Eamonn Phelan writes [via BS App]:
We’ve come a long way from fizzbombs!! As seen in the Spar at Swords Manor. The cashier told me the kids can’t get enough of them!!
Category Archives: Photography
PBS Off Book sez:
Space presents a fantastic mystery to human life. Unfathomably large, with characteristics that defy our experience and understanding, the stars have perplexed and amazed humanity for our entire recorded history, and likely before. In the present, astrophysicists and astronomers are aggressively studying the universe in an attempt to solve critical scientific and philosophical questions. One of the primary tools for measurement and observation is imaging using cameras connected to powerful telescopes on Earth and in space. And although it’s not the primary motivation for photographing space, beauty is one of the most intriguing byproducts.
Full screen HD for full effect.
Australian sculptor and former puppeteer (on Jim Henson’s Labyrinth) Ron Mueck spends hundreds of hours perfecting the fine details of his hyper realistic pieces, rendering them identical in appearance to the human form in virtually all respects but one – scale.
Mueck’s disconcertingly intimate figures are either oversized (as in Couple Under an Umbrella, above) or miniaturised.
In April, Mueck unveiled three new works at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. The exhibition runs until the end of September.
(Photos: Thomas Salva courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.)
Fjord Focus
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Leenane looking out to Killary Fjord today.
Meanwhile:
Rush hour on The Grand Canal, Dublin, this afternoon.
Portobello Harbour, Grand Canal, this evening.
Shiela Larkin writes:
Seven long boats/barges in all.
Thanks Wayne Murphy, Clyde Carroll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmHU1qmtGfA
GIFTY – a concept camera by student Jiho Jang that captures up to five seconds of video and then spits out a series of frames that can be assembled into a flip book.
What you see here is a mock-up as opposed to a working prototype.
Damn. Someone tell that kid about Kickstarter.
And sudden, brutal vengeance.
Cow A Fungie
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Dingle, Co Kerry this afternoon.
‘Kiwi Mark’ writes:
Huge thanks should be extended to the Spar managers presently on a corporate jolly (sorry, “conference”) in Killarney, who have apparently decided to put their garish logo all over the waterfront of this beautiful seaside town while they’re visiting The Kingdom, presumably as part of some form in-house PR exercise.
Eyesore or harmless bovine fun.
MOO decide.
Pure and daycent, like.
(Thanks Eoin Drinan)
The extremely rare ‘parking/loading compulsory for all vehicles (including aircraft, oil rigs and heavy plant) at all times’ triple yellow lines.
(Thanks Danielle Martin)
Gronuded
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Kevin writes:
Brought my kids to the playgronud in Douglas Cork today, it was fantistac!