Conánn FitzPatrick - Artist's blog, Paintings, Photographs and Drawings.

Satellite video of active volcano

conann — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:34:47 -0700

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (I'm a dinner jacket)

conann — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:49:56 -0700

From here

Flickermood 2.0

conann — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:09:08 -0700

Flickermood 2.0 from Sebastian Lange on Vimeo.

Eadweard Muybridge

conann — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:36:17 -0700

Sprint Cam V3 NAB 2009

conann — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:32:55 -0700

I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel from David Coiffier on Vimeo.

I really would love one of these!

Positive Thinking !

conann — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:54:57 -0700

Positive Thinking ! Originally uploaded by James Whorriskey (Delbert Jackson)

Microsoft interface visualization

conann — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:31:39 -0700

LGA banned words: full list

conann — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:46:50 -0700

Here is the full list of 200 words which, the Local Government Association says should not be used by councils: More here
Across-the-piece
Actioned
Advocate
Agencies
Ambassador
Area based
Area focused
Autonomous
Baseline
Beacon
Benchmarking
Best Practice
Blue sky thinking
Bottom-Up
CAAs
Can do culture
Capabilities
Capacity
Capacity building
Cascading
Cautiously welcome
Challenge
Champion
Citizen empowerment
Client
Cohesive communities
Cohesiveness
Collaboration
Commissioning
Community engagement
Compact
Conditionality
Consensual
Contestability
Contextual
Core developments
Core Message
Core principles
Core Value
Coterminosity
Coterminous
Cross-cutting
Cross-fertilisation
Customer
Democratic legitimacy
Democratic mandate
Dialogue
Direction of travel
Distorts spending priorities
Double devolution
Downstream
Early Win
Edge-fit
Embedded
Empowerment
Enabler
Engagement
Engaging users
Enhance
Evidence Base
Exemplar
External challenge
Facilitate
Fast-Track
Flex
Flexibilities and Freedoms
Framework
Fulcrum
Functionality
Funding streams
Gateway review
Going forward
Good practice
Governance
Guidelines
Holistic
Holistic governance
Horizon scanning
Improvement levers
Incentivising
Income streams
Indicators
Initiative
Innovative capacity
Inspectorates
Interdepartmental
Interface
Iteration
Joined up
Joint working
LAAs
Level playing field
Lever
Leverage
Localities
Lowlights
MAAs
Mainstreaming
Management capacity
Meaningful consultation
Meaningful dialogue
Mechanisms
Menu of Options
Multi-agency
Multidisciplinary
Municipalities
Network model
Normalising
Outcomes
Outcomes
Output
Outsourced
Overarching
Paradigm
Parameter
Participatory
Partnership working
Partnerships
Pathfinder
Peer challenge
Performance Network
Place shaping
Pooled budgets
Pooled resources
Pooled risk
Populace
Potentialities
Practitioners
Predictors of Beaconicity
Preventative services
Prioritization
Priority
Proactive
Process driven
Procure
Procurement
Promulgate
Proportionality
Protocol
Provider vehicles
Quantum
Quick hit
Quick win
Rationalisation
Rebaselining
Reconfigured
Resource allocation
Revenue Streams
Risk based
Robust
Scaled-back
Scoping
Sector wise
Seedbed
Self-aggrandizement
Service users
Shared priority
Shell developments
Signpost
Single conversations
Single point of contact
Situational
Slippage
Social contracts
Social exclusion
Spatial
Stakeholder
Step change
Strategic
Strategic priorities
Streamlined
Sub-regional
Subsidiarity
Sustainable
Sustainable communities
Symposium
Synergies
Systematics
Taxonomy
Tested for Soundness
Thematic
Thinking outside of the box
Third sector
Toolkit
Top-down
Trajectory
Tranche
Transactional
Transformational
Transparency
Upstream
Upward trend
Utilise
Value-added
Vision
Visionary
Welcome
Wellbeing
Worklessness

Periodic Table of Typefaces

conann — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:35:28 -0700

Found via Patrick Haney who can be found on Twitter or on his blog Get full size image here

Kerby Brown, by Andrew Buckley, Reuters

conann — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:10:18 -0700

Kerby Brown, by Andrew Buckley, Reuters Originally uploaded by Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Kerby Brown rides a huge wave in an undisclosed location southwest of Western Australia July 6, 2008, in this picture released November 7, 2008 by the Oakley-Surfing Life Big Wave Awards in Sydney. Picture taken July 6. via The Big Picture

KUSTAA SAKSI

conann — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:24:16 -0800

Kustaa Saksi - Pretty Cool People Interviews from SubmarineChannel on Vimeo.

