Shakinda will once again be delivering a 2 day introduction to Vjing and Live Video Art as part of the highly successful Trans Urban Arts Academy. This Belfast City Council initiative presents a wide range of courses to equip Belfast's young creatives to take the world by storm. So whether you are a Dj who wants to add visuals to his set or a film maker who wants to learn some non-linear story telling, or just wonder what this whole vj thing is Book a place for July 10th & 11th and get down!

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.