In her boots I would look a lot paler,
But a nation’s hopes rest on young Taylor,
No matter what judges say,
Her real fans in Bray,
And beyond, never ever will fail her
John Moynes
Unless you can do better?
Oh yes.
It’s a Katie Taylor ‘rick off.
Lines close at 3pm
Illustration by Brendan O’Rourke
The best Limerick will land an A3-sized poster of the digital painting (below) by Gianni Clifford, we featured yesterday:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4yp2t7Doac
What you may need to know:
1. Paranormal Activity 4? Seriously? Yes, seriously. Do you know how cheap these things are to make? This found footage crap is a licence to print cash.
2. The original Paranormal Activity (2007) remains the most profitable film ever made.
3. Rather than attempt to ape documentary film-making, these days they just hire actual documentary filmmakers to do ’em: PA3 & 4 were directed by Henry Joost and , Ariel Schulman who did the controversial Catfish (2010)
5. Wouldn’t it be hilarious if Scary Movie stars The Wayans Brothers did a found footage parody? No, it wouldn’t.
Release Date (Ireland): October
In the latest of an ongoing series of ‘musical experiments’, Charles Yang (violin): Michael Thurber (bass) and Eddie Barbash (you’ll see) of Collective Cadenza add a little democracy into their busking (all in aid of the WingSpan Arts NPO).
Previously: Six Decades Of Woo
For what they describe as a Mystery Film Experiment for their new album Valtari, Sigur Rós gave twelve filmmakers identical modest budgets and invited them to create videos based on ‘whatever came into their head’ when they listened to songs from the album.
This is Varúð, directed by Ryan McGinley.
Before he became the world’s favourite children’s author, Theodore Seuss Geisel was an advertising illustrator, shilling all manner of goods from ball bearings to radio promotional spots, beer, and sugar.
Hey, everyone needs to make a buck.
There’s a huge collection of this early commercial work here.
An analysis carried out by the Revenue on the 2010 tax year shows the average effective tax paid by the highest earners increased from 5 per cent in 2006 to its stated target of 30 per cent four years later.
It meant this group of 387 individuals earning more than €400,000 paid an additional €53 million in tax in 2010, almost double the amount of tax they would have paid that year had the new restrictions not been in place.
Six years ago, analysis by the Revenue of the tax returns of the 400 highest earning individuals showed a substantial majority were paying zero tax or tax of 10 per cent or less.
2006. *sigh* Good times.
RT
@bbc2012: Officials will not confirm@georgemichael taking part in closing ceremony <- That ship may have sailed: twitter.com/TheMediaTweets…— The Media Blog (@TheMediaTweets) August 8, 2012
Olympic closing ceremony ‘includes Muse and Michael’ (BBC News)
(Hat tip: Lars Biscuits)
Sherriff Street, Dublin, tonight.
Big Cian O’Connor fans.
Thanks Wayne F
And email.
And the fax machine.
Found in the bowels of the EU broadcasting archives.
Gay Byrne introduces a new invention from a company called TextTel from Ennistymon, Co Clare, on The Late Late Show in May,1984. And uses it to send a self-deprecating proto-Tweet (3.30).
The nameless invention had been ordered by the thousand, mostly from the US, Textel’s founder Kevin Neville tells Byrne.
Anyone know what happened next?
Watch here.
Thanks Jack Jones
