Garth Brooks earlier at Croke Park announcing two one-off concerts in the Summer.
Don’t say we didn’t warn tell you.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Yearly Archives: 2014
Incoming
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From an unsettling project by Irish photographer Eamonn Doyle entitled A Silence Of Their Own.
This “mugger’s-eye-view” seems on first glances to imbue the images with an antagonistic tension, as if the shots were taken a split second prior to some violation – perhaps symbolic as much as physical – of the “proper” distance between photographer and subject. Thus, it might be easy to read into his images an essentially pornographic aesthetic – that is to say, a mode of representation in which a simulated proximity to the represented becomes a fetishistic token of, and replacement for, the real itself. Yet to read the images in such terms denies a critical dimension to them, a dimension of epistemological humility that reveals them as both profoundly ethical and politically radical.
Crikey.
A print by Paul Bommer inspired by the 18th century English poet Christopher Smart’s eulogy of his cat Jeoffrey.
Jonathan Ryan and Twink advertising toilet tissue in 1987.
When a man dressed up as a woman was prime time entertainment.
That’s how we bog-rolled.
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Theatrical one-man band Little John Nee [performing Sparkplug above] is doing a Fund It for his record, Songs From The Lough Swilly Delta.
Only three days left.
He’s a bit of a legend.
Video made In Donegal and produced by Tommy McLaughlin from Villagers.
Except Bermuda, Jersey, Isle of Man, Monaco, Malta etc.
Christian Aid Campaign Officer David Thomas outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin this morning with Denis-shaped Russian doll-style figurines representing owners of ‘phantom companies’ in ireland which allow companies outside the country to avoid paying tax and to launder money.
Christian Aid are calling on the Government to support moves by the EU to remove the loopholes that allow this practice and will return with larger dolls if necessary.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
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Of this RC car/GoPro experiment in cute-baiting, Australian photographer/adventurer Chris Bray sez:
While running one of our five 2-week photo safaris to Kenya in 2014, we attached a GoPro camera to a remote control car and drove it up to a lioness with cubs, stopping at a distance where they still showed no interest, and then jiggled the car around just enough to invoke the cubs curiosity. Two of the three cubs then came over and investigated it for 20min, before growing bored and tired and falling asleep back with mum.
Oireacthas Retort writes:
Poor old harp has been dragged through the shit.
No need for the language.