Fox Jaw – Falling Debris
Topical music for the re-possessed.
Shane Serrano writes:
“A video for Irish band Fox Jaw…It’s a political satire music video… critiquing The Economy, The Church, The Banks… and even Garth Brooks! It’s been getting retweets from the likes of Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan and even Ash’s Tim Wheeler….”
Hits in diagram form by Flowing Data (full sized version).
In this commercial for Japanese optical high-speed internet service provider au Hikari, a Rube Goldberg machine (or Heath Robinson contraption, if you like) is “powered” by a single beam of light reflecting off mirrors and passing through lenses to burn through strings, melt ice, pop balloons and generally put the fizz into physics.
Here’s how they did it.
This afternoon.
Cathal MacCoille tweetz:
Not a soul in sight. Two miles into the Phoenix Park…
Name that tree anyone?
What you may need to know
1. Home invasion thriller in which Terri (Taraji P. Henson), is threatened by Colin (Idris Elba), a charming stranger who smooth-talks his way into her house. The unexpected invitation leaves her and her family terrorised and fighting for survival.
2. Screen Gems caused a stink this week by cancelling all scheduled press screenings for No Good Deed with the excuse of not wanting to spoil a plot twist for the audience.
3. First of all, no critic in their right mind would ever intentionally spoil a plot twist.
4. Second, the audience wouldn’t have known that there was a plot twist if Screen Gems hadn’t announced it in a press release.
5. Other movies not screened in advance include Movie 43 (2013), Meet the Spartans (2008) and anything by Uwe Boll. You can draw your own conclusions.
6. If that doesn’t tell you enough, then consider that the release of No Good Deed has already been postponed four times. Originally slated for release in October 2013, it was moved to January, then April 2014 before finally limping into US theatres today. Sometimes there’s a good reason for pushing a release back, but four times?
7. Elba seems to be struggling to translate an impeccable TV résumé into a movie career.
8. Broadsheet Prognosis: The signs are not good.
Release Date: November 21
(DelBoy is away. Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
Two gardaí stand outside the home of evicted Martin and Violet Coyne, in Carpenterstown, Castleknock, Dublin, after members of the Land League entered the couple’s home this afternoon. The Land League members say they will not leave until Martin and Violet, pictured above left, are allowed back into the house.
Previously: Meanwhile, At The Four Courts
Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
The munchies in Dublin.
By illustrator, designer and jogger Alan Ruane
Alan sez:
“As a blow in [to Dublin] from down the country [Waterford] one of my favourite things about Dublin is the variety of great/terrible food that’s available here. It makes all those long runs worthwhile.”
This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue
Members of a Red Cross burial team put on protective equipment before entering the home of a woman suspected of dying of Ebola in Dia, Sierra Leone on August 18.
A government health worker keeps tally of those who pass an Ebola quarantine checkpoint in the road leading from Freetown to Kenema, Sierra Leone on August 16.
Residents of the town of Kailahun in Sierra Leone – which has been heavily affected by the Ebola outbreak – gather along a river at dusk on Tuesday, August 19.
Chilling Photos From the Front Lines of the Ebola Outbreak (Wired)
Pics: Pete Muller for the Washington Post
C writes:
“We hope you can appreciate the irony of the Bank of Ireland welcoming us and thanking us for our business while we are in the process of losing our home.”
