Face book finds Chris McClenaghan - ism.

Face book rocks, just joined it and it makes good sense, you can reach the nations with it and its free. If you are afraid of it, then stay that way.

But to better your life and family; then join the beast. It supports RSS feeds and nifty embeds like the one above, I like it because I see the conectivity of the thing for websites and cool ways to link each site with, you may like it cause its blue and has nice pictures on it. Satan may like it cause it has online dating - that is great if your evil.

Trip to Rosses point Ireland!

Here are two shots from a dirty grounded boat at Rosses Point, Ireland. I went snapping over the weekend with my new 50mm f1.4 lens. Was good fun, wife hated me shooting anything that moved, including her. But I had a blast.

The whole trip had me clicking in all I have learned from two magazines over the past week - its been a real eye opener to lenses and f stops and film speeds. Now I look at TV and think on the lenses they may use to get that shot, its sad, sad.

Got a new camera

So its been a bit, but good news, I can now shoot with a glossy new camera and a few lenses to make it boooshy. I am very happy and I've fired in a few shots so far... The two shots are my wee girlys... Addie and Belle. Mummmhhhh!

Sold Out Sell Out.

Well it came and went, not bad may I say for marketing. I just placed one advert online for the car and with the use of some free viral videos I made my car sell over the others in a matter of days. I guess having such a fantastic car helped some, the bloke that got it was a gem, he was into GTV's and seems really happy. So I guess job done, I now have dropped my engine by half to the audi a2 sport. When they call it sport they must surely not really mean sport. I mean its no where near a fast car, yet I do like it - give me a few weeks to get my sound system into it and I'll be smiling again.

Last video of my cup

This is it, the last of my cup in action. I loved and lost. She has potential buyers lining up now and I fear she will go, you watching this may even be one.

Enjoy!

Chris

car pics

Just to update my ad, here are some new pics, I asked our photograhper we had at our studio to take some today, he done a great job. Thanks Gary!

GTV cup fun!

After posting my car for sale online on a fourm I frequent, I checked back one day to see how the sale was going to find that a typo had caused a whirlwind of madness! This vid clears it up and teaches me to watch what I type!

Talk about a marketing ploy! It created a load of posts from a user who had my car number (badge number) and others who where just looking, they thought I was a trickster, a theif or some other type of creature, It was funny. But I'm still trying hard to sell my car, it turns out I have it for way under what its worth, some go for £11k and mines £6.8k so I guess I should sell it easy, keep you posted - who ever you are reading these!

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Just excuse the bad camera (you try a over the shoulder cam in that car!)

New site designed

I just finished this new site for a local charity in Belfast, they do great work with people infected with HIV/AIDS. The guys there are the best you'll meet, best of all they like us and work with us a lot. If you want more info on them check out their site:

I used blogger to host their CMS for the site, the current systems I used to use are now useless compared to the FREE version that Google Labs provide! How I love them.

http://www.thehivsupportcentre.org.uk/

GTV cup for sale :(

Hi there eveyone! I had my fun and now must hang my hat up, my wife is due in april and I must get a 'family' car. Though I must admit that my 2 year old fitted into the back ok over summer months there!

The car is indeed mint condition, I had a lot of upset with it previously in the summer, but have since done the timing belt and installed a new steering rack, all the work carried out by the only alfa dealers in N.I. Mervyn Stewart Belfast, they sold it from the first ower (christian musician) then to my boss (who never used it!!) then to me who loved it dearly. I have had EVERYTHING checked and oked by the dealership in Dec running the computer over it etc.

The car is perfect and with low miles I expect it will go over the 100k with no issues from here, only thing left (known gtv issue)to change is the bushes that were checked in dec 2007. and are perfect (I thought they were the blame of the steer rack so had them checked). The car is a joy to drive and a head turner!

