By #covidbookcovers.
Original titles at the link.
This afternoon.
In Rathmines, Dublin 6.
Peter tweetz:
“Sorry about the bad picture but I’ve been watching three drones hover over Rathmines for the past half an hour.”
Anyone?
Mary tuned in to Normal People last night and she thinks it was like “something you would expect to see in a porno movie”. #liveline@joeliveline pic.twitter.com/mMoJwtMEvw
— Liveline (@rteliveline) April 30, 2020
Poor Joe pic.twitter.com/qh3UltW8TY
— lenny abrahamson (@lennyabrahamson) April 30, 2020
This afternoon.
FILTH!
Fight!
Yesterday: Abnormal Beauty
This afternoon.
Carnew Street, Dublin 7.
Fitness instructor Janette Strickland (light blue jacket with white cap) guides her neighbours through their weekly lockdown work-out.
‘Domestic Demise’: the pressures of domesticity in an age of lockdown explored by photographer Patty Carroll: a series comprised of highly stylised scenes featuring a faceless mannequin attempting— and failing to complete—a range of duties. Sez she:
The interior of the home is comforting, but can also camouflage individual identity, especially when the idealised decor becomes an obsession, or indication of position or status
More here.
Tin Pigeons – Closer
When in quarantine, improvise!
Dublin-based filmmakers Conor Tobin and Tommy Creagh haven’t let the lockdown stop them from magicking up this video for UK band Tin Pigeons (top).
The video was shot, edited and stars Conor while Tommy directs.
Tommy explains:
“We had to adapt to the reality of what we could do under lockdown. The only way it could possibly work was for Conor, D.O.P, to film himself throughout his daily routine and for us to discuss the rushes over Skype at the end of every day and work them back into an ever evolving treatment.
“The process was slower than usual but from the restrictions, an organic visual style formed. Through trial and error we figured out a way to work around the obstacles in place and tell a compelling story.”
Nick says: A Top Tin hit, surely.
Thanks Emma Fagen