Jenny May Finn writes:
I am a video artist from Dublin and I’ve finally released the first video in my new project on hands. I am doing a series of video Hand Portraits. This first one is of “The Sound Editor” who sits in a suite and edits sounds on the TV shows lots of us watch every day. I adore hand mannerisms and this little series will hopefully show us some of the quirks and lovely hand gestures us individuals have without even realising it.
Beyond Slow Motion combines footage of athletic border collie Jumpy with the human parkour stylings of Alex Van Duong
Song: Straight West by Kasket Club.
A wise man once said something like ‘There is life on other planets, only not to see’.
It might have been Aidan Walsh. And how right he was.
It’s all down to the blinding glow of stars, which obliterates the ability of distant viewers to see the planets orbiting them.
In this TED talk, Princeton University astronomer Jeremy Kasdin explains a new technology which may change all that: the Starshade – a flower petal-shaped screen that allows a telescope (located up to 50,000km from said Starshade) to photograph previously invisible planets trillions of kilometers away.
(Thanks Helvick)
From 1994, an ad for Crowded House’s Dublin gig, with support from Blink.
Almost 20 years to the day, Neil Finn is back.
Playing Dublin and Cork soon.
Don’t dream it’s over.
Footage by an unknown Russian Youtuber reduxed by Ivan Mickhailov to the poignant strains of Christopher Ferreira’s The Dancer.
Wait for it.
Mmf.
(H/T: Anthony Finucane)
François writes:
After a busy year working with Skrillex, Kadavre Exquis is happy to finally announce the release of a new animated SciFi music video [4 months in the making] he made for the French band Equateur. The song is called ‘The Lava’.
A cautionary tale of opportunistic charging and battery drain by Supinfocom animation student Francois Heysen.
Tim Minchin performs Woody Allen Jesus at the Coronet in London in 2012.
Festive.
(H/T: Niall Gubbins)
From a recently released collection of British Pathé archives from 1950: the year George Bernard Shaw died, the year Gabriel Byrne was born, Mayo won the All Ireland and Frederick Boland became the first Irish ambassador to the UK.
(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)
