Flavorwire‘s compilation of some of the most egregious mummies in film, just in time for Mother’s Day (as opposed to Mothering Sunday) tomorrow.
Monthly Archives: May 2013
A phantasmagorical, effects-laden, multi award-winning 2010 short by writer, director and VFX whizz Brent Bonacorso who sez of it:
Loosely based on several hundred interviews with children about their dreams, ‘West of the Moon’ is the story of one man’s lost love and his strange path to redemption, aided along the way by a gambling robot, a wayward monkey, and a healthy dose of determination.
Raw Can Do
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Ican Ican’t [performing Comfort Food off the album Year of the Stat, top] is the latest musical project by Kilkenny-based Dermot O’Leary (no, not THAT one), former singer-songwriter and frontman for the little known but well loved Dublin band Alanalda.
Ican Ican’t play the Stag’s Head Raw, upstairs in the Stag’s Head, Dame Court, Dublin, on Sunday.
8pm. €8.
“So, in a Wallace-controlled Ireland, women could be free to have an abortion in all circumstances if they unexpectedly became pregnant. For example, a woman might be due to go on an exclusive foreign holiday but an unexpected pregnancy could interfere with her plan and how she might look on the beach. Or there could be an unexpected pregnancy in the run up to a family wedding, ruining the chances of fitting into a very expensive dress. Under Mick Wallace’s proposals it could be open to both women in these hypothetical situations to abort their babies.
I’m not for one minute suggesting that many women would want to do this, but under the liberal abortion regime which Mick Wallace would appear to want to see introduced to Ireland, it could be possible.”
Ger Walsh, Wexford People.
Hat tip: Colette Browne and James Bennett
Jaw Dropping
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n_eZOc5YNss
A gallon-smashing stunt gone horribly wrong.
…but no-one seems to have pointed out that he sounds Irish.
We’re saying nothing.
No money required.
Perishing hippies.
Jimmy Brady writes:
An Mheitheal Rothar is Galway’s latest community initiative and will host the city’s only Really Really Free Market TOMORROW from 1-6pm at An Mheitheal Rothar workshop, Earl’s Island, near Fisheries Field.
Really Really Free Market Galway is a non-profit event with the principle of helping others and the immediate community. The idea is sharing, gifting and receiving rather than barter, buying or selling. A “real” free market.
No haggling.
The new ad campaign for Titanic Belfast exhibition.
Fair play, though, in fairness.
Davy F writes:
This made me smile. And it also made me buy the Wallace and Gromit Box Set online…
A masters thesis animation made by Daniel Sierra at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Sierra describes the calming, mesmeric piece as an attempt:
…to visualize waveform patterns that evolve from the fundamental sine wave to more complex patterns, creating a mesmerizing audio-visual experience in which sight and sound work in unison.
Additionally this was an opportunity for me to create a song and visualize it at the same time. Being interested in the aesthetics of linking sound and visuals, this was a very exciting project for me. It gave me the chance to experience the process of creating music and visuals simultaneously as they both influence each other. At the same time I learned a lot about simulation effects, particles and procedural animation. The animation was done purely in Houdini, using Houdini’s VEX language to create the tool that could generate and animate waveforms. The music was made in Reason.
Full screen HD for best effect.
Egregia cum laude.
The Immigrant Council of Ireland this week published three recent incidents of racism in Ireland, of the many they receive, involving an African woman, two Muslim women and a South American soccer player.
“An African woman was subjected to a physical and verbal assault in a public area while waiting for a friend. During the incident she was kicked in the stomach and subjected to racist taunts. A number of passers-by ignored the attack and walked on before one member of the public came to her aid. The woman has suffered a fractured finger and stomach pains as a result of the attack.”
“Two Muslim women have reported that they were refused a request to be seen by a woman official when requested by a State agency to remove traditional head-dresses for identification purposes. They were left with no alternative but to remove the head-dresses in front of a man. Both women say they have suffered depression and insomnia as a result.”
“A South American soccer player in an amateur game was subjected to verbal abuse ‘Get the f**k out of my country’ and ‘you yellow f**ker’. It is reported the referee did not act on the abuse. The Immigrant Council is initiating contact with the FAI on the incident.”