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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Slide Show EXTRA: Bob Geldof Snr’s Funeral
At St Joseph’s Church, Glasthule, Co Dublin, this morning.
(Photocall Ireland)
Slide Show! What You’ll Be Wearing This Autumn
If you’re a lady. And you shop at Dundrum Shopping Centre
or A-Wear (slides 1-10).
We’re off to TK Maxx.
(Photocall Ireland)
Models: Irma Mali, Sarah Morrisey and Yomiko Chen (all from Assets).
August: Failest Of Months
YouTuber TwisterFail usefully compiles the entire August motherlode of Fail in one handy video.
While this is all good, cringe-making, face-planting, nad-mashing stuff, Broadsheet takes strong exception to the inclusion of the first clip in the sequence.
That clip is pure-grade WIN.
In this regard, you fail, TwisterFail.
And The Award Goes To…
Ricky Gervais simultaneously presents an award and creates a meme at Sunday night’s Emmys.
The entire speech is hilarious, but the hard-core Bucky Guntery starts at 2.28.
What Does Busy Bill Cullen Say?
We didn’t sign on in our day because we couldn’t afford the pens.
Golden times.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m very busy.
Electric Picnic: OH NO!
Unplug everything lads.
(Weather forecast for Stradbally, Laois as of this morning)
The David McWilliams of the online weather forecasting business.
Friday night looks nasty.
Electric Picnic: Only Three And A Half Days To Go
Stop daydreaming.
Turn this Massive Attack gangster up.
Dragons Exist! But They’re Only 8cm Long.
OK, the top image is from Avatar. But the other one’s real.
Aspiring conservation biologist and Reddit user Biophilia_curiosus photographed these tiny, but nonetheless pretty extraordinary gliding lizards on a recent trip to Indonesia.
‘We were only able to catch females, as they were laying their eggs. All we could do is watch as the males soared overhead.”
Trippy.
(flown in by Diddley)
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Cretaceous Hipsters
Twitter user Molly23‘s celebrated hipster-meme, conjoured up with the aid of dinosaur colouring-books and her own field-observation skills.
Mmmm. Authenticity.
Too Gay Or Not Gay Enough?
Can we say both?
(Via Clarke Hazard)
Could You Be Arsed?
Chairs. They’re so boring. You sit down. You get up. Where’s the joy?
Well how about a Tetris Chair from Mexican industial designer Gabriel Cañas? Tweak your cheeks at all?
Or, more engaging still, the Vuzzle Chair (above right), which consists of 59 small detachable, magnetised cushions which you can arrange according to, eh, your physiology.
Now, that’s a lot of sit.
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Looking For A Wedding Singer?
Walk Like An Egyptian.
Who has just sank 15 pints.
Good Morning, Sir. Do You Have A Minute To Talk About Irony?
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(Called in by Diddley)
Belmayne Revisited: Now A Ghost Estate But Then…
Launched in March, 2007, at a party attended by Louise and Jamie Redknapp and Alan Hughes, the Belmayne estate in North Dublin was promoted as the last word in hi-tech, horny living. Absurd billboards appeared showing how your life would change once you dropped the necessary folding stuff. It now lies half empty and the firm behind it has gone bust. But what of the poster children? How are they getting on now?
“How do I tell these chicks that this the only occupied house within half a mile?”
“We’ve been waiting on someone to fix our water supply since 9am.”
“Fire away there Mick, no neighbours to see you after all.”
The Greatest Irish TV Ad Ever?
It’s given the dancing Guinness guy and the surfing horses a run for their money.
Well, we’ve always been partial to a double rainbow.
And, my! Doesn’t Dublin look swell?
(Directed by Steve Green for DDFHB JWT QWERTY)
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Slide Show! Toons In Real Life
The fine art of un-tooning: transforming cartoon characters into real-life, or at least digitally re-rendered versions of themselves. Painstaking stuff, as ace-untooner Pixeloo makes clear in this time-lapse video of his work on Jessica Rabbit (above).
Click the arrows for 25 more examples, from Pikachu to Barney Rubble.
