Yearly Archives: 2014

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Launching tonight: the Brainbelt Illustration Collective Design Week Exhibition at MVP [Upper Clanbrassil St., Dublin 8] which runs until 15 Dec. as part of Design Week 2014. To wit:

The exhibition launches Friday the 7th of November at 7pm and runs for 6 weeks. It features work by Michelle Cunningham, Emma Rowe, Alan Dunne, Stephen Mc Carthy, Jamie Murphy, Lauren O’Neill, Eileen O’Neill, John Corrigan and! Stephen Mc Nally. All artists will have prints for sale on the night and throughout the exhibition. We look forward to seeing you there.

Above (from pic 2): ‘Personal Space Invaders’ by Lauren O’Neill; ‘Spam Illustrated: The Inheritance of Yoshiko Ishii’ by Alan Dunne; ‘Some things which are Not LOL’ by Emma Rowe; ‘Loki’ still from animation by Stephen Mc Nally and ‘Jaws’ by Jamie Murphy

(Thanks Eileen O’Neill)

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A  nightmarish deMickeyfication by Korean artist Kim Byungkwan who sez of his ouevre:

What I would like to express through my work is very simple. I am trying to bring out strangeness from familiarity.

Nailed It.

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Aer Lingus ticket winner Louise McGowan and her winning bike (above)

A win win, you say?

What are the chances?

Dave writes:

Myself and my boss were in town yesterday when we met this lady. She had just returned from the Websummit to drop off a bicycle at her apartment that she had just won at an exhibitor stand. We congratulated her and as we were all headed back to the Summit too we offered to share a taxi. I later checked to see who won the Aer Lingus selfie competition (business class flights! we had entered) and she had bloody won that too! Jammy!

Heartwarming.

G’wan the lady luck.

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Celebrating Veteran’s Day in the US this week, ice cream chain Baskin Robbins (founded in 1945) flavour of the month is… camouflage.

If you squint, you can just make it out at the bottom of the frame there.

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This lunchtime.

John Gallen writes:

.left on the street, corner of Broadstone, D7… bowls of something that looks like semolina(?), cigars, whiskey(?), vodka(?), liquorice, apples with cloves, candles, some sort of onion dish and a red popcorn dish…I think? The candles had been lit earlier this morning….

Possibly Diwali-related?

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odin's

Available at the link below

James Keating writes:

Today sees the release of ‘Odin’s Ode’, a song created using the heartbeat of Shauna Fowley and Alan Newman’s newborn son, Odin. Odin was born prematurely in May this year, and passed away after six weeks of battling for his life.All proceeds from the song will go toward the Irish Premature Babies (IPB) charity. IPB helped Shauna and Alan through the birth of Odin’s sister Lily Kate in 2012, who also passed away after being born prematurely.

Alan works as a music and video producer, and felt inspired by his son to create the song, which he hopes will now raise funds to help other families going through similar circumstances. Singer ‘Funzo’ added vocals to the song, working with Alan to make a heartfelt and hopeful piece of music, celebrating Odin.

Purchase here: Odin’s Ode (Amazon)