https://vimeo.com/85763864
A new exhibition of works by artist Li Hongbo at Klein Sun Gallery in New York.
The sculptures, based on traditional Chinese paper gourds and constructed from thousands of sheets of paper into configurations that twist and elongate in any direction, often take the artist months to complete.
Openings: Li Hongbo – ‘Tools of Study’ @ Klein Sun Gallery (Arrested Motion)
Previously: The Art Of Li Hongbo
Senator David Norris called for a debate on homophobia in the Seanad today.
Speaking under Oireachtas privilege the senator pulled no punches.
No one was safe.
Incoming! The latest #storm is getting closer. Set to affect the south and east worst #weather pic.twitter.com/v4Xz2klnJe
— Fergal O’Brien (@FergalTodayFM) February 4, 2014
Status Orange.
Wexford TD Mick Wallace appears to be a Red Hot Chilli Peppers fan.
Dead give it away give it away give it away give it away now, in fairness.
Spotted in Dublin airport today.
Via Fiona Hyde
Previously: Flattened Heineken Bottle Top Earrings
Does former Tory Defence Minister Michael Portillo know something we don’t?
Ah Mick, this gives up de Nort.
Via Derek Mooney
H/t Rob McDonagh
Previously: Rum Cove In Cobh Tonight
Somewhere in Dublin right NOW.
Doctor Gonzo writes:
Wearing harness attached to crappy ol drain pipe. I really hope he doesn’t slip and test it. Five floors up.
How high?
YIKES!
Built back in 2009, Madrid based architecture firm Selgas Cano’s sunken office in the woods: a tubular space with a wraparound glass wall allowing natural light and productivity-enhancing views of the woodland to flood in.
Peace activist Colm Reddy (in orange) protesting the jailing of Margaretta D’Arcy during Eamon Gilmore’s arrival at Government Buildings on Merrion Street, Dublin this morning.
Meanwhile…
From left: Joan Collins TD, Mary Lou McDonald TD, Clare Daly TD and Catherine Murphy TD at the gates of Leinster House, in support of Margaretta D’Arcy also this morning.
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
On the old Dublin road road between Littleton and Horse and Jockey, Co Tipperary on Sunday evening. The horse, according to the Tipperary Star, collapsed and died from exhaustion while Sulky racing.
Animal Cruelty As Sulky Horse Driven To Death (Tipperary Star)
https://vimeo.com/85122270
A neon-tinged fan-made trailer for a feasible update of Walter Hill’s 1979 classic movie shot by Ram Bhat, who sez:
Los Angeles 1992 – The Warriors and every other gang in the city are called to meet in the Valley. Cyrus, the leader of the biggest gang (The Riffs), wants to take over LA and proposes a truce amongst them all. But as events take a turn for the worse, the Warriors have to fight their way back home to Long Beach. WILL THEY SURVIVE THE NIGHT?
