Photographer Michael Wolf’s shots of DIY seating ingeniously improvised by Chinese folk from reclaimed junk and knackered chairs, collected in his book ‘Sitting In China’.
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Made, in classic Warner Bros. style, by students at ESMA Montpellier.
A Roman legionary, a crucial mission, a forest, a bear…
Created by Korean designer Seungji Mun.
It’s a sofa, it’s a side table, it’s an indoor kennel, it’s a…
Wait. Is that little black dog wearing a bra?
Now that’s adorable.
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Was it for this, etc.
Harry Crosbie with his Order of the Bankrupt Entrepreneur Order of the British Empire at the British Ambassador’s residence, Glencairn, Sandyford, Dublin, this evening.
Crosbie Receives Honorary OBE (Irish Times)
Previously: So You Saw Harry Crosbie On The Saturday Night Show, Right?
(Jason Clarke)
Cork city, like.
Thanks B
Blackrock, Co Dublin. Original picture 1905.
Thanks Conor Galvin
Dublin City Council rubbish collection strike on Moore St (1986).
Thanks Austin Lysaght
Google Street View Challenge to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
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From the International Space Centre
Via Soichi Noguchi
Previously: Ireland From The ISS
Thanks Lars Biscuits
Below Dublin.
An extremely rare sight.
Scout writes:
I was told that the basements in Heuston station [Dublin] were used as bomb shelters during the WW2, and then saw this to confirm same!
He’s having quite the week.
From today’s Independent.ie
A man who viciously attacked his next-door neighbour in her garden while her elderly deaf father was inside has escaped jail on condition he pay his victim €3,000.
During the unprovoked and unexplained assault, Thomas Finn (20) repeatedly punched the woman until she lost consciousness and then started kicking her as she lay on the ground.
When the father of one was arrested, he told gardai he was going to burn the woman’s house.
…Judge Nolan said this money was not compensation but a “token of remorse.”
Three grand.
Three.
Yesterday: Judge of the Day
You Kiss by the Book – Sprawl.
You Kiss By The Book led by Dublin singer-songwriter Simon Dowling play Stag’s Head Raw [upstairs in the Stag’s Head, Dame Court, Dublin] this Sunday. It’s also the launch of Simon’s new album so… €10 (including CD) or just €6 for the gig.
Laura McGovern writes:
The Harcourt Street [Dublin] train crash from 1900 and what was once Tripod/Crawdaddy in 2009 (thanks giant Electric Picnic poster!).
Google Street View Challenge to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Historically Accurate UPDATE:
Laura McGovern writes:
That train crash, now from the correct angle. Well done amateur historians in the comments section, you passed my *cough* test!