Sherman Oaks, California – Teravision and Iron Cross Entertainment Corporate Executive Officer, Evan Seinfeld brings his powerhouse marketing skills to the adult space with the launch of Sinnergy Entertainment.

Sinnergy Entertainment will be the first “one stop shop” for multi-media management for all professionals in the adult space. Seinfeld has proven himself as a genius able to monetize intellectual property and star power into bankable household names by strong online presence and building a recognizable brand across all media platforms, during his seven years as the driving force behind Tera Patrick and Teravision.

“Sinnergy Entertainment will be the first company to handle not only adult performers, but all adult companies that need to become ‘Sinnergized’ to monetize their brand. There are so many revenue streams out there, and it seems that so many people are leaving money all over the table, or don’t even know where to look,” says Seinfeld.

Sinnergy Entertainment is stepping in to represent clients that are looking to synergize their brand beyond the average monetary reach for an adult professional. The seasoned industry professionals behind Sinnergy Entertainment provide consultation and hands on service to handle every aspect of business, from brokering distribution and mobile content deals, to arranging red carpet events in both the adult and mainstream realms.

Seinfeld is serious about the need for adult entertainers and companies to join with Sinnergy Entertainment to promote their brands, even during this down turn in the economy. “There is only now! You can plan for tomorrow, but you must be working today on your own future. You can let this business chew you up and spit you out, or you can take it by the balls and squeeze. No one is going to build your career for you, with only your best interest in mind. But, you can do something about it right now, by aligning yourself with career minded management like all of us at Sinnergy Entertainment. Sex is power and power is money. Either you work for it, or you make it work for you.”

Sinnergy Entertainment is now accepting clients in preparation for the annual Adult Entertainment Expo, held in Las Vegas January 7 through 10 of 2010. Sinnergy will present an unprecedented three simultaneous nightclub parties at the Palms Resort and Casino during the AEE weekend. Events for the unparalleled party night include, a site launch party for RockstarPornstar.com hosted by the inimitable Mr. Seinfeld and 50 sizzling Porn Stars at Moon, Joanna Angel and the Burning Angel Girls at the Playboy Club and an evening of uneasy listening with DJ Z Trip at Rain.

Sponsors and celebrities that would like to work with Sinnergy to promote their brand on the red carpet at these events are encouraged to contact Seinfeld at his Sherman Oaks offices. Seinfeld sums up the benefits handily, “These parties are worth more than a booth at a tradeshow, really. Combine the adult and mainstream press exposure of any one of these events, let alone four events in the same night, and you can start off your new year with an invaluable boost to your bottom line.”

For information on partnering with Sinnergy Entertainment for the 2010 Adult Entertainment Expo extravaganza, or for more information on multi-media management services, please call 818-782-4400.

Coillte

Above is a link to the Coillte hompage.

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- The “Contact” page has a valid submission form. When the user fails to enter in the text fields, an error message appears reminding the user to input their data.

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- Through out the site, the content is clearly written with headings underneath. There are tabs along the top and when the user clicks on these a futher list of sub-headings appear at the left hand side of the screen.

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By Virginia McMillan

GOOGLE is leading the way again – this time, suggesting online news sites organise and display particular stories in one place, and in many ways, as they unfold.

With The Washington Post and The New York Times, Google has constructed a one-page, one-story, many media approach to journalism: Living Stories.  It seems, once again, the nerds have a lot to teach the journos about making our content work.

The Google Living Stories approach looks promising and challenging, demanding much more attention to sequencing – ie, point-and-click for background on the same page rather than add it to every story and dish it up on a mixed news page.

The “living story” approach demands summaries that clarify the significance of new developments.

The living story also links all the varied types of material (including opinion pieces, source materials, multi-media) on the one subject in the one place. An example is this health-reform page. The design isn’t exciting, yet, but over all this is great stuff. It seems likely to make good journalism costlier to present – reinforcing the need for staff with sub-editing as well as HTML skills. In some cases, the idea may also help news outlets develop online content for which the public will pay.

For the aspiring visual artist within, have a look at the exhibit CO2 Cubes:  Visualizing a Tonne of CO2, unveiled Monday on St. Jørgens Lake at the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen.  Check out its construction and launch in the video below.

