well now, the next time you visit my website, you will see (especially if you use mozilla firefox) a tiny little picture of me in the address bar of your browser (known as a 'favicon')! tremendous!
also if you save my website in your 'favourites' list, that little picture will appear in your favourites menu beside my website name. wow! if you want to know how to do this on your own website, go here (i used a little program called 'iconomaker' rather than their online ico maker).
AND, as if that wasn't exciting enough by itself, here's an added bonus for you. below is a link to an mp3 audio file of an interview of me by rob holding, originally broadcast on radio rhema before christmas.
you can either left click the link below and listen to the interview in your browser window, or if you right click and do 'save as...' you can download the interview so that you can listen to it again and again at your leisure. either way, the file is about 1.2 meg so is rather easy to download.
interview of andrew here
on the headphones: the interview of course...
Saturday, March 04, 2006
music video and artwork
the music video that i worked on the creative team for is now streaming at amplifier.co.nz.
click here to have a geeze. (don't look at me with regard to that 'parental advisory'...)
also, i'm thrilled by this - visit digirama (nz's current equivalent to itunes) and see some artwork i did for jamie - i did the artist pic and album cover (see below the track list)...
click here to have a geeze. (don't look at me with regard to that 'parental advisory'...)
also, i'm thrilled by this - visit digirama (nz's current equivalent to itunes) and see some artwork i did for jamie - i did the artist pic and album cover (see below the track list)...
free photography books
it is well worth doing a post dedicated to this link...
at www.democraticbooks.org you can download free photography books. they are pdf files which you can download and then print out and make into a book. so far they have 14 books featuring the work of different photographers. very cool.
i found the link through www.lensculture.com which is my all-time favourite photography website (see the links page of my website).
on the headphones: 'prosperous' by gROUSE. download it free here.
at www.democraticbooks.org you can download free photography books. they are pdf files which you can download and then print out and make into a book. so far they have 14 books featuring the work of different photographers. very cool.
i found the link through www.lensculture.com which is my all-time favourite photography website (see the links page of my website).
on the headphones: 'prosperous' by gROUSE. download it free here.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
depressing reading, exciting listening
sorry for my silence, oh you my faithful reader(s).
look, i just read this:
"The number of online weblogs has reached an estimated 27 million, a new report has found. According to blog search and indexing site Technocrati, around 75,000 new blogs are created every day. US-based Technocrati said it tracks about 1.2 million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour." here
i'm just so thankful to have my slice of that enormous pie - isn't it great? (depressing?)
well, to aleviate our collective depression at being tiny numbers in a very large and exponentially growing equation, go and visit the jamie strange page in the music section of download.com. there are three tracks to download there - two are happy and one is more pensive. jamie, as i've mentioned before, is a mate of mine making catchy pop rock and aiming for world domination (we are soon to start work on some tv commercials for him).
on the headphones: 'hymn of the big wheel' by massive attack, from the album 'blue lines'. www.massiveattack.co.uk
look, i just read this:
"The number of online weblogs has reached an estimated 27 million, a new report has found. According to blog search and indexing site Technocrati, around 75,000 new blogs are created every day. US-based Technocrati said it tracks about 1.2 million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour." here
i'm just so thankful to have my slice of that enormous pie - isn't it great? (depressing?)
well, to aleviate our collective depression at being tiny numbers in a very large and exponentially growing equation, go and visit the jamie strange page in the music section of download.com. there are three tracks to download there - two are happy and one is more pensive. jamie, as i've mentioned before, is a mate of mine making catchy pop rock and aiming for world domination (we are soon to start work on some tv commercials for him).
on the headphones: 'hymn of the big wheel' by massive attack, from the album 'blue lines'. www.massiveattack.co.uk
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
some changes a-coming
i've got a few new ideas for my website coming up.
i'm planning to add a 'favicon' to the site so that when you visit or save my website in a favourites list it'll have a nifty little icon beside the address. excitement!
the program i'll be using to create the favicon is iconomaker 3.0, which has just been released by icon empire. it's a cool little program that lets you do all kinds of effects to create real nice windows icons. it occurs to me that icon creation might have potential as a full-blown art project - tiny little pictures that you click on reveal something else...
anyway, check out iconomaker by visiting www.iconempire.com
also coming up on my website is a new postcard project which will involve quite a bit of design work on the site - but more on that later!
on the headphones: '8:45 PM on a rainy friday' by christophe e. download it for free here
i'm planning to add a 'favicon' to the site so that when you visit or save my website in a favourites list it'll have a nifty little icon beside the address. excitement!