Heres the engine spec:
Engine: V6, 2959cc, 24v Max power: 218bhp @ 6300rpm Max torque: 199lb ft @ 5000rpm 0 - 60mph: 6.8secs Top Speed: 154mph

Heres the car spec:

Momo half leather leather seats[*]Lowered suspension[*]Fiber Glass bonnet[*]Alfa red paintjob[*]all-aluminium 218 bhp 3.0 V6 40HC 24v engine[*]6-speed gearbox [*]Alfa GTV Cup with factory bodykit (zender) unique front and rear spoilers, front wheel arch side panels, side skirts and special 17" dark grey alloy wheels. [*]leather steering wheel and panels, plus a special central console with numbered plaque complement the sporting interior[/LIST]
There is more I think that make this stand out from the crowd, I love it and really hate to see her go, there is no way Im giving it to a local dealer as they will never appreciate the car for what it is.

Top gear point it as a future classic and it will help its future sale. I have new wheels on it, a new head unit and focal speakers through out in proper install extra £300 if you want them kept in. Though I kept the factory ones too along with the cd changer etc... the car is a stunner.

Its a car you take care of, a car you look at evey time you leave the car park, you glance back, you smile, you feel special at the traffic lights in, you get looks from kids, birds and other alfa owners. Its the car you want in your drive.

It's going cheap, you can look it up in the car search to prove its legal and legit: YCZ 5230 I live in Belfast but am willing to make a trip if there is a genuine sale. I need it gone in a few weeks, drop me an email if your interested:

thedesignboy @ gmail.com - ( remove spaces from address, spam)
offers over £6.900

Maffia Night At My Local

Hi, more video for you fine people. This time in the form of a recap of a church event. I went along as camera man bob for the night, felt a plank, most likely looked one too. But all in all this is what I made, enjoy.

Soprano's theme music 'n all, really pushed the envelope :)

Finished new site

Just wanted to give my church a big shout with love and niceness. Along with a shiney media team we produced a killer site that really promotes just how how cool God is. Check it out if you have 5 and post up on the forum.

www.teamjvc.org

Jim weir music design

A mate of mine who works next door to our studio called in a year or so ago and asked to make a CD for him, as you do when its a year away you say 'yes'. I did this and a year later paid the price! Jim is a fantastic guy, his music really clear and powerful - so to put this to press I shot a few mug shots of him on my small fuji camera. As usual they were awful, a bit of photoshop later and we were lit, the job now looks like a pro.

To top it all off, I threw in an ecommerce site for the release for his album (now doing very well I hear) and its available here: www.jimweirmusic.com . Check it out and buy his album, its really cool (honest!).

New effects test for JVC

As you may or may not know, I am owned by a church in Northern Ireland where I spend my time planning coolness. Our first camera production (45sec long) was an effects scene to blow up the pastors car for a murder night (yes our church is murdering people).

Heres the youtube;

It begins...

Well here is my first ever post for my own twisted purposes. Well to be honest, not really that twisted. Its basically a blog showing the work that I do each week. I plan to make this my hub for seeing what I actually do with my time on this planet. Im thinking its the best way to keep track of myself before I expire.

Anyways, who is this guy you say? I am the great and powerful OZ! I am the silicone wizard who makes things, from print to screen I really do them all - jack of all trades, master of none. I can dabble at each thing, but never really do any of them well. At least not to the standard I'd like, but maybe thats the way every one is, there is very little people I meet that are happy with the work the do, there is always something that needs done to it that we never do.

I love God, I love my family, I love life. Life is good.
Before I go I just want to say thanks to all my friends, my wife and child that make my world so much more complete. Its cheesy its horrible, but people make a difference. After 28 years on the planet I have finally discovered the importance of relationships - its what you leave with people that makes your mark on the world - not what you do or how you do it. If I happen to die prematurely - then I know that I made a difference in what time I had, I also got to see and do a lot of things that I never thought would happen. For all this and every word I type in this blog for the future I give God the glory for what He has trusted in me, cheers G.

To all my peeps, you know I love you, thanks for hanging in with me over the years.