Yearly Archives: 2013

side_2048 bra_1_2048 front_2048bum_2048An evocative series of ‘imply everything, reveal nothing’ minimalist illustrations for Agent Provocateur by UK graphic designer Toby Melville Brown who, rather aptly…

…drew inspiration from peepholes, a much-loved 15th century dating activity.

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90320023A defiantly existential Enda Kenny at Government buildings this afternoon during the visit by  Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta.

Later…

90320025-1Enda with Letta.

All better.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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Graeme Kelly writes:

Tried to book 777 restaurant [ South Great Georges Street, Dublin] for company Xmas dinner and got asked to sign away my life (above). We passed…

 

A bit NSA?

Or entirely to be expected, get over yourself?

YOU decide.

kidneys

Editor Alan Capriles’ cut of a chilling documentary short about the village of Hokshe, Nepal, where local residents estimate that nearly 70 people out of roughly 300 have sold their kidneys to black market organ harvesters

Lured to India by the promise of cash, villagers are tricked into thinking their kidneys will regrow “like a mango in a tree.” Years later the money is gone, and so is their means of survival.

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Beacon

The Baltimore Beacon is a white-painted stone beacon at the entrance to the harbour at Baltimore, Co Cork. It was built by orders of the British government following the 1798 Irish Rebellion.

Tim Schmelzer created a video [top] of seven animated illustrations by Harry Clarke and projected them onto the Beacon during a recent dusk.

To what end only Schmeizer really knows.

H/T: Best Photos of Baltimore

broken

What you may need to know:

1. Broken Song is a new Irish documentary, directed by Claire Dix. She’s a talent, and then some.

2. Decent Irish Hip-Hop Alert: it’s a portrait of Irish rappers GI, Costello and Willa Lee.

3. It bagged the Audience Award and the Dublin Critics Circle Discovery Award at this year’s Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.

4. We’ve seen it, and its probably the best Irish movie we’ve seen in ages. Well, since Good Vibrations (2012), anyhow.

5. While you’re at it, watch Claire Dix’s brilliant short film Free Chips Forever

Release date: November 15