Yearly Archives: 2016
Roboquin
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Behold: iDummy – a new innovation in ‘anthropometry and mechatronics’ for women’s fashion. To wit
…an intelligent robotic female torso that can change at a moment’s notice to adapt to almost any body type, of any size or ethnic background. It’s also changing the face of the garment industry which until now has relied on traditional fixed-size mannequins.
No word on a complementary Jacomobot.
MORE i.Dummy: The robot mannequin changes the face of garment industry (PolyU)
The future, all boffins agree,
Is something they won’t live to see,
And so they can say,
Whatsoever they may,
About skyscrapers under the sea.
John Moynes
Related: Seascrapers
(Press Association)
John Finn tweetz:
What?! FG to deliver high-speed broadband to every *pub*!!!! #YouCouldntMakeItUp #Ballymagash
Hic
*Click*
Talos – In Time
What you may need to know…
1. In case you missed it last week, Cork-based electronic-pop pinup songsmith Eoin French, aka Talos, dropped his much-anticipated new single In Time over at Nialler9’s blog.
2. Big, big things await the architecture tutor with a penchant for sweet vocals and spacey, shoegazing sensibilities, after a 2014/5 that saw singles Tethered Bones and Bloom take flight in a serious fashion, leading to myriad festival appearances all over Ireland and Europe, including Eurosonic in the Netherlands.
3. The video is directed and edited by longtime collaborator Feel Good Lost, also responsible for the strong visual identity of Cork Scandipop bedfellows Young Wonder, and recently directing videos for All Tvvins and Le Galaxie. One of Ireland’s most influential creative professionals.
4. Firmly established on the independent Irish music scene, Talos is looking set to go mainstream this year, getting the come-to-bed eyes from Hot Press in their recent Hottie awards/reader poll. He scooped two nominations, one for Best Song, the other for Most Promising Artist.
Verdict: Broadsheet recently saw the live configuration of the project play Quarter Block Party in Cork. He gets better every time we see him, but there’s some heavy-duty backup, including live cellos. Catch him live now, before he blows up properly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DwOKjz_9I&feature=youtu.be
A shelter pod placed outside the Central Bank on Dame Street, Dublin early this morning; what it says on the pod; and a video about living on the streets of the capital
Early this morning campaign group Gimme Shelter Ireland – which has no affiliation with any party or candidate – placed four shelter pods on streets across Dublin.
One was placed outside the Central Bank on Dame Street; one opposite the Dáil on Molesworth Street, next to the steps where Jonathan Corrie died in December 2014; one beside Busáras facing the Custom House; and one on O’Connell Street.
It’s understood the pod that was placed outside the Central Bank has already been removed.
The Gimme Shelter Team write:
“The pods are not a sustainable solution to Ireland’s homeless crisis. Sleeping in a cold plywood box is only marginally better than sleeping on the street. The desire to provide some semblance of shelter is born out of frustration and shame at the State’s efforts, or lack thereof, to robustly address the current housing emergency.”
“Those of us behind #gimmeshelterireland believe that each person sleeping rough on the streets of Ireland represents a failure of the State to protect people living in vulnerable situations. We believe that every family forced to seek refuge in inadequate emergency shelter is an affront to the well-being and dignity of all of the people of Ireland.”
“Ireland has ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Both recognise the right to adequate housing as essential to ensuring basic human dignity is afforded to all.
“#gimmeshelterireland is a call for the right to adequate housing to be enshrined in the Constitution of Ireland. This would represent a concrete commitment to ensuring that the lives of all people living in Ireland are underpinned by dignity and rights. We ask all candidates running in the 2016 General Election make this commitment.”
A petition calling on the next Taoiseach to enshrine a right to adequate housing in the constitution can be signed here
Thanks Sean
Right So
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Fluffybiscuits writes:
Are the Regency Hotels aware of their murder mystery night?
The Perfect Murder package (Regency Hotel)
‘sup?
Some Dad writes:
Is the Mick Wallace campaign (left) channeling The Lonely Beast (right). Only one has the decency to wear a tie.
Meanwhile…
Anne Marie O’Connor writes:
Someone in Wexford is addressing Wallace’s wardrobe woes.
Pic:Vicki Walsh
What you may need to know:
1. You haven’t seen this already. It just seems like you have.
2. This is quite possibly the traileriest trailer that we’ve ever seen.
3. From Garry Marshall, the director of stone-cold classics such as New Year’s Eve (2011) and Valentine’s Day (2010).
4. Garry is working his way through the calendar, one ensemble “comedy” at a time.
5. Broadsheet prognosis: The cinematic equivalent of a Coldplay album.
Release Date: April 29
Cisternhood
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Spotted in Deansgrange, Dublin.
(Thanks Rose Hayles)