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Further to our Cú Chulainn posts of late.

Will Sliney, the Cork Marvel Comics artist , is launching ‘Celtic Warrior The Legend of Cú Chulainn at Waterstones, Cork, at 6-7pm.

BUT Can YOU pitch an alternative ending for Cú Chulainn BEFORE 6pm?

The Comic Cast (Ireland’s #1 Comic Book Podcast) are offering artwork by Will to give away to the ONE judged finest.

Will writes:

“This page (above) details the moment when Meave’s army realise that they will have to pass by an ash tree haunted by the souls of Ireland’s deadliest warriors. It is one of many markers left by Cú Chulainn to stop the marching men dead in their tracks.”

Crikey.

Lines close at 6pm

Launch Update:.

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From:Maidhcí

Cork this evening. Sound bloke.

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Fluidic – an interactive light sculpture – is a collabortation between Hyundai’s Advanced Design Center and WHITEvoid studio in Berlin.

12,000 suspended spheres form a ‘three dimensional pixel’ array, 3D cameras sense the motion of observers and translate these into light patterns using high-speed lasers. WHITEvoid describes it thus:

…a seemingly floating point cloud above a water pond and consisting of 12,000 translucent spheres marks the heart of the installation. Due to a complex computer algorithm the spheres are arranged seemingly random within the cloud. At the same time the algorithm observes the positions and projection angles of eight high-speed laser projectors that are being arranged around the artwork. They are sending out beams scanning through the arrangement of the cloud. Generating bright and dim light points, this creates a highly organic and natural distribution of voxels (3D pixels). Emerging lines and shapes finally form graphical compositions without any sweet or blind spots. Keeping the same density and intensity the FLUIDIC graphics enables their viewers to observe and interact with it from every point of view.

Currently on display at the Temporary Museum For New Design in Milan.

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Isabel Kelly writes:

I am a third year Landscape Architecture student in UCD, as part of a project a group of 5 of us installed an interactive art installation in Smithfield yesterday. I’m writing to you out of pure shock that our installation survived and was so successful. We combined tree branches, sprayed yellow in a cement base with tags left on the branches with two markers and left it to stand in the centre of smithfield over night.
The idea was to mimic the idea of a ‘wish tree’ and to see how the public would interact with art out in the open.

We returned today to find every tag written on back and front and even new tags added, made from paddy power betting papers. Thought this would be of interest to everyone to see how this fragile structure survived and was enjoyed by so many. We’re all so glad to have reached out to so many people, we hope their wishes come true!

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cuch1 cuch2By Cork-born Marvel Comic artist Will Sliney

Liam at TheComicCast.com writes:

With all the comments on yesterday’s  Cú Culainn Broadsheet post focusing on who would play him in a movie, Will has sent us these (above).

 

Celtic Warrior Legend (Facebook)

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…and artist Sarah DiNardo’s involves rolling long strips of masking tape into different sized cones and cylinders, then arranging them in ‘found’ boxes.

It all stems from a childhood obsession with the tactility of Chiquita banana stickers.

We like Sarah.

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As recently featured on the TLC show My Crazy Obsession, Eric ‘the Mertailor’ Ducharme (charming name, charming guy) has turned a childhood obsession with all things mermaidenly into a business – making custom mer-tails.

This is precisely the kind of entrepreneurial spirit that will one day save Atlantis.

Go on. You know you want one.

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homer1 homer2 homer3Draw Homer is a website wherein we observe portraits of Homer by artists from all over the world.

The above examples by (left to right, top to bottom) John Michael, Pablo Parés, Juan Malka, Eduardo Bertone, Joaquín Aldeguer and Macro are a mere taste of the main exhibition.

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Get him.

Liam at Comic Cast writes:

Marvel artist and Cork man Will Sliney’s new comic book ‘Celtic Warrior The Legend of Cú Chulainn’  launches in Cork this Thursday (but is already on book shelves). In anticipation of the big Waterstones launch party, Cú Chulainn himself popped down to Ballycotton to meet Sliney (above).

 

But who will play Cú Chulainn in the inevitable movie?

Celtic Warrior Legend (Facebook)

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Previously: Made In Cork: MacGyver The Comic Book