Category Archives: Video

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Looking for Change – Just Mikey

Neil Buckley writes:

Six weeks ago, inspired by a freezing night, Mick posted a video on Facebook appealing to people to support the homeless campaign. It was picked up across multiple news and media outlets, and since then the Home Sweet Home campaign came to prominence.
We’re delighted to present the song that was inspired by that original video. Filmed over the course of a day with the Home Sweet Home supporters, it’s our way of providing support to the objectives of the movement in the best way we can as artists.

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Using old school analogue visual effects like ink dispersing in an aquarium and pinholes in tissue paper to represent stars, Thomas Vanz creates a very impressive and highly plausible representation of a dying sun going supernova. To wit:

Novae is a movie about an astronomical event that occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star’s life, whose dramatic and catastrophic death is marked by one final titanic explosion called supernova. By only using an aquarium, ink and water, this film is also an attempt to represent the giant with the small without any computed generated imagery.

Vanz shows how he did it here and here.

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Last night at the Citizen’s Assembly in Malahide, Dublin.

Paul Kelly writes:

RTE’s Joe Little multi tasks, balancing a laptop, delivering a live report, holding back a protester and under this pressure he manages to be polite and gentlemanly all at the same time. What a pro!

Moral status of the unborn discussed at Citizens’ Assembly (RTE News)