Monthly Archives: June 2012

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A second exhibit from the Science Gallery’s Hack the City event has gained the attention of the police.

The Loitering Theatre piece, by visual artist Nina McGowan and filmmaker and digital rights expert Caroline Campbell which:

uses customised helicopters (the AR.Drone) to fly beyond the normal street view to access and film previously inaccessible and unseen views of the city. The outcomes of these flights will be used to create a short film, which will be presented as part of the exhibition, along with the drones, maps and images of key sites.

The Gardaí paid a visit to the gallery and asked for footage of Áras an Uachtaráin and Mountjoy Prision to be excised.

Previously: A Futurist in Dublin

[via Wired]

You may recall last week’s post from Conor Walsh, who plays for the Ireland lacrosse team, currently competing in the lacrosse European Championship in Amsterdam.

Conor writes:

I promised to keep you updated on our results as we go, but it has been really hectic since we got to Amsterdam. We have a game every day which leaves little time for sending emails.

We have finished 3rd in the top division with wins over Sweden (12 – 4) and Finland (8 – 7 in quadruple sudden death overtime). We lost out to England (11 – 7), Netherlands (11 – 7) and Germany (12 – 11 in triple sudden death overtime).

Tomorrow we play Slovakia for a place in the Quarter Finals which will be against Germany on Wednesday.

Great if you could post an update about it, so we can garner some support back home.

 

Pic and graph via EC12lacrosse.com

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Trainspotting and other ‘tracks’ by White Collar Boy.

Lliterally performed on an Irish Rail train.

Mark and Gav write:

White Collar Boy are a 3-piece electronic act from Dublin. Last Thursday as part of Love:LiveMusic we performed on the 11.10am service between Dublin Hueston and Kilkenny.  Our debut release ‘Kinsale’ came out last month and is available to purchase via our bandcamp site (click here).

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What you may need to know.

1. Fed up with bad found-footage horror movies? So are the people who made this, apparently.

2. V/H/S comes from a gaggle of indie noteworthies, amongst them Ti
West, who made The House Of The Devil (2009) and The Innkeepers (2011), two of the
best horror movies you probably haven’t seen (but should).

3. One of the directors behind V/H/S: Dubliner Glenn McQuaid, from
Artane. His cousin started My Bloody Valentine, apparently.

4. As we may have mentioned already, Irish horror movies are sooo hot
right now.

5. Your favorite scary movie?

Release date: June 28

V/H/S (IMDB)

A Vice mini documentary following New York drug dealer ‘Nim’ on his 15-hour a day delivery route through the Five Boroughs, where he and his crew of five turn sixty thousand dollars a week selling drugs out of secret compartments in their cars.

The filmmakers claim to have concealed names and details that might identify ‘Nim’, which is probably wise, as he’s the son of a mafia hit man and not the kind of chap you’d wish to cross.

(NSFW explicit drug references up the wazoo)

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Steve Sinofsky.

The crap Steve Jobs.

During the launch of Microsoft’s new Surface tablet in Los Angeles on Monday, Windows president Steve Sinofsky, struggles when the device appears to crash. The tablet, running Windows 8, freezes as he tries to demonstrate how the new Internet Explorer allows the user to ‘browse smoothly’. Sinofsky swaps the tablet for a working model before continuing the demonstration

Microsoft Surface: An error occurred … Windows not responding (Guardian)

(Hat tip: Stephen Rogers)