once i counted birds (2009)

I began blogging in 2008 after initiating a series of ArtLinks.ie courses ‘Blogging  for Artists’ with Ken McGuire from Kilkenny. My first blog both surveyed the art and ecology field and the beginning of the Hollywood project in May 2008. It is archived at ecoartnotebook.wordpress.com

 

All Hollywoodforest.com posts from 2010:

Posts each year -- 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008

• An Fraughan: Three Neighbouring Schools Eco-Social Art Exhibition Creates Buzz for Carlow’s Little Drummin Bog
• Symbiocene Art for the Art in the Anthropocene Conference, Trinity College Dublin
• An Urgent Conversation for the Arts in Ireland
• An Fraughan Art Exhibition for Drummin Bog: Drummond, Co. Carlow, Thurs 6 June 2019
• Hollywood Forest School – developing ecoliteracy for creative practices
• Ar scáth a chéile… Living in harmony
• Good-Bye Anthropocene – Hello Symbiocene!
• EUGEO 2019 Galway: Good-Bye Anthropocene – Hello Symbiocene: articulating eco-social art practices that promote ecoliteracy and agency to help us move beyond 10,000 years of ecocide
• Cultural Climates: Fostering Art for Sustainability – Time for a New Cultural Policy? Moore Institute, Galway
• Art.Earth artist of the month Cathy Fitzgerald and The Hollywood Forest Story: an ongoing eco-social art practice for permanent forestry in Ireland and elsewhere
• Earth Day 2019: We need to finish the work of Earth-law warrior Polly Higgins
• I Dare You to Be Great: Love the Earth and Help Make it a Crime to Destroy the Earth
• Culture Declares Emergency: signing up from Ireland
• The 9 Stones Artists’ Book Project
• Hollywood forest in Carlow is a citizen scientist for soil and climate with EU GROW Observatory
• PhD by Practice – The Ecological Turn: Living Well with forests to explain eco-social art practices
• Deireadh Fomhair – The End of Autumn exhibition by Eoin Mac Lochlainn
• Evolving the Forest, Creative Summit 19-21, 2019, Call for submissions
• Creative Ireland Carlow supports two Drummin Bog eco-social art projects
• Albatross the film – translating grief through art inspires global #beatplasticpollution movement
• ‘Raising the Shining, Reflective Shield’: the urgent need for art and sustainability policy for Ireland
• Contributing to the Cowhouse Studios ‘How to Flatten A Mountain’ 2018 artists residency
• Celebrating Carlow’s Drummin Bog legacy landscape at VISUAL Carlow
• the key role of eco-social art practices to envision life-sustaining futures
• Hidden: REVEAL See artworks online for Carlow Drummin Bog Project fundraiser Saturday 2 Dec, 5.30-7pm VISUAL Carlow
• Understanding a place “without shortcuts”: exploring the Tim Robinson archive 
• Close-to-Nature continuous cover forest management day and practical guide launch, near Borris, Co. Carlow
• Visiting the Sessile Oaks of Raheen Forest, Tuamgreany, East Clare, West Ireland
• Mapping Spectral Traces 8: The Place of the Wound – Attending to places wounded by the legacies of historical violence
• Sharing the Hollywood project in the Open Fields – Riga 2016
• Cathy Davey Sings Us A New Forest
• The art of Sitka spruce twigs, mud and moss: now at VISUAL Carlow
• Why ancient tree knowledge in Ireland matters today: Blackstairs Ecotrails film and Ogham tree-teaching stone
• Review and Opening of the 9 Stones Artists Possibilities of Place exhibition: continues to 16 Oct, 2016 – VISUAL Carlow
• Reversing Silent Spring at Visual Carlow
• The Possibilities of Place
• Findhorn film: An Enquiry into a New Story for Humanity
• Re-imagining forests for Ireland in 2016 and beyond
• Operation Transformation to Continuous Cover Forestry
• Wexford art students visit Hollywood (and Holly)
• ‘Lines of flight’ from the Hollywood project
• This morning I awoke to the sound of birdsong…
• Hollywood breakup on Valentines day – divesting from fossil fuels
• Hollywood joins collective sustainability conversation at The Lab Gallery, Dublin
• The Holly and the Ivy from Hollywood
• The DOORS at Hollywood
• Live at Hollywood during the Rural Blackstairs Film Festival 2014
• Sharing the Hollywood project during the new Blackstairs Rural Film Festival
• Circles for change: supporting ourselves and our ‘new stories’
• Follow the International Findhorn New Story Summit live and in Kilkenny
