Monthly Archives: January 2013

Meanwhile in Siberia, to mark the upcoming Chinese Year of the Snake, Yolba native Mikhail Bopposov sculpted this huge spitting cobra from 400kg of frozen cowshit. Last year he a made a dragon, previously he made a Russian tank. It’s not art, he maintains:

“I made it so the kids could play around and have some fun,”

Good times.

iheartchaos/neatorama

(Hat tip: Sheila Larkin)

Outside Leinster House, Dublin, this morning.

Aine Ni Chonaill, founder of the Immigration Control Platform (ICP), protests the issuing of student visas to foreign students while a photo call takes place for Retailers Against Smuggling, who are protesting at Government plans to standardise all tobacco products.

It’s one of those days.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)