Yearly Archives: 2013

Navy_26092013Not so fast.

The Royal Navy’s most advanced frigate, HMS Portland, sailed into Belfast on Thursday to launch a major jobs and recruitment fair for the armed forces. The ship will be in the harbour until Monday, September 30 and during the five-day visit, it will play host to the public highlighting the diverse range of job opportunities a career in the armed forces can offer.

 

Armed forces jobs fair docks in Belfast (UTV News)

Previously: Irish recruits join British Army in record numbers (Ralph Riegel, Irish Independent December 2012)

Pic: MoD

BVFcJq9CYAAKN1iThe Arthur cappuccino in the Bell and Pot, Mercer Street, Dublin this morning

Thanks Bell and Pot

Meanwhile…

arthurThanks Austin Lysaght of the Blind Elephant Illustration Collective.

Meanwhile…

1173604_3407479122965_1602033008_nAt The National Ploughing Championships in Laois.

Thanks Diarmuid

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What you may need to know.

1. Breaking Bad ends this weekend. Aaron ‘Jessie Pinkman’ Paul is off to be a movie star.

2. It’s a movie based on a video game. Great movies based on video games include… Oh, wait.

3. That said, this looks like fun. Big stupid fun.

4. And Michael Keaton’s in it, even if he isn’t in the trailer. We do love Michael Keaton.

5. Broadsheet Prognosis: Drive, Bitches.

Release Date: March

 

More as they find it.

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Resourcefulness.

In times of trouble.

Brian Morrissey writes:

Seven of my mates and I, all from the Wesht, most of us from Clare, were at Dimensions [Music Festival] in Croatia recently, which meant we missed the All Ireland Final [Clare Vs Cork]. We searched Pula, where we were staying and found The Bounty Irish Bar. Unfortunately they had never heard of hurling…We made do.

 

Excellent sound, in fairness.

mat7_carpet0301 7_carpet03027_bluecarpet7_bluecarpet-detail1 7_bluecarpet-detail3 7_bluecarpet-detail2Using ballpoint pens, Jonathan Bréchignac makes large scale drawings of intricately designed Muslim prayer mats. Each one takes about eight months to complete, and Bréchignac believes them to be:

…a “noble” subject for a series of large illustrations meant, by their very nature, to be meditative. “Repeating the same pattern over and over again works for me like a mantra,” he says. “It’s my technique of meditation. It’s how I empty my mind.”

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