Smoking Robot (graphic design students Lewis Gray & Esra Guldal) say:
Obsolete tells the story of a robot starting work in a decrepit toy factory. Trapped in the factory all its life it is curious about the outside world, watching a bird through the factory wall each day. When it mistakes a toy on the production line for the bird one day it sets the robot’s escape in motion.
The entrance to Decco’s Cave, Whiterock Beach, Killiney,
He had a ‘crying chair’ made of stones.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
In the early 20th century, White Rock Cave, Killiney/Dalkey (above) was the home of a mysterious hermit who slept in a hammock.
Some say that he was a veteran of the Boer War, others of the Great War; others that he was an eccentric member of the Kavanagh family who lived nearby at Retreat Cottage. But whatever his origin and history, the name by which he was popularly known as was ‘Decco’, and his cave as ‘Decco’s Cave’.
The cave was a great source of mystery to local children. He had a habit of chasing marauding infant intruders up the beach with an axe; perhaps this was where the other rumour, of White Rock Cave being the home of flesh-eating bandits, originated?
Nowadays Decco is long dead, you’re more likely to find cannabis than cannibals in White Rock Cave and the only mysterious hermit in the locality is Enya, who can afford a grander bolthole.
Pic: DunLaoghaire.ie
Dublin (location unknown) at lunchtime.
Via Aidan Ellis
Lorna writes:
At a ‘Your Future City’ showcase in the Mansion House [Dublin] today…this kid is a bit pessimistic about what’s due ahead!
Actually a (brilliantly) poorly-animated and appropriately unhinged video by Australian artist Isaac Moore illustrating the epic 8-minute proposed plot synopsis of the next Star Wars movie offered last month by Parks and Recreation actor Patton Oswalt.
(Top: a earlier tribute by Jef Castro)
Bryan writes:
“The running man, spotted just now in Ballsbridge, warmer than the last time we saw him, has shorts on thankfully!!”
Previously: The Hardiness Of A Long Distance Runner
William Binchy says there are a range of options. I find that strange for a man trying to limit options since 1983 – Catherine McGuinness <3
— Oireachtas Retort (@Oireachtas_RX) May 21, 2013
William Binchy (top with Senator Ronan Mullen in background)) and Catherine McGuinness (above) at the Oireachtas hearings on abortion legislation.
She’s 91.
(RTE)
