Kevin Holler

In about 12 hours or so I will be in Chicago. A trip i’ve been looking forward to since my final exams. I hope to explore a lot and develop a new series of photography while i’m there. Its going to be an excellent time for me to do a lot of thinking, planning and relaxing. Away from work, friends, family and everything in my everyday life here in Ireland, making it my very first trip alone and away from all these parts of my life.

Lets see what inspiration and creativity will come about after this trip. See you all when i get back.

Chicago

My friend Amy managed to get us a space for our exhibition. So we’ve got our opening night on Monday, the 21st at 7pm. I’m pretty excited as its both our first exhibitions. I’m still unsure about what photos to display on the night, but I will have about 15 photos on display.

If you’re in the are, pop in. Its on in the Nenagh heritage centre.

Tags: exhibition, Photography

Now that I have finally completed all those never ending school years, I am free. Free to do anything I wish, as long as I end up making some money of course. Where things will go from here on I can not yet say for certain, as I am still trying to plan the rest of my summer.

I will be heading to Chicago at the end of this month to visit a good friend of mine. But until then I will be open for any freelance web design work. I hope to make as much money as i can this month, head to chicago and when i come back, focus on setting up our business, Tamooka.

I have a shelf full of dusty books that are waiting to be read. Including PHP, Ruby on Rails and much more. So I hope to devour all those books in the coming weeks and sharpen my skillset. If all goes to plan we will have our business up and running by late august or mid september. Which we will build up as we are in college, provided I get the course I have chosen.

Along with all of that, I will be trying to devote my free time to the other open source projects I am involved in. So lets see what happens.

Tags: business, learning, Projects, summer, tamooka

Oxegen have tried to come up with more ideas yet again to make the annual festival that little bit more spectacular. With a Circus starting off the weekend. To me a circus full of drunken people doesn’t sound like the best idea if you ask me.

I attended the festival about three years ago. Everything seemed fine on the first day. But then everything went downhill from there on. Toilets began overflowing, food stalls were ripping people off with their stingy breakfast rolls, tents were being lit on fire and myself and a friend even managed to get burnt by the explosion of a tent. Sound like fun to you? Well if you’re drunk it probably is. But for the price of the ticket, It has got to be the worst organised event that has ever taken place on the face of the earth.

MCD, the organisers of the event failed to provide the sufficient security. That year most of the security staff left after it began to rain, since they were ordinary people being paid. Which left the campsite full of thousands of people seeking fun. It was humorous to watch the groups of security run from fire to fire as they struggled to get everything in time.

To my knowledge last year was even worse, even tho MCD managed to close down their discussion boards, practically sue boards.ie and threaten others over the discussion that took place on behalf of their own failure to organise the event and thereby give Oxegen a bad reputation. I have no intention of going there this year and It has already become quite evident that many others have changed their mind too. Tickets are being sold at less than half price, ebay is bursting with oxegen ticket sales. Rant over.

If you want a proper festival, head to hurricane.

Tags: 2008, Camping, festival, MCD, oxegen

After an amazing week in Germany I am back at home once again. The trip was great fun and I took hundreds of pictures. Here is the result,

The right choice

Scraping the skies

Evening sky

Sunset stage

Towards the light

Destination Unknown

Leave your mark

Forgotten faces

Phone booth

Photos are currently only available in full size here until the gallery is back online

After my trip to Germany I took quite a handful of photographs. Three of which I decided to turn into wallpapers. Check them out,

Wallpaper 1 - 1920 x 1200

Wallpaper 2 - 1920 x 1200

Wallpaper 3 - 1920 x 1200