Monthly Archives: July 2012

Gloria Bartolome and Tom McSherry, of ALiberation protesting outside Tom Duffy’s Circus Clontarf, Dublin against their use of animals. And against Dublin City Council for hosting the event on municipal land. Tom Duffy’s circus have a number of animals from lions, tigers, llamas, zebras, alpacas, horses, dogs and a snake.

Tom Duffy’s Circus (Facebook)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

The Faraday Porteur Bike, despite its retro butcher’s bike looks, has a cache of lithium ion batteries packed inside the frame, integrated front and rear LED lights controlled by an ambient light sensor, a subtly placed on/off switch and an e-ink battery meter.

The front carrier can hold 14kg and the bike itself weighs about 20kg, which won’t bother its rider in the least. Pedal and the electric motor matches your leg power automatically. There’s also a ‘boost’ button for extra welly.

Currently most of the way toward Kickstarter funding for a first production run, the bikes are available for $3500.

Or $10,000 for a bespoke, handmade ‘collectors edition’.

Full spec here.

uncrate

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWfcAxGITBg

Barry writes:

This week at Stag’s Head Raw (Upstairs at the Stag’s head, Dame Court, Dublin) we have Hidden Highways, a project featuring two of the country’s most talented songwriters, Carol Anne McGowan and Tim V. Smyth.

Mining a rich vein of stripped down folk and raw boned country, the two started working together in late 2010 and have been crafting wonderful folk-tinged numbers ever since. As always doors are at 8pm and admission is a mere €8.

 

Hidden Highways