the program i'll be using to create the favicon is iconomaker 3.0, which has just been released by icon empire. it's a cool little program that lets you do all kinds of effects to create real nice windows icons. it occurs to me that icon creation might have potential as a full-blown art project - tiny little pictures that you click on reveal something else...
anyway, check out iconomaker by visiting www.iconempire.com
also coming up on my website is a new postcard project which will involve quite a bit of design work on the site - but more on that later!
on the headphones: '8:45 PM on a rainy friday' by christophe e. download it for free here
gig booked
i've been booked in for a poetry performance at the courtyard gallery in parnell, auckland, at the end of may. this is for the opening of my brother's photography exhibition...
so put that down in your diaries...
on the headphones: 'in a state' by unkle, from the album 'never, never, land'. www.unkle.com
so put that down in your diaries...
on the headphones: 'in a state' by unkle, from the album 'never, never, land'. www.unkle.com
group poem
as promised, here is a group poem that joy, anna and i did the other night - a nice process where you write two lines each and then fold the paper over so the next person can only see your second line. you end up with some pretty cool juxtapositions...
Poem 240106.1 (joy, anna and andrew)
Beautiful, big, round eyes
but it’s what’s in them that makes them so
vulnerable to words that we said when we were less wise
and before time taught us to guard our thoughts
and mind our tongues
and partake of soap mouth wash.
Maybe you could even try
Just being nice to her, having a decent conversation?
making synapses spark and flicker
electrical pulses that carry signals full of meaning
discarded and disregarded then slowly taken up again
as the realisation grows that they are essential to
his survival, as essential as his
need to breathe.
The air seems clearer somehow at this altitude
and we can see for mile as we circle
what once was prey
but now is our salvation.
Now we will be redeemed
now we can look each other in the eye and say what we
really mean
what you really mean to me
and what it means to be alive and real
to grow and feel
to shed sorrow
and heal.
Poem 240106.1 (joy, anna and andrew)
Beautiful, big, round eyes
but it’s what’s in them that makes them so
vulnerable to words that we said when we were less wise
and before time taught us to guard our thoughts
and mind our tongues
and partake of soap mouth wash.
Maybe you could even try
Just being nice to her, having a decent conversation?
making synapses spark and flicker
electrical pulses that carry signals full of meaning
discarded and disregarded then slowly taken up again
as the realisation grows that they are essential to
his survival, as essential as his
need to breathe.
The air seems clearer somehow at this altitude
and we can see for mile as we circle
what once was prey
but now is our salvation.
Now we will be redeemed
now we can look each other in the eye and say what we
really mean
what you really mean to me
and what it means to be alive and real
to grow and feel
to shed sorrow
and heal.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
a poem published
i've been a bit silent on this blog for a couple of weeks - but there is some new stuff on my other blog so check that out.
i'm back at work now, but have managed to find a little bit of time to work on some art stuff - doing some graphical art with some of my photo images. also joy, anna and i wrote some collaborative poems last night by writing two lines each, then folding the page so that the next person could only see the second line, and so on, until the page is full. we got some quite cool results - i will post one soon.
meanwhile, i had a poem published for the first time in quite a while last week. my poem 'spirits bay' was published in 'cs news' the bimonthly magazine of the chrysalis seed trust. chrysalis seed are based in christchurch (nz) and promote christian arts. they take a serious and high quality approach, holding mainstream exhibitions and distributing their magazine in galleries around new zealand. they do great work.
to download a pdf copy of cs news (this i recommend) go here and also check out their website.
i'm back at work now, but have managed to find a little bit of time to work on some art stuff - doing some graphical art with some of my photo images. also joy, anna and i wrote some collaborative poems last night by writing two lines each, then folding the page so that the next person could only see the second line, and so on, until the page is full. we got some quite cool results - i will post one soon.
meanwhile, i had a poem published for the first time in quite a while last week. my poem 'spirits bay' was published in 'cs news' the bimonthly magazine of the chrysalis seed trust. chrysalis seed are based in christchurch (nz) and promote christian arts. they take a serious and high quality approach, holding mainstream exhibitions and distributing their magazine in galleries around new zealand. they do great work.
to download a pdf copy of cs news (this i recommend) go here and also check out their website.
