How many views?

Freelance director/writer Ian Adams writes:

My friends and I made a dark comedy feature film called “The Lads” a year and a half ago on a budget of €252 shot on location in Arklow [County Wicklow]..

We uploaded it to YouTube last Christmas and it just hit 1 million views last night…

Meanwhile…

Ian adds:

We’ve also finished our second feature film on a budget of €312 called “Manhunt” which is a thriller/horror shot in Wicklow and Stillorgan. and releasing on January 1st 2020 on YouTube for free….

In fairness.

 

This afternoon.

Greta Thunberg, 16, has been named Time’s 2019 Person of the Year.

The activist ‘inspired’ the school strikes for climate justice movement.

Fight!

BREAKING: Greta Thunberg is named Time’s 2019 Person of the Year (MailOnline)

Behold: the McLaren 620R – an entirely road-legal race car. Based on the track-only 570S GT4, adjusted with lightweight dampers, stiffer springs, braking system components from the Senna and McLaren’s Inertial Push seven-speed transmission for extra fast gear changes. The aero pack and massive rear wing of the 570S GT4 is retained, as is a retuned 610bhp version of the V8 engine.

With a 0-100km/h time of 2.9 seconds, it’s not clear what road this thing was designed for, but there you are.

Yours for about €270.000.

uncrate

https://vimeo.com/376038834

A rather pleasing paint-on-glass animation written and directed by Carol Freeman, comprised of 4,300 paintings created by a team of mainly female artists at Paper Panther Productions in Dublin. To wit:

…the story of a young whale, struggling to find its voice, who finds a caged bird that is the sole survivor of a shipwreck

And here’s how they made it.

colossal

Here’s How.

The current affairs podcast hosted by William Campbell (above right), who writes:

What is Whiteness? Some proponents use it to cover everything from ‘all white people (and some others)’ to ‘white supremacists’, but have a hard time to define it.

Is this a real concept, or just an amorphous term to cover for bad arguments?

I ask (who else?) – a professor of social science, Steve Garner (above left) from the department of Social Science at Cardiff University…..

Listen here

Here’s How

What are these streaks in the sky? They’re more orbiting agents of Elon Musk is what they are. To wit:

SpaceX launched 60 Starlink communication satellites in May and 60 more in November. These satellites and thousands more are planned by communications companies in the next few years that may make streaks like these relatively common. Concern has been voiced by many in the astronomical community about how reflections from these satellites may affect future observations into space. In the pictured composite of 33 exposures, parallel streaks from Starlink satellites are visible over southern Brazil. Sunflowers dot the foreground, while a bright meteor was caught by chance on the upper right. Satellite reflections are not new — the constellation of 66 first-generation Iridium satellites launched starting 20 years ago produced some flares so bright that they could be seen during the day. Most of these old Iridium satellites, however, have been de-orbited over the past few years.

(Image: Egon Filter)

apod

From top: the price of shares in Ires REIT have fallen following an emergency rent freeze proposal by Sinn Fein’s Housing Spokesman Eoin Ó Broin in the Dáil yesterday

Further to a Sinn Féin proposal that would freeze rents on existing and new tenancies for three years.

This morning.

Shares in the State’s largest landlord, Ires Reit, slipped more than 5.5 per cent on Wednesday morning after Sinn Féin introduced a Bill providing for a three-year rent freeze across the private rental market.

Ires, which had 2,771 residential properties as of the end of June, with more in development, could suffer the most of the listed property entities given its exposure to the rental market.

As much as €53 million was cut from the company’s market value as its shares dipped to €1.72.

*scrapes tiny violin”

Ires shares slip on Sinn Féin proposal for rent freeze (Irish Times)

Dáil debating Sinn Féin bill to introduce emergency rent freeze (RTÉ)

Fear Darb Ainm Harris

A documentary exploring Richard Harris’ extraordinary life on TG4 on New Year’s Day.

Linda Ní Ghríofa writes:

Produced by Dearg Films and featuring exclusive interviews with some of Hollywood’s elite, including Clint Eastwood, Daniel Radcliffe, Robert Duvall, Ridley Scott, Jim Sheridan, Gabriel Byrne and Stephen Rea, this documentary explores Harris’ fascinating and colourful life both on and off screen.

Fear Darb Ainm Harris on TG4 on New Year’s Day at 9.30pm.

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