Winter treat!

It works! :)

I was sick of finding loads of fliers (so ugly designed usually!) in my post box so I decided to fight with this and came up with a concept which really works - have a look :)

Quite controversial art ("art"?)

A while ago I visited the RHA gallery in Dublin and spotted something interesting and maybe funny but quite controversial - what do you think about this concept? I heard that the cat died naturally, don't know about the mouse... There was a lamb also...

Ignis Aurum Probat -- TRAILER

New season and a new film is ready! Have a look at the trailer - the full version will be available online after some public screenings;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbEMBvyEWY8

Loch Ness!

Exactly 3 months break in blogging that's a lot! But, well, it happens ;)
Anyway, last weekend I visited a sport event in RDS in Ballsbridge (Dublin's district) as I needed to buy some stuff for training and I noticed a poster promoting a marathon in Loch Ness, Scotland - what a great idea and a beautiful photograph! The poster itself could be better designed, pity, but it's not too bad - thanks to the great photo. Have a look:

I don't remember when I charged so much for a logo last time! ;)

http://www.fuelyourbranding.com/melbournes-200000-logo/

Beautiful design, maybe a bit overpriced but I'm glad there are clients able to pay so much :)
This made my day :)

Picnic with short movies

Hi all,
are you interested in showing your short films/animations in a new Dublin based gallery?
Or maybe you are just a fan of this type of movies? Whatever the reason is, please
join our movie picnic 24th of June 2010 in MadArt at 7pm. 56 Lower Gardiner Street, D1!
We'll be sitting on blankets and enjoying sandwiches with tea in thermoses :)

If you want to submit your film, please contact admin@animators.ie before 18th of June 2010.

Hopefully see you there!

Animators.ie

Have you already visited the website animators.ie? Well, if you work in animation or simply are interested in it, you should have a look at this website. It seems to be not finished yet but it's just because there is still not enough subscribers... Please help to built this community! :)

Great night with great results :)

And the winner is... :)
Yep, my design made it! Two golds won in Direct Marketing Awards 2010 for St. Brendan's discovery of America.

http://www.agrand.ie/magnet.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b9pdbpE5v0&playnext_from=TL&videos=Mw-e9_InTu0

Who doesn't like Mondays? ;)

It's good to start a week with some great news. This time it's an information that my design/artwork DM piece has been nominated to the "Best Direct Mail Low Volume" and "Best Over-all Creative" in An Post DMA (Direct Marketing Awards)! :)

It's a direct marketing campaign for Dialogue - quite a nice piece of app. 100 hrs of design work not counting the time spent on the concept and the copy writing ;) Have a look here: http://www.agrand.ie/magnet.html and keep your fingers crossed for the good results!

Call to action!

I'm looking for short films (animations, experimental, documentary, etc) to screen them in Dublin 24th of June 2010. If you’re interested in or know somebody who may be, please write to admin@animators.ie for more details. ASAP!

My new movie is online now

Hi all,
What a good year for my art projects - I have a new short movie done!





It's an experimental film with music composition based on "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" by W. A. Mozart. We don't hear any traditional instruments - their sounds have been replaced by sounds of everyday use objects. The story is simple - a single man comes back home wishing that somebody is waiting for him...

Have a look and let me know what you think about this :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c-Svvbn4fI

More info here:
www.aga-grandowicz.com
www.einekleinemovie.com

Long time ago...

Wow, that was a long time ago when I visited my own blog ;) Maybe because I saw somewhere a photo of a cool T-shirt with a line saying "nobody cares about your blog"? Well, this statement is really true - most people write blogs for their own pleasure or events' records...

Anyway. Many things happen in last few months. In each part of my life I should say. Exciting and changing everything... I'm really curious how my life will look like in the next year - I'll have so many new experiences!

