YIKES!!!
A baby T-Rex meets Adam Lacken and other children from 4th Class St. Joseph’s National School, East Wall, Dublin, at the launch of the Walking with Dinosaurs Arena Spectacular at the O2 (September 19-23) this afternoon.
Meanwhile, inside:
Isobel Wigglesworth and friend.
And back in the playground:
From left: Vida Ewubare, Darragh Duff, baby T Rex, Michael Tient and Daniel Tsekiri
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Ars Electronica Futurelab fitted 49 quadrotors with LED lights and programmed them for an extraordinary nighttime display
Music: Y by Monophobe
Adrian writes:
Found this Leitrim/The Smiths-based love letter taped to the bus stop in Carrick on Shannon, odd.
Anyone?
The city of Yekaterinburg in Russia has a pothole problem, made worse by the empty promises of politicians to fix it. Local blog Ura.ru teamed up with Voskhod ad agency to shame them into action:
We associated road holes with the images of certain politicians. In the night, on three potholes in city center, we drew faces of the governor, the mayor and the vice-mayor. The news about caricatures became a sensation. With this intense PR the politicians were no longer able to sit idle. The holes were fixed.
More here
What you may need to know
1. What Richard Did is the third film directed by Lenny Abrahamson, after Adam & Paul (2004) and Garage (2007).
2. It’s loosely adapted from Kevin Power‘s novel Bad Day In Blackrock.
3. It’s going to generate a lot of hand-wringing about Who We Are.
4. At 1’04 – spot Lars Mikkelsen, from TV’s The Killing and Borgen.
5. Next up for Abrahamson is Frank (2013), with Michael Fassbender & Domhnall Gleeson.
Many rubbished our East 17 Drumcondra hotel gig post.
For shame.
Louise Bolster writes:
East 17 posters at The Regency Hotel, Drumcondra. For an additional fee the band will ‘touch your face while you are sleeping’.
Meanwhile, The Last Time East 17 Played In Ireland (Trinity News, October 13, 2008)
Thanks PH
Boston Dynamics has improved the performance of its DARPA-funded quadruped robot over the last year.
It can run at 28.3mph now – 0.5mph faster than Usain Bolt.
An appropriate welcoming ceremony will be organised for our new Cheetahbot overlord once it leaves the treadmill and acquires a head.
Parick Sulentine and Parch (Patty Guggenheim and Sofia Gonzalez) are telling you how to magazine modeling in all the ways: mouth fingering, skateboard work, making scared face…
All the ways.
