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New Direction for this blog

This video has a sample from Graham Hancock and was drawn to my attention from Facebook , This blog has been of a personal nature and a personl forum for my own work and writings. I am also going to look at the art world , photography world music world and even venture into film, animation and media. I feel popular culture although stimulating is too contrived and the wrong people have the reigns . Education should not control or monopolise norms but be a subtle enhancement as opposed to a dictator ship of conventions. A voice inside me speaks and says don't let reality be the way people except it is, challenge authority and ask who the people are that  have the right to give  this power  - usually it amounts to an unmerciful amount of self aggrandizement and back slapping , nepotism and sheer abuse of power. A system that will develop into an eroded liberty and quality of life where one might have to fill out forms every time one needs to flush a toilet ! Politi

Pause and play Blogger fashion shoot

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Blogger , fashion and photography meet! All these photos are taken for the My third Cousin Blog ! Model : Sarah Commane (blogspot) Photography: Paul Woods ( perrylane.org  and  Twitter ) Location: Pause Play Vintage Boutique ( Facebook ) Colin Horgan: Website ,  Facebook ,  Twitter

BLACK AND WHITE C41 KODAC 400 EXPIRED

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Not all photography has to be planned or contrived - Here are some images I took when I had a roll of film in my camera for over 6 months and wanted to use it up. I did not even remember that I had B and W film loaded . Lucky me I really like these images no effort good results ! 

The nature of opinion on art and the dangers of not having one.

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This music makes me think so I added it to the blog post - I found it on Youtube - NIN is the band and Trent Reznor the artist. I Watched this song the day after watching the Eurosong final contest in Sweeden and was thinking of how different this music is to what was on that show. Alien almost to what Europeans think generally is a good song. This started me thinking. As I was saying this is way better then all the Eurosongs in my opinion but it would do poorly in the competition - its like really great photography or art being unrecognizable to contemporaries for the most part. I don't think Ireland is nurturing its talent properly. Great writers of the past bring people from all round the world to Writiers Week in Listowel , hopefully one day we will have hundreds of thousands of visitors to the national gallery to see our world class painters , sculptures and photographers - people that clearly see reality for what it is and can express it in an artful way. Not pretentiou

Fashion Look book with Colin Horgan Designer

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Fashion Look book with Colin Horgan Designer   Designer   Colin Horgan Make up  Emma Houlihan Hair Gemma Knightlies private Hair and beauty School  Photo Paul Woods The Carlton Hotel Tralee Model    Niamh Comerford . G4JDKGPTUQEA

The essence of artistic success

Music, brings this point to my mind. It has been said of music that it is the most dangerous of all the art forms as it can insight to riot or bring a man to tears. Music seems to touch everybody in the masses in a similar fashion. It's musical accessibility that started me thinking and  a rock and roll band and their flawed performance and ingenious talented creativity and appeal that started me pondering. So this blog applies to all the arts painting, music , film and even dance. What makes us great , why are some at the top of the game, revered, isolated and singled out as gods of awesome . We live in a sick culture of celebrity but this is not a new cultural phenomen , it has only been heightened by modern media ever since the invention of books, then photographs and radio and television. We now stand on yet another cultural precipice of social networking one can now go viral in a day or a week - where five hundred years ago it could take a life

The Story Of Saint Patrick ©

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