No More Art Notepad

We’ve made a further appearance in the Belfast Telegraph this week and on their website talking about what makes a good website from both the designer’s and the client’s perspective. If you fancy a read have a look here http://tinyurl.com/beletele

We’ve been approached to harp on at length about two of our most favourite things in Derry this Friday. If you’re up in North West country and wish to listen to us harp, the details are below.

Imagine Create 2009 Music and E-Media Panel

Title A New Model for Music – the music industry and the use of electronic media in promotion, distribution and sales

Date 3 April 2009

Time 12:00 – 14:00

Location City Factory Theatre, Patrick St., Derry

Panel

Keith Cullen (Setanta Records)
Andrew Ferris (Smalltown America)
Nick Fitzsimmons (Penny Distribution)
Melanie Foster (Mastercuts)
Martin Neill (No More Art)

Themes During the 2 hours of this panel discussion there will be 2 main themes:

Theme 1: The Music Industry Past, Present and Future
Theme 2: The Use of New Media in the Music Industry

Schedule
1. Introduction to the panellists by host (Tony Talbot) (5 mins)
2. Presentation by individual panellists on Theme 1 (5 mins each)
3. Group discussion on Theme 1 (15 mins)
4. Audience Q&A on Theme 1 (10 mins)
5. Presentation by individual panellists on Theme 2 (5 mins each)
6. Group discussion on Theme 2 (15 mins)
7. Audience Q&A on Theme 2 (15 mins)

This event will also see the debut of our Gay for Andrew Ferris t-shirt range, available only in XL for us big lads. See you there…

This blog started about 18 months ago, in our heads at least. Of course the problem was A) Where do you actually start a blog? B) What’s interesting enough? C) Will anybody read it? *
Answers: A) With fireworks B) Reality C) More than likely, at some point, the law of averages being what it is and all.

So we start at the start. This blog will be a mishmash of weird and wonderful ideas, frustrations, arguments, solutions, a ton of internet type stuff and hopefully a lot more. In a stream of consciousness fashion expect us to be nattering about things as boring but essential as browser compatibility, CSS, Flash, Air (Apollo), mobiles, php , servers and all that good stuff. But we’ll be off on one about Belfast, music, films, politics, the tax man and all manner of other stuff too. See it’s a mishmash already.

Come back soon when we’ll have actually decided how to start this thing.

And as for the fireworks this here’ll be Sean from Oppenheimer about to set off some pyrotechics in the hallway outside our office…

The offending item…

BANG!

Now that’s what you call good fun innit?

Marty