Saturday, December 31, 2005
happy new year
christmas is over, new year's eve today. anna and i had a pretty good time at christmas.
rob and i went on a quick photoshoot on christmas evening. i took my lomo and pentax and we drove along the coast near my parents' place - a fairly wilderness place on the firth of thames. the area is renowned for birdwatching, so i wanted to take some photos of the 'hides' that birdwatchers use to watch birds from. they are shacks with slit windows that you can stick your camera / binoculars through.
the day was overcast so i should get some nice somber shots. i experimented with using fill-in flash, which will theoretically render the shacks in stark relief agains a dark grey.
in the process, i finished two rolls of film that have been in my camera for a fair while. i always love developing that kind of film because there are always images you have forgotten.
hope to have some images online soon.
on the headphones: 'sunshine (feat. jess chambers)' by rhian sheehan, from the album 'tiny blue biosphere'. www.rhiansheehan.com
rob and i went on a quick photoshoot on christmas evening. i took my lomo and pentax and we drove along the coast near my parents' place - a fairly wilderness place on the firth of thames. the area is renowned for birdwatching, so i wanted to take some photos of the 'hides' that birdwatchers use to watch birds from. they are shacks with slit windows that you can stick your camera / binoculars through.
the day was overcast so i should get some nice somber shots. i experimented with using fill-in flash, which will theoretically render the shacks in stark relief agains a dark grey.
in the process, i finished two rolls of film that have been in my camera for a fair while. i always love developing that kind of film because there are always images you have forgotten.
hope to have some images online soon.
on the headphones: 'sunshine (feat. jess chambers)' by rhian sheehan, from the album 'tiny blue biosphere'. www.rhiansheehan.com
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
merry christmas
not too much happening in the art / text world of andrew killick. i'm happy with the way 'epilogue' has gone - i have just a few copies left.
in a couple of weeks i'm going to add a new 'free stuff' section to my website where i will include an mp3 download of an interview i did on rhema.
there is quite a bit of new material on intraspace - my book review blog: including a review of c.s. lewis's sci-fi book 'that hideous strength' (see, even i have tie-ins to the narnia movie).
i'm looking forward to christmas - have some down time, anna and i will visit my folks and i'm planning to take all my cameras with me. hopefully that will result in macro, double-exposure, underwater, vignetted visual madness.
so, merry christmas. have a good one.
on the headphones: what the heck is this? some kind of french folk music.
in a couple of weeks i'm going to add a new 'free stuff' section to my website where i will include an mp3 download of an interview i did on rhema.
there is quite a bit of new material on intraspace - my book review blog: including a review of c.s. lewis's sci-fi book 'that hideous strength' (see, even i have tie-ins to the narnia movie).
i'm looking forward to christmas - have some down time, anna and i will visit my folks and i'm planning to take all my cameras with me. hopefully that will result in macro, double-exposure, underwater, vignetted visual madness.
so, merry christmas. have a good one.
on the headphones: what the heck is this? some kind of french folk music.
Saturday, December 03, 2005
nuver blog
that's right kids, i now have another blog. i've called it 'intraspace' and it's somewhere for me to review books, films and music.
not only that but happy punters can buy the stuff i review direct from the blog through a link to amazon! tremendous.
first up is a review of the classic miles davis autobiography...
go there by clicking on the link to the right, or on the word intraspace.
not only that but happy punters can buy the stuff i review direct from the blog through a link to amazon! tremendous.
first up is a review of the classic miles davis autobiography...
go there by clicking on the link to the right, or on the word intraspace.
Friday, December 02, 2005
dvd design...
this is a package i did some artwork for. the whole thing was completed this week. it's a dvd/cd set promoting the first single of my mate jamie strange (songwriter). the dvd contains a music video of the single ('i wonder') shot by roly ebbing and lisa beedham (credits include the rhian sheehan video 'sunshine'). for the video itself, i worked on the concept and then as general dog's body at the shoot.
for the final package, i designed the cover, cd/dvd faces, and dvd menus utilising the target and outline elements designed by renee blair. i also designed the jamie strange logo and the dvd includes some stills photography i did during the video shoot.
so there you go. contact me if you want to get your hands on this dvd plus five track cd package. all for NZ$15.
on the stereo: 'the will to live' by ben harper, from the album 'the will to live'. www.benharper.net
Thursday, December 01, 2005
innovations
i've made a few tweeks on the website - not exactly ground-breaking, but quality-improving nonetheless.
1. i have registered www.safelittleworld.com and it is now an alias for www.andrewkillick.com, so you can type in either and be taken to my website. i like the ring of 'safe little world' and it might be a concept that i can develop further.