The digital media installation was created to help people visualize what a tonne of CO2 looks like.  (At atmospheric pressure, it is the size of a three story building – 8.2 metres x 8.2 metres x 8.2 metres or 27 ft x 27 ft x 27 feet).

In going about his or her daily routine (i.e. driving, heating your house, running your washer and dryer, etc.),  the average person in Europe causes a tonne of CO2 to be released in one month.  The average American causes the same volume to be released in two weeks.  A Canadian would be somewhere in between.

Messages from around the world about climate change and what individuals can do to reduce their carbon emissions footprint will be projected on the cube throughout the conference.

To learn more about the artists and designers who created the cubes, check out Millennium Art.

Cork Printmakers Christmas Showcase 2009

This is well worth a visit. There will be a great range of affordable art on sale and it’s a great showcase of various printmaking techniques. All artists are from Cork Printmakers.

My piece ‘Cobh Water Tower’ from the previous post will be available and on show.

Souvenir Stories: Beyond the Paradise is the title of Karlo Andrei Ibarra’s most recent project featured at Photo Miami 2009 by the gallery RICA. In it, the artist examines the imagined idea of an island paradise against the harsh reality of political and social conflict. The project is comprised of a photograph, two video projections, and two installations.

The photograph titled Flesh Map is an illustration using raw meat that specifically portrays the Americas to describe how the majority of Latin American countries still suffer today from a post-colonial condition in relation to North America, which has contributed to political, social and, above all, economic problems. From the artist’s perspective as a Puerto Rican, the island is still under a colonial political system, and is on one hand a Latin country but on the other inserted into America, meaning to the United States of America. The question is: Do Puerto Ricans live in America? America the country? Or America the continent?

In Model to Assemble, an installation comprised of three photographs and a sculpture, the artist speaks of the violence that reigns in low-income housing projects. The photographs portray children playing with a jump-rope that has two guns instead of handles at each end. An interesting story is that on his way to Miami to transport the sculpture, the artist was arrested by Federal agents at the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport in San Juan. The sculpture was confiscated because, according to the agents, the guns had the mechanisms to fire an 8mm bullet. In an act of protest, the artist decided to frame and display the complaints filed against alongside the photographs.

As part of the project, the artist presents two video projections. One of the videos, titled Aspirations, takes as a point of departure the political and socio-economic repercussions imposed upon Puerto Rico for more than 40 years. The video presents a Puerto Rican citizen vacuum cleaning the entrance stairway of Puerto Rico’s Capitol Building; the place where the laws of this country are revised. Aspiraciones in Spanish is a metaphor for physical cleanliness, but also for the cleansing of unsuccessful political events. A literal English translation of Aspiraciones means Aspirations which refers to the desire and hope of achieving something better.

The video Crossover presents different takes of Puerto Ricans attempting to sing the national anthem of the United States. In the music industry, the term crossover refers to the act in which an artist decides to sing in another language other than their first one. It also refers to success abroad, usually in the English speaking market and particularly in the United States. Also, etymologically, the term can also refer to the burden that an imposed language can have on a country and its people, carrying a linguistic cross over one’s back as a symbol of social and cultural stigma. In Puerto Rico, this practice is quite common and results in a cultural assimilation that is politically driven. Using as reference the reality show American Idol, the video seeks to amplify the sociocultural distance between Puerto Rico and the United States hinting, in turn, at the different generations who long for statehood and who do not even know the language of the country they want to assimilate into.

Souvenir Stories consists of a postcard project based on the documentation of some of Puerto Rico’s most important historical events that have taken place in 2009. From mass manifestations to police altercations and protests, the postcards portray images of politically and socially engaging acts, playing with the idea of a postcard image of an island paradise and its contradictory reality. The set of postcards will be pre-addressed to places such as The Fortaleza, PR’s Capitol Hill, and The White House. These are meant to be sent by the spectator, making him an active participant of an act of solidarity towards the socio-political problems the country is currently facing.

