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(H/T: John Gallen via Stephen Pinker)
Yearly Archives: 2016
The second annual Dublin Bowie Festival happens on the 5th to the 10th of January next year, with the festival closing on the first anniversary of the Thin White Duke’s passing.
Music, movies, debate and tributes aplenty will spread to venues all over Dublin, in celebration of the man’s life and work, with Nialler9 picking his highlights over at his site.
Not to be missed are talks with playwright/Lazarus stage-show co-author Enda Walsh, and a vigil on the 10th to mark Bowie’s passing, with Bowie Raw performing acoustically, and space/time available for anyone that wishes to convey their feelings onstage through song or spoken word.
This afternoon.
At Smithfield Square, Dublin 7.
The Science Gallery writes:
These life-sized outlines of various Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones are public artworks executed by the writer, publisher, artist, and technologist James Bridle.
Many military drones fly higher than 30,000 feet, where they often operate undetected either for surveillance, or for launching missiles at remote targets. This increasingly ubiquitous but stealthy tool of modern warfare is all but unseen, and the artist combats this by marking out the shadow of the drone in urban settings.
The series, produced in collaboration with designer Einar Sneve Martinussen, forms one part of James’ wide-ranging visual and textual activism dealing with issues of the post-privacy era: secret surveillance, extraordinary rendition, and the systems that permit and encourage such violence against and among citizen-subjects.
The increasing use of UAVs, among other recent designs for conflict, provokes discussion about autonomous military technologies and about the ethics of using efficient but increasingly unaccountable designs in warfare.
Earlier: ‘Who Is “We”? What Constituency Do You Represent?’
Thanks Mark Stedman and Rob Collins
Ten-Year Story.
The 2006-2016 story of one of the best indie festivals in the land – KnockanStockan – which lit up in Blessington Lakes, Co Wicklow every July.
On a break next year but returning in 2018, the festival and Little Beast Films put this film together to reflect on the last decade of independent music.
In fairness.
Bright Skies
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YIKES!
The Knitted Halloween mask balaclava in all its unsettling guises.
Marketed as a lasting alternative to forehead-slicing, 50c plastic masks.
Stop That
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Yesterday evening.
Spotted by Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2.
Anyone?
Thanks Alan Bracken
Whatifery
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What if Joyce had never met Nora?
What if Roy Keane had gone back to Saipan?
What if acclaimed artist Annie West created a buke around these and other What Ifs?
And what if Annie did this with a host of glittering essayists?
What If? (New Island Press) is a new compendium of elegantly fun drawings by Annie and alternative endings to famous stories “bringing to life an imaginary world turned upside down”.
Includes essays from Liz Buckley, Turtle Bunbury, Dr Dean Burnett, Charlie Connelly, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Robert Cullen, Barry Devlin, Myles Dungan, Tara Flynn, Tom Foley, Jim Lockhart, Declan Lynch, Cathal MacCoille, David McCullagh, Dearbhail McDonald, Frank McNally, Feargal Murphy, Sheila O’Malley, Lorna Siggins, Colm Tobin and ‘sheet ricksmith John Moynes.
In all good bookshops NOW.
Available to order online here
Or at Amazon here
Irish made Xmas sticking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked Irish Made Stocking Fillers
Sea-Watch rescue reports:
An intervention by a speedboat, labelled as Libyan Coast Guard, during one of today’s rescue operations caused several deaths today in the Central Med, 14nm off Libya.
During our first-aid delivery for a rubber boat with approximately 150 migrants on board, a Libyan Coast Guard vessel arrived and attacked the refugees, entering the rubber boat and hitting them with sticks.
Our two speed boats were furthermore beset aggressively, preventing our crew from further providing life vests and medical aid to the people in need.
The violent intervention of the Libyan Coast Guard caused a situation of mass panic on board the rubber boat in distress, in the cause one tube of the rubber boat collapsed, causing the majority of the 150 people to slip into the water.
Our crew immediately tried to rescue as many as possible but a binary number of people could not be saved. 4 bodies were recovered onto the Sea-Watch 2, another 4 unconscious people are currently receiving medical treatment. 120 refugees could be rescued aboard our vessel.
This latest incident of alleged Libyan official units endangered not only the crew of rescue volunteers but moreover caused the death of many migrants. By now it is very unclear why Libyan Coast Guard engaged the way it did. Sea-Watch calls for an immediate and detailed solution of this violation of humanitarian law.
The crew of the Sea-Watch 2 is presently still engaged in rescue operations of multiple refugee boats in distress, all staff is working at capacity. Additional information is being assessed and will be provided in the cause of the day.
Via: Libyan Coast Guard attack on Sea-Watch rescue operation causes multiple dead (Nando Sigona)
‘Libyan Coast Guard’ craft attacks migrant boat, at least four dead: Sea Watch NGO (Reuters)
This afternoon.
Brown Thomas, on Grafton Street, launches its annual Christmas window display with help from Chloe Collins, aged 8 from Castleknock (above) and Ciaran Bass, head concierge at Brown Thomas, and Dylan Hamilton, aged 3 from Sandymount (third picture down).
Leon Farrell writes:
With just 64 days until Christmas Day, the Grafton Street store has today unveiled its festive windows featuring more than 10,000 decorations, 7,000 baubles, a mile of green foliage and more than 1 million lights. This year’s Christmas window theme pays homage to the nostalgic scenes from the traditional Christmas greeting card.
64 DAYS!
Ugh
Mmf.
Pics: Leon Farrell/Rollingnews