Locked Down

Posted on 6 April, 20206 April, 2020 by David Meredith

As the coronavirus pandemic rages throughout the world, we've been told to stay at home, and only go out for necessities, to support vulnerable people or to exercise within a 2k radius from home. The point is to break the...Read More

Gah!

Posted on 16 September, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

Sometimes things just don't quite work out as well as you hope. This was always a long shot. Before, when I've tried lino cuts, I've cut away the background. What's left is what you see in the print. I've had...Read More

Happy

Posted on 9 July, 201910 October, 2019 by David Meredith

Last November, I blogged a bit about my childhood and mentioned a bloke called Donall Murray. Just to remind you (!), in 1970, I was in a play in the Eblana Theatre, under Busaras in Dublin, called 'It's a Two...Read More

Final Cut Pro

Posted on 24 March, 201924 March, 2019 by David Meredith

My laptop died. I bought another one and made sure that it had enough power to edit movies quickly. I had purchased Final Cut Pro, Apple's reasonably sophisticated movie editing program, for the old laptop but the poor thing struggled...Read More

Love After Love

Posted on 18 November, 2018 by David Meredith

Eilis, a psychotherapist I've been going to for a while, told me about a poem by Derek Walcott called Love After Love. In short, it's about meeting one's self and, I suppose, accepting one's self, warts, quirks and faults, as...Read More

It IS actually all about me

Posted on 17 November, 201818 November, 2018 by David Meredith

Messing with portraits and a new app. I'm working on an idea for the treatment of a poem and I want to incorporate a slow dissolve from one picture to another. On the way to the supermarket this morning I...Read More

Teaching myself Adobe Premiere Pro

Posted on 6 November, 20186 November, 2018 by David Meredith

I'm a bit frustrated by the limitations of iMovie. I have the Adobe suite of programs so it's about time I learned how to use Premiere Pro. This is just a small experiment in manipulating still images. It's a bit...Read More

Cine films from the 1960s (Part 2)

Posted on 17 August, 201817 August, 2018 by David Meredith

I gave a bit of background to these cine films from the 1960s in an earlier post. Quite a lot of my earlier life was documented on film and my parents made quite a few short films as well. Usually...Read More

Cine films from the 1960s (Part 1)

Posted on 14 August, 201815 August, 2018 by David Meredith

Both my parents were creative and my life as an only child, from my birth in 1960 until my parents' separation in 1970, was a whirlwind of creative activity. My dad had an 8mm cine camera which was used not...Read More