By Perky&Quirky.
Yearly Archives: 2016
The 1947 Berkeley Library at TCD, by Ahrends Burton and Koralek.
Frank McDonald tweets:
The Brutalist style takes many forms. Here’s my pic to prove it …
WSB-TVs Mark Arum and Fred Blankenship pay tribute to the legendary A Tribe Called Quest co-founder Malik ‘Phife Dawg’ Taylor, who died this week from complications arising from diabetes.
RIP
A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg Dead at 45 (Rolling Stone)
MORE to folly
Fergus O’Neill writes:
In September 2015 the last 15 storey Ballymun tower (Plunkett tower) was demolished. The tower blocks were built in 1966, fifty years after the 1916 Rising. An attempt (a badly failed one some might say) to provide social housing for the exploding Dublin population.
The seven high-rise towers were optimistically named after the seven signatories of the proclamation. Tens of Millions have been spent commemorating the centenary year but still we have no new childrens hospital, a broken hospital service, a homelessness crisis and a housing crisis.
… to celebrate the occasion I’ve produced an illustration entitled ‘The Towers’. The print is available from the Irish Design Shop on Drury Street [Dublin 2] and for Easter week. All proceeds go to the Simon Community
Tonight.
On RTÉ 2 at 9.30pm.
I Am Traveller – fronted by actor John Connors, pictured above.
The documentary will involve Mr Connors speaking with surviving members of the Connors family who lost ten members of their family in a fire at a halting site in Carrickmines, south Dublin last October.
Melanie O’Connor writes:
John Connors, aka ‘Patrick’ From Love/Hate, tackles head on the truth, myths and prejudices around Travellers in this authored documentary.
The documentary is John’s personal account of what being a Traveller means to him. He reveals what he loves about Traveller culture, as well as what frustrates him about it. He opens up about the prejudice he has experienced as a Traveller all his life – and how that hasn’t gone away, despite his success as an actor.
Previously: Worth The Licence Fee
‘sup?
This afternoon
Darragh writes:
Window on the Flower Bowl, Rathgar [Dublin 6] done by artistic local florist Claire Bracken….
This week’s Sligo Champion
Bittynbobs writes:
Top right of page, tiny writing: IT Sligo research pushes back date of human existence here by 2,500 years. Page 5
Main story: the most important story of week bylined by the Editor:”The Sligo Champion is launching a major publicity campaign in the paper and on facebook to help Kelesa go all the way…Kelesa Mulcahy is a “singing sensation” from Sligo. She has just “sailed through” to the quarters of Voice of Ireland on RTÊ…
Following on from a recent b3ta photoshop challenge, to wit: ‘turn famous works of art into video games’, b3tard Happy Toast came up with the brilliant Piet Mondrian/Pong mashup, Pongdrian (above).
Inspired by the gif [which subsequently appeared elsewhere online, uncredited], designer Kristiana Hansen created a playable version, Mondripong 1.2.