Having stared at the interweb for about six weeks wondering if there could possibly be something new out there of interest, I came across this picture in my flickr contacts which contained a magic link to Pretty Cool People interviews. Wow I have been moving in incredibly small circles on the web and it is great to feel inspired again.

Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Eight Years Ago?

conann — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:39:11 -0700

The table below updates Reagan's question by comparing the state of the economy in 2000 and 2008. We use 25 indicators of economic well-being and economic performance and find that 23 of the 25 indicators are worse in 2008 than they were in 2000. Click here for a list of the sources used.

Economic Indicator	2000	2008
Unemployment rate	4.0%	6.1%
Inflation rate	3.3%	5.4%
Job Growth (preceding 8 years)
Total nonfarm employment	21.4%	4.3%
Private sector employment	23.6%	3.6%
Manufacturing employment	2.9%	-22.2%
Employment rate (% of population)
All, age 16 and older	64.4%	62.6%
Men, age 16 and older	71.9%	69.1%
Women, age 16 and older	57.5%	56.5%
Real wage growth (preceding 8 years)	8.2%	1.8%
Minimum wage (July 2008$)	$6.58	$6.55
Family income
Median, 2007$	$61,083	$61,355
Growth (preceding 8 years)	14.7%	0.4%
Poverty
Rate (% of population)	11.3%	12.5%
People in poverty (millions)	31.6	37.3
Uninsured (health insurance)
Rate (% of population)	14.0%	15.3%
People without insurance (millions)	38.7	45.7
Personal savings (% of disposable income)	2.3%	0.6%
College tuition (average per year, 2007$)
Private four-year college	$19,337	$23,712
Public four-year college	$4,221	$6,185
Gasoline (gallon, 2008$)	$2.03	$4.09
GDP growth (preceding 8 years)	34.2%	19.6%
Productivity growth (preceding 8 years)	15.9%	21.9%
Trade balance (% of GDP)	-3.9%	-5.1%
Federal debt (% of GDP)	57.3%	65.5%
Net foreign debt (% of GDP)	13.6%	17.9%

Via Huffington Post | Center for economic and policy recearch

Don't stand infront of that blue screen!

conann — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:02:42 -0700

Lightning in Slow Motion

conann — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:32:28 -0700

Stop! when your ready, halt - bring to an standstill

conann — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:02:12 -0700

Designers everywhere know that their clients would think this video was so cute but never connect with the problem. Found here at Fontblog

Sid Mead comments on modern car design :- Boing Boing

conann — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:47:49 -0700

Fishstick - Do it!

conann — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:32:46 -0700

Did someone say meme - Weezer Youtube

conann — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:13:45 -0700

LaserVision DART poster Ad

conann — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:08:56 -0700

DART advertisment poster for LaserVision Dublin

LaserVision Flight Magazine Ad

conann — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:35:37 -0700

An ad I just completed for LaserVision Dublin & Cathedral Eye Clinic Belfast. Created using Adobe Illustrator and Maya for the 3D render

Sichuan Wedding during the earthquake

conann — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:16:45 -0700

Stunning pictures taken at a couples wedding in Sichuan as the 7.9 earthquake hit.

I want this taboret

conann — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:35:39 -0700

John McCain is a Muppet

conann — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:38:01 -0700

Shipwrecks & Sea Disasters

conann — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:04:18 -0700

They were proud and beautiful once, confident in the face of anything the sea could throw at them - and now they haunt the coastlines with their sadness and beauty (but of the different kind): Beautiful images check them out Found via SimpleBits

Woods

conann — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:20:41 -0700

Originally uploaded by Richard M.

New designs from the Royal Mint Still loving the penny

conann — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:58:20 -0700

I want loads of these! By far the coolest coins. I have seen.

Coda Confidential

conann — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:49:06 -0700

Found via the brilliant Jon Hicks. Cabel Sasser talks about his company Panic and the creation of CODA.

Jerry the Dog Plays Fetch

conann — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:39:01 -0700

Funny dog video with an automatic catapult

Grande Illusion

conann — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:44:02 -0800

Grande Illusion Originally uploaded by davidlasky Great stuff via Drawn Technorati Profile

Progress

conann — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:32:24 -0800

Found here at Afrojacks