Monthly Archives: May 2012

Oakland sculptor Scott Hove’s inedible (not that you’re tempted) sculptural cakes, complete with teeth, maws and fetishistic spikes. Sez he:

This body of work is a result of self-education, a lifelong interest in artificial food and objects, and an obsession with the relationship between the beautiful and the brutal. All beautiful things are equipped with a defense mechanism, to protect against the predations of those who seek to possess. The mechanizations of the predator also have a terrifying elegance. The two working together tell a very old story, and are the basis of many archetypes.

View Hove’s entire Cakeland Series here.

io9/coilhouse

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJqVL1Z5DVs&feature=plcp

If you have a spare seven minutes and 37 seconds.

Liam O’Neill & Lydia Flynn write:

We were discussing the upcoming Fiscal Treaty recently and were worried about the number of people saying they didn’t understand the Treaty or what it was about. It worried us most that although we had read the Referendum Guide, we didn’t fully understand it ourselves. So after a bit of research, we put together this video that we hopee xplains what the Treaty is about.

Neither of us are Economics students, so it’s free of any technical jargon. The video is intended to be objective, neither supporting a yes or no vote. We used the Referendum Commission’s handbook as a guide line as our metric for this and it was completed in two days. The purpose of this video is to help inform people.

Youtuber camelsandfriends sez:

Cantaloupe, the Italian Greyhound loves to steal things off my friend’s desk. You could walk out of the bedroom for a minute and something else would disappear. It didn’t matter what it was, she’d take it the second you shut the door. It’s almost like magic. It got me wondering how exactly she gets up there and how she chooses what she steals, so I decided to start filming! I left the camera on a tripod pointed at the desk and a week later these are my results of Cantaloupe’s exploits.

biotv/tastefullyoffensive

“The problem is that although recent polls suggest Ireland is leaning towards a Yes vote (see chart above and supposed market-happiness, the polls vary widely and might tend to exaggerate any Yes position due to the large chunk of undecideds still out there who have a tendency to eventually head into the No camp”

Ireland LOVES A Good Referendum (David Keohane, FT Alphaville)

The Fluidity – a combination dish-rack/herb-garden concept from DesignLibero:

The water that trickles from the washed dishes irrigates the plants. The base, thanks to its fluid form, directs the wastewater into the sections where are plant containers placed. Each container is perforated at the bottom for water passage. The containers are filled with clay pellets and coconut fiber, to control the water environment of the plant on the one hand and to keep clean the dish drainer base on the other hand.

Mummy, I don’t want to go to aunt Cecily’s penthouse. The parsley tastes like Fairy Liquid

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Or words to that effect.

Declan Ganley and Robert Emmett in The Shelbourne Hotel (in the room where the draft constitution of the Irish Free State was cobbled together in 1922) literally earlier.

Ganley: Yes Camp Selling ‘Titanic Ticket’ (irish Examiner)

Meanwhile, in Buswell’s Hotel:

From left: Paul Murphy MEP, Richard Boyd Barrett and Joan Collins at the United left Alliance’s last press conference before the treaty vote.

Government ‘Lying Over Treaty: Boyd Barrett (Irish Times)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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From Eimear O’Connor:

A number of roads in the city centre will be closed for prolonged periods over the course of the bank holiday weekend to facilitate the set up of the city track, the event itself and the dismantling of the track.

Dublin’s transformation from a cityscape into race track will be completed between Saturday evening and Sunday morning. The city track starts at the Convention Centre Dublin on North Wall Quay, continues onto Customs House Quay before crossing Butt Bridge, chicanes at D’Olier Street, zips past College Green and the Central Bank on Dame Street before reaching O’Connell Bridge.

Pic via Paul Larkin