Monthly Archives: April 2013

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Isabel Kelly writes:

I am a third year Landscape Architecture student in UCD, as part of a project a group of 5 of us installed an interactive art installation in Smithfield yesterday. I’m writing to you out of pure shock that our installation survived and was so successful. We combined tree branches, sprayed yellow in a cement base with tags left on the branches with two markers and left it to stand in the centre of smithfield over night.
The idea was to mimic the idea of a ‘wish tree’ and to see how the public would interact with art out in the open.

We returned today to find every tag written on back and front and even new tags added, made from paddy power betting papers. Thought this would be of interest to everyone to see how this fragile structure survived and was enjoyed by so many. We’re all so glad to have reached out to so many people, we hope their wishes come true!

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Rabble is a gombeen-slaying, non profit underground newspaper and website based in Dublin.

They need OUR help.

James at Rabble explains:

“Our readers have shown they appreciate a voice that celebrates a culture of fighting back from the margins – be it for better club licensing, housing rights, vilifying slum landlords or celebrating our hidden histories from below.
There’s no point complaining about the state of the Irish media, its our responsibility to start building our own alternative institutions from the ground up – that requires throwing their old models out the window and developing our own.
We’ve a harebrained idea that Ireland is ready to support a reader-sustained, free, print-publication dedicated to doing so.  So far we’ve shuffled through haphazardly on the cash front – now we want to put ourselves on a firm footing for the next four issues and give the project a bit of breathing room. That’s why we’re going down the crowd funding route with this campaign.
We are rabble, so are you – let’s up our game and kick start the sort of publication that’s not afraid to stick two fingers up to Leinster
House, the speculators, the god botherers and all the rest of them that want us to remain cowed.”

*grabs Karl’s wallet*

Rabble at fundit here.

Rabble online here

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05rzPnZ6lxw

What you may need to know:

1. Documentaries aside, has there ever been a great motor racing movie?

2. Thor is James Hunt!

3. It’s shot by Danny Boyle’s go-to guy, Anthony Dod Mantle. Looks sharp.

4. It’s directed by Ron Howard. We’re more excited by his forthcoming return as the narrator of Arrested Development.

5. If Robert Duvall doesn’t play Murray Walker, we’ll be pissed.

6. What about a Barry Sheene biopic?

Release Date: Summer

Screen Shot 2013-04-11 at 13.08.42Conor O’Brien writes:

A story headlined ‘Austerity in Ireland was a Mistake’ on the RTE website was removed about 45 minutes ago.

 

The story is now on another page timidly headlined: Reliance on austerity is counterproductive, says former IMF mission chief.

It’s all terribly confusing

Anyone?

UPDATE: There’s an INNOCENT explanation (see comments).

*switches on Alex Jones*

Austerity In ireland Was A Mistake (RTE News)

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Socci sez:

“As a water photographer myself I was trying to get into the water but it was impossible, the water was about 90 degrees Celsius and there were lots of lava particles floating that could burn anything in seconds… even the kayaks came out of the water with some ‘scars’ from the floating lava!!!”

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