weather and to have fun....which I'm sure we all did. I have already been to Barcelona two times previously to this trip but think it will have to continue with at least a once a year visit! The sights are beautiful and the architecture is unreal for an example click here to see. If you have never been you really should go, and if you're a skater you have to go! Bellow are some pictures to feast your eyes on.

Duane Wilson: Frontside Flip.

The street party atmosphere every night at Macba.

The view looking down Les Courts.

Everyone chilling after a long session.

We also managed to borrow a friends vx1000 video camera to capture what went on but due to a friend of mine Nick Richards being unorganized and lazy I still haven't had the footage to edit or even capture onto my mac ready for editing even though the holiday was over two months ago..! So as soon as that's finished it I'll post it on here but until then you can watch last years video bellow.

That's all for now!

Alun