Face Forward: first exhibited at Burning Man 2011 and on show again this month at Maker Faire in San Francisco, Christian Ristow’s 12 foot tall aluminium sculpture of a human face is operated by 12 separate joysticks, obliging onlookers to collaborate in order to create recognisable ‘expressions’.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj-tIkPQxYM
Magician Shane Gillen “messing with Bressie’s head over a pint in Cassidy’s Bar, [Dublin].”
Filmed and edited by Bold Puppy Productions.
Depressed Copywriter sez:
Every time I see an example of corporate happiness I can only see the reality of life. I can’t help myself anymore. I can’t stop rearranging their copy.
Grim.
Via Brand New Retro
A partisan guide to why you should vote yes by Jason O’Mahoney and Andrea Pappin.
Available here
How annoying is that missing apostrophe?
“The Churches teaching is very clear. In the nature of sexuality is this mutuality between a man and a woman. It goes back to the original teaching beginning in the Book of Genesis where God created the human race..male and female…he created them.”
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin responding Obama’s support for Gay marriage on Tv3 last night.
This was before the talking snake ruined everything with his sneaky apple.
Paddy McKillen (top) is a Belfast-born property investor with developments scattered all over the world.
He owes up to €370million to IBRC (formely Anglo) and the Bank of Scotland (Ireland).
Yesterday London’s Royal Court of Justice heard how, after paying off some debt, McKillen had €50million (£40million) left over last year. The money was made from property sales.
But he never told IBRC about the money at his disposal.
Under cross-examination yesterday, a barrister asked McKillen: “Surely, as their best client, you would want to tell them about the £40 million?”
McKillen:“And give them all our cash?”
Barrister: “Yes.”
McKillen:” No, that is not the way business works, I am sorry. Sorry about that.”
It was also put to McKillen, who failed in his bid to have this part of his case heard in private, that he didn’t want the Irish taxpayer to know that he had assets which could be sold to pay off his bank debt.
McKillen said that assumption was nonsense and said his relationship with IBRC Chief Executive Mike Aynsley is excellent.
How excellent?
In March, at the same London court, where McKillen is trying to reverse NAMA’s sale of €790 million in loans associated with the Maybourne Hotel Group to his rivals 77-year-old twins David and Frederick Barclay in September 2011, heard how Aynsely sent a reassuring text to McKillen on January 27 of this year.
The text said IBRC would not be selling the debt secured on McKillen’s 36 per cent stake in the Maybourne Hotels to the twins.
It read: “BB [Barclay Brothers] have now been told that the bank has chosen a path to work consensually with you rather than to deal with them. I understand they are not happy!”
Aynsely then sent a second text minutes later, saying: “Please keep that confidential as I can’t have board positions like this leaking out!”
McKillen also told the court in March that IBRC chairman, former Fine Gael leader Alan Dukes, had assured him IBRC would continue to support him as “a client of 25 years” on the basis he had the “best performing loans in the bank”.
McKillen May Have Kept Details Of €50m Sale Receipts From IBRC (Mark hennessy, irish Times)
McKillen Case Dredges Up Memories Of Anglo Culture (John McManus, irish Times March 26)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
