Monthly Archives: January 2013

Harry Kernoff: “Off Baggot Street, Ballsbridge, Dublin” (1943)

Joan Jameson: “Barges unloading Turf, Grand Canal, Dublin(1943)
Joseph Francis McGill (1926-) “Harcourt Street” (1940)
James LeJeune  “O’Connell Street” (1954)

Arthur M Campbell “Huband Bridge, from Percy Place, Dublin”

Fair play though, in fairness.

A personal selection (after an exhaustive trawl) of the best paintings and watercolours of Dublin in the 1940s and 1950s by blogger and Broadsheet.ie historian Sibling Of Daedalus who remarks:

“You have to say: we weren’t just good at the writing.”

 


Catnip is all the rage with today’s modern feline, but do we really understand it? Is it a source for harmless kicks, or a potentially crippling addiction? Is it a tool to expand one’s consciousness, or a downward spiraling path that can eventually lead to insanity? Once and for all the facts about this controversial substance are frankly discussed, in the long-lost drug educational film that never-was: Catnip: Egress To Oblivion?

A rather excellent Sundance 2013 film written and directed by Jason Willis ‘for $25, all of which was spent on catnip’.

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What you may need to know:

1. We do have a soft spot for quirky little independent movies.

2. Wrong features Trailer Park faves William Fichtner (Prison Break, Drive Angry) and Steve Little, AKA Stevie from Eastbound And Down.

3. It’s directed by Quentin Duplex, AKA French electro musician Mr. Oizo, the man behind Flat Eric.

4. Remember Flat Eric? Nipper en Francais!

5. His last film, Rubber (2010), was about a killer tyre.

6. Great poster.

Release Date: TBC