• Co-producing knowledge with the more-than-human world: 2014 International Royal Geography Society society conference
• Sharing the Hollywood story at the International Findhorn New Story Summit
• Presenting at the ASLE-UKI Locating Ecocriticism: Systems, Methodologies, Contexts conference at UCD, Dublin
• Review of 9 Stones Artists Show at Borris 13-15 June 2014
• ProSilva Ireland attends first international Continuous Cover forestry conference in UK
• Co-production of knowledge with non-humans from Hollywood
• Upcoming ProSilva Ireland field day at Glengarrif, West Cork on Saturday 17 May 2014
• 9 Stones Exhibition at ‘Borris Town House’ during Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas 13-15 June
• Celebrating Earth Day 2014 at Hollywood, Co. Carlow with Green Sod Ireland
• Green Sod Ireland Wild-Awake Walk for Earth Day 2014 near Blackstairs Mtns and Hollywood
• An eco eye on Ireland’s forests with Duncan Stewart
• The Hollywood press: an article in EarthLines and a contribution to the Irish Forest journal
• LifeWorlds: Space, Place and Irish Culture International Conference, Galway
• Great Turning – the musical at Winchester Cathedral with June Boyce-Tillman
• Angel of the Ash trees – Ireland’s new forests-a-growing near Hollywood
• Eradicating Ecocide in Ireland – send letter to Phil Hogan now
• Proposed Ecocide law basis for new International Court of Environment and Health
• Weddings by Hollywood – what our first timber was used for
• Carlow connections – Green Sod Ireland, Blackstairs Ecotrails and Hollywood
• PLACE International Conference: Emergency necessitates an ecoculture of mind at Invisible Scotland
• First timber from Hollywood is made into something special
• Hollywood even gets Christmas presents now!
• Tree-Marking skills and software to help us work better for forests
• Hollywood shortlisted for new ForestEurope “Show off your forest” competition
• And a river runs through it – postscript to my recent river-forest-bird post
• it was misting
• The black space and Ash dieback news in Ireland
• Dog puts new Carlow forest on the map
• the improving ecology of hollywood: Ireland’s smallest continuous cover forest
• Nature for Sale or Arendt
• The absence of thinking – Hannah Arendt and the totalitarianism of ecocide
• Success – UN promotes International Ecocide Convention but much work to do
• The Dilemma of Filming Beauty: a guest post by Cathy Fitzgerald
• The art of Sitka spruce twigs, mud and moss: now at VISUAL Carlow
• The little wood that could – Hollywood contributing to forest science in Ireland
• Field notes from ProSilva Open forest day at AFI – Coillte site, Rahin, Co. Kildare
• Of tree, human and art ecologies at deAppendix
• 2nd Red Stables Art & Ecology Summer School Bull Island Dublin
• growing networks of art, ecology, forests in Ireland and Scotland
• Upcoming conversations about House Trees
• Standing up for forests, in Ireland, Nth. Ireland and Tasmania
• A truly historic week for forests in Ireland
• Hollywood forest diary: screen reel 2008-2012
• Austria set to lead on global law against Ecocide
• Kilkenny Jenkinstown woodland walk – our forests are not for sale
• Launching Greens Continuous Cover Forest policy at Irish Forestry Show, May 2013
• Further article on ecocide; a new legal framework to prevent fracking and other pollution
• bodies, landscapes, homes – Galway Dance Days with Art Geography Ireland
• What does he plant who plants a tree? asks Jeremy Irons, we need permanent, non clearfell forests in Ireland
• Open Access: why I share my forest-art-land-politics phd online
• Moving toward deep sustainability: people gathering for Ireland’s forests this weekend
• Eradicating ecocide in Ireland to make sustainability legal
• Lessons from Irish forests: continuous cover forest study days
• Beginnings: transforming Irish conifer plantation to a continuous cover forest since 2008
• Stories and Art of the Great Turning – meeting authors and artists at Bristol book launch 2013
• First International Forest Day: social media and films show how 7 billion of us tied to health of our forests
• St Patrick’s day 2013: handing over Ireland’s forests
• art-ecology-politics-land: special Third Text 2013 journal issue
• Mother trees – the Earth’s networks for resilience
• more ash night shots – fire and opera
