Archive for August, 2005

Notting Hill 2005 kicks off!

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

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Notting Hill 2005 kicks off!
Notting Hill 2005 kicks off!,
originally uploaded by dcinput.

Here at the Notting Hill carnival with friends. Music is pumping through the sound systems, the aroma of jerk chicken and rice and pea… The sun is shining come on down!

Tags: carnival

…from my mobile

Irish Sunset

Sunday, August 14th, 2005


Irish Sunset
Originally uploaded by dcinput.

This is the view out of my Aunt and Uncles holiday house in the West Coast of Ireland. This was probably the most amazing sunset I have ever seen.

I captured a dozen photos of it on my Motorolla V3 mobile phone and stiched them together with HuginOSX which was free and very easy to use.

Pretty good considering the crap quality of the camera.

Tags: sunset, ireland, moblog

All New on the Western Front

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

First of all a small apology for the recent lack of posts on the dcinput blog. This has been due to a supremely busy schedule.

I’ve been fortunate enough to land myself a really exciting job as an IT Engineer for a Digital Intermediate company called Capital FX in the heart of Soho, London. All arrangements were finalised the day after I left Henson’s only a few minutes before I took off for Dublin to go my cousin’s wedding. Many thanks to Curtis Bailey at TechNET IT Recruitment for sorting out all the detail.

Capital FX are partners of Deluxe and work on some of the biggest films around. I don’t want to go into to much detail just yet as I have no idea of their blogging policy. They have some of the most serious computing setup I’ve ever seen and guess what…they want me to help develop it! Hey, my middle name is geek.

A little daunting though as I am currently on a mission to see how much information I can cram into my little head over the next few weeks. After which I’ll be in training land…Cisco…Redhat Linux…SGI…all sorts.

Anyways Ireland was fantastic. I tell you the Guinness really does taste better there. My cousin’s wedding was great. I had 24 aunts and uncles there, a whole bunch of cousins, a great Uncle and my Nan. There was dancing, there was singing…much much fun was had by all.

Congratulations to Triona and Alex, the wonderful couple.

Tags: london, vfx, film, cgi, ireland

Exit stage left…

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

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Exit stage left...
Exit stage left…,
originally uploaded by dcinput.

On Wednesday the 27th July 2005 at 8:16pm, I finally left the Creature Shop behind me to find my way on newer pastures. This is the actual moment I walked through the front door.

There were good times and there were bad times but most of all I’ll never forget the fantastic people I met and the marvelous and wonderful things I saw…

Tags: london, vfx, film, animation, cgi