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A viking/Boru tug-off on Dame Street, Dublin.
Yearly Archives: 2014
HamsandwicH – ‘New Song’
Veteran Meath indie lovelies – Niamh Farrell, Podge McNamee, ‘Darcy’, David McEnroe and Ollie Murphy with – literally – a new song.
Thanks Christopher Farrell
Stealth Barn
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Submitted as a contender for the Architectural League’s Folly 2014 competition, the Invisible Barn by New York architects STPMJ is a parallelogram-shaped wooden structure covered with mirrored film designed to ‘disappear’ into a dense grove of trees at the Socrates Sculpture Park
It was not raised by invisible Mennonites.
[The urn containing Kevin Dorothy’s ashes]
Laugh?
He killed.
Kevin Dorothy, 53, who died in December, had wanted to take part in the comedy night at the Belfast’s Pavilion Bar.
On Monday night, one of his friends, Stephen Mullan, took to the stage at the Ormeau Road venue complete with Kevin’s ashes in an urn. The routine consisted of jokes Kevin had texted to Stephen and other friends.
[friend Tom Sweeney said] “Nobody had seen anything like it. You hear about comedians dying on stage. Well, Kevin jumped the gun.”
Dead man fulfils comedy club wish (Johnny Caldwell, BBC News NI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-y9ZqiY90
A video compiled by Newswhip the people-powered news people on how Pantigate – a story intiailly ignored by mainstream media – evolved with YOUR help.
Paul from Newswhip sez:
“We wanted to show how social media and more unofficial online news outlets can drive news agendas…”
Meanwhile…
…holding a minority view does not automatically confer martyr status on an individual. It just means their opinions are unpopular.This phenomenon was evident during the Pantigate controversy when some commentators, railing against the online backlash, seemed to suggest that central to the concept of free speech was the right to express an opinion without that opinion being challenged or derided.No such right exists.
…If there is a threat to freedom of speech in this country, it is not coming from social media, but from people who prefer to make accusations of bullying instead of defending their opinions from legitimate criticism.
Learnosity are hiring again!
Rachel Murray writes:
“We had a great response last time we posted on Broadsheet. This time we’re looking for A DevOps/Linux Engineer to join our Dublin office in the IFSC.
Learnosity are a multi-award winning technology company shaping the future of digital education by providing assessment technology to educational providers worldwide.
This is a full time role where you’ll be working closely with our Business Development Engineer (Neil) in Dublin, the DevOps team (Alan and Daniel) in Sydney as well as with our brand new team in the USA.
We’re only starting to build up our tech presence in the Dublin office so you’ll need to be comfortable working autonomously but it also mean you’ll really have an opportunity to make this role your own and to get on board with a young, rapidly expanding, company. Expected salary range €50,000 – €70,000…We’re also hiring a bunch more people for the Sydney and new US office so keep an eye on our careers page.
Full job spec here
Interesting vacancies to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Job Club’. No fee.
Hollywood SFX supremo Steve Johnson talks to Matt Winston of Stan Winston’s School Of Character Arts about the first iteration of the original Predator monster – an unwieldy, dog-headed, insectoid clustermorph grudgingly manned by budding action hero Jean Claude Van Damme until he was replaced by the more physically imposing Kevin Peter Hall.
Full webcast here
Hold the Bonoroni.
Siobhan Sacker writes:
Thought you might be interested in the Pizza Selfie which is a homage to notable Irish people of the time. We sent it out as gifts yesterday [for this still-open competition]. It’s drawn by the amazing caricaturist Steve Mulreany, and the packaging was all designed in-house in Horizon Digital Print Solutions.
From Left: Bosco, Amy Huberman, Dara Ó Briain, Katie Taylor, Rachel Allen, Panti, Chris O’Dowd, Shane MacGowan, Squee, Jack Gleeson (AKA King Joffrey), Pauline McLynn and Saoirse Ronan.