• ‘Lets be clear -The Anthropocene is the ‘age of the sociopath’
• Stories of the Great Turning book includes The Hollywood Forest Story – out soon
• recent shots from hollywood
• Tending the wild – lessons from the forest toward deep sustainability at TheGallery, Bournemouth Arts University
• the black space (resilience) of the ash night
• small acts of rebellion: whittling wood, forest art and deep sustainability
• Smallest forest in Ireland inspected for new COFORD Low Impact Silviculture Systems (LISS) survey
• Smithson and Holt early Land Art films to be screened in Dublin
• Hollywood Forest Story selected for The Great Turning Artful Inquiry
• update and overview of seeing the forest: beyond the ecocidal eye to a relational gaze in wildlife/natuaral history cinema
• Second thinning helps create permanent, resilient forest in Co. Carlow, Ireland
• ecopornography and a review of the ecocinema enquiry over 2012
• The Anthropocene Project 2013-14 Berlin
• Ecocentric cinema by Andrew Denton
• New Red Stables Art & Ecology Summer School publication
• The ‘taxonomy’ of nature cinema and popularising science
• Not being able to see the trees for the wood
• American nature film: representations of dominion and imperialism
• practicalities: transformation of a conifer plantation to a forest
• Permanent forests: with close to nature-continuous cover forestry
• ecologies of the moving image – new ecocinema book by adrian ivakhiv
• deep sustainability, art and philosophy, at university college cork
• art, sustainability and modern society at university college cork
• How far is heaven: a new film on relations between a New Zealand river and its communities
• The Whanganui River is the guide and leader
• Presenting the ecocidal eye in Melbourne: and ecocide motion adopted by The Green Party of England and Wales
• Recent talk at red stables art & ecology summer school, dublin
• New book: Ecocinema Theory and Practice
• ecology without nature and the eco-cosmopolitan
• Art & ecology at the Red Stables Summer School, Dublin
• Stories from the field and forest seminar at Red Stables, 17 July Dublin
• Ecopornography, slow violence and the deep, slow art of place
• screen reel 2008-12 for 9 Stones Artists exhibition, Carlow
• Exhibiting with 9 stones artists Carlow
• New book: Ecocinema Theory and Practice
• Portraits of the Anthropocene by David Thomas Smith
• The Environmental Humanities via filmmaker/video artist Peter Norrman and collaborators
• Writing in the Anthropocene and the ecological humanities journal
• The Anthropocene: 10 000 years of ecocide
• my presentation for ‘the home and the world’ 2012 conference
• Outlawing ecocide for global peace – why we must all stand with Polly Higgins, the ‘lawyer for the earth’
• Deep sustainability and the art and politics of forests
• The Shivering Sands – notes on defining an artistic practice PhD
• Perfect
• update- working phd title and abstract
• Framing the World -two timely new books on ecocriticism and film.
• new audiences for art & ecology and activism
• Are you an ecocritic? See if you meet these 6 points…
• Walden by Jonas Mekas
• networking the arts to save the earth – article published
• the place of artists cinema – off and online
• The Head of a Pin – experimental films by Su Frederich 2004 and A. Sokurov
• forest description in 60 sec
• ‘Understandably, scientists and artists may be the least willing to be involved in “politics,”
• breathing with the alder
• what is ecocinema? an evolving term
• ash forest #1
• a glossary of ecocritical terms
• nature on screen presentation talk – april 2011
• robinson in ruins
• once i counted birds
• burning bright
• networking the arts to save the earth -research paper and article
• Framing the World – two timely new books on ecocriticism and film
• Art & Sustainability quote from Bill McKibben: “Where are the books? The poems? The plays? The g***d***** operas?”
• ‘i hear of press conferences of petitions, of signatures of campaigns & lobbying but no words will come’
• Vigil for Climate Justice on Mt Leinster joins others across the world
• Dancing to inaugural Cultures-Futures Summit at UN Climate Change conference, Copenhagen 2009
• My Paper Boat, Polar Bear and Talking Cat films head to Copenhagen
• Buy Nothing Day and the value of Art?
