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In this experiment, eleven adult viewers were shown an excerpt from There Will Be Blood while their eye movements were recorded with an infra-red tracker. The centre of each ring represents the center of one viewer’s gaze. The size of the ring shows how long they’ve held fixation.
It’s all about understanding how we watch cinema and TV screens.
Apparently, we watch them with our eyes.
Funny poster boy
Two months ago I was called by one of my opponents regarding the idea of a poster free campaign. I agreed and it was put to the other candidates. However they would not do so. As a result the poster farce began.
During the 2002 general election Fianna Fail came up with a new snazzy type of poster which, as the campaign went by, changed from having a dark background to a bright one. Very impressive indeed. But not as impressive as what my posters can do.
I have purchased posters which over time change from images of myself to ones of my opponents. The names on the posters also change to that of my opponents. I have contacted my supplier and they are baffled. They cannot fathom it. They have suggested that maybe someone has been taking down my posters and replacing them with their own. Surely not?
Just in case this happens to be true I have contacted the Gardai and they are investigating the matter. In one particular town the Gardai are checking CCTV footage to see who the culprits may be. If the footage helps catch the offenders I will have to thank the person who is responsible for putting up the cameras. Irony of the highest order given that if my hunch is correct it will be the same people who put up the cameras who have taken down my posters. Maybe not though. Maybe my printers are playing a trick on me.
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A drunken baby trashes a bar in this trailer for the short movie Las Palmas by Johannes Nyholm.
An Bailout: “Bailout.”
Athrú: “Change.”
Ní raibh mé ag cur isteach ort: “I didn’t interrupt you.”
Táimid áit a bhfuil muid: “We are where we are.”
Plean cúig/fiche phointe: “Five/20-point plan.”
Ar an talamh: “On the ground.”
Banc Thuaidh: “Northern Bank.”
An Seanad: “The Seanad.”
Na bainc: “The banks.”
Anglo: “Angla.”
líonra sóisialta: “Social network.”
Tá an-áthas orm a d’iarr tú an cheist sin: “I’m glad you asked me that.”
Bonneagar: “Infrastructure.”
An Twitter: “The Twitter.”
Tá sé seo cac. Ba thúisce liom EastEnders a fheiceáil: “This is faeces. Let’s switch over and watch EastEnders.”
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This rather gorgeous 2010 demo for high-tech production company, Stargate Studios’ Virtual Backlot (24, Haven, The Walking Dead, etc.) shows just how slick (and pervasive) green-screen technology has become.
Pat Kenny’s radio show this morning came from the Old Gaol on the Ardee Road in Dundalk with local candidates – including Gerry Adams – in front of an audience of voters and party workers.
John ‘Jumbo’ Kierans, editor of the Irish Daily Mirror and a Louth constituent had a chance to ask the Sinn Fein president about the IRA. Here’s what happened next.
John Kierans:“Pat, I’d like to ask Gerry: We all talk about the need for honesty in this election. I’d like to ask him has he been a senior member of the IRA and can he clarify that issue once and for all.”
[crowd claps and cheers]
Gerry Adams: “I wish you’d asked me a question that you don’t know the answer to. The answer to that question is no. And one thing I would just like to mention here because it’s the elephant in this room. All of these other parties are going to put €30.6bn into these bad banks. That’s your money John…”
Kierans: “That’s fine but we need honesty here. As a voter in Louth, right, I want to move away from the politics of the past.”
Adams: “No, you don’t.”
Kierans: “Yes I do. Yes I do.”
[more laughter and shouting]
Kierans: “I respect the work you’ve done on the peace process. but what we need is honesty and everybody is texting in and asking this question… I’m giving you the chance to answer this question honestly. Have you been a senior member of the IRA, yes or no?”
Adams: “What part… You’re like a, you’re, I don’t know. What part of no do you not understand?”
Pat Kenny: “Gerry can I just clarify something, why this keeps coming up
Adams: It keeps coming up because guys like that are not interested in giving Sinn Féin a fair crack of the whip.”
Pat Kenny: “People actually simply don’t believe you, and that’s the reason it keeps coming up. They say how is it possible that someone so central in negotiations wtih the British government in the early days when you were a prisoner and so on. They say ‘how is it credible?’ That’s their difficulty. They don’t mind you being in the IRA. They don’t mind Martin McGuinness being in the IRA. It’s just your answer.”
Adams: “Why don’t you ask Eamon Gilmore the same question? [cheers and clapping] People will make their own mind up on that issue.”
Pat Kenny: So you’ll live with the sort of credibility gap that for some people exists?
Adams: “I have gone beyond worrying about this issue. I’m worried about real issues. Because remember this: I didn’t create the economic crisis; Sinn Féin didn’t create the economic crisis…”
“A Euro on wine. Noooooo!!!”
Anti-Fine Gael ad by the Labour Party in today’s Irish Independent.
