Yearly Archives: 2014

tay

No funny business.

Oisin writes:

“Ever have that frustrating moment where your housemate makes tea and forgets to get you a cup? We made a video [includes sweary language] where someone makes that very mistake and gets what they deserve…”

amarist-alejandro-monge-too-much-table-money-designboom-02 amarist-alejandro-monge-too-much-table-money-designboom-05amarist-alejandro-monge-too-much-table-money-designboom-08 amarist-alejandro-monge-too-much-table-money-designboom-10amarist-alejandro-monge-too-much-table-money-designboom-06

A ‘sculptural dining table’ by Spanish artist Alejandro Monge comprising what appears to be a cube filled with charred fifty euro notes atop which flickers a biofuel flame .

While there’s nothing especially groundbreaking about the intent of the piece (‘…a note is a dyed piece of paper that represents a number, 10, 20, 50 dollars, yens, euros. a figure that we exchange in order to acquire something wanted. a figure that within itself has no more value than the one given to the job or the time traded…’), the skill with which Monge has reproduced, coloured and glued  every note by hand, even finding a way to replicate the petrified appearance of ashes using resin is very impressive.

Tenuously related: Burning Issues Of The Day

designboom

90348167 90348168 90348171 90348176 90348178

SPLUTTER!

Mark writes:

Dublin’s Merrion Cricket Club [Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Co Dublin] unveiled its state of the art modern club house at the weekend. Player participation in Irish Cricket has grown by almost 100 percent in the last ten years, making it the fastest growing sport in Ireland,. After four years of fundraising up to a million Euro, the bright, modern, flood protected new clubhouse is now open for business.”

FIGHT!

*puts on ‘Cricket box’ briefs*

From top: (l-r) Sean Stanton, Richard Bisgood and J.J. Walsh: as pic 1; Richard Bisgood; Sean Hussey; Elena Tice and Brett Thompson.

Merrion Cricket Club

(Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland)

q9tNFtMA1w5vXr9XCjq9AGDi5h5de2vzeevNM11TNn7Q3S2KbZLMUNuXPXu5iYwzn9IeuRT2kZ-tVt5vrCXWD2jUhhyIuH-kt-TgjpmsER6SwxPBQsgPIA5b=s0-d-e1-ft

Priest Alexander Shumsky seems to have taken particular exception to the brightly colored footwear on display in Brazil, writing in his column on Christian website Russian People’s Line that players who wear green, yellow, pink or blue shoes helped promote the “gay rainbow.”
“Wearing pink or blue shoes, [the players] might as well wear women’s panties or a bra,” Shumsky wrote, adding that he was also offended by the “unthinkable” hairstyles of some of the players in Brazil.

He’s one  to talk, in fairness…

i1C6dOscp1VVcVAEfi2CbLQ1K4Olo9K5bxgnU1us_lyF5tHvP65_cbw7-tvFrkxOvJLHQ9D5_lSzgXxZcJSE169QbTwlR-wF_Km-B9bYXGzZhRe6Kip9PVmbLw8hr7g_IjdV0uw=s0-d-e1-ft

Fr Shumsky.

Damn unorthodox hipsterski.

Russian Orthodox Priest Says Football Is Gay – Because of Its Shoes (TheMoscowTimes)

Thanks Nelly Bergman

90348222

But they know what they like.

Money mostly.

A group comprising ‘interested parties’ keen to scalp some rednecks calling for a solution to be found in the Garth Brooks concert impasse in Buswells Hotel, Dublin today.

From left: Donal O’ Keeffe, Licenced Vintners Association, Adrian Cummins, Restaurants Association of Ireland, Fianna Fail Senator Averil Power, Stephen McNally, Irish Hotels Federation and Gina Quinn, Dublin Chamber of Commerce.

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)