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Thanks Eoin.
Yearly Archives: 2013
An enormous keg carrying Guinness blocking a lane of the south quays towards Heuston Station. Dublin this afternoon.
That’ll be your ‘king pin’.
*sucks teeth*
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland).
https://vimeo.com/78280464
A visceral take on the spirit of competition, where sprinters transform into their aggressive animal counterparts to survive and win.
Directed by Jérémy Delbos, Raphaëm El Khaddar, Camille, Marjoux, Laurent Maynard and Cécile Terrillon of the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques de Toulouse
Nothing like a spelling mistake on your team’s cup final medal to make the day. Who the hell are Silgo? (@offtheball) pic.twitter.com/ShXbrPjK5v
— Paddy Power (@paddypower) November 4, 2013
From a series entitled ‘Just The Two Of Us’ by Austrian photographer Klaus Pitchler, who was invited into the homes of various cosplay enthusiasts to create portraits of each one against the backdrop of their everyday life. Sez he:
Who hasn’t had the desire just to be someone else for awhile? Dressing up is a way of creating an alter ego and a second skin which one’s behaviour can be adjusted to. Regardless of the motivating factors which cause somebody to acquire a costume, the main principle remains the same: the civilian steps behind the mask and turns into somebody else.
Cork band Fred have called it a day, after 15 years.
In a statement on their website Fred sez:
“We have enjoyed our time making music together immensely but simply it’s now time for us to move on. We would like to thank all our fans, friends, families who have supported us over the years. We also offer a big thank you to all of the artists who we have had the pleasure of sharing stages with and the all of the venues who continue to promote live music.”
Their farewell tour includes gigs in Whelan’s, Dublin on Thursday, December 5; De Barra’s in Clonakilty, Co. Cork on Friday, December 13; and Róisín Dubh in Galway on Sunday, December 15. Their final gig will be in The Pavilion in Cork, on December 28, when they’ll attempt to have all present and previous band members on stage together.
Want to buy a car that may have been on The Beatles Abbey Road album cover?
Well you could be in luck…
There’s a 1967 Triumph Herald for sale on DoneDeal and eBay in Dublin by a man who swears it’s the very one.
H/t: Joe O’Shea
Just two of a collection of photographs by J.J. Clarke, collected and placed online by the National Library of Ireland, what sez:
“JJ Clarke, from Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan, took the photographs between 1897 and 1904, when he was a medical student in Dublin. Dr Clarke’s photojournalistic approach to his subjects allowed him to capture vivid scenes from the daily lives of Dublin’s men, women and children.”
“Compelling in themselves, the images also show us how the city looked to writer James Joyce. His best-known works – the short story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses – are all set around this time, when Joyce too was a young student fascinated by the world around him.”
Previously: Edwardian Fashion Police Dublin
1897 – 1904 – Dubliners: The Photographs of JJ Clarke (National Library of Ireland)
If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call…? pic.twitter.com/FcuokaWbbU
— John Maguire (@maguiresmovies) November 4, 2013