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Eastbourne Pier On Fire (EastbourneHerald)
Pic: Pauljwb
Update:
Ah.
Thanks Christopher Francis
Yearly Archives: 2014
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Dublin SPCA writes:
“Anyone recognise this little dog,? he was knocked down last night on the Malahide Road….If you have any information on the owners please contact Noah Vets in Baldoyle [Co Dublin] on 011 832 2843…”
Anyone?
Pregmancy
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Redditor DruishPrincess69 sez:
My wife didn’t want to take maternity pictures, so I hired a photographer and took her place.
Slick Note
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Tony O’Reilly, CEO of Providence Resources in 2009
Where’s our black gold?
With Providence drilling only one appraisal well so far, potential farm-out partners may want more evidence.
“There is a discovery there, the question is what is commercially recoverable,” said David Round, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets in London. “They may still find a partner, though the terms might not be as lucrative as they originally envisaged.”
Providence’s difficulties in finding a partner may have been amplified by past exploration failures in offshore Ireland. Some 158 wells have been drilled over past 45 years in Irish waters. Only four commercial gas fields have been found.
Where’s That Irish Oil, Investors Wonder Two Years Later (Dara Doyle, Bloomberg)
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
This afternoon.
Members of An ARAN (Animal Rights Action Network) outside the Department of Agriculture, Kildare Street, Dublin
The Department is planning to kill 12,000 badgers in what protestors call a “misguide effort” to stop the spread of TB .
ARAN writes:
“Over the weekend, the Department of Agriculture in Dublin announced plans to slaughter 12,000 badgers in Ireland over the next two years, as part of a “cull” to stop the spread of TB.
But science is on our side when it comes to arguing that a badger “cull” will not stop the spread of TB. In fact, it is the poor, beleaguered badger that will be the real victim here. These iconic Irish animals will be trapped by vicious snares and may be caught in these horrific wire instruments of cruelty for hours or even days, until the ‘contractors’ arrive to shoot the animals dead. Problem solved? Absolutely not.”
(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HfIqV3vqfM
Mick Quinn writes:
Here’s a video I directed for Luke Keating’s ‘Collide’. I’d love if you’d post it!
G’wan the Mick!
Spike It
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‘Anti-homeless’ spikes from Wexford company, Kent Stainless
“One afternoon in early July, Corinna Gardner, a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, accepted delivery of a small cardboard box. It was a shipment from Kent Stainless, Ireland’s leading manufacturer of stainless-steel drainage. More recently, the company has got into street furniture: benches, bollards, bike stands, trash cans. Inside the package were several specimens of the Kent Spike Stud, a three-inch-high, bullet-shaped protuberance that, according to the firm’s catalogue, “is used to deter people from unwanted sitting areas such as window sills and wall tops.” Colloquially, they are known as “anti-homeless spikes.”
“In the previous weeks, the presence of a set outside the doorway of a luxury apartment building had been the subject of thousands of outraged tweets and a Change.org petition, by means of which 132,560 people successfully demanded their removal. Gardner opened the box with a pair of scissors and dug through plastic peanuts. The spikes, when they emerged, were heavy, like ripe fruit. The next day, after they were mounted on a slab of acrylic and installed in a glass case, they would become the latest objects to enter the V. & A.’s permanent collection: Spike Stud, 2014, Stainless Steel. “As one of my colleagues says, sinister objects demand our attention just as much as beautiful ones,” Gardner said.”
Very important objects (The New Yorker)
Previously: Roughing It
Related: Remove the anti-homeless spikes (Change.org)
H/T: Ciaran Cuffe
Fresh from the festival circuit, animator Mikey Please’s follow up to his brilliant, handmade, BAFTA-winning Eagleman’s Stag: Marilyn Miller – a tale of creation and destruction told using sculpted styrofoam models and complex, long exposure lighting.
Short making-of feature here.
