Monthly Archives: November 2010

First place: Brock Landers

Runners Up: Cúán MacConghail (bottom, right), Proving Ground.

Well done, young quipsters. Your Easi Singles are just a stamped addressed envelope away:

Broadsheet.ie Win A pack of Easi Singles Caption Comp,

c/o Brendan Smith,

Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries,

Agriculture House, Kildare St. Dublin 2.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH2ABLVu1is&feature=player_embedded#!

TRAVEL EXPENSES relating to Údarás na Gaeltachta outlined in media reports were “reading like a mini-Fás”, the Dáil’s Committee of Public Accounts heard yesterday. Committee chairman Bernard Allen of Fine Gael said senior officials from the State agency for Gaeltacht development had travelled to destinations including Las Vegas, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

TD Compares Gaeltacht Body’s Travel Expenses To Mini Fas (Irish Times)

VIDEO: An Crisis (TG4), where a globetrotting Sean Nos singer reveals the true extent of her business empire.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs1bG6BIYlo&feature=player_embedded#!

Pogo (Nick Bertke), an electro-music artist from Perth, samples sounds and images from classic Disney movies (and elsewhere) to form mesmeric new tracks.

Kids love ’em, but this is charming stuff no matter what age you are.

If you liked ‘Wishery’ (above), his latest, you’ll love ‘Alice’ (below), his best known work.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt7AF2RCMhg&feature=related

More here at the PogoMix site.

source

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgmbdfGbvX0

After the teaser last summer, we now get an extra minute of mashed up insanity in the full Sucker Punch trailer.  It’s taking shape as some sort of demented Alice in Wonderland/Matrix crossed with war movies from across the ages.

Release Date (Ireland): 2011