2. i have fixed the tab order on my contact form (to make kirk happy). you can now use the tab key to move through the form fields logically.
3. i have seen fit to give credit where credit is due and have included an 'antenna' (the software i used to create the site) logo on my about page. the logo links through to the antenna homepage.
4. i have changed it so that all links now open in a new browser window - so that you can always find your way back home to my page, no matter how many of the links you follow, and how far away you stray. that's comforting isn't it?
5. and lastly, by a stunning feat of programming excellence (thanks to the guys at antenna for their firsthand input), you can now not only click the titles of the poems on the poem page to reveal the poems but also click the title again to hide the poem again. hours of interactive fun there!
next up: i'll post the cover of the dvd/cd set that i've just done artwork stuff on for jamie strange - song-writing extraordinaire.
1. i have registered www.safelittleworld.com and it is now an alias for www.andrewkillick.com, so you can type in either and be taken to my website. i like the ring of 'safe little world' and it might be a concept that i can develop further.
2. i have fixed the tab order on my contact form (to make kirk happy). you can now use the tab key to move through the form fields logically.
3. i have seen fit to give credit where credit is due and have included an 'antenna' (the software i used to create the site) logo on my about page. the logo links through to the antenna homepage.
4. i have changed it so that all links now open in a new browser window - so that you can always find your way back home to my page, no matter how many of the links you follow, and how far away you stray. that's comforting isn't it?
5. and lastly, by a stunning feat of programming excellence (thanks to the guys at antenna for their firsthand input), you can now not only click the titles of the poems on the poem page to reveal the poems but also click the title again to hide the poem again. hours of interactive fun there!
next up: i'll post the cover of the dvd/cd set that i've just done artwork stuff on for jamie strange - song-writing extraordinaire.
Saturday, November 26, 2005
nice
i managed to motivate myself to create a page two for my online gallery. glad i did because i think it looks right nice - go have a squizz. it is a bit more coherent than page one, because page one was a bit of a mishmash that i put together quite quickly under the pressure of needing to get the website done in the first place.
also new on the website, as i said before, are a couple real nice new links, so check those out too.
good on you.
on the stereo: 'dirty harry' by the gorillaz, from the album 'demon days'. www.gorillaz.com
also new on the website, as i said before, are a couple real nice new links, so check those out too.
good on you.
on the stereo: 'dirty harry' by the gorillaz, from the album 'demon days'. www.gorillaz.com
nothing happening (much)
sales of the book are still ticking along. in fact this week i started making tentative enquiries about getting a few more copies printed. in publishing there is a fine balancing act that happens when stock starts to get low - you want stock on hand in case of significant orders but you don't want to end up with too many copies. tomorrow the pastor at church has promised to promote the book from the front - so i guess that will lead to more sales... i've sent a couple of review copies to the states too. hopefully if i need more copies i will be able to get them before christmas.
added a couple of fantastic new links to the links page of my website - check them out.
i might add some new images to the gallery too today (maybe). also stand by for a new blog that i have in the pipeline.
ps. have you noticed that that picture of me to the right looks like i have one eyebrow raised a la the rock?
added a couple of fantastic new links to the links page of my website - check them out.
i might add some new images to the gallery too today (maybe). also stand by for a new blog that i have in the pipeline.
ps. have you noticed that that picture of me to the right looks like i have one eyebrow raised a la the rock?
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
business as usual
things have settled down considerably since the craziness of the last two weeks getting everything ready.
an interview with me apparently went to air on rhema today at 3.10. i went to auckland last week and i also had an interview with the challenge weekly newspaper. that will run in the next two weeks.
sales of the book have gone pretty well and i don't have all that many books left. so if you want one you best get on over to www.andrewkillick.com and get ordering.
meanwhile, you can also check out the blog of my poetry colleague mr mark laurent (musician and poet).
on the stereo: 'people in the city' by air, from the album '10,000Hz Legend'. www.intairnet.org
an interview with me apparently went to air on rhema today at 3.10. i went to auckland last week and i also had an interview with the challenge weekly newspaper. that will run in the next two weeks.
sales of the book have gone pretty well and i don't have all that many books left. so if you want one you best get on over to www.andrewkillick.com and get ordering.
meanwhile, you can also check out the blog of my poetry colleague mr mark laurent (musician and poet).
on the stereo: 'people in the city' by air, from the album '10,000Hz Legend'. www.intairnet.org
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
big announcements!
