biography


Charlie Taillard was born the 3rd of June 1970 in Paris and lives in London since June 1990...



Career Snapshot 1998 - now Art director / Director of You Are Not Limited (UK limited company)
VIDEO: Video editing, special effects, animation, compositing, filming, and compression for CD/DVD/web streaming. Live VJ sets.
WEB: Branding, user Interface, flash and action script, hosting management, implementation of the free source CMS MAMBO and JOOMLA.
CD ROM: Branding, UI, cross platform development, video and database integration.
DVD: Branding, UI, mastering.
PRINT: Branding, Logo, DTP.
Hardware: SONY HVR Z1, CANON EOS 5D, Apple Macs, WACOM Cintinq 21" LCD
Management: in bigger projects, managed a team of up to 10 people as an Art Director from the first ideas to the final delivery.

Clients include:
Deloitte and Touche (Fast 50 UK, Fast 500 US)
BT
Cable & Wireless
Wedgwood
Sky
IBM
Earthdance
Jubilee 2000

  1996 Director OOO Limited (UK limited company)
Creation of websites, CD roms, touch screens, presentations.

1995 CD Rom Designer Freelance for various agencies


Video work 2007 Shooting a documentary in the UK about alternative community centres and art galleries "LEGAL WARNING"

2006 Shooting a documentary in India for 4 months of the Kalachakra Initiation with H. H. the Dalai Lama in Amavarati and in Dharamsala.
Press access to the whole event.

2006 Short film "Kalachakra Initiation" with a soundtrack composed by Mark Tschanz. It has been selected and shown at the Sefton Short Film festival during each of the three days, their quote 'impressed'

2006 Shooting, editing, compressing 2400 signs for the University of Wolverhampton (art signs and science signs)

2005 DVD project shown at the Glastonbury Festival 2005

2004 Four video clips made for the "Dancing the dream awake", Earthdance DVD (one of the tracks from Michael Franti)
Video clip for C.P.U. audio track "clones"

2000 Produced a video clip for Massive Attack
The clip was shown during their concert in Paris and a shorter version was used during Glastonbury festival on the pyramid stage between every performance in support of the Jubilee 2000 charity.

Live VJ sets 2007 The Synergy project.
Chill out video clip and Psy Trance video clip
2006 The Glade Festival - ID Spiral Dome
And The Synergy Project events in London

2005 Audio Relief - party in support of the Tsunami survivors.
Synergy Project in London
Glastonbury Festival Dance Village - ID Spiral Dome
VJ sets for Matt Black / Cold Cut, OTT, Gaudy, System7, Simon Poshford, Solar Fields, ASURA.

2004 Glastonbury Festival Greenfields - ID Spiral stage
Drop Beats not Bombs in support of CND Birmingham
Synergy Project in London
Devaaya NYE Party

1999-2003 ID Spiral "Sunday Mellout"
Liquid Connective parties
Solar Quest Live
and various other events in London

1998 Earthdance 1998 - Astralasia live
Glastonbury Festival Dragonstage
Solar Quest Live
and various other events in London

1997 Glastonbury Festival Greenpeace stage
Solar Quest Live
and various other events in London

Painting 1996 Digital Art Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London

1995 Exhibition in Baker Street with the Alternative Art Galleries

Qualifications 1989 Entrance into the Art Decoratifs School in Strasbourg / France (1200 applicants for 25 places)
1989 Baccalaureat serie E - Science & Technology, Lycee Jean Mermoz, St Louis, France (A levels equivalent)


 
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