Yearly Archives: 2014
A new mural by Berlin-based French street artist MTO, for ‘Hit The North’ Culture Night in Belfast.
The mural at Talbot Street in the yard of the Northern Ireland War Memorial depicts the Greek sophist philosopher Protagoras, a proponent of agnosticism, who wrote:
Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing whether they exist or not or of what sort they may be, because of the obscurity of the subject, and the brevity of human life.
It’s a good thing Dr Paisley’s not around to hear that kind of talk so it is.
Mmmm. Cool, refreshing, hipsterful Pantonery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOavDSErmak
What you may need to know:
1. Director Tim Burton’s biopic of the artist Margaret Keane (played by Amy Adams). Keane’s paintings of doe-eyed children were hugely popular but her husband, Walter (Christoph Waltz) took sole credit for her work.
2. What’s this? No Johnny Depp? No Helena Bonham Carter? That should keep the Burton naysayers quiet for a while.
3. With a 30-year career based on expressionistic weirdness, how does Burton keep his audience on their toes? He goes full-on normal, that’s how.
4. Burton hasn’t used a non-fictive biographical source since Ed Wood (1994). That was a good one.
5. He seems to have lost his mojo ever since Planet of the Apes (2001). Hopefully Big Eyes will mark a return to form.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Weirdly normal.
Release Date: December 26 (UK)
(DelBoy is away. Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
At The Barge Pub, Dublin 2 on Saturday evening.
Thanks Gary Byrne
The poster and trailer for A Day Like Today by Ger Walsh, who was behind the shorts Is This It? and Bound.
He writes:
“Last year I made my first feature film and, on Friday, we were accepted into IndieCork [Film festival] to premier the film. The film was made for just €450 in 10 days all around Dublin city.
The film centres around a chance meeting between two people, Alice [Andie McCaffrey Byrne] and Joe [Paul Butler Lennox]. Alice is a wife stuck in a toxic relationship and Joe is a seemingly homeless person with a troubled past. They see this chance meeting as an opportunity to just forget about their lives for a day and just live…”
Dunnes Stores (left) and Hairy Baby Tees (right)
Uncanny.
Hairy Baby Tees – who were behind the Nightmare Line-Up, Mr Invincible, Go Ahead Make My Tay T-shirts and Who Said Mass? hoodie, among others, write:
“They’ve done it to us AGAIN. You know who you are large Irish retail chain. Shame on you…”
Related: Karen Millen vs Dunnes Stores AG opinion – Community Design rights
A map by the irish Farmers Journal detailing the venues for the National Ploughing Championship since its inception in Athy in 1933.
This year’s championship takes place in Stradbally, Laois and begins tomorrow.
Ploughing is an 83 year old moving event (Michael Maroney, Irish Farmers Journal)
Thanks Maura Fay
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Stephen’s Green, Dublin at the weekend.
Seventy.
Pounds.
Thanks David Fox
Further to the temporary injunction that Justice Patrick McCarthy granted to GMC/Sierra on Friday, restraining seven men and two women or anyone with knowledge of the court order, from assaulting, harassing, intimidating, or otherwise interfering with or obstructing the company’s workers from installing water meters in Dublin city…an ‘advertisement’ on Gumtree.ie today.
Specialist Security Officers Required for Irish Water protesters Nationwide (Gumtree.ie)
Temporary court injunction granted against water meter protesters (Independent.ie)
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