Yearly Archives: 2013

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Leaving cert students in Dublin today.

From top :Pacha Kitata and Melanie Smith from Ringsend College; Fiona O’Connor, Loretto College, Stephen’s Green, Dublin; unnamed student, Ringsend College; Daisy Maguire and her mother Sarah, Stratford College, Rathgar, Rebecca Colliton from Ringsend College with her mother Deborah (left) and Grandmother Frances Nicole Collopy (left) and Helena Lawless , Ringsend College and Amy Bennett, Stratford College, Rathgar

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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You’ll recall Max-Arthur, the cat on a Roomba dressed as a shark chasing a duckling from a few months ago.

Well he’s back with his Roomba and shark costume, sans duckling, in the dark.

Stick around for the moment of Zen at 0.44 when the Roomba finishes its cycle.

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A timber-clad lookout platform in an eye-wateringly spectacular setting above the small town of Aurland in Sogn og Fjordan, Norway.

The Aurland Lookout was designed by architects Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen whose brief was to create ‘a bridge into the open room of this large fjord’ with ‘minimal encroachment on the environment’.

Done and done.

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Oi, much-loved Cork brand.

Why not put your money where your tay-slurping mouths are?

Perishing merchant ‘princes’.

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Beatboxer Darren ‘Beardyman’ Foreman demonstrates the BeardyTron5000 – a looping, layering music system designed to increase the efficiency of how he do by factoring out the ‘restrictions of his human body’.

Yes it is a bit Reggie Watts meets Michael Winslow.

Previously: Make Some Noise

Previous TEDboxing: Tom Thum: Unreal Beatboxer

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