Karlo Andrei Ibarra was born in Puerto Rico. He holds a BFA from Escuela de Artes Plásticas (EAP) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has shown his work in Cuba, Washington DC, Santo Domingo, the Tai Pei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and in the Bucharest Biennale 3 in Romania.

Images provided by the artist

Programs Used: Windows Movie Maker

Scope of Knowledge: I had never used this program before

Work Sample- Click here to download a sample

One of the best parts of an online magazine is multi media. Print magazines, especially ones that cover music, can review an album, song or video, but online publications can also allow the viewer to hear or see exactly what is being covered.Vibe.com uses this tool well.

Almost every story featured on Vibe.com has some form of good quality multi media. This way, the audience can read about Mariah Carey’s new album and then listen to a clip of one of its songs. If an artist is premiering a music video, it will accompany the story. New television shows or movies also have playable clips. Even news stories have video or audio accompaniment. For example articles on the current Tiger Woods scandal have contained a variety of extras. One story included an audio clip of a voicemail that Mr. Woods allegedly left his mistress. Another showed a segment from Fox News. There are also slideshows on featured artists.

No matter the form, Vibe.com makes its experience as visually and audibly pleasing and informative as possible. Online magazines shouldn’t exist without taking advantage of the opportunities of the web. Without multi media, they have little more to offer than their prints counterparts and competitors.

Programs Used: Microsoft PowerPoint

Scope of Knowledge: Useful for capturing attention and focus during presentations

Work Sample- Click here to download a sample

Programs used – Windows movie maker and iTunes

Scope of knowledge – Uplading videos from websites, ripping music from a CD, putting together the music and the video together.

Sample work – Click here for sample work

I seen this advert in the cinema the other day and i thought it ws really clever ^_^ enjoy!

For some reason it wont let me put a video on here so heres the link for now and ill try updating it to the video later or tomorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O16C1ZLuyI

Sorry if it took this long, hehe. Anyway here is one of the many short animated films the MMA (Multi-media Arts) class has finished last semester. Enjoy :p
(The song is “Old Yellow Bricks” by the Arctic Monkeys)

Program Used: EDIT 202

Scope of Knowledge: Create a video to assist in Learning.

Work Sample: Click here to download the sample.

Programs Used:  Windows Movie Maker

Scope of Knowledge:   Ability to create a self-contained movie file which incorporates converting tracks from audio CD’s as well as importing media clips.  Also introduces the two different file types within Windows Movie Maker: Project File & Movie File.

Work Sample:  Click here to download sample.

Programs Used: Windows Media Player, Windows Movie Maker

Scope of Knowledge: How to  edit a video clip to suit a new context (such as 1 minute of a classroom lecture).

Work Sample: video sample

Programs Used: Windows Movie Maker

Scope of Knowledge: Using multi-media tools to showcase information to students in an appealing way.

Work Sample: Click here to download sample file.

Programs Used: Windows movie maker.

Scope of Knowledge: Importing media from online sources, editing video clips, inserting titles, credits and transitions, importing audio from a CD.

Work Sample: For a sample of my work, click here.

Programs Used: Windows Movie Maker, Windows Media Player

Scope of Knowledge: Create a video using uploaded audio and video clips.

Sample Work: Click here to view a sample

Programs Used: Windows Media Player, Windows Movie Maker

Scope of Knowledge:  The ability to make a short video using windows movie maker and incorporate music from media player.

Work Sample: Click here to download sample.

Programs Used: Windows Media Movie Maker

Scope of Knowledge: To be able to edit and create our own videos.

Work Sample: Click here to download sample.

Programs Used: Windows Movie Maker

Scope of Knowledge: In doing this lab, I was able to effectively use and manage Windows MovieMaker. I gain knowledge in how to import audio and video into the timeline.

Work Sample: Click here to download sample

Program Used: Windows Movie Maker

Scope of Knowledge: Through using this program you can produce very interesting home made clips and movies. There are many different features on the program such as transitions between slides, adding audio tracks from mp3’s or cd’s and also timing and narration. This program could be used to create very interesting videos for endless occasions. Learning through a video seems very intruiging to kids, especially when they know their own teacher made it just for them.

Sample Project: Click HERE to download