Monthly Archives: March 2011

This freaky.

Terry Prone: “I find it fascinating that no psychiatrist that I know has ever set out to study happy people. It’s as if happiness were the ultimate aberration, and I can’t understand that.”

Vincent Browne: “Who are happy people? Are they Americans or something, are they?”

Prone: “No, they’re people who actually get a kick out of life and other people and who have all of these pathologies as well but who get on with it and enjoy stuff.”

Browne: “I hate happy people.”

Later….

Prone: “To be a recluse is not acceptable now. You must be socialised from the moment you go into a bloody creche.”

Browne: “How do you know it’s not acceptable to be a recluse?”

Prone: “Because I am one.”

Browne: “What?”

Prone: “I have no social life. I don’t go to parties. I hate people.”

Browne: “You can’t turn on the radio or the television but you’re on it.”

Prone: “That’s not real life.”

Browne: “That’s not a recluse. You’re on the bloody airwaves all the time. What are you talking about?”

Prone: “That’s just play-acting. It’s not real life.”

Browne: “But it’s, it’s… But it’s not being reclusive.”

Prone: “Oh well, yes it is, if you go home afterwards and you live virtually on your own except for a husband who watches sport.”

Browne: “Ah well. There… You, you, you, one can imagine it.”

Later, talking about organised religion and spirituality and the mystics’ message of love…

Ivor Browne: [They] are saying the same thing and that is about a message of love, that there is love actually coming from the source.

Vincent Browne: “But what source? Again this use of love I think is a bit dangerous. Why can’t we just say that we want to treat people equally and with respect and just that’s enough?”

Terry Prone: “It’s not as much fun as actually loving people. You know, this respect thing is for strangers but loving people is a bit more enthusiastic than that.”

Vincent Browne: “I’ve never been to Shanghai and I don’t know if I’ve ever met anybody from Shanghai, so I don’t love a lot of people in Shanghai.”

Prone: “Exactly. They’re strangers to you. But you have loved a lot of people Vincent. Let’s not go into how many people you have loved.”

Vincent Browne: Well, I have loved a lot of people. Have you?

Prone: “Yes, thankfully.”

Ivor Browne: “I have a Chinese couple who come to me once a week. I find them just as human and -”

Vincent Browne: “Oh I’m not saying… I’m just talking about Shanghai. I’m not saying the Chinese are not lovable people. No no no. I just don’t know people in Shanghai. That’s all.”

Watch full freakiness here

Meanwhile, from Big Mental Disease…

Big Mental Disease

Illustrator/photographer, Benjamin Heine has created a series of extraordinary portraits using Photoshop CS4 to place coloured circles (or ‘@” symbols in the case of Julian Assange) on a black background, and his talent to decide the precise tone and placement of each one.

For more, check here.

And here’s a time-lapse video of Elvis Presley’s circle portrait being made.

Celebrity Portraits Made from Thousands Of Circles (MyModernMet)

PROPOSALS FOR a €300 million supercasino on the banks of the river Liffey have been submitted by Treasury Holdings to the Department of Justice.

Treasury says its Spencer Dock site near Dublin port is an “ideal location” for the construction of a large-scale casino as part of a regeneration of the area.

It claims the development could attract three million visitors a year and create 2,200 new jobs in the Dublin region. The venture could boost spending in the local economy by €75 million a year and generate more than €40 million a year in gaming taxes.

Treasury Holdings Planning Super Casino (Irish Times)

(Photocall Ireland)