Ah now.
Can we please stop doing the umbrella thing?
President Higgins (centre) with his aide de camp Colonel Brendan McAndrews and plougher Sean Tracey in New Ross, Wexford, earlier.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Ah Here
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Best product name and worst tag line ever.
http://vimeo.com/44356991
http://vimeo.com/40333422
Mysteries Of Vernacular is a series of clever animations by NYC-based Myriapod Productions, what sez:
In its final form, Mysteries of Vernacular will contain 26 etymological installments, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each episode takes more than 80 hours to create between the research, construction of the book, and animation.
Presidential
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It’s no Batman with a lightsaber versus a shark, but artist Jason Heuser‘s portrait of President Obama is a worthy addition to his series of American Presidents.
Meanwhile: Mitt Romney: Why Don’t Aeroplane Windows Open? (Telegraph)
Despite its 10 year run, it’s a rarity for one of the original Calvin and Hobbes strips to change hands and one has never before come up for auction.
This Sunday strip from 1986 is being put up for sale at the Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction in Dallas next November. Lend us a few quid for it, will you? It’ll look perfect hanging in my bedroom the office bathroom.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKvC6Fbc-lY&feature=youtu.be
Further to our post on Saturday’s 20th anniversary of the Sound Crowd Orchestra.
Donal Scannell writes:
Sound Crowd were the soundtrack to the underground rave scene centred on the Olympic ballroom on Grantham Terrace [Dublin]. They later made the SFX their home for shows memorable for their gardai-baiting cut ups of visuals from Garda patrol. This video is their only one for a remix of Blink’s Cello which I made for them in 1995. It was found again after some furious digging through storage boxes. It was shot on the stage of the SFX on 16mm film which was the ultimate luxury then.
Peter Kelly.
The people’s judge.
In a wide-ranging interview with ‘The Parchment’, the magazine of the Dublin Solicitor’s Bar Association (DSBA), Mr Justice [Peter] Kelly — head of the Commercial Court — said there should be an independent body to appoint judges.
The tough-talking judge, who has ruled out ever going to the Supreme Court, also claimed some people who would make excellent judges were “passed over” in favour of others who were not so well qualified.
“It’s purely political in any event, the appointments to that court, and I never had any politics…I always thought the ideal age for the bench was 50. I was 46 then, so I was some years short of that. On the other hand, in the absence of political involvement, was I ever going to get the opportunity again?”
Supreme Court Posts ‘Purely Political’, Says Kelly (Irish Independent)
Via Phantom 1052
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXVjeJ78nPs
What you may need to know:
1. Geekgasm: here’s an animated take on the trailer for the new time travel flick. The live-action version is here.
2. Looper could have been the title of an Irish version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
3. It’s directed by Rian Johnson, who did Brick (2005) and the under-appreciated The Brothers Bloom (2008).
4. Looper star Joseph Gordon Levitt fancies himself as a bit of a new media mogul.
5. Bruce Willis is underrated. There, we said it.
Release Date (ireland): Friday