it gives me great pleasure to finally be able to announce, after all this time, that 'Epilogue' is now available online at www.andrewkillick.com. which is also my subtle way of saying that the website is up and running as of this evening too. so get there!!!
i reckon everything has turned out pretty cool on the website and there's more on there than just the poetry book, so take a look around.
finally i can have a bit of a rest - it has all been a right mission in some ways. although, on friday i'm heading up to auckland to deliver stock of the books to the distributors and do a radio interview about the book (radio rhema at 4.10pm on friday).
i'll let you know how things go.
on the stereo: 'mr shakes' by sola rosa, from the album 'solarized'. www.solarosa.com
i reckon everything has turned out pretty cool on the website and there's more on there than just the poetry book, so take a look around.
finally i can have a bit of a rest - it has all been a right mission in some ways. although, on friday i'm heading up to auckland to deliver stock of the books to the distributors and do a radio interview about the book (radio rhema at 4.10pm on friday).
i'll let you know how things go.
on the stereo: 'mr shakes' by sola rosa, from the album 'solarized'. www.solarosa.com
Thursday, November 10, 2005
big progress
the books arrived back from the printers yesterday. they are looking real good. they're sitting in the box here just itching to be released.
so i worked until 1.30am this morning on the website so that everything is ready to go when the books go out next week.
the next time you read a post here everything will be go - books available and website live. stay tuned.
on the headphones: 'if you tolerate this' by the manic street preachers, from the album 'this is my truth tell me yours'. www.manics.co.uk.
ps. full marks to zenith print in new plymouth for their printing work on my book.
so i worked until 1.30am this morning on the website so that everything is ready to go when the books go out next week.
the next time you read a post here everything will be go - books available and website live. stay tuned.
on the headphones: 'if you tolerate this' by the manic street preachers, from the album 'this is my truth tell me yours'. www.manics.co.uk.
ps. full marks to zenith print in new plymouth for their printing work on my book.
Saturday, November 05, 2005
mail scripts....
well, i couldn't quite get the script i mentioned below to work on my site and, after much emailing and online chatting (i must say the guys who wrote the script were excellent), i found a nice little script that was very easy to set up and seems to be pretty spam safe. i got it from here. in the end most of my problems came down to the fact that there are more scripts available for linux servers than windows ones. i'm on a windows one.
but the up-shot of it all is that i now have an email form on the web and ready to receive emails. if you want to email me go here. or use the link on the right-hand side of this blog.
on the stereo: 'seven nation army' by the white stripes, from the album 'elephant'. www.whitestripes.com
but the up-shot of it all is that i now have an email form on the web and ready to receive emails. if you want to email me go here. or use the link on the right-hand side of this blog.
on the stereo: 'seven nation army' by the white stripes, from the album 'elephant'. www.whitestripes.com
Friday, November 04, 2005
fun with websites...
progress is being made on all fronts. the book is underway printing i am told, so i should have it next week - these things always end up taking longer.
the company i work for - castle publishing - will be co-distributing the book, which is good for getting it into the bookshops. doing quick maths in my head - i will probably need a reprint quite quickly - possibly even before christmas (i am doing a limited number to make sure i don't end up with boxes in the garage).
i spent five hours working on one image for the frontpage interface of the website a couple of nights ago. looks great and i'm very pleased with it.
then i got diverted trying to work out how to have an email form on the site. got caught up in the intricacies of working with cgi script and stuff. i found a nice little free cgi email script (here) and am on a crash course on how to get this stuff to work - this is my first experience with it. anyway, i thought i had it all sweet but in testing tonight it wasn't working, so i have emailed a guru to see what i need to do. hopefully nothing too major.
that's the sum. nothing on the headphones tonight because my head is hurting a bit.
the company i work for - castle publishing - will be co-distributing the book, which is good for getting it into the bookshops. doing quick maths in my head - i will probably need a reprint quite quickly - possibly even before christmas (i am doing a limited number to make sure i don't end up with boxes in the garage).
i spent five hours working on one image for the frontpage interface of the website a couple of nights ago. looks great and i'm very pleased with it.
then i got diverted trying to work out how to have an email form on the site. got caught up in the intricacies of working with cgi script and stuff. i found a nice little free cgi email script (here) and am on a crash course on how to get this stuff to work - this is my first experience with it. anyway, i thought i had it all sweet but in testing tonight it wasn't working, so i have emailed a guru to see what i need to do. hopefully nothing too major.
that's the sum. nothing on the headphones tonight because my head is hurting a bit.
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