Margaret Atwood once called scifi “talking squids in outer space“.
But that’s just, you know, her opinion, man.
This excellent cephalopod-on-Star Destroyer diorama by Iain Heath for Emerald City Comiccom now sits in the lobby of his employers, Tableau Software.
More of Iain’s other great builds on his Flickr photostream.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzALHWPanVY
They call them fermentation tanks.
We call them nuclear silos the massive Guinness containers.
This is how they put them (27 in total) in their place in St James’ Gate, Dublin.
Brian Ramsbottom writes:
You might like this. The crane operator [white crane] is my brother, made look easy here, but far from it…
The Irish Times is reporting that the Temple Bar Cultural Trust is to be wound down, on foot of resignations on the TBCT board.
Frank McDonald reports:
“This follows the resignations of artist, councillor and activist Mannix Flynn [captured on Google streetview in Temple Bar, above] and Irish Theatre Institute director Jane Daly from the board, as well as the abrupt resignation of chief executive Dermot McLaughlin from his secondment to Derry UK City of Culture.”
“At a board meeting yesterday, the remaining directors considered the 2011 report by Latitude consultants on the trust, which recommended the company be wound down and its functions taken over by the council.”
“The council’s press office said the board had considered the report “at the request of the shareholder” – city manager John Tierney, who will be leaving office tomorrow to take over as the first chief executive of Irish Water.”
Dublin City Council to develop Temple Bar?
Sure, what could go wrong?
Clancy Quay, Islandbridge, Dublin, yesterday.
On sale for €70 million.
Property developer David Kennedy had planned 700 apartments for the site, but only 60 per cent of those were ever built (with half of those currently occupied) before he went bust owing €240 million.
The development was built on the site of Clancy Barracks, named after Peadar Clancy, killed during the War of Independence, and was associated with the Crimean War, the Boer War, the First World War, and the 1916 Rising before being sold by the state.
Makes you proud.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland)
Etc.
Customised, half-defiant Keds in honour of the ties that bind our two great nations UK/Ireland boyband One Direction.
Via Alyssatheeagle
And no robbing the orchard.
Perishing tykes.
Philip Ellis writes:
Never mind JobBridge. If you cut the grass well ‘Jimmy’ may give you a second shot…
Irish Refugee Council CEO Sue Conlon has a piece, entitled Seven Years Like A Robot, in the current edition of Village magazinedetailing how asylum-seekers live in Direct Provision accommodation in Ireland.
She explains that, as of December 17 last, there were 4,806 residents of Direct Provision, 38% (1,818) of which were children.
She writes:
“The Direct Provision system was set up in 2000 in response to a crisis towards the end of the 1990s when the numbers seeking asylum in Ireland had increased rapidly. Today more than a third of residents in the centres have lived in them for more than three years. What is difficult to understand is why the authorities maintain a system when the evidence is clear that it comes at huge expense – both financial and human.
“The centres are collectively known as ‘Direct Provision’ because the state provides directly for the immediate physical needs of asylum seekers. It is a system that has never been set out in legislation or defined in any publicly available document. But it has been rolled out in the form of accommodation facilities whose original use was for short term stay – mobile homes, holiday chalets, hotels, students’ hostels – with just a small number of purpose-built accommodation centres. All of them have been owned or at least run by private companies.
“The companies have never been required to have any particular training or oversight in order to accommodate, on a long term basis, vulnerable adults and children. Dispersal around the country is a central feature of the system. By and large, it is a system that is on a ‘no choice’ basis. You go where you are told, when you are told and often with little notice.
…
“In September 2012, the Irish Refugee Council published a report entitled ‘State sanctioned child poverty and exclusion: the case of children in state accommodation for asylum seekers’. The report contained evidence dating back more than ten years of the way in which children, some of them Irish citizens, have been treated in the Direct Provision system. The evidence included examples of malnutrition, poverty, overcrowding, lack of play space and the detrimental effect on family life. To date, there has been no formal response from any Government Minister to the Report. ”
The IRC is co-ordinating a National Day of Action on April 23, as part of a campaign calling on the Government to end the Direct Provision system.
Previously: The UN On Ireland’s Human Rights Defenders And Denis
Top: Samuel Brian whose family is from Nigeria, protesting at the asylum centre in Mosney, Co Meath, in 2010 (Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
The work of street artist Canvaz.
On the coast road in Sandymount, Dublin.
See what he did there?
Canvaz (Facebook)
