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This is a short video made from a recent piece of subtle outdoor projections, for a festival Belfast City Council put on for Valentines. The concept was for people in the city to be surprised by pieces of art and performance hidden around the city.

In light of the Beloved theme and recent political developments I chose to try and communicate unconditional love and the amazing things that can be achieved when people choose love as their first priority.

Thanks to 3rd sorce, Adam Turkington, Victoria Square and the other Belfast Vjs who contributed; Christian S, Vj Yaygo and Vj Phoenix

Music: Bluetree : Your Love (Alt version Shakinda re-edit)

Ever tried playing online bingo with a big group of friends at the same time! Very very cool! Try it out at bingo day

Its been very busy at Shakinda recently and hard to know where to start on the news front. Great workshops at the Urban Arts Academy in Belfast, Fun gigs with Nakatomi towers at Stiff Kitten and continued residencies at Lush! and Yello. More production work for the new Yello visuals and DVD and Play and Wired and Belfast Exposed. We have now launched vj equipment rental services in response to popular demand!

Realtime Motion Graphics with Quartz Composer is a book and DVD project authored by Shakinda & Surya Buchwald, to be published by Pearson. Started nine months ago, this project aims to introduce Quartz Composer as a very powerful and fun graphical programming environment. Despite its massive potential for real-time audio reactive solutions, Quartz Composer is still mainly publicized for the creation screensaver, and remains woefully under-used as a visualization tool. The Mastering Quartz Composer book could change this forever.

This book and DVD shows the full potential of Quatz Composer, from taking a complete novice through the software setup process and getting to grips its interface, all the way to enabling the modelization of complex 3d audio reactive environments, midi interaction, to retrieving online database information.

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Shakinda will be giving a world exclusive 4 day workshop at the famous Live Performers Meeting in Rome this year. From Thurs 28th to Sun 31st May you will get the opportunity to learn Quartz Composer from scratch and come out the other side a guaranteed quartz guru. He will be using this workshop to test out some of the material in the upcoming Pearson Education Book on Quartz he is writing and will we getting some input from other quartz legends who will be in Rome for the meeting. The first session is free and then if you want to carry on the cost is 40 euro Sign up here

The LPM will see over 200 live visual performers in the same space and so will be a great place for transfer of ideas etc and Shakinda is proud to represent ireland on this european stage.

Shakinda created quite a storm in Dubai last month as he rolled in to play at Mtv Arabia's Boutique music festival. Making the front page of Time Out Dubai's nightlife section ahead of Eric Morillo and Dj Prime Cuts!

Shakinda performed on a floating stage at Festival City alongside Acid house legend JB and Dj Farha. "It was a unique experience and there was a really good vibe between crowd, music and visuals. Definitely one to repeat!"-Shakinda.

Thanks to Tom Reany and Oli Sorenson for making it possible.

At the end of February Oli Sorenson (Vj Anyone) one of the most prolific and globally renouned vj and av artists approached Shakinda to work on the AV singles project for DJ Download. The project involves producing highly stylised video mixes for download with the latest audio releases.

The AV single project is pioneering a new way for music to be released and opening up live visuals to many artists who to this point have been audio only. Shakinda is excited to involved in these early stages of what will undoubtedly become a global phemoneon.

This agreement also marks another first for Shakinda as this is the first time his studio's motion graphics have been released into the global consumer market; get you copy while there're hot:

Track 1 - Ricky Stone - "In Miami"

Track 2 - Supernova - "Pushed Out - Rudi Stakker remix"

The biggest fesitval in the southern hemisphere just got bigger. Shakinda will play in the boiler room at The Big Day Out, following on the same stage will be Prodidy, Hot Chip and Simian Mobile Disco.

Mixmag, the worlds biggest selling dance music and clubbing magazine, have ranked Yello, Shakinda's monthly residency location, at number 6 in their Best of 08 Top 10 Clubs in the UK! Coming in ahead of the Gallery at Londons Ministry of Sound, Pressure at the Arches in Glasgow and Manchesters Warehouse Project, Yello is the only Northern Irish entry in the highly prestigious poll and the only one with a resident VJ. Proving live visuals are the future and what really sets a club apart from the rest... Viva la revolution!

So congrats to Lawerance, Aaron and the whole yello team, their vision and hard work has undoubtedly helped them breakthrough to this memorable achievement..

Last weekend was a lot of fun Shakinda was over performing, jamming and giving a workshop at the excellent B Seite festival in Mannheim, Germany pics...

We are pleased to announce that 2008 will be going out with a bang, Shakinda will play Phatz festival in New Zealand, just a few days after the next planet love where Shakinda will once again go head to head with the recently re-voted world's number one dj Armin Van Buuren.

This year so far Shakinda has performed to over 80,000 people. Combined with the ongoing 1100 capacity residency at Yello, boxing night and NYE we are hopeful he will break the 100,000 barrier. Truly marking 2008 as a red letter year for Ireland's most exciting VJ.