On Cope Street, Dublin, at the entrance to the old Comet records shop.
Monthly Archives: May 2012
NASA already has a long history of compositing images of the earth (front and back).
Now the Russians have gone one better with their geostationary Electro-L weather satellite: its 121 megapixel images (1 km per pixel) were used to create the above timelapse video of the phases of Gaia.
This requires nothing less than full screen and 1080p for the required effect.
KOS: @Irishtimes is no longer the paper of record. We’re not standing on a pedestal, the audience relationship is more sophisticated #MFC12
— David Cochrane (@davidcochrane) May 15, 2012
Pedestal.
No.
Recent street art at Crosses Green in Cork City.
(Thanks Noel Finn)
Hollande’s plane turns back to Paris after being hit by lightening en route to Berlin – Presidential source
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 15, 2012
Thanks Beth
Dublin City Council has revealed that it will hold a secret meeting to deliberate the results of a damning judgement handed down against it last month.
In an unprecedented move, the council will exclude the media on May 28, as the fallout from the rezoning of religious land continues.
The council was left reeling after the Commercial Court upheld a challenge by the Sisters of Charity to the imposition of more restrictive conditions on development of their land in the new Dublin City Development Plan.
In this meeting, all 52 city councillors will be briefed on what went wrong in the court case, and what their options will be. After consulting their lawyers in secret, the council will then re-open its doors for the media.
City Council Bans Media From Secret Meeting On Rezoning (Kevin Fagan, Evening herald)
Shane Wilson of Locker 13
This is a 1 minute slideshow of our ambitious attempt to take a serious chaise lounge we designed to Milan to assemble and exhibit it there. It’s a series of photos from suitcase to completion and isn’t professionally done or anything but is getting good feeback and then somebody suggested sending it in to you lovely poeple. Enjoy!
http://vimeo.com/41994540
Remixers Eclectic Method’s rip-roaring 17 minute tribute to the late MCA
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tydXaVr-dY0
A strange report from Rome on the forthcoming Eucharistic Congress in Ireland.
How it will help heal a “wounded church” in it’s “process of renewal” and – via Archbishop Diarmuid Martin – why we’re just not ready for a visit by Pope Benedict.
“The Pope himself and he said this to me. He would like a visit to Ireland to be an integral part of this process of renewal. And he would make a journey, even if it was difficult for him, to contribute to that. [But] Just at the moment I don’t think that process of renewal, particularly renewal in faith, has got far enough to be able to use that visit by the Pope in a way that would strengthen the faith.”
Fair enough.
Former H W Wilson workers including, above from Margaret Hopkinson and Caitriona Lally outside the Dail this afternoon.
Collette Willis writes:
Last summer, the H.W. Wilson Company, a leading provider of library resources, was taken over by Ebsco Publishing. Forty staff in the Dublin office lost their jobs. Ebsco refused to talk with these employees and has now decided to ignore a recommendation from the Irish Labour Court, which said Ebsco should issue a redundancy payment in line with industry norms. We’re calling on this giant multinational to do the right thing and abide by the Court’s recommendation. The company no longer has a physical presence in Ireland, so we are forced to use social media instead. It would be great if you could mention our campaign and/or put up links to our petition (here), blog (here) or Facebook page (here). Thanks for your support.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)