And finally I've completed a new video art! I started this project 3 years ago (sic!), worked on this for a few evenings and didn't like it so I left it for a really long while. But this year I decided to come back to this idea - the result you can see on youtube and vimeo. My initial concept was completely different - it has changed while editing - giving a performance of sound and video; I tried to synchronise them both as well as I could...





Tomorrow I will start filming for my next project - it will be an experimental short movie where - again - synchronising sound with vision will be very crucial... The audio part is ready - new and shiny interpretation of a very famous melody...

I should mention my first trip to Paris too - we were there a few weeks ago and I really enjoyed this city - such a paradise for senses...



And what do you think about Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland"? I absolutely love it!

Good year, isn't it? ;)

Auteur animation - lecture

For all who like artistic independent animation - 31st January 2010, from 7pm I will have a short lecture about auteur animation supported by movies of the style’s masters (brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer, Jerzy Kucia, Piotr Dumala, Witold Giersz, Norman McLaren, Ryan Larkin and others). As a bonus I'll show my few movies.

Place: Centre for Creative Practices, 15 Pembroke Street Lower, Dublin 2

Info: agrand[at]agrand{dot}ie, info{at}cfcp[dot]ie

The lecture won't be ticketed but all donations for the CFCP will be warmly welcomed.

Yammy weekend

Ireland has really good breads. No, not really these ones you can purchase in Tesco but these from food markets and small bakeries. Organic, with loads of seeds and no added preservatives.

Yesterday, while being in Dolkey, I've a bought a small loaf of a seedy bread - it's just so so tasty I can't stop thinking about it! ;) Usually when I eat bread made for big stores my stomach gets upset - so I stopped it few years ago and started baking my own bread. It really helped but I still like to taste new ones, not baked by me. I think it's a small hobby now ;) Recently I was buying so called "fitness bread" from the Polish shop in Capel Street. Awesome. Just flower, water, seeds and yeast. No added scary chemicals.
Today, while having a lunch in Johny Fox pub (great food!!!) I ate some of their bread - what a taste! You have to try it one day. And the cheesecake I had for my dessert - heavenly pleasure.
Well, that was a really yummy weekend :)

Updates

Hi,
I've updated my website in the "personal art projects" section adding few posters.
I hope you like them.

Dublin Event Guide for Free Events

For those who don’t know about the Dublin Event Guide for Free Events; it’s a weekly sent newsletter full of free events, listed day by day. The author does it voluntarily and he’s just great...

Below a small info how to subscribe:

January

Well, 1/3 of the month is already behind us... It's not a typical January for Ireland as we had some nice snow (such a lovely contrast for the dull grey and hated rain!) which... paralysed the country. It's quite funny for me, Polish, to read things like "due to the recent heavy snowfall there is a serious disruption to most services (...)" - I'm not sure if there was more than 2cm of snow at this time! But the roads, indeed, were frozen so I had to give my bike a long break and now, after 2 weeks, I really miss cycling. Hopefully in few minutes I'll be able to cycle home as the roads look pretty save now.










It's so grey and dark outside that I really miss sun again. I quite regret now that I didn't go anywhere for the Christmas holidays but at that time I was quite sick of traveling (I was flying app. 20 times in 2009). I'd love to fly to South Africa now but, because of some reasons, I can't go there before 2011. So maybe LA - to visit my friend... Any warm ideas?

I should mention a very significant Polish charity event too - WOSP (Grand Orchestra of Christmas Charity) which was going on yesterday - in Poland and few other places around the world. My Polish friends organised it in Dublin and hopefully we got a nice sum of money for the kids with cancer. There was an auction of artwork, WOSP souvenirs, Polish ambassador's tie, Leszek Mozdzer album's and many more. Centre for Creative Practices gave us space for artwork's exhibiting and some of the artist managed to sell their artwork (including me :)
We could listen to a few music bands, enjoy Polish food and conversation with loads of friends (it was really crowdy in the Living Room pub!). It's so good to have events like this in such a miserable winter time. Well done galls and guys! Sie ma!