What you may need to know:
1. Un film de Angelina Jolie.
2. Written by The Coen Brothers.
3. Starring Jack O’Connnell (from Skins) and Jedi master Domhnall Gleeson.
4. Spoiler Alert: the hero dies. Aged 97. Last week.
5. Maleficent (2014) is Angie’s biggest hit ever. She’s a hell of a Dame.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Oscar calling Angie (again).
Release Date: Xmas
The stacks of shame, Ringsend, Dublin.
Part of who we are.
Or grim blots on the landscape?
ESB YOU decide!
Raze or praise: Should we save the Poolbeg chimneys from being knocked down? (Irish Times)
Meanwhile…
Andy writes:
“Poolbeg, without the iconic towers…as potentially seen from Clontarf…”
The final batch of Mondial soccer ‘moments’.
Can you Name these three World Cup incidents (above).
Lines MUST close at 10.30am.
Designed by Kie Carew from Irish-made footie ‘zine, Pog Mo Goal
The people in charge of dance say,
They’re sorry, but there is no way,
You can put on the ritz,
In a blizzard of glitz,
If it looks even just a bit gay.
John Moynes
(REX)
A 90 metre slip ‘n’ slide on Bray Head, Co Wicklow?
Where will it end?
*adjusts Speedos*
Via David Forde
Update
A dummy run..
Thanks Bray Picks
Update
Gareth “Hotspots” Brady tweetz:
nearly there…
More as we Gareth gets it.
It's alive! It's alive!! The @BraySummerfest slide is up and running pic.twitter.com/Inb1sGgLF2
— BrayBré (@BrayPicks) July 11, 2014
Arcus Motion Analyzer – currently in development and funding on Kickstarter – is a ring-sized, water resistant motion tracking device that also recognises gestures.
Feeding back in real time via a Bluetooth connection, multiple devices can be worn to generate complex data and metrics.
A Japanese musician responds appropriately to the recent viral of a man weeping openly as he defends himself against accusations of financial wrongdoing by learning the ‘tune’ and playing along.
Swiss photographer Sebastien Magnani’s unnerving mashups of folk and their cats.
See the rest of the images here.
You may also care to peruse his Underdogs series.
