Yearly Archives: 2013

636xrDun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, this evening.

Thanks Joe Culley

-2Lough Corrib from the Hill of Doon, this evening.

Thanks John Gallen

dublin2Over Dublin 2, tonight.

Thanks Simon Judge

BNZJEp0CEAAXMkYArdee, Co Louth, tonight.

Thanks Nikki O’Carroll

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_wb-1T-kQU

On Thursday night, a group of delivery men in China’s Zhejiang province caught a toddler who fell from the window of a fifth floor apartment, having crawled out after waking from a nap.

Coming together in a ‘human safety net’ to cushion the two and a half year-old’s fall, BBC News Asia reports, two of the men suffered impact injuries to their arms. The little girl, named Qiqi, survived with just a minor wound on her face.

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hightide4The opposite of apogee.

A perigee/super moon From Galway, May 2012.

Alan C writes:

Tomorrow [Sunday] night’s rising full moon will be a perigree moon, the closest point to Earth in the moon’s orbit, and make it the largest full moon of 2013 (and the largest for another 14 months). More details here

 

Supermoon/Perigee

Pic: newlifeinireland

grange1 grange2The Nurses Home Building facing onto Lower Grangegorman, Dublin.

Annebix writes:

Windows knocked out at the old nurses home in Grangegorman, To be demolished as part of the DIT [Dublin Institute of Technology] move to Grangegorman.

 

Top pic via Rooney Media

1010596_645911642103289_998692169_nChristy Dignam closes his tribute cncert last night with a stage-filled rousing version of Aslan’s Crazy World.

Among those joining Christy at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, included Paul Brady, Gavin Friday, Jerry Fish, Danny O’Reilly from the Coronas, Mary Black, Jedward, Don Mescall and Steve Walla

Proceeds from the night will help Christy, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer, to pay mounting medical bills.

Meanwhile…

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U2 marked the night with a cover of Aslan’s ‘This Is’ live from from New York for tax reasons. Kidding.

Top pic: Darren Kinsella via Dublin People

Stars come out in force for cancer-stricken Christy (Ken Sweeney, Irish Independent)

Thanks Vinny Staggliano

pochoirCritique (of style but not necessarily sentiment) spotted yesterday morning on a Parisian trottoir by Jim Redmond who sez:

I think the white one means something like a bad stencil (like the green one) is like a shit on the path.  True. Stay classy Paris.

p02l_the_daily_prophetundesirable_0 quidditch_premium_01_0 p33s_mudbloods_pamphlet_0thequibbler_premium_01_0 p27l_proclamation_31_0 p100l_bellatrix_lestrange_wanted_poster_0Some of the graphic work done for film adaptations of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels by Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima.

Hundreds of seen and unseen props from the Harry Potter series, including packaging for potions and poisons, newspapers, magazines, adverts, posters and letters are on display at Soho’s Coningsby Gallery this month.

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Mark Cox writes:

I shan’t try and understand what this is, but a friend of mine, Daniel Nolan has made this beautiful video and I thought you kind folk might enjoy it. He’s a creative young boy is our Daniel.

Daniel sez:

This is my entry into this year’s MEDS workshop, a conceptual video exploring the theme of “reaction”.