Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff – Mother
A spectacular aural and visual rendering of Pink Floyd’s Mother dedicated to the current US administration.
Hilary Phelan writes:
I don’t know how to describe Amanda Palmer’s new video. I’m too stunned to form a sentence.I just know that the media has responded with silence and this needs to get out there.
It would be great if you would publish your thoughts on the video, it deserves to be seen.
Your thoughts?
Enjoy street sounds?
From 10am on Saturday, December 23, Waterford’s streets will be taken over by buskers of every hue and stripe.
Tadhg Williams, of Busk Aid writes:
After successfully raising over €3700 last year we are incredibly excited to be bringing live music back to the streets of Waterford on Saturday the 23rd of December 2017 for two very worthy causes – Tinteán Housing Association and the Waterford Lion’s Club Christmas Hamper Appeal.
No pan pipes.
Fight.
It’s that time already.
The Phoenix magazine’s 2017 annual.
On all good shelves now.
Also: McGregor?
The Apuan Alps in Northern Italy – home to a ‘surreal abundance’ of pristine white marble.
Every year at the Canalgrande quarry, 65,000 tonnes of it are extracted, worth around 10 million euro. To wit:
Sit on a beach in one of the nearby towns (Forte dei Marmi, Viareggio), and you appear to be looking up at snow-covered peaks. But it is snow that does not melt, that is not seasonal. Michelangelo sculpted most of his statues from this stone, and he was so obsessed with the region that he used to fantasize about carving an entire white mountain right where it stood.
READ ON: The Majestic Marble Quarries Of Northern Italy (Sam Anderson, The Story Institute)
‘sup?
Phoenix Park, Dublin
Siobhan Grogan writes:
Dublin Zoo is delighted to announce the birth of a southern white rhinoceros calf. The male calf, yet to be named, was born to proud mother Nyala and father Chaka on Sunday, 12th November and weighs approximately 50kgs.
The youngster is Nyala’s first calf and the birth marks another significant success for Dublin Zoo as part of the European Endangered Species Programme, established to assist the survival of the southern white rhinoceros.
Name that calf, anyone?
Pic: Patrick Bolger
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Dublin artist Heather Thompson writes:
Give the gift of art! It’s classic! It’s unique! And you’ll look pretty swanky giving it!
I am having a sale on my site (until the end of November), just in time for Christmas. Loads of original acrylic and gold gilt paintings have been marked down up to 65% percent — most are only €80 or €100.
And for those on a tighter budget, there’s also canvas bags and high-quality A4 and A3 prints available, including The George’s finest, Veda (pic 3).
Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. No cost.
This afternoon.
The Department of Social Protection, Gandon House, Amiens Street, Dublin 1
Solidarity Party TDs, above from left: Paul Murphy, Ruth Coopinger and Mick Barry at the launch of a Bill to ban Anti-Homeless Devices in sheltered areas.
‘Defensive or hostile architecture‘ is becoming a feature of Dublin city as homeless figures continue to soar.
FIGHT!
Sam Boal/Rollingnews
Meanwhile…
This morning in the heart of Dublin's creative quarter #homelessness @broadsheet_ie pic.twitter.com/nDfHjvC21A
— Some Dad (@_SomeDad) November 16, 2017
There you go now.
A stunning short created (without CGI) using macro photography of pigment, powdered iron, magnets and glitter by German filmmaker Roman De Guili with music by Son-J.
Alison Spittle
On The Late Late Show.
Gareth Naughton writes:
Daddy’s Home 2 stars Mel Gibson, Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell and John Lithgow dropped into The Late Late Show earlier this week for an interview recorded in front of a live studio audience.
…Comedian Peter Kay will be dropping by… Christy Moore is back with a brand new live album, On the Road… Comedian Alison Spittle is putting the Midlands on the map… she’ll join Ryan to talk about getting her big telly break…
…Star of The Missing James Nesbitt will tell viewers why he is throwing his support behind Holles Street’s RetCam appeal to raise funds for vital equipment to help save the eyesight of premature babies… Plus music from Ham Sandwich.
*puts telly in wood chipper*
The Late Late Show on RTÉ One on Friday at 9.35pm.
Meanwhile…
“Your heart goes out to the victims, of course, and I am glad that they spoke up…I think it is unfortunate that they have to relive the whole thing in order to heal themselves. The rest of us are subjected to the problem, I think we really need to look at it. But it is not just Hollywood, you don’t have to be in Hollywood to experience that kind of harassment.”
Mel Gibson in an excerpt from an interview with the cast of Daddy’s Home 2 to be broadcast tomorrow night on the Late Late.
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