An impressive Blender-generated short by animator Daniel Houghton telling the bittersweet love story of:
.. two 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper that magically transform into paper people as they are spit out of a malfunctioning printer into a recycling bin.
Friday June 27th / Saturday June 28th – The Fire Escape @ Mart, Rathmines, Dublin (€20)
Nialler9 writes:
“Flaming June Records presents a music festival over two days in the old fire station in Rathmines, now an arts space. 30 indie, rock and folk-focused bands play over two days including The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, Nanu Nanu, Idiot Songs Twinkranes, Paddy Hanna, Elastic Sleep and more. Rathmines barbershop hosts an acoustic shack and Arbutus Yarns will be showing videos. All artists are getting paid for their involvement in support of the Pay To Play campaign.“
Nialler9’s Gig Guide June 25-30 (Nialler9)
Previously: Rathminapolooza
The Slap – Youtuber Uptomyknees‘ (screenwriter Max Landis) parody of Tatia Pilieva’s First Kiss video (which observed the diverse reactions of strangers invited to kiss within minutes of meeting).
Same idea, with a twist. To wit:
I gathered acquaintances, friends both casual and close, paired them randomly, put them in a void, and asked them to hit each other in the face. No one was pressured, and everyone was hit as hard as THEY asked to be hit.
UPDATE: A classy Max Landis gives the haters what they want.
And single people generally.
Married people have each other.
Damo writes:
“Finally, a campaign I can get behind. (Cork st, Dublin 8)”
Q1. Solve for lol in each case. You may use Wikipedia. Additional sheets available on request.
Ireland.
The Greatest Country in the world in terms of its contribution to humanity.
Not so fast, so-called United Nations.
James Nolan writes:
Our reaction to the economy’s collapse reveals deep flaws in the Irish psyche. Firstly, there have been no protests of note, nor riots. The political awareness of what happened and what is continuing to happen is virtually zero. People have lost their jobs, houses and friends and family members to emigration, every budget in our social services is being slashed to ribbons, and future generations are being buried beneath mountains of debt from which they’ll never escape. But the prescription here seems to be inaction, moaning about expenses and some vague tabloid waffle, blaming the Polish for fiddling the dole when most of them have long since gone home.
…We’ve almost been put in the ground by inflated property prices yet, secretly, all we’re hoping for is another fucking bubble. It doesn’t matter what sort of delusion and corruption has to take place for this to happen. We’re willing to turn a blind eye, again, if it means a return to the glory days of the mid-2000s and another excuse not to confront the bald reality – which is, if you want a sustainable first-world economy, you actually have to make stuff (which we still don’t seem interested in doing).
…But what about our younger people, those too young to have really experienced the bubble? Like I said, many of them have gone, are going or are trying to go. Whether spurred on by university debt or just an unwillingness to waste their lives rattling around their hometowns on a permanent roundabout of JobBridge gