About

So… why the name?

Tiny Planet was the name of my first company based in New York during the Nineties.

It essentially was a name responding to the fact that the world was getting increasingly smaller. I saw technology as a principal driver of that. The image above the main blog is a graphic representation of early internet activity across the globe by Stephen Eick of Bell Labs. It was plotted in 1993, God knows what it would look like now.

This process had started earlier in the eighties with the arrival of satellite television and global events such as Live Aid. Now global events occur every day on the web, a common event as available to terrorists as it is to self-distributed feature film-makers

Later when it came to forming our new film production company over in Ireland, we discovered that the web address was used by someone else. So we went with a new favourite identity, Janey Pictures, based on the old Dublin slang, Janey Mackers, and the fact that we always used to call films in Ireland, the pictures.

I retained Tiny Planet as the name of my personal blog which has nothing to do with the company and is a mixum-gatherum of responses to technological advance particularly as it pertains to culture and creative media, a bit of Apple gossip and the delights of living where I do. You might also catch the odd photograph of this tiny planet of ours here…