The Common Room Project – a collaboration between 13 animators – all contributing sequential takes on the spoken word poem Common Room by Talia Randall.
Previously: Opposite Of A Thank You by Erin Fornoff, Numb by Alvy Carragher and Cabra by Lewis Kenny.
MC writes:
Was just innocently eating a yogurt, then boom…
The frenetic trailer for a new play, Leper and Chip, written by Lee Coffey, directed by Karl Shiels. To wit:
The boy, Leper meets the girl, Chip. Boy meets girl… in the middle of a battering, boy wrecks bus full of pensioners, girl gets chased by machete wielding maniac and love without madness isn’t love at all…Fast, frantic, funny… Dublin at 100mph with leopard coated cougars, Pringle eating whales and your almost-midget mate chained inside a fridge.
Rob O’Donoghue writes:
‘Leper and Chip’ will be running in Theatre Upstairs, above Lanigan’s Pub on Eden Quay, Dublin from the 22nd of April until the 3rd of May.
Production company Bitter Like A Lemon is also raising funds via indiegogo, should you feel inclined to support the arts.
Last night on the La Touche bridge, Portobello, Dublin 8.
(Thanks: Deirdre O’Sullivan)
Photographer Klaus Leidorf captures what he describes as ‘aerial archaeology’ from the vantage point of his Cesna 172 as he flies over the beaches, industrial zones and farmlands of Germany.
The image stabilisation of his Canon EOS 5D Mark III allows for fairly eye-watering detail.
Related: Sending And Receiving
Many more higher resolution pictures here.
Classic group photo dip there, in fairness.
Video of the above here.
(H/T: Glenn Caldecott)
@therealcolinfarrell via Kevin Whitty
Thanks Graham Barry
More to follow.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Based on two earlier very watchable experimental animations (Yellow Sticky Notes and Ode To A Post-It Note) director Jeff Chiba Stearns and a 14 other Canadian animators reflect on a single day in their lives using the medium of black pen on yellow adhesive rectangle.
Particpants: Paul Driessen, Cordell Barker, Lillian Chan, Malcolm Sutherland, Alison Snowden, David Fine, Chris Hinton, Jeff Chiba Stearns, Marv Newland, Louise Johnson, Joel Mackenzie, Jody Kramer, Jonathan Ng, Howie Shia, Janet Perlman
An inspired snack presentation from Luz’s Unique Creations bakery of Bismarck North Dakota.
(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)
