A multi-award-winning abstract, metaphysical short by animator Ben Ridgway.
For the bus home, like.
The Rutland Fountain, Merrion Square in its heyday (top) and today (above)
A waterless fountain.
Penned in.
Funkshot writes:
“A classic example of municipal laziness and lack of civic pride. This is the Rutland Fountain on Merrion Square just down from Government Buildings. As you can see it is enclosed by a railing, and the water turned off. But if you look at the drawing from the National Library, you can see what the fountain is missing – its statue (note the clam) and the running water – it is a fountain after all. Structurally the edifice is fine having been renovated in 2009 and the water could easily be reconnected. I mean how difficult is it to put a replica statue back in situ?“
Anyone?
Enjoy street photography?
Starting Friday.
Peter O’Doherty writes:
“47 Street Photographers, 47 Photographs from established street photographers to emerging new talent from Ireland and beyond, this is the first “Irish Street Photography Exhibition” from the ISPG (Irish Street Photography Group)…
Forty seven.
Fleeting
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“Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the Summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day… make a wish and think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did.”
A short Robin Williams tribute from Dublin creatives Modern Green.
Mmf.
Earlier: Robin Williams Dies At 63
Robin Williams And Why Funny People Kill Themselves (David Wong, Cracked.com)
Thanks Tom Harrington
Elaborate, life-affirming, fancy-dressed hi-jinks, including a brace of Doctor Who-a-likes and the Dude (3.09).
All the best bits from the Dublin Comic Con lovingly compiled by Graham Dillon.
Music: Fitz and the Tantrums – The Walker.
Linda C writes:
Saw this this morning in the Phoenix Park, driving along slowly, boot open, window down and walking the dogs out the window on a lead…
Ballsbridge, Dublin this afternoon.
Soon there will be nowhere left to go.
Mark writes:
“The closed “public convenience” at the junction of Anglesea Road and Merrion Road, across the road from the RDS. One of 70 public toilets, many having been built over a 100 years ago, that once operated in Dublin, stretching from Harolds Cross to Howth, including areas like Mountjoy Square, Glasnevin, Sandymount, Terenure, Dolphin’s Barn and Infirmary Road. These relics of a different time have a long history, their journey from use to disuse reflects how Irish society has evolved over the past 100 years. In the Ireland of the late 19th century not every home had an indoor loo – or even a toilet at all. This location was put up for auction by Dublin City Council last year but is now being demolished….”
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
The Optics
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A get back to the pub campaign by the Vintners’ federation of Ireland.
Country ‘n’ Western version here.
Meanwhile…
@TheVFI_IrishPub Except when the local isn’t a member of the VFI http://t.co/ifGo2GIORk – bloody disgrace!
— Mark Foley (@MarkFoley_) August 12, 2014
FIGHT!
Splutter.
Innuendo-drenched, single entendre-driven advertising for Michael Murphy’s furniture store in Newbridge, County Kildare this afternoon.
Take that, so-called IKEA.
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)