Some More Tilt-shift Photographs

I got bored earlier and decided to play about with creating a tilt shift photos using originals I had from traveling over the past few years. These three have turned out a lot better than the first time I had a go.





I hope you liked my attempt at tiltshifting some photos.

Alun.

Indian Ink Tree

Bellow is my first attempt at drawing with indian inks and a calligraphy pen, I've tried to draw trees using loads of different mediums but they never seem to look any good, but I'm happy with this one, being as I've never used this medium before. I definitely suggest trying to use inks and a calligraphy pen, it enables you to draw with much more detail that normal, and you can get much thinner lines than you can using pens and pencils.



I hope you like my dying tree, maybe I'll draw one in bloom next time.

Alun.

Be Careful Of Your First Steps Into Anything

Make Time

Move

This video is amazing....!

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

I'm not the best at explaining so i stole the words from Vimeo.... "3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage... all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ....into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films = a trip of a lifetime."

Check out the other two videos on Vimeo, they are both just as good.

I hope you liked the video!

Alun.

Flickr update

Here is one of the photographs I took last month, I've uploaded a few new snaps for you to look at.



If you want to view my Flickr account you can use the link in the sidebar on the bottom right or simply click here.

I hope you like the photo of my cat!

Alun.

This is what everyone should wake up to each morning

Here is an amazing song I'd completely forgotten about until not too long ago, well I said it's a song... but it's more like motivational speaking by Baz Luhrmann with a nice melody in the background, either way it's amazing and everyone out there should listen to it and take onboard the advice he gives. This song is about 13 years old now but will forever remain a good source of advice and motivational words. I've listened to this a few times recently but just to enjoy what it is, but if you're ever feeling down or have a lack of motivation etc, give this a listen.



I hope you enjoyed the song and feel inspired to go out and achieve what your goals in life are!

Alun.

Forgot about this track...!

Here is one of many amazing Gangstarr songs. The lyrics are spot on and it's just a dope tune all round.



I hope you liked the song!

R.I.P Guru 1961-2010

Alun.

Jack Carter doing what he does best

Contrary to my last post, I don't hate HD footage with nice effects I actually like it, it's just being used a lot recently, anyway check out this video which was filmed and edited by Nick Richards featuring Jack Carter and his skateboarding skills.

Getting to grips with the Glidecam from LovePaste on Vimeo.

I think its the best park edit since the skatepark has been open and it only features one skater! Good work Nick and Jack, keep it up! To see more of Nick's work click here, and to see more of Jacks skateboarding antics click here.

I hope you like the video and skateboarding!

Alun

Glue Bag park edit

Here is a video edited by Kane Nugent, starring of a load of our friends, we spent a month or so filming in the skatepark to make a skate park edit that takes the piss out of all the skate edits there have been recently and about how everyone is using HD and special effects these days, so there is no slow-motion, it's poorly filmed and edited but that's exactly what we wanted it to look like. We also got my housemate James Southall to dress up and create a posh character (Stewart Howard) who just happens to love The XX, Hd filming and special effects, all of this was to help us take the piss out of the existing edits of various skate videos there have been over the past few years. So without further ado here it is....

Glue Bag Cardiff Plaza edit. Poorly Filmed, Poorly Edited, No slow mo's from Kane Nugent on Vimeo.

I hope you enjoyed our park edit!

Alun.

Help a brother out..!

A friend of mine, Huw Caddy (pictured above) has entered the E4 E-stings competition with four videos, each of them are ten seconds long and are looking really good. Right now his four videos are the top four out of about 4000 and something which is amazing, do him a massive favour and click 'yay' on his videos and he could be the guy who designed the next E4 E-stings scitts you guys see when watchng E4, you can click 'yay' and watch all his videos by clicking here.

If you want to see how his videos are doing you can click here, you might need to refresh the page as ive copy and pasted the link so it maybe be out of date by the time you click it.

I hope you liked his videos!

Alun.

Father and daughter cover of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros

I posted this same song by the original band a while ago, but this cover is something else and something you need to listen to. Before you listen to it and judge it remember that the little girl Alexia is only six years old!

It's inspirational, wonderful, very talented and just simply amazing.



I hope when I have a family of my own we can play covers like this together that would be so cool to do, I just need to lean the guitar first and have children first..!

I hope you liked the song cover!

Alun

Business Card

Here's a business card I designed for a friend of mine today, He'll be graduating from a BA Hons in Fine Art in a couple of weeks and his works looking really good. You can his work out by clicking here.





I'm going to try and create a letter form so that the 'g' in Nugent and the ampersand inbetween printmaking '&' design tie in together as one letter form. I'll post that when it's done

I hope you liked the business card.

Alun.

Longboard

Here is something I did for fun in a few minutes the other night, I think I'm going to do it to a whole album of photos but do them from decent originals this one was downloaded off facebook because I ha lost the original so the picture is quite pixely anyway.

T H E D I R T Y S O U T H's photostream

T H E D I R T Y S O U T H's photostream on Flickr.

Check out my flickr account I've uploaded some new photos today, but I've reached my monthly limit so I'll have to wait until next month to add more :(

Alun