Monthly Archives: April 2013

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Dublin club promoter Buzz O’Neill today.

“I kissed my friend goodbye on the corner of the laneway, beside the dry cleaners and there was a taxi stopped beside me,” O’Neill explains. “One of the guys in it shouted ‘fucking faggot’ out the window. I told him to ‘fuck off’, and he spat at me out of the taxi.”
The man shouting abuse and three others then got out of the taxi and mounted a vicious attack on O’Neill, until a doorman from The George intervened and stopped them.

 

Gaybash on George’s Street (GCN)

Thanks Derrick Howard

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A picture of rosy-cheeked loveliness.

Felled by fickle Bettymania.

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

This is one of many portraits of the famous Irish child actor William Henry West Betty (popularly known as ‘Master Betty’), who took the British Isles by storm in the early 19th century.
Betty’s first appearance at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, in 1803 was so much anticipated that the city authorities were forced to extend curfew by an hour to facilitate those attending. In London, there were even proposals to make him a ward of Chancery to protect him from the dangers of Bettymania.
Betty’s career stalled when he took time off to go to university. After a number of unsuccessful comebacks, he settled down to a quiet life of peace and good works on his very considerable savings, dying largely unremembered seventy years later. A bit like Mark Hamill.

 

Any excuse.

 Master Betty (above) playing ‘Hamlet’ via BBC

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Further to our Cú Chulainn posts of late.

Will Sliney, the Cork Marvel Comics artist , is launching ‘Celtic Warrior The Legend of Cú Chulainn at Waterstones, Cork, at 6-7pm.

BUT Can YOU pitch an alternative ending for Cú Chulainn BEFORE 6pm?

The Comic Cast (Ireland’s #1 Comic Book Podcast) are offering artwork by Will to give away to the ONE judged finest.

Will writes:

“This page (above) details the moment when Meave’s army realise that they will have to pass by an ash tree haunted by the souls of Ireland’s deadliest warriors. It is one of many markers left by Cú Chulainn to stop the marching men dead in their tracks.”

Crikey.

Lines close at 6pm

Launch Update:.

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From:Maidhcí

Cork this evening. Sound bloke.

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Fluidic – an interactive light sculpture – is a collabortation between Hyundai’s Advanced Design Center and WHITEvoid studio in Berlin.

12,000 suspended spheres form a ‘three dimensional pixel’ array, 3D cameras sense the motion of observers and translate these into light patterns using high-speed lasers. WHITEvoid describes it thus:

…a seemingly floating point cloud above a water pond and consisting of 12,000 translucent spheres marks the heart of the installation. Due to a complex computer algorithm the spheres are arranged seemingly random within the cloud. At the same time the algorithm observes the positions and projection angles of eight high-speed laser projectors that are being arranged around the artwork. They are sending out beams scanning through the arrangement of the cloud. Generating bright and dim light points, this creates a highly organic and natural distribution of voxels (3D pixels). Emerging lines and shapes finally form graphical compositions without any sweet or blind spots. Keeping the same density and intensity the FLUIDIC graphics enables their viewers to observe and interact with it from every point of view.

Currently on display at the Temporary Museum For New Design in Milan.

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YIKES.

A Dublin 15 resident  has made a complaint to the HSE after she saw a washing line filled with unusual meats in her neighbour’s back garden.
The Clonsilla resident, who has been living in the area for the past 12 years, said there were about eight meats hanging from a washing line, beside another line that was filled with clothes.
The resident is now looking for help from the HSE to stop this from happening again.“.

 

Via Gazette Group

Thanks Paul Hosford and Lynda Kealy