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About Me


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My life is spent doing what I love. I never go anywhere without a camera, please swing by and check out my photography website, www.oss237.com , feel free to leave a comment on anything you like or don't like. Feedback is always welcome.
I also never go anywhere without listening to music. I'm the Resident Photographer & P.R Officer for KilkennyMusic.com shooting gigs and bands, doing presspacks, videos and anything a band could need. I'm also the Resident Photographer for the acoustic OneTake Sessions
I'm an actor, a member of the Devious Theatre Company and I've worked on feature films, shorts and countless music videos with the Young Irish Film Makers
I'm currently studying for a BA Honours Degree in Public Relations & Communications and I have a diploma in Print Journalism. I love to write, you can check out my daily blog
If you like my work, want me to check out yours, want to hire me or just want to talk then feel free to gimme a shout.
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My Interests

Photography, Music, Film, Acting, Odd Socks,Playing Bass, Vegetarianism, Social Psychology, Nun-chuks, Peoples beliefs,Dancing like a one armed drummer, Animal Rights, Time Travel, Ninjas, Light, Zombies, Tequila,Kung Fu, Light, Creation, Destruction, the Ultimate Sandwich, Air Guitar, Collecting Shadows.

I'd like to meet:

Just wanna meet some cool people who are interested in something. I don't care what their interest is, as long as they're passionate about something.
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Music:

20BullsEach, Alice in Chains, ALKALINE TRIO,A&A, Anti-Flag,A PERFECT CIRCLE, At the drive in, Audioslave, Avenged Sevenfold, Bell & Sebastian, BIFFY CLYRO, Boxcar Racer, the Bronx, THE CHAINSAW BITCHES, Clergy, Dead Kennedys,Dead Letter Dept., Death From Above, Deftones, Dragon Ash, DreamTheatre, Eagles of Death Metal, Foo Fighters,Frou Frou, GOLDFINGER, Grandaddy, Guggenheim Grotto,the HAPPY MEDIUM, Hundred Reasons, Incubus, ITCHY TRIGGER FINGER, Jack Johnson, JimmyEatWorld,Label, Lars Fredriksen and the Bastards, Less than Jake, LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT, Mars Volta,Matt Skiba, NearlyDeadJim, NineInchNails, NOFX, Operation Ivy, Oystein Lagerstrom, Pantera, Pearl Jam, Presidents of the United States of America, The Prodigy, Queens of the Stone Age, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, Raised Fist, the Ramones, Rancid, RISE AGAINST, RX Bandits, The Shins,Steel Pulse, Sufjan Stevens, System of a Down,Team Sleep, Tenacious D, TOOL, Transplants,Vandals. To name but a few of my favourite bands!!!!!!!!!!!

Movies:

13th Warrior,25th Hour,28 Days Later, Adapation, Akira, The Alien films, Almost Famous, Amelie, American Beauty, American History X, Azumi, Baseketball, Batman, Batman Begins, Big Trouble in little China, Blow, The Bourne Identity/Supremecy, Bowling for Columbine, Bubba Ho Tep, Can't hardly wait, Clerks,Coffee & Cigarettes,Crash, The Crow, Devils Rejects, Dogma, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, El Mariachi, Evil Dead Trilogy, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, from Dusk Till Dawn, Ghost in the Shell, Iron Monkey, Kill Bill, Leon, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Mulholland Drive,OldBoy, Predator 1&2,Pulp Fiction, Punch Drunk Love, Resevoir Dogs, Shaun of the Dead,Sin City, StarWars, The Thing, True Romance, Unbreakable, Way of the Gun, Willow, Xmen trilogy, Zatoichi. And many more.......

Television:

Adam & Joe, American Dad,Band of Brothers,BrassEye, Extras, Family Guy, FIREFLY,Look around you, LOST,My life in film, the Office, Prison Break,Robot Chicken, Samurai Champloo, Shameless, Sopranos,SouthPark, SPACED, Stella, Veronica Mars, Weeds.

Books:

Kevin Smith - Silent Bob Speaks, Robert Rodriguez - Rebel without a crew, Scott Adams - Gods Debris, Banksy - Wall and Peace, Marilyn Manson - The long hard road out of hell, Barry Glassner - Culture of fear, Michael Moore - Stupid White Men, Frank Miller - Sin City, Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - Preacher and many more!

Heroes:

My little brother, who took everything they threw at him and he stayed standing. Robert Rodriguez. Kevin Smith.Banksy. Marilyn Manson (not for his music), John Feldmann. People who stand up for what they believe in and will fight for it!Activists and revolutionaries, the ones behind the masks with their fists clenched.

My Blog

Battle of the Bands, One Take Sessions and Calvin Klein

Okay so it's been quite a while since I've posted a blog.Since the end of the summer I've been keeping myself busy between the return to college and a hell of a lot of work with Kilkennymusic.com with...
Posted by oss237.com - Ross Costigan Photography on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:37:00 PST

A summer well wasted.......

So the summer is over and the long cold winter months approach. But what a summer it was.For those of you who don't know I ran a competition on my Bebo account. The competition was 'A summer well wast...
Posted by oss237.com - Ross Costigan Photography on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:52:00 PST

Warning:Repeated kicking of head may result in a fractured skull

Last night started pretty much like any other saturday night, with the exception that alot of my friends had gone to Electric Picnic, but there was still a small group left who were up for the usual s...
Posted by oss237.com - Ross Costigan Photography on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:18:00 PST

Bands,Gigs,E.Ps and Albums (Photoblog)

Okay so its been over a month since my last blog and I've been keeping very busy!In the past month I've been very trigger happy and had the oppurtunity to work with some really great bands and musicia...
Posted by oss237.com - Ross Costigan Photography on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:26:00 PST

One month in.........

Okay so my website, www.oss237.com, was officially launched a month ago today and the response has been absolutely great. In the first month the site has recieved over 4000 hits, with visitors from al...
Posted by oss237.com - Ross Costigan Photography on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:08:00 PST

The dot com means dot com bitch!

Okay so a little blog to let anyone who cares know whats going on at the moment in the world of Ross.KilkennyMusic.com staff are taken over the airwaves! Well we're working on it!? For anybody who can...
Posted by oss237.com - Ross Costigan Photography on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:21:00 PST

Scene 47....

It's been a while but the goodbye reminded me of where I was. Lack creates desire, its just a pity that those who lack the most aren't seen as desireable because of it.My head is a ball of thoughts th...
Posted by oss237.com - Ross Costigan Photography on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:38:00 PST

The Finger Chronicles Chapter 1

Why? Why not? Lick the salt, knock it back, lemon. "Can't two string words together", quote of the evening I believe. Dance like nobodies watching. A polish guy named Shadow and his giggling friend na...
Posted by oss237.com - Ross Costigan Photography on Tue, 30 May 2006 05:38:00 PST

The Journey so far.....

So I actually made it to 25. Much to the surprise of more than a few people, including myself. As of tommorrow I'm a quater of a century old, an idea that still just boggles my mind but slowly makes s...
Posted by oss237.com - Ross Costigan Photography on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:08:00 PST

www.oss237.com

Finally, my site is started and should be up and running properly in the next few weeks. I can't explain how excited I am by this.Please stop by www.oss237.com and check out a taste of things to come!...
Posted by oss237.com - Ross Costigan Photography on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:40:00 PST