Articles tagged with: project
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It took nearly a year and the half of waiting before appropriate to the content – spark of creativity, motivation, passion and commitment, came together and sat me in front of Final Cut Pro. Pulled in to chaos of raw and messy video clip jigsaw, I could forget about world I know and focus on the world I miss.
Sensation extremely close to obsession, tinted by definite addiction, for the most of the time keeps me endlessly analyzing, cutting and pasting pieces of footage which now seem to be fresh as …
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There is always time for a fairy tale. A story immersing in magic and life forces we barely acknowledge in broad daylight. But when the night is upon us, the world enters a different reality. The reality when we become children again believing in fairies and dragons. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell them only the dragons can be killed. It is high time for another story about dreams, crime and wonderful power of friendship. Welcome to Glitters, where blood can turn into gold.
To celebrate the …
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Im happy to announce ambitious startup officially lunched with beginning of November 2010, by my good old friend Jiri Papousek from Prague. This project is already running in 11 cities around the world. (Check out BalconyTV for more information and a feel of the project)
Jiri and his crew already have a line up of bands and are looking for means to fund equipment and cover some production costs (so far this project has been self-financed by Jiri). What they produce is short music videos for …
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Things we saw and moments we experienced on Christmas Island went beyond our imagination…
Since the very beginning, luck and – along with it – all the kindest people we could meet were on our side.
Temptation to express all the excitement behind all the amazing adventures we had, is becoming unbearable. Surely, those moments will be told by our film on which we now cant wait to work on…
As I’m writing this post, we are on our return journey back to Ireland. …
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We are doing our best to fit preparation tasks in to tightening schedule, which at the moment leaves us with 14 precious days, before we travel from Ireland to Republic of Kiribati (Kiritimati).
Having entire project financed by own means, we are constantly dealing with budget-related problems. “Exchange” Gallery was generous enough, to support our final fundraiser action. “Kiribati Project” team was honored with a chance to present some of the artworks for sale. To express our gratitude, IT equipment will be donated to the gallery, which will hopefully contribute …
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Time goes quicker than ever and day counter drops digits with concerning speed. Quite as departure would be associated with something unpleasant.
Surreal factors fade away as most of the pieces of our “to do” list are getting achieved. Nearly entire equipment is now acquired. Most of the expenses and hassles – covered.
Tension grows and stress boils up as we realize what else is missing and how much is to learn on each field that could we possibly go wrong.
Film making part is our main objective, which took over everything else …
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Either it’s man-made or caused by natural rhythms and cycles, current stage of climate change turns group of atolls on the pacific ocean in to potentially first of modern era nation under serious risk of disappearing under water levels.
Kiribati becomes the first place that doesn’t exist also for the reason that small nation as this struggles to get any attention not only world leaders but also citizens. Internet’s knowledge base is full of contradictions, gaps, resources are often outdated. Our crew of three made decision on taking a journey and …

