httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnzHOgrf3SI&feature=player_embedded
Here’s Sir Ian McKellan at the Savannah Film Festival in Georgia last week, reprising his role as Gandalf, facing down the dread tennis-Balrog in the Mines of Moria.
As it actually happened, on the day.
In other, related news:
Olli Rehn arriving at European Union House in Dublin.
And no. Not Photoshopped.
(Photocall Ireland)
Olli: No, I am really Finnish.
Brian: So am I.
Olli: No, Finnish. Not finished.
Brian: Oh I get you. Once you finish, I’ll be finished.
Olli: Just show me the books.
(Photocall Ireland)
The above (photoshopped) photobomb has been doing the rounds on the internetz for a few days now. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke at the Louvre.
The delighted original snapper has now been found.
Or you could just jump straight to the original pic and see what the cloners had to work with.
Ah now.
(Photocall ireland, Evening Herald)
They’re the Faces Of Sydney is who they are. Thousands of portraits of individual people compacted to provide a representative male and female “look” for the 160,000 residents of Sydney’s City of Villages.
The oldest was 93 and the youngest two weeks. Some 54 per cent of participants described their ancestry as Anglo Saxon Celtic, 3 per cent as Indigenous Australians, 4 per cent as having South American ancestry and 11 per cent Chinese ancestry. Participants reflected the diverse or homogenous ethnic origins and age structure of the local population.
More faces of Sydney pix here.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiV5Ftj_Xn8&feature=player_embedded
You’re not alone.
“On Friday I saw Nadine on the Late Late Show. It was a desperate, fake performance that left the audience cold. She looked emaciated. She spoke in a clipped LA/Derry accent that sounded so far removed from Ireland that even her pronunciation of Naas as “Nass” didn’t surprise me.”
Anna Nolan, Evening Herald.
