Yearly Archives: 2017

Starting tomorrow night.

On RTÉ One.

At 8.30pm.

Missing You – a six-part documentary series via Skype.

Via RTÉ:

Missing You is a unique series about the lengths the Irish diaspora go to maintaining and nurturing relationships with their loved ones despite the thousands of miles between them. The show captures their stories and witnesses their relationships all through the confines of video calls.

“Viewers see first hand the intimacy, the honesty, the highs of everyday life, the lows, as well as the complexities of missing home. Missing You is the first series in the world to be filmed almost entirely using Skype.

Thanks Gareth

Donal Moloney writes:

India has been on my bucket list since I was a kid photographer but I had kept putting it off as it seemed every photographer on the planet had realised the same dream.

However, about a year ago I heard about two towns 150 miles south of New Delhi called Mathura and Vrindavan. Krishna was born in Mathura but spent most of his youth in Vrindavan. The towns are within 5 miles of each other.

Every year the Indian people celebrate ‘Holi’ (Festival of colours) but nothing like they do in Mathura and Vrindivan. I had a particular interest in what I had read about the Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavan. That was my primary mission. Everything else after that would be gravy.

There’s a truckload more shots on my Facebook page and a diary of my 9 day trip if anyone would like to see more.

Donal Moloney (Facebook)

 

Behind the scenes with the pupils of Ballinteer Educate Together on their day of protest against five years of cramped classrooms.

Dudley Colley writes:

A week on from our march on the Dáil and we haven’t heard a peep back. Rude!
Regardless, it was an amazing experience for our kids, and above is a snappy video of their exploits that day.

Previously: If The Kids Are United

Another stealth Ryanair charge?

YOU decide.

Daniel writes:

Yesterday I checked my wife and I in for our flight from London Gatwick to Dublin. We didn’t pay for seats and chose random seats when free check-in opened.. Ryanair put my wife in a centre seat in row 12 and me in a centre seat in row 27.

After check-in there was an option to change our seats for a fee, £4 for my wife to sit down the back next to me or £7 for me to sit in row 12 with her.

The annoying thing is that looking at the seat map it seems the flight is only about 10% checked in.

I checked with Ryanair on Twitter and they said if you choose random seats your seats are assigned randomly but it looks like I’m not the only one who has had this happen to them lately: see here, here and here.

We travel at least twice a month between Ireland and the UK and Ryanair have always assigned us seats together, even on full flights.

Shouldn’t they be upfront about this charge when you are booking and acknowledge that this is a policy change?

Anyone?

 

Ana’s Anchor – Summer Camp

Irish emo-indie act’s new single with a video shot on a hi 8 tape camera to deliver “an intentionally amateur effect”.

Marty Ryan writes:

I’ve always personally found it hilarious how the typical band video is like “Look at us, we’re cool, we’re playing in a forest!” Why would a band play in a forest? There is no electricity, or audience, it’s ridiculous…

Ana’s Anchor

Meanwhile, back in 1997…

The United Kingdom should be cut off from Europe.

Ukraine should be annexed by Russia.

The continental Russian-Islamic alliance ”lies “at the foundation of anti-Atlanticist strategy”. The alliance is based on the “traditional character of Russian and Islamic civilization”.

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists”. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements — extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics.”

Translated excerpts from The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia by neo-fascist political scientist Aleksandr Dugin, otherwise known as “Putin’s Brain”.

Probably just coincidence.

Putin’s playbook for discrediting America and destabilizing the West (Kottke)

(Image: Quartz)