Firstly thank you so much for still reading this place, im noticing the stats still ticking away even though I have completely neglected this place! if you check out my Facebook its about the only thing im keeping properly up to date at the moment just send a friend request and you’ll be able to see what im up to
The Masters is going great, its getting tighter with things to do and research every day but I am loving it. My favorite thing on the course to date HAS to be the visit from the wonderful Prof. Surdarshan Khanna who spoke to us all about toys, educating, creating, crafting good old fashioned traditional toys it was excellent and such a gentle kind of man.
I got a quick little video here of him teaching us how to make a paper growing flower
Then we have cracked into Acoustics too where we have to make our own instruments, sounds fun right? … well it is, but its also hard!! :p
Other than college work and all the usual worries things are tipping away nicely until I was rushed into A&E Friday morning with what turned out to be Pneumonia, where I fainted twice, frightened the living preverbial out of poor Keith and now he is minding me and giving me plenty of TLC++ as Mikael, one of my lecturers would say, hehe!
So in bed for the week, then have college for a few days until we get Married, I dont care if I have to be stretchered into the place its bloody well happening!! :p
Ill try to keep this blog better updated but Life, The Universe and pretty Much Everything is getting slightly in the way, ill do my best
To Coirand the No campaigners on the Lisbon Treaty who have posters up around Limerick City saying, and I quote directly, “They won your countries freedom don’t throw it away” and “Save our jobs” and “€1.84 minimum wage after Lisbon, Vote No” Have you even read the treaty? Like at all? Because if you did you would know that this has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with it!
Just more sensationalist propaganda from Coir!
Here lads (Coir that is not my few readers!), educate yourselfor if ye find that just a little bit too much hard work, try the shorter version!
Things have been a little quiet here on the blog over the past week initially I had Ice Broadband to thank for that once again but then time just seemed to run away from me.
All is well though and here I am again to report on the first week of life on the Interactive Media Mastersin the University of Limerick. As a lot of tutors were away at conferences this week a few of the classes did not go ahead but there was still plenty to do.
I have to say I am loving UL, I have never attended there before as a student, I have studied there for other certs and courses but never as a regestered student and its such a cool college, Massive though and sometimes I wish I had a Sat Nav to navagate the place!
So I had said about a daily photostream dedicated to the Ma, I know I have been a bold girl, but its been busy so forgive me! I did manage to get photos on the mobile as I haven’t been brave enough to crack out the big camera just yet but that is changing this week so hopefully better quality of pics for you Here is what I have so far and all of these are now in a neat little set on FlickrHereand will be updated very regularly.
Acoustics Gadgets!
Raining at the start of the week… Mikael’s Office Door!
More Rain through the canteen window…
Our course modules consist of :Foundations of Interactive Media, Interactive Media in Society and an Interactive Media Project. Then we have to select one elective module from a choice of three: Midi and Computer Programming, Acoustics and Psycho-acoustics and Marketing, I have picked Acoustics and Psycho-acoustics (Nature of sound: psychophysics of audition: biology of audition: psychology of sound perception: introduction to psychomusicology.)
We were being urged to do programming if you hadnt done it before as it is a requirment for your end of year project but my reason for picking Acoustics and Psycho-acoustics is because I feel it will benifit me more in my project as I have had an idea for a while now to base my project around my hearing loss, yet, that could change drastically before the end of the course!
I also have a great advantage of having started to learn programming myself online during the summer and I intend to continue and as well as this, my better half is great at programming so I’m sure I’ll keep him busy with questions too! I really wanted to go onto this course and learn something new and exciting and relevant to me so when I had the acoustics class it was awesome. Very exciting (well to me anyway!) involves lots of juicy gadget fun which is always done deal with me and we get to build our own instruments!!!
Psycho-acoustics then is slightly different but I have touched on many aspects of it before which grabbed my attention very quickly too and sound has always been a slight obsession for me so I had to pick it as my elective and I cant wait to get stuck into the classes, my only dread is the maths but apparantly it wont get any harder than Pythagoras’ theorem so lets hope that is true, Oh and I have to learn everything in Metric instead of Imperial but I should have been doing that long ago anyway!
Me being a fangirl at the bus stop!
So today is Monday and I should be starting the first proper week of classes but woke this morning at 6am with the worst tummy bug so I wont be kicking off the classes until tomorrow. One last thing before I go, one of the biggest kicks of being in UL is using the Bus, I know I dont get out much but meh! I pop on my ipod and look out the window its great, look I can prove it to you!
So today was the day, I woke up to grey skies and a little excited, I was like a child at christmas, I dunno why.
I dropped keith into work, grabbed a quick BB’s Hot Chocolate to warm my bones and set off for UL.
Traffic from town in was fine, its finding parking is the problem. I have to say, UL sucks for parking! After finding one at the complete opposite end of campus I bloated and heaved myself across campus in the rain towards main reception to enroll where the queue ended outside!
