
Dave Brew writes:
This was taken today by a friend of mine named Chris Mono, he has always wanted to do this…

Dave Brew writes:
This was taken today by a friend of mine named Chris Mono, he has always wanted to do this…
Cinematographer James Miller filmed the demolition of the British United Shoe Machinery factory in Leicester and presents it here in reverse slow motion.
Mesmeric. Full screen, audio up.
Music: ‘Moon – Welcome To Lunar Industries’ by Clint Mansell
Miriam O’Callaghan was interviewed by the editors of UCD Connections, the university’s weighty “alumni magazine”, which came with today’s Irish Times.
She was asked: Miriam as president. Any interest in that particular gig?
“It’s such an extraordinarily important role. I am flattered and honoured. I know this sounds like PR, that anyone would consider me for it. I said I wouldn’t stand because my youngest is five and I don’t want a Euan Blair scenario where one of my kids could be falling out of Wesley with too much Lucozade on them. You do have to think of that. I did say that if people still like me in seven years, you never know.”

Related: Allan Cavanagh writes: “I think you should post this vid as an antidote to the doltishness in the comments on the ‘Busted’ thread.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE
“I don’t take a piss without getting paid.”
Harlan Ellison – pay the writer.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr5tpG0wk7I
Don’t worry.
You’ll like it.
The animators include (thanks to Rap Ireland):
Mango from Malahide: emcee.
Dizzy from Swords: emcee/producer.
Smokey Jay from Harold’s Cross: vocalist.
Alan Newman from Inchicore: producer.
Woody from Blanchardstown: vocalist/emcee.
Rhymes Vital from Waterford: producer/emcee.
Mr. HighSpeed from Blanchardstown: emcee/producer.
Dave Treacy from Blanchardstown: DJ
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuGKVEvqnb0
One drum, four sticks: an award-winning performance at the DCA Rudimental Snare Drum Competition.
Watch him flirt with the audience, the little minx.