Category Archives: Video

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Phillip McMahon writes:

Emmet Kirwan, writer of Sarah & Steve and star of the Just Sayin’ video has written a new play called Dublin Oldschool. It’s a razor sharp roller coaster ride through the Dublin underground. It premieres at Tiger Dublin Fringe next week, playing at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre.Would love if you could share it.

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Ghost In The Machine –  part of a current exhibition at New York’s Joseph Gross Gallery by artist Ted Lawson, who attached himself intravenously to a CNC machine, supplying his own blood as ‘ink’ to print a life size nude portrait of himself.

The term ‘selfie’ doesn’t quite do the thing justice.

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The late US poet and novelist Charles Bukowski reanimated for Harper Collins by Quoted (the studio behind the PBS Blank On Blank series) what sez:

In 1993, candid conversations between Charles Bukowski, his wife, and his producer took place in Bukowski’s home during the recording session for his classic Run With the Hunted.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIodXS1uqVs

A timelapse (recorded on April Fools day 2012) of a day’s marine traffic through the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal, which turns 100 this month.

You can also watch live footage of the Locks here.

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Meanwhile, almost a century ago…

A souvenir postcard from the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

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(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)

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A short documentary interview uploaded back in March featuring images from the late 60s and early 70s by photographer, naturalist and Coombe-born, Mick Brown.

Mick, who has lived in Pembrokeshire, West Wales for more than forty years, recalls his childhood and the street life of the Liberties in Dublin – an accompaniment to his book ‘Mick Brown’s Dublin: The Past has a Great Future’ .

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(H/T: Liam Phelan)