MORE to folly.
This evening.
Dublin bay from Bull Island.
Save Poolbeg.
Thanks Daniel
MORE to folly
Alvy Carragher writes:
You’ve shared my videos a few times, this is one about a poem (‘Numb’) you’ve previously published which was trolled quite horrifically. It’s called Unsolicited Advice from a Failed Male Poet. And there was an article put up on the Guardian about it for a bit of background.
READ ON: Irish Poet Who Wrote About Rape Ordeal Hits Back At Online Trolls (Guardian)
How has the world changed since you were born?
Compare and contrast here.
(H/T: John Gallen via Stephen Pinker)
The second annual Dublin Bowie Festival happens on the 5th to the 10th of January next year, with the festival closing on the first anniversary of the Thin White Duke’s passing.
Music, movies, debate and tributes aplenty will spread to venues all over Dublin, in celebration of the man’s life and work, with Nialler9 picking his highlights over at his site.
Not to be missed are talks with playwright/Lazarus stage-show co-author Enda Walsh, and a vigil on the 10th to mark Bowie’s passing, with Bowie Raw performing acoustically, and space/time available for anyone that wishes to convey their feelings onstage through song or spoken word.
This afternoon.
At Smithfield Square, Dublin 7.
The Science Gallery writes:
These life-sized outlines of various Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones are public artworks executed by the writer, publisher, artist, and technologist James Bridle.
Many military drones fly higher than 30,000 feet, where they often operate undetected either for surveillance, or for launching missiles at remote targets. This increasingly ubiquitous but stealthy tool of modern warfare is all but unseen, and the artist combats this by marking out the shadow of the drone in urban settings.
The series, produced in collaboration with designer Einar Sneve Martinussen, forms one part of James’ wide-ranging visual and textual activism dealing with issues of the post-privacy era: secret surveillance, extraordinary rendition, and the systems that permit and encourage such violence against and among citizen-subjects.
The increasing use of UAVs, among other recent designs for conflict, provokes discussion about autonomous military technologies and about the ethics of using efficient but increasingly unaccountable designs in warfare.
Earlier: ‘Who Is “We”? What Constituency Do You Represent?’
Thanks Mark Stedman and Rob Collins
Ten-Year Story.
The 2006-2016 story of one of the best indie festivals in the land – KnockanStockan – which lit up in Blessington Lakes, Co Wicklow every July.
On a break next year but returning in 2018, the festival and Little Beast Films put this film together to reflect on the last decade of independent music.
In fairness.
Bright Skies
at
YIKES!
The Knitted Halloween mask balaclava in all its unsettling guises.
Marketed as a lasting alternative to forehead-slicing, 50c plastic masks.