You may blub.
David Maybury writes:
The team at Brown Bag Films have been busy working late, covering weekends and ignoring lunch breaks to complete a short film to raise awareness about the Irish charity, To Russia with Love. The film will be released online in May with a call to share/donate/talk about the charity. We’ve just released the trailer – the first look at the movie and would appreciate any/all help in sharing it far and wide…
Fair play though, in fairness.
That’s better.
Or is It?
You may know Dublin-based ‘news trading floor’ Newswhip.
They provide free of charge the excellent widget to your right tracking the most popular stories on social media..
Newswhip launch their NEW site today which is responsive so – FINALLY – people with smartphones don’t have to squint any more to see the most shared stories.
Founder Paul Quigley writes:
To mark the occasion and moved by BS posting de papers [every night]. We decided to see what they would look like if we replaced the front page with the stories from each paper that people were sharing and talking about most on social media. Some photoshopping later and: Viola – the People Powered front pages from Wednesday’s papers, stacked next to their original equivalents…
This could get ugly.
Full set here
The video for a new tune by Happy Camper – a sunny foot-tapper with a dark heart from Dutch animators Job, Joris and Marieke.
…set on the rooftops of a big city, where a group of innocent creatures is trying to keep up the pace of a fatal game.
Previously: MUTE
(Thanks Job, Joris and Marieke)
[Freemen from top Gay Byrne (1990 Jack Charlton (1994) and Bob Geldof (2006)]
The Freedom of the City of Dublin.
Few (ladies) are chosen.
Henry & Clover write:
“If my cursory glance of the list [of 76 those awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin] doesn’t overlook anyone, that’s 71 men (including all four members of U2) and five women. There’s Michiko, empress-consort of Japan. There’s Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta,.. There’s Aung San Suu Kyi,. There’s Margaret Sandhurst, English suffragist. And, finally, there’s Maureen Potter, actor and comedian, who, of the seventy-six recipients of the Freedom of the City of Dublin, is the only Irish woman.
The Lord Mayor nominated and City Council approved a further two awards for 2014: Brian O’Driscoll and Father Peter McVerry…”
Oh.
Isaac Butt, W.E. Gladstone, et al. (Henry & Clover)
(Photocall ireland)
Artists Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder are currently living in a 7.6m tall rotating wheel at The Boiler in Brooklyn, NY as apart of an installation called In Orbit.
The giant wheel features furniture and other facilities on the inside and outside circumferences which the artists ‘living’ on either side must cooperate in order to use.
We are, all of us, mere hamsters on life’s great wheel.
(Photos: Scott Lynch/Gothamist)
A bike called hope.
Montague Street, Dublin this afternoon.
Thanks Jojo
Splutter.
Paddy Walsh writes:
Thought you might be interested on some level in the blatant sexism one Boards.ie poster encountered in Spar in the IFSC {International Financial Services Centre, Dublin]”.
Female Sandwich Makers Needed – No Sausages need Apply (Boards.ie)
Fancy some Haydn in Paris from Limerick?
Robbie Freeman writes:
We are an Irish start-up called Platform Ireland which broadcasts live Irish culture and entertainment online around the world on. We are kicking off our 2014 programme tomorrow evening live streaming Haydn in Paris by The Irish Chamber Orchestra from the University of Limerick.
The show will be presented to online audiences by Gay Byrne and Irish opera singer Fiona Murphy, pay per view tickets are €3.99 wherever you are in the world and everyone who buys a ticket will be entered into a draw to win an overnight stay in The Merrion Hotel [Five Star Dublin hotel] announced during the show. We will also be live tweeting during the event on #haydnpi
If you like the Irish ‘open’ road
Marvin Campos writes:
“Guys, just passing by to share this video I did of a road trip in Ireland in autumn 2013. It shows a lot of Ireland’s wonders…Where would you get it?”
Contains: beauty, rain, wind turbines.
Music: Balmorhea – Settler
