Bit of a boar this month.
Mark Geary writes:
“A new magazine in Australia. It’s for female hunters, hence ‘Chicks smashing grunters’.”
Poster Boy
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The award-winning phantasmal poster art of Polish graphic designer Weislaw Walkuski, who has collaborated with film studios, publishing houses and theatres since 1981.
Amazing cycling innovation in NI – world’s first rope bridge cycle lane unveiled at Carrick-a-rede pic.twitter.com/ilSPNlRThQ
— NI Greenways (@nigreenways) September 7, 2014
Amazed that this tweet has continued to bang overnight; at least 6 people have booked holiday packages.. https://t.co/Jx6zg1tPUq
— NI Greenways (@nigreenways) September 8, 2014
Photoshopped image of Carrick-a-Rede bridge gains legs and entices holidaymakers.
House Of Vans London – a 3000sqm combined skatepark, gallery, cinema, bar and concert venue spread across five tunnels beneath Waterloo Station.
As well as promoting the Vans shoes and clothing brand (like its predecessor, House of Vans Brooklyn) the venue is affiliated with local charities and will offer free art studio and gallery space to local creatives.
Subtle
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Today’s Sun newspaper
Further to the decision to remove the topless Page Three models from the Irish Sun in August 2013, Roy Greenslade, of The Guardian, writes:
“Whisper it lest it get about, but I think the Sun is quietly weaning itself off page 3. The paper has not run its usual topless picture since Thursday. It hasn’t given up publishing pictures of scantily-clad women, of course. But the long-run routine of publishing a model smiling vacantly at the camera with her breasts on show has been disrupted.
Friday’s page was devoted to shot of a naked Kim Kardashian with her nipple concealed. The Saturday and Sunday issues, as has long been the case, featured non-topless pictures.
Today, across pages 2 and 3, are a set of tastefully clothed pictures of a former Coronation Street star, Michelle Keegan, on a modelling shoot in Majorca.
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According to an official Sun spokesman, “it’s often the case that if we get exclusive pictures from our more popular female stars we will give them a page 2-3 spread.”
The Sun’s Page 3 topless pictures appear to be on their way out… (Roy Greenslade, The Guardian)
Previously: Éireann Go Bra
Episode two of a three-part series, Now We’re Hurling, by Dublin Community Television which follows Kilkenny MC and hurling enthusiast Captain Moonlight around Dublin as he investigates the rise in interest and quality in both hurling and hip hop in the capital.
John Breslin, from DCTV, writes:
Would be lovely to get more eyes on this if ye fancy having a look at it. Some great insights on the beautiful game, an intercounty hurler being put through his paces in Ballymun, some quality raps and an ad that takes the form of a silent movie made by Crumlin GAA members.
Episode three will be uploaded here today
Watch episode one here
Double Ooh
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Der Howard tweetz:
An ad with two men holding hands in bed, Ikea? Jaysus don’t let @BAItweets see that!!!
“The Competition Authority must urgently review the extent of Mr O’Brien’s influence in newsprint, digital and radio. It needs to assess how that would be affected by a deal with TV3 in the areas of advertising and talent-sharing. The Competition Authority should seek to determine whether INM and Communicorp have engaged in any joint selling of advertising involving their respective platforms and the value of any such transactions.”
“That there is already co-operation between INM and Communicorp is not in doubt. In addition to scratching each other’s back on editorial matters there is also a growing trend for “contra” advertising. In 2012 INM received the equivalent of €500,000 in advertising from Communicorp and those stations received the same amount in return.”
“Last year those respective figures had increased to €1m. The authority also needs to find out what business arrangements, if any, exist between Mr O’Brien’s Topaz Energy, the country’s biggest oil and convenience brand with 330 stations, and INM’s newspaper titles.”
From an editorial in yesterday’s Sunday Times, further to the news that TV3 is planning to form a partnership with Communicorp, the radio group owned by Denis O’Brien.
Previously: Anything Good In The Sunday Times?
Wanderley Massafelli/Photocall Ireland