By eBay Stories editor Joe McFarland
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Yearly Archives: 2014
Epiphany
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The first rule of food hacking: stop being so narrow-minded and heteronormative by confining your cooking to a kitchen. At work, start your hacking as soon as you enter the building’s lobby. An elevator can easily become an ascending workspace to create an E-Z morning snack. With the help of a piping hot cuppa joe, a stupid, boring raw egg becomes a hard-boiled delicacy.
This changes everything.
A celluloid nerd alert.
Nisan Greenwich writes:
“Testing vintage 70mm print of “Quest For Fire” (1981) screening at the IFI [Irish Film Institute, Temple Bar, Dublin] September 3rd 18:30. Featuring 6 track magnetic sound! Proper ‘Ole school!”
What you may need to know:
1. Widowed Amelia’s (Essie Davis) son is convinced that there’s a monster lurking in their home. When a pop-up book called ‘The Babadook’ shows up on the doorstep, she start’s sensing a sinister presence all around her. DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!
2. The Babadook is the debut feature of writer/director Jennifer Kent.
3. The positive press and word-of-mouth for this has been insane since it premiered at Sundance back in January.
4. Rather than take the easy CGI route, Kent’s decision to stick with analogue effects has earned her comparisons with Wes Anderson and Terry Gilliam.
5. If the monster is half as creepy as the kid, then we’ll be sleeping with the lights on.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: A creative shot in the arm for a genre languishing in “found footage” mire.
Release Date: October 24.
(DelBoy is away. Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
Stop That
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Splutter.
Bizarre, possibly unwholesome, mannequin poses at the Kilkenny Design Centre, Dublin.
Anyone?
Unrepentant jail bird Ricky English following a spell in chokey for helping to rob two bookies in Tullow, Co Carlow shares his thoughts on Ireland’s open prison system.
Please come again.
Thanks Danny Fallon
From left: Paul Dunne Realex Fire; Aruna Anand; Joe Lyon; Paula Downes; Shawna Scott (Sex Siopa); Damien Mulley; Rick O’Shea; Richard Strahan (winner ugliest website 2013); Alan Irwin (Realex); Michelle McCormick; Shane Stenson (Realex); James King (Realex) and Niall McGarry (Joe.ie).
The controversial just-released launch photo for the Realex Fire Web Awards featuring 2FM’s Rick O’Shea as Jesus and Irish web pioneer and awards founder Damien Mulley as JUDAS.
Damien sez:
“The Realex Fire Web Awards celebrates their 7th birthday this year with a fun filled night in the Ballsbridge Hotel on October 22nd where 600 people that own or run Irish websites are expected to attend with winners being called from 33 categories.
Nominations for the event close on September 5th with over 500 nominations having been made so far. The public and website owners can nominate here.
In fairness.
Tallaght, Dublin this morning.
Thanks Stephen Nutley
Aisling tweetz:
I think this is relevant re your “Totting Up” article!
Temple Bar, our cultural centre of excellence.
Is nothing sacred?
UPDATE: Via McDonald’s Ireland: “The tweet which claims to be by McDonald’s is not from an official McDonald’s account. We have contacted Twitter so the account claiming to be McDonald’s is reviewed,”