The Sleeping Warrior Blog

Local Coverage of the TurfNet TV Toca Awards in the Leitrim Observer. How will we handle the fame eh?
www.leitrimobserver.ie

OK, I have an irresistible urge to beg, buy, borrow or steal every Westlife album ever made. Why?…so I can bittorrent it all for everyone worldwide to fileshare on P2P to try to deny any more income to Westlife’s Shane Filan. Again..why? Read the rest of this entry »

OK…here we go. After generations of people in Ireland have been reared with a fuzzy picture in a box in the front room, it’s about time we were aware of the rip-off by our National State Broadcaster who takes our licence fees. As an Irish TV licence payer, do you really want to pay a British company to watch your national TV station with a nice clear picture rather than fuzzy analogue (if you can get it at all?)
I just discovered there’s a guy out there who has got really vocal on it and started a petition.
www.petitiononline.com/rte2fta/

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OK..this is my favourite crop circle of all time… A Firefox Logo

The subject now deepens. Read the rest of this entry »

OK…had to do it. Caoimhe now has her own Youtube Channel and if you’re lucky you get an HD button too as it’s all footage shot on our ProHD JVC GY-HD111e workhorse.
The Caoimhe Ní Ruairc Youtube Channel
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Yep..it seems we’ve picked up major awards for the TurfNet series last year.
Well done to Jon Kiger and Peter McCormick who came up with the idea for the series.
Jon was at the ceremony in Puerto Rico to pick them up yesterday (May 14th). I hope he remembered to thank God, his Mum, the Guinness and Smithwicks breweries, and the Full Irish in his acceptance speeches?
We had a blast shooting and producing the series last year…as we did on this years series too. The great thing about this series is the friends we’ve made along the way and the craic we’ve had doing it. Thanks Jon and Peter!

Here’s the Gongs and plaques etc.

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Just finished and decompressed after 10 days on the road shooting the TurfNet Goes to Ireland 2009 series. Read the rest of this entry »

OK, this one was bugging me. Skype doesn’t support Firewire…or so they tell you. If like me you’ve got a studio full of connected Firewire cameras and don’t like the idea of using the poxy wee Tesco webcam for Skype video conversations then try this. Splitcamera Read the rest of this entry »

OK…always being asked this question from outside Ireland and seeing as people don’t seem to read the whole of the other post I’ll clear it up here. Read the rest of this entry »

Anyway..poor old Sligo. It waited all that time for a nice retail park and the beloved Brit high street stores to come and once they get here the criminal Yanks go and mess up the world economy and the shops shut as quickly as they opened. Not that I’ll be shedding a tear. Read the rest of this entry »