Monthly Archives: March 2012

Currently unemployed blogger The Chip Monk’s genuine reply to a request for details from the Department of Social Protection regarding her Jobseekers benefit this week.

It’s brilliant.

Wait till you see her answer to question 16.

READ ON: Actual Correspondence With The Social Welfare Office This Week (Nothing Left For Caesar)

Sold her jewellery to feed families of the 1913 lockout.

Took part in the Easter Rising.

First woman elected to the British House of Commons,

Helped start the Abbey Theatre.

First woman in Ireland to wear trousers.

Happy International Women’s Day, Constance Markievicz.

(Portrait by Boleslaw Szankowski)

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Bejing International Airport, China

Biosphere 2 (artificial, materially-closed ecological system) Oracle, Arizona, USA

Burj Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The work of David Thomas Smith who sez:

Composited from digital files drawn from aerial views taken from internet satellite images, this work reflects upon the complex structures that make up the centres of global capitalism, transforming the aerial landscapes of sites associated with industries such as oil, precious metals, consumer culture information and excess. Thousands of seemingly insignificant coded pieces of information are sown together like knots in a rug to reveal a grander spectacle.

Not only that:
Questions of photographic and economic realities are further complicated through the formal use of patterns that have their origins in the ancient civilizations of Persia. This work draws upon the patterns and motifs used by Persian rug makers, especially the way Afghani weavers use the rug to record their experiences more literally with vivid images of the war torn land that surrounds them.

 

We’d really like to see Dublin.

Actually, forget that.

Thanks hXci

That’s right.

Football.

The under-21 result was the worst defeat suffered by a county team for as long as anyone could remember. …According to those involved with the team, 11 of the panel nominated failed to turn up. The team that started showed five changes in personnel from the one selected. And team handlers were frantically ’phoning around up to 20 minutes before the start looking for players to make up numbers.

Eventually Kilkenny got 15 players, but they hadn’t any subs.

The score?

Louth 6-34 Kilkenny 0-2

 

Maybe The Time Has Come For County Board To Take Over Football Affairs Kilkenny People)

Thanks N