• Ghost Forest in London’s Trafalgar Sqaure?
• Suwarrow ‘atoll is a living island’- Behind the scenes of ‘once i counted birds’ film
• ‘i once counted birds’, a new film at last
• Aotearoa New Zealand welcomes the dawn of the International Day of Climate Action
• Chair of Pro Silva Ireland, Jan Alexander, receives 2009 RDS Forestry Merit Award
• Great poster designers create for climate change in Ljubljana: a post for Blog Action Day
• Up a tree with Patrick Jones
• Art & Ecology lecture this Tues, Kilkenny Castle: Dr Jo Anna Isaak
• ‘the reclaiming of the awareness of the world’…with poetry
• A complex world needs complex heroes
• A good forest economy now needed in Ireland
• Fueling the future with wood; talk in Kilkenny
• Climate bill passed in US Congress and Michael Jackson’s ‘Earthsong’
• Burning Bright and DNA
• Our baby Ash forest is coming up fast!
• RESPOND: Snap-shop of all Art & Ecology activities occurring in UK, June ’09
• MOOT VI: THE CURRENT CLIMATE Art, Ecology and Sustainability in Kilkenny
• Burning Bright selected for Eigse 2009 Film programme
• When is a forest, not a forest? Theresa Nanigian’s ‘Two Souls in One Breast’ exhibition
• Chipping party fiasco: what happens when you don’t use the right machines and 400 trees for Kilkenny
• Forestry in Ireland: tax free, like an artist’s exemption? Pro Silva Ireland field day this coming Saturday
• Invitation to an Easter chipping party -you’re invited!
• Lightfoot Iron and Trojan horses – doing the hard work in a forest
• Actor declares after Age of Stupid film he will return his OBE and President of Maldives declares his country is going completely Carbon Neutral
• I come from a country of grass, New Zealand and the Age of Stupid
• Ever wondered if there was a ‘real’ man who planted trees?
• Burning Bright selected for Green Party Youtube Film Award
• The forests of ‘Twilight’
• Teaching myself how to ‘see’ a forest in the making
• our new clearing
• Tree-Marking for beginners – a review
• How our trees have grown!!
• Thinning to easily create an ecologically & economically sustainable forest, in South Carlow, Ireland
• The ‘before’ shot – converting spruce monoculture into a real forest
• Happy Christmas
• Congratulations to RSA’s new art & ecology international site
• Get your art book or any great ideas, published with Blurb!
• Arts & Ecology projects now beginning to surface in Ireland
• Back to the future: our woodland in 50 years time!
• Local community forest directory now available
• Ugly walls? Living walls – artistic or architectural installations?
• Creativity at the 2nd Irish Green Gathering
• 2nd Irish Green Gathering: talks, art, music and more
• Connecting with new audiences for the Arts- my first time on a podcast
• ‘In the blink of an eye’ – excellent handbook on film editing
• Simple Stick Drawings attract 3 million to understand Unsustainable Consumerism
• Grafitti artist asks “is Tullamore swimming pool going to cost the Earth?”
• Winner Puppeteers bring ‘The Man who Planted Trees’ to Ireland
• Lismore: Art & Spaces Now-White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes talk by Curator Raymond Ryan, Carnegie Museum
• Cathy’s new film for Biodiversity week 08
• Cornelia Hesse-Honegger: Artist’s work revealing effects of low level radiation published in science journal.
• Film-maker from Wylie O’Hagan Irish film festival wins at Cannes
• Going to Greenwashing Exhibition
• Review of art, ecology and politics in CIRCA
• Pangea World Film Day by TED – ideas that inspire
• ‘the local project’ film goes to London!
• Irish ‘local project’ community forestry project now on You-tube
• Tips on creating great art & ecology projects – THE RULES
• Irish National Tree Week 2008
• Land, Art: a Cultural Ecology Handbook
• UK Soul of Science Course
• UK: Creating Nature: Art in the landscape Course May 26 – June 6, 2008
• FINDING SHELTER – 10 ton temporary Willow Sculpture in Ireland’s peatlands
• Hello world! Welcome to my art and ecology Notes!