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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Dead Medium, Audio Archeology
I’m reliably informed Trinity FM launched 25 years ago. Which must mean it’s 21 years since I walked through the arch into front square. I remember the riotous menu of society stalls and how intimidated I was facing them. Toddling around a mad buffet of potential futures and wishing I knew anyone. As an ancient Read more
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The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does
“The purpose of a system is what it does”– Stafford Beer “If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.”– Phil Zimmerman The proximate motivation of AI driven companies like Claude, Open AI, and Google is disruption: Silicon Valley slang for bankrupting incumbents by creating software platforms and skirting the law. Classically, this has played Read more
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Chaotic Thoughts About Order
“The law demands that we atoneWhen we take things we do not ownBut leaves the lords and ladies fineWho take things that are yours and mine.” “Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the spectre of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud Read more
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Love Will Come Rushing
New music video for the lovely Leila Jane. Directed by myself, shot by the best cam-op in the business Ismael Diarra. Read more
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New work for Goal Global
New work for Irish charity @goal_global, celebrating the nationwide #goalmile campaign. Shot around Ireland in @thephoenixpark , @ballyhale_shamrocks , @trinitycomp1 , and @naomh_conaill_gaa_club Ballymun sections shot by @izzysaurus.rex.9 Read more
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Al Jazeera shoot
I recently had the pleasure of shooting many of the Irish sections of the Al Jazeera programme ‘The Listening Post’. I haven’t done enough ENG shooting in the past and it was a challenge to say the least, battling DaVinci Resolve’s rendering glitches attempting to convert the UHD footage in time for broadcast. I shoot Read more
Gareth Stack 