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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Taken within the last hour.
He bought it off the plans.
Artist Fergal McCarthy and his man-made tropical floating island on the River Liffey in Dublin where he will reside until next Saturday (September 18). The installation is part of ABSOLUT Fringe which opens this weekend and runs at various locations throughout Dublin until September 25.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
Taken this morning at Albert Marina in Drumsna, near Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
Family of ducks cowering under large umbrella, out of shot.
Bleak Irish Holiday Snaps to: Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
(Thanks Ilona Delargy/cairotango)
Liar Liar
athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hxqljhsE8
Because you can’t beat a good crotchfire and a bit of scat.
This is the ba-dabba-dabba-dweeb that started it.
The Star Wars charity day at HMV, Grafton Street. in aid of the Marie Keating Foundation on Grafton Street, Dublin, this afternoon.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RVJJfny4I
Monday’s release of the new Blu-Ray box-set of the Star Wars saga, gave George Lucas yet another opportunity to tweak the original films. Here he’s added a new layer of meaning to the final redemptive act of Darth Vader. A heartfelt ‘Nooooooooo!’ that was never there before.
See? Now you’ll have to destroy your stupid old-ass box-set and buy this one.
via
(Ruth Medjber)
Rathgar Road this morning.
From a shoot for Italian Vogue by Steven Meisel: model Stella Tennant – in an an homage to Ethel Granger – wears a corset that cinches her waist to 13″. Apparently she could only stand it for 20 minutes at a time.
Pantibar
(Thanks @cairotango)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx3EElObwNE
A taster of the new U2 documentary (premiered yesterday at the Toronto Film Festival) by Davis Guggenheim (above with The Edge) which brings the band back to the Hansa studios in Berlin, birthplace of (arguably) their best album, Achtung Baby, and their best-known song, One.
U2 Close To Irrelevance, Says Bono (Brian Boyd, Irish Times)
