Yearly Archives: 2014

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That’s weird.

Because we WERE!

Hic.

Some of the winners from last night’s Bord Gais Energy Social Media Awards at the Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin last night.

From top: (l-r) Eoin O Suilleabhain, Emer Lawn, Maighread Cremin, Olivia Fitzgerald, Michelle Griffin, Ellen O’Donovan, Jen Davis from Centra;  Damien Tierney, David Dunne, Brián Corish, Paul Fitzpatick, Kyle Fitzpatrick, Aoife Cooney, Andrew Goodwin, Derek Stalley, Jamie Hickey from Vodafone;  Susan O’Connor, Aoife Clarke, Claire Moran, Jasmine O’Brien from Lidl; Rosie Ellis, Georgie Gavin, Jamie Crawford, Kathryn Ryan, James Loughan, Shona Ryan; Maighread Cremin, Ellen O’Donovan, Daragh McSherrry from Centra; Award founder Damien Mulley with Charles O’Sullivan, Brendan O’Dowd, Declan Barrett, Donal Gallagher, Dennis Hanly from the Irish Defence Forces; Aisling O’Brien, David O’Donoghue, Stephen Mannion from Justeat.ie; Awards host Rick O’Shea and Caollin Rafferty; the team from ad agency Radical; Paddy Leahy, Miguel Rivas, Ken Stanley from Universal Pictures and all the winners on the Grand Canal stage.

A great night, in fairness.

Bord Gais Social media Awards

Pictures: Ben Keenan

More images here

Thanks Sarah Doyle

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The next generation, eh?

Emily Flynn writes:

“I wonder if you could let the masses know that the DIT [Dublin Institute of technology] Graduate Exhibition opens in DIT Portland Row [Dublin] tonight with a reception kicking off at 6pm. The exhibition will feature Fine Art, Visual Merchandising, Furniture Design, Visual Communication, Interior Design, Visual Art and Product Design, and will run until June 16.At present the Product Designers have their own standalone show running in DIT Bolton Street where the product prototypes from the final year students can be seen. This exhibition is on the sunny topmost floor of Bolton Street (Room 446), is open until 5pm today and until 4pm tomorrow…”

DIT Graduate Exhibition (Facebook)

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Featuring X – ‘Wild Love’

They write:

“Ireland’s hotly-tipped teen, indie quintet ‘Featuring X’  [Niamh Sharkey, Dara Farrelly, Eleanor Rogers, Sarah McLaughlin and Jenny McKeown from Drogheda]. unveil their official video which pays homage to the iconic 1985 classic Robert Palmer’s ‘Addicted to Love’.…”

A VHS to HD transition directed by Gavin Kilduff.

Featuring X (Facebook)

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Omaha beach, Normandy, France earlier..

Martco writes:

“Took these at 5-6am this morning the 70th Anniversary of D-Day…the last such official gathering as the veterans won’t be around much longer (do the maths) but some of them ARE very much still alive and again it was a privilege to have met them….they’re living history…telling stories of desperate disorganisation and guesswork, hardship and pain..definitely not glory…and all for us…I surely believe that many things, freedoms, existence we take for granted today would not be were it not for these brave men & women.”

 

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Con/Struct: the fictional landscapes of Cape Town-based artist designer and photographer Justin Plunkett of which it is said::

Con/Struct is an exploration into the themes of empowerment and imagination. Plunkett, using his own photography, has created new juxtaposed environments that encourage questioning and exploration: inviting the debate around how marketing- induced aspiration and perceived value can empower but can also corrupt, how it can be both perverse and create beauty. At the same time, at the core of his work, he honours and applauds ingenuity and the creative spirit.

See? Now you don’t know what to believe.

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