News
11.02.09
A title sequence Johnny made for Dutch TV show Het Klokhuis has just been launched, as well as a new set of logos. You can find out more about the making of this on the Art of the Title Sequence website. The first episode of the program, which is in Dutch, is all about the making of the title sequence and you can watch it here (requires Microsoft Silverlight or Windows Media Player).
Some of his work, including The Seed, is also included in the upcoming Gestalten book Data Flow 2.
07.12.09
Johnny has an ink illustration in a festive exhibition at YCN. There's lots of nice things for sale and proceeds go to charity.
12.11.09
Johnny won a First Boards award and was in New York (see below) to receive a Young Guns award from the Art Directors Club. He will be doing a presentation of his work in the Apple Store, London at 6.30 on January 25th as part of the ADC Young Guns speaker series. Come along and watch while you wait for your ipod to be repaired.
30.06.09
The supernice people at It's Nice That asked Johnny and two other guests of his choosing to give a presentation in central London last week. You can see his talk below, and the in the following weeks the other ones - first by graphic designer David McFarline, and second by photographer Marco Bohr - will also be available to watch here. Each one is thirty minutes long.
Also, The Seed has been selected to screen at Onedotzero, London International Animation Festival, Flat Pack Festival, Promax/BDA, Yale Environmental Film Festival, Fest Anca, Melbourne International Animation Festival, Anima Mundi, Rushes Soho Shorts, and Rhode Island International Film Festival.Hurrah!
14.04.09
Johnny just finished an illustration for Don't Panic which was photographed by Linda Brownlee. Its included as an A2 poster in their free flyer packs and distributed around the UK. They print a whopping 100k of them and they'll only be available until April 26th so please give one a good home before they all end up in the bin. There is an interview with him on the Don't Panic website here.
06.03.09
From Michael: This May we will be holding the 2nd annual Kerry Bicycle Festival in Tralee. Similar to last year we will be having a film night featuring short films inspired by, and about, bicycles and cycling. So we are putting the call out again for entries. We have a duration limit of 15 minutes, so if you have something nearly finished, or if you've seen something on youtube that you think we should hear about, we would love to hear from you.
Dis-similar to last year we will be mounting a visual art exhibition Frame that will run for a week in Siamsa Tire's gallery. So if this is something that might interest you, or if you know of any cycle mad artists out there, get in touch. The visual art side of things at Dublin's 2006 Bicycle Festival was a great success, and featured photography, sculpture, painting, and more. All art will be for sale assuming aritsts want to sell it.
The email for both of these is submissions@kerrybicyclefestival.org
Keep an eye on the website or become a facebook fan here.
21.01.09
On the YCN site you can find a guest blog by Johnny with new things 'n' bits being posted each day this week. Also Procrastination is going to be screened at the TED conference in California next month.
04.12.08
Johnny just finished working on a short film, The Seed. Here's some 'making of' bits and pieces:
27.11.08
Michael just won the audience award in the 9th Kerry Film Festival for his mini documentary Small Benners - an affectionate look at one of Tralee's most loved institutions - Benner's Hardware Shop.
As well as a cash prize this means that the film will be screened in festivals in Huesca in Spain, Rome, and Chicago. Michael is delighted with this, because he never gets round to entering festivals.
27.07.08
Johnny's Illustration for '100 pieces of Havana' exhibition at the Truman Brewery, curated by Intercity. A limited run of five A1 posters were screenprinted by UnitTwentyFive.
23.05.08
Procrastination won an award for postgraduate animation at the Royal Television Society student awards last Friday. Along with a short interview the film will be shown on The Culture Show Uncut on BBC2, at 11.35pm on Friday June 6th. It will also be screened as part of Prét Á Porter Paris at "Explosion De Modes".
09.04.08
After the success of the Dublin Bicycle Festival in 2006, Michael is getting stuck-in down in his new home in the Kingdom. Clowns, films, music, and the first ever Irish performance of Godfried-Willem Raes' 2nd Symphony for Singing Bicycles
For more info go to http://www.kerrybicyclefestival.org
07.03.08
Johnny was one of three winners of the inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Award, for his work on Procrastination. For more information visit the website's news page. The exhbition continues in their exhibition space in Southwark, London until March 20th.
10.02.08
Mike Wyeld is nominated in the The Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards for his sound editing work on Procrastination.
Also you can watch and/or vote for the film here, as its a finalist in the Jerwood Moving Image Awards and will be included in a month long exhibition in their Jerwood Space gallery in Southwark London, from the 20th of February to the 20th of March.
At the Premier Plans film festival in Anger, France, the film was nominated for the European Film Academy Short Film 2007– Prix UIP.
13.01.08
11.01.08
Procrastination won best 2nd prize at the VX Auteur Theory screening at the London Short Film Festival. The film is also shortlisted for the Jerwood Moving Image Award.
13.12.07
Some of Johnny's work features in the YCN Book 0708, which has just been published.
01.11.07
Procrastination won best film in the International section at the Exground film festival in Weisbaden, Germany.
01.11.07
Procrastination is featured in the new issue of shots and the accompanying DVD. Shots have also included the film on the their New Directors Reel 2007, which is just published.
04.10.07
Michael has two films in the upcoming Kerry Film Festival, Under The Stairs and Psychadelic Spaceman, his music video for The Lung Donors. Johnny's film Shelly is also being screened.
28.09.07
Good news - Johnny is now represented by Nexus Productions.
09.09.07
Johnny won Best New Irish Director at the Shark Awards.
06.09.07
Johnny's September 2007 showreel, featuring music by The Redneck Manifesto.
04.09.07
Johnny is shortlisted in the Best New Irish Director category at the Shark Awards, held in Kinsale, Co. Cork in Ireland.
04.09.07
Procrastination is featured on the cover the September issue of Creative Review magazine. Download a PDF of the article here.
31.08.07
Johnny is speaking in the Sweetness & Light tent at Electric Picnic music festival in Laois, Ireland. Come along and throw bottles at him.