Tag Archives: Kite aerial photography
Introducing the “Award Winning” Kieran Baxter
Last week Kieran and I travelled down to London to attend the AHRC Research in Film Awards which was hosted at the BAFTA Theatre in Piccadilly where Kieran’s Caterthuns film won in the Doctoral Award category. It was brilliant to see Kieran win his category, especially since the Caterthuns were up against some stunning competition. Naturally immediately after making his […]
Green Screens, Hillforts and Drawing with a Pencil
Since I finished my PhD and started to work freelance full-time back in the summer I’ve worked on quite a mix of jobs though for obvious reasons I’m not always able to share the production process or final outputs online right away, if at all. However, I’m still a keen blogger and this month as it happens there […]
Back to Westray…Then Back Again
Just returning from another fantastic week of fieldwork with the visualisation team (aka the usual suspects Aaron and Kieran). We were back up on Westray continuing to compile a visual and audio record of the Links of Noltland site and ongoing excavations (our work is kindly grant supported by Historic Scotland). Kieran took the reigns this […]
Return to the Links of Noltland: Fieldwork Diary Vol II
Back at my desk in Glasgow after another fantastic week up in Orkney working at the Links of Noltland on Westray with usual suspects Kieran and Aaron as well as musician and sound-man extraordinare John Was . This was our second trip up North this summer (you can read about our first trip in an earlier post) […]
Jarlshof: CGI and Kites with Kieran Baxter
Last summer I was invited to do a little reconstruction work (Viking settlement, medieval farmstead and the Laird’s House) for Kieran Baxter as part of his ambitious Jarlshof Project conducted as part of his masters degree at DJCAD, University of Dundee. Kieran describes the project in detail in a fantastic blog post on his website, but the general gist […]
High & Low – Exhibition and Talk by Kieran Baxter
My friend and colleague Kieran Baxter will be giving a talk in Falkland, Fife on Tuesday 16th July to launch his aerial photography exhibition. You can read more about the event on his blog, but the general gist is as follows… “This showcase features unique views of hill forts spanning from East Lomond hill above Falkland […]
Models of Mind at the Pier Arts Centre
It’s been a busy few weeks since I last posted and our Digital Dwelling film has taken off in a way we really didn’t expect, which is very exciting! In the photo above I’m holding a book we’ve had printed up to accompany the film which is being shown at the Pier Arts Centre in […]
A Fieldwork Photo-Diary from the Links of Noltland and Beyond…
Back at my desk again after a fantastic week up in Orkney with Aaron and Kieran, this time doing some fieldwork over at Links of Noltland on Westray, work which has been kindly grant supported by Historic Scotland. I won’t be writing too much about this project just yet as we’re still very much in […]
Digital Dirt Virtual Pasts 