Monthly Archives: January 2011

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A charming feature from Switchback Entertainment, featuring a bird’s eye view of the village of Whistler in the Blackcomb Mountains of British Colombia.

The video has been digitally tilt-shifted to simulate a shallow depth of field – creating the impression of a miniaturised ‘snow-globe’ scene.

The technical term is ‘dinkification’. No it isn’t.

Previously: Little Big Berlin, Vincent Van Gogh: Miniaturised

The poll, commissioned by Paddy Power, has found Fine Gael to be the most popular party among the electorate. It received the votes of 35pc of the poll’s participants. Labour is trailing 14 points behind Fine Gael with 21pc of the vote.

Support for Fianna Fáil has fallen to the same level shown to Sinn Fein with both parties recording 14pc of the vote in the survey.

The Green Party are the least popular of the major parties, with just 4pc.

Discussion on politics.ie.