Photo of the day 4-5-11

Horses on the Llŷn Peninsula

INA

I've added a link to INA (European centre for research, training and education on digital media) website on the right hand links to this blog. The INA site is useful for further links to FRAME, Presto Centre and so forth.


It is however one of those sites that are very slow to load, but worth it when you eventually get in.

Pilot project call for proposals

Via CEG>

The call for proposals is open until 14 June 2011. The types of actions considered under this Call for Proposals are:
• Distribution: new ways of creating, distributing and promoting European audiovisual content via non linear services;
• Open Media Production Environment;
• Distribution - Promotion & Marketing: the use of web techniques to develop local Cinema Communities;
• “Audiovisual Junction Portal”: to widen and improve the access and the exploitation of structured information of European audiovisual content.

The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of actions is estimated at 1.5 million Euros. The financial contribution from the Agency cannot exceed 50% of the total eligible costs.

http://ec.europa.eu/culture/media/programme/newtech/pilot/forms/index_en.htm

Cultural statistics - Europe

A really interesting statistical publication on the impact of "culture" in Europe. Essential reading for planners in the culture and heritage sector

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University of Bangor, overlooking the site of "Pontio" - the proposed city Arts Centre.

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Eglwys Pistyll

Pistyll is a tiny speck on the map of the Llŷn Peninsula in north Wales.
The tiny community grew from a handful to the many hundreds when the local granite quarries prospered, then declined, leaving the graveyard full of inscriptions of families blighted by early death.

Pistyll church was there way way before the quarries, and is still there today, as if untouched by commerce and industry or the ebb and flow of the population; more in tune with the middle ages than modern times. It's dark (the peasants had no need for illumination, as they were illiterate) and the floor is strewn with fragrant rushes (presumably to obscure the human aroma). In this mediaeval time-warp, strangest of all is this window piece, which in its mossy decline, lends some morbid facination.

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Ynys Llanddwyn

On the coast of Anglesey, Llanddwyn Island is associated with Dwynwen, the Welsh Saint of lovers, and is a most beautiful and spiritual place.

The photo was taken on the wedding day of William and Kate, which I suppose is rather (unintentionally) apt, as they now reside just a few miles up the coast.