Nest 06 – a new addition to artist Jakub Geltner’s nested CCTV installations – part of last month’s Sculpture By The Sea outdoor exhibition in Sydney Australia. More than a dozen functioning cameras near Bondi generated a live internet feed of viewers thoughout the exhbition.
Previously: Flocknology
MORE to folly.
This afternoon.
Giblets (out of picture).
Buzz writes:
The joy that is Curtis Family Butchers in [149, Church Road] East Wall [Dublin].
Yesterday Nure Never Too Young
No Monster Club – Lemonade
The Dublin band (no strangers to the ‘sheet) say:
Lemonade came out this week and has already been featured as one of Nialler 9’s ‘best tracks of the week’, BBC Across the Line’s ‘track of the day’, and The Irish Times’ ‘new Irish music of the week’. It’s from the album ‘I Feel Magic‘, out on February 5…
Previously: No Monster Club on Broadsheet
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The blissed out, rescued [by Animal Haven] donkey from the River Laune. Kilorglin on Sunday afternoon gets his own emoji.
Thanks Alan O’Regan
Previously: Dat Ass
Top pic: Suzanne Gibbons
BY THE SEA (122 minutes, 15A). Directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt. Starring Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Pitt, Mélanie Laurent.
The Gist: Groovy sexy couple Roland and Vanessa Bertrand (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) breeze into a small French resort in a top-down Citroën DS blaring Serge Gainsbourg. Roland is a blocked writer and Vanessa is tormented by an unspecified depression. He drinks, she pops pills. Whenever he raises the topic Roland is shut down, and the only pleasure the couple share is from spying on the energetic newlyweds in the next room.
The Skinny: It seems that writer/director Jolie has set out to make a Michelangelo Antonioni movie. And she just about pulls it off – until the clunky resolution, that is. There are more than enough clues in the pregnant pauses and pointed glances without the need to have the source of Vanessa’s depression spelled out. It’s a needless revelation that destroys any sense of mystery. Jolie is fascinating, using her unorthodox beauty to project Vanessa’s suffering, but Pitt is remarkably unconvincing in the role of husband. By the Sea is never less than beautiful – shot by veteran cinematographer Christian Berger (The White Ribbon) using natural light – but it’s dreadfully self-indulgent.
TLDR: Scenes from a (really bad) marriage.
By the Sea is in cinemas tomorrow.
Earlier: Broadsheet Trailer Park: The BFG
Anthony Muldoon writes:
Equate is a children’s rights education reform campaign and we published a new national opinion poll* on education reform yesterday.Key findings include:
46% would not choose a Christian school for their child if they had a choice locally
1 in 5 people are aware of someone who has baptised their child just to get them into the local school
77% do not think a school should have the right to refuse admission to a child who has a different religion to that of the school’s patron
62% think reform of school patronage should be a key priority for next GovernmentThere has been so much talk in the media about reform to education over the past few months and these figures show that Irish people want to see that reform soon!
* Survey carried out by Behaviour and Attitudes with1001 people across the country questioned.
No really.
Peter Connor, of Bullet [Free Online Accounting Software for Small Businesses] writes:
We’ve relaunched our ebook “Bullet’s Small Business Startup Grant Guide’, giving startups a cheat sheet to get the €100,000 on offer to them from many Government agencies.
It was about THREE months work and includes 30 pages of tips and tricks reviewed by Enterprise Ireland plus advice from people like Bebo Founder Michael Birch, TechCrunch Editor Mike Butcher, and Niamh Bushnell The Dublin Commissioner of Startups.
For the week that’s in it.
James Morrissey writes:
Here’s a short video that summarises the key “Battle of Clontarf Sea Wall” issues into less than three minutes, Big issue for Dublin and all its coastal communities going forward.
I am an actuary by profession. One of the keys questions that actuaries focus on is the trade-off between certainty and the costs of achieving that certainty. To be absolutely sure of something, you need enormous safety margins.
However, to be 99.9% sure, i.e., if a very small probability of failure can be countenanced, then safety margins can be materially lower.
Full letter to Dublin City Council here
Previousl;y: The Clontarf Wall
