It all becomes clear. It makes perfect sense now. The reason we make ‘new years resolutions’ is to try to prevent ourselves from recreating the events of Christmas which are still so fresh in our minds, if even just for a few weeks. Christmas day was the usual quiet day at home with the family, [...]

So. It’s here. Christmas. You may be reading this on Christmas day. What are you doing on the Internet on Christmas day? Family sucks? Guess its the problem a lot of people have. Understandable. Boxing day? Again, why aren’t you opening all those boxes? Not believe in Christmas? Again, Family suck? It’s okay, I understand. [...]

Do not get me wrong, I am all in favour of a thriving local music scene, I believe that is certainly got on our hands. There are so many great bands, and I’m not just saying that, but when a good handful of bands have gigs I would go out of my way to see [...]

It was to be a rather calm, relaxing weekend. The only thing planned was a dinner on Friday evening. That happened. There were two, we headed to Scalini’s on Botanic Ave. I love that restaurant. The food is excellent. There was only one other plan. To see Black Eye Friday at the Errigle bar. But [...]

of… two female drummers in one night two quite attractive drummers at that.

Since September of the year two thousand and seven – though really 4.55 billion years (plus or minus about 1%) but lets not get too technical about it at this point – sweet Elizabeth has been successfully running an acoustic night each and every Tuesday in clements coffee shop at Queens Students Union. Although I [...]

After sacrificing sleep last night for Grey’s and the Interweb, I went with some friends to St Georges ‘Christmas’ Market. It had been years since I had been to the market, and although it was near closing by the time we got there, it looked like it would have actually been good during peak hours. [...]

Thanks to the help of my good friend, Andy, I have a nice new website for you to marvel at, with an updated portfolio. Check it out at www.philokanephotography.com Stay tuned for more updates over the next few weeks.

Yesterday was the official launch of the ‘Out To Lunch‘ festival – a mini festival as part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival – which runs in January 2008. What better time then to announce that I will be exhibiting a small selection of my work with local bands and musicians throughout the festival which [...]

While at the launch of the first solo exhibition of the excellent local artist Alice McCullough at the Safehouse Gallery on Monday 26th November I was asked whether I consider myself an ‘artist’. This got me thinking… According to the Dictionary.com: pho·tog·ra·phy – n. 1. The art or process of producing images of objects on [...]