My Prezi presentation

Following a week long research on the book we chose, we all had to create a slide-show presentation. The book I chose was titled "Death in Venice", by Thomas Mann.

there's the link:
http://prezi.com/nox_vrzv15-k/death-in-venice-2/

What I managed to come up with last year. (I'm NOT a reporter...)

So.. it started with mindless littering. And I didn't catch anybody in action (I wouldn't make a good reporter/photographer with my luck). I tried hard to gain access to recycling centres with a camera to take pictures of people putting random rubbish into wrong collecting units - like electric leads and flowerpots in containers for old TVs or recyclable glass/cardboard. I thought I was doing the right thing, and they treated me as if I was a sneaky reporter. The Recycling Centre in Shannon told me I couldn't take pictures because they had not the "proper signs" up around the facility. When I tried to make a deal with them promising not to take any photos of the signs and noticeboards, they showed me where the exit was. Weird.
I also contacted "Mr. Binman" company to see would they be willing to let me in with a camera. Guess.... NO - for "health and safety reasons". It didn't help mentioning that I was their customer... They are all mad.
I was driving around Clare hopelessly, looking for rubbish dumped into ditches at the side of the road (by You-know-whos and others alike), but nah... Where I DID end up was Sixmilebridge Wastewater Treatment Works. And those people were the nicest I've met so far. They showed me every machine/container/pipe they had plus all the schemes and apparatuses needed to keep that place running. here are some pictures... I cannot find the originals, so here I scanned some from my sketchbook...

I was attracted to the beauty of reflection in the water and bubbles that distorted the clean flat reflective surface. From there on, I decided - enough of rubbish, I'm going into the city of Limerick to look for more pleasing sights, anything got to do with reflection/distortion on surfaces.

There's what I saw:

The CARLSBERG CAR

Anyway, I played around with the images - made some larger, printed on acetate and glued tinfoil under some parts of the image to enhance the reflective qualities.

I have tons more of images, but uploading them all would mean - I'm back where I started - MINDLESS LITTERING. Plus You might find me climbing up the "Angry Birds" highscore list, because this uploading can be painfully slow...

Au revoir...

New year's resolution

I made a simple promise to myself to start being more active on Blogger for the year 2011. And here I am - in March - trying to make up for all those Fridays when I went home and forgot about it (sometimes honestly, sometimes out of laziness). So here goes...