We got there eventually and I headed on home to relax until the class talk at 3pm.
After a lovely lunch with keith in Noor on Thomas Street I jetted off to UL again only to find parking again at the opposite end of the campus but this time I bloated and dragged my ass around campus in the blazing sun, the weather is awful indecisive at the moment!
I eventually found the Schumann Building and the lecture room by this time it had started to rain again. Mikaelwas cheerful as always and made us all feel comfortable. We are an interesting lot, audio visual, multimedia, artists, product and graphic designers from a range of places, China, Egypt, Poland and all over Ireland. We went over the time table, core modules and electives, questions and answers and what we wanted to be when we grew up!
Then we were taken to the CSIS Building(Computer Science and Information Systems) which our lab is for the rest of the year kitted out with 20 really tasty Apple Macs!
Overall I am very pleased and I cant wait for everything to kick off nice and early Monday morning, it is going to be a grueling year ahead but all I can do is my best, I am officially anInteractive Media Masters Student now!
If you wanna see what students like us do, checkthisout
Hey all, sorry I havent blogged in so long, but its been a crazy summer and our internet connection sucks!
So the plan is I am going to do a little overhall on this site and ‘Lettes Photography’, where I will direct my blogging around my Masters in Interactive Media which starts in The University of Limerick on the 4th of September.
Here I will be adding general photos, information on how the course is going and also links and further information from around the internet relevant to Interactive Media.
On the photosite I have a plan to do a daily photo stream throughout the year where I will take the big digital for general photos and the Olympus XA2 or the Contax T2 with one role of film a week or month and im thinking to make it really interesting I may use out of date Fuji Velvia and process through C41 and not E6 to give a lovely cross processed effect, not sure yet but thats the idea.
The reason? well like I said the summer has been crazy and I havent touched the camera really outside of the wedding and the MA will be intensive enough running from September to September so everything I will be doing will be based around the course so I may as well chronical it. As well as this, as part of the course there are some cool events going on that I will be attending, like the Tweak Festival.
Any requests or feedback would be awesome, there will be some videos as well as pics so I would like to hear your ideas and views.
I figure I am only going to sit a Masters once so it would be nice to have an album dedicated to it because I have very little photos from my Degree.
Thats all for now folks, see you on the 4th of September then
On the 8th of August Keith and I have been in our 1st home for 1 year
Its strange how things change. I am now a housewife and as well as working fulltime Keith has turned into one of the finest cooks I know, he keeps me fed and watered and I keep the house in a…well.. we will say reasonable state of tidyness!
Things like the news that wouldnt have bothered me before now plays a major part in my morning routein. Things like how the banks are doing now interests me because of the house and bills and general adult things we now have to deal with.
Sometimes it is so hard but the two of us are in it together and we always get through.
So I just want to say firstly thank you to Keith (baba you are awesome and everything you do gets noticed, everything I love you and love knowing I will spend the rest of my days with you and thank you to all our friends and family who have helped us turn our new house into a home, thank you all
Yeah this is old, I know, but how incredibly cute and FREE are these Cubeecraft DIY toys? Im in love and im thinking of adding them as favors for the wedding to give to people and putting sweets inside them
All you do is go to the site pick from the hundreds of characters, print them out on card, fold and away you go! they are very easy to make and so much fun
A family member rang me yesterday with the disgusting news that her pup had been stolen yesterday and they do know she was stolen because the only way she could have gotten out was by someone taking her out of where she was.
It was in the Athlacca area of county Limerick and her last confermed sighting by a friend who drove passed at 2:30 yesterday saw her at home with the area still secure, when her owners returned an hour later she was gone.
She is a young Jack Russle about a year old, mostly white with a tan head and a dark brown patch on her back. She is a friendly little thing and answers to the name Trixie.
This pup was a pet and is horribly missed, please everyone in limerick especially in the surrounding areas of Athlacca, thats Croom, Patrickswell, Adare etc. keep an eye out for a pup of this discription.
If there is any information please email findtrixieplease@yahoo.ieor contact me here, please and thank you.
Pictures and extra information will be posted here in the next few hours, please help us find her.
If you have not yet signed up for the naked bike ride in Cork City
Centre at dawn next Monday 20 July, do so immediately. Unlike the Spencer Tunick event in Blarney last year, you can not simply turn up on the day.
Just send an email to anonymouscork@gmail.com and you will
receive details of where to gather, what time, etc.
Also unlike Blarney, you may apply face painting to disguise your
identity. This may be important to some of you as there is likely to
be a photographer present, as the organisers want to use the event as
a promotion for the Cork Cycling Arts Festival.
For those of you who are attending, riding a bike without clothes on
can feel sore. If you do not have a soft saddle, you might consider
buying one of these.
Im going down for the pictures, but I think ill leave my clothes on! :p
