Author Archives: Niall Murphy

We don’t recommend that anyone should drink Jack Daniels this way. Nor do we stand by the undergraduate sensibility of the image.

We just like what they’ve done to the Starbucks logo. And all it requires is ten seconds with a green marker. Admit it. You’ll be doing it next time you’re in there.

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Now we have lonely PR shots involving oversized payment cards.

Eamon Ryan and Stephen Wheeler, Airtricity Managing Director (and indifferent customer) in St. Andrew’s Street Post Office, Dublin literally minutes ago, launching Airtricity’s new SmarterEnergy card.

The card is “an innovative customer payment card from Ireland’s fastest growing energy utitility that puts customers in control of their energy payments”. Which is a direct lift from one of Pearse’s poems.

(Photocall Ireland)

Tilt-shift photography uses a special lens to give real-world scenes the appearance of miniature models. Still images can be tilt-shifted in Photoshop by adjusting a photograph’s contrast, colour saturation and depth of focus.

Fine art search engine Artcyclopedia recently applied the technique to the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, to fairly spectacular effect.

There’s a 16 image gallery including Starry Night (above) here.

None of these paintings has been added-to or removed-from or had its proportions changed. The effect is achieved simply by manipulating the light in the scene and adjusting the areas of the image that are more and less in focus, as you will see.

 

For decades, the Indian film industry has excelled at squeezing every last rupee out of a production budget, making spectacular movies at a fraction of the cost of its western counterparts. But what if Bollywood producers had Hollywood budgets?

Behold: Endhiran (The Robot).

At $43 million, it’s by far the most expensive Indian film ever made. To say they went to town on the stunts and special effects is putting it mildly. And yes, there are musical dance numbers.

Class.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzD-sRw5vx4

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Home by LCD Soundsystem. Video by the Houston based producers, Funwunce.

Hard to know which is better, the song or the video. We’re calling a tie.