Monthly Archives: March 2013

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Mmm.

Snug.

Sheilagh writes:

I came across this pic of Fine Gael’s online campaign team during the 2011 election in Michael Gallagher and Michael Marsh’s How Ireland Voted 2011: The Full Story of Ireland’s Earthquake Election.

In a chapter on the online side of the election, the authors [Matthew Wall and Maria Laura Sudulich] found Fine Gael led the way in using online technologies for their campaign.

They said Fine Gael had over THIRTY volunteers working full time.

However, they couldn’t determine how this activity related to the [party’s] performance.

Thirty.

It’ll be like the West Wing, they said.

More on the book here.

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‘Dame Lane’

By Alé Mercado. a Spanish illustrator living and working in Kilkenny.

He sez:

I lived in Dublin for 3 1/2 years when I first moved to Ireland. What I loved the most about the city is how you could find hidden secrets (for me it was mostly record shops… They are all gone now) by moving away from the main streets. Sometimes by leading yourself into alleys that would do nicely for a Chamber of Horrors film scene, Hammer style . These alleys are for me so much the soul of Dublin that everything in the light becomes almost ghostly… It’s like finding amazing life in the deepest abyss and then trying to cope with routine back at the boring daylight surface.

And his method?

My work is fully digital. But is has evolved over the years to be more and more like printmaking, to the point that I hardly differentiate between both of them. The digital part is fully integrated in my print work and vice versa. But it was comics that got me into illustration. For a while it has been something that I’ve tried to hide. Not anymore…

 

This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue

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Minutes ago.

Via and thanks Steve and Jenni Manning (pic 1), Tony Kinlan (pic 2 and 3).

Kevin Whitty writes:

A message from a mate at the airport…Only 2 people onboard no one hurt – It’s one of the fly-by planes – Its nose hit the ground…

 

More as we get it.

 

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For the weekend that’s nearly in it.

March 19, 2000.

Ireland is gorging on foreign direct investment, near full employment and mounds of cocaine flown in by private jet.

A nation turned its lonely, puffy eyes to Paris.

Where a stocky tyke in a loose-fitting Irish jersey and tinted highlights entered the hairy cauldron of the Stade de France.

He was a very modest 21.

“I won’t say the French played poorly. We just hung in with them and emerged the better team on the day,”

To top off a great weekend Geri Halliwell’s ‘Bag it Up’ hit number one in the Irish charts.

Bon times.

(BOD pic: AP/Ticket pic: Rugby Relics)

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MIT scientists ‘at the instersection of vision and graphics’ have invented an image enhancing software that can amplify and reveal subtle movements and fluctuations in skin colour that are normally invisible to the naked eye.

As it turns out, our whole bodies are actually throbbing like Belisha beacons as the blood pulses beneath our hide. It’s just horrible a potential breakthrough in diagnostics and remote monitoring.

Scientists Uncover Invisible Motion in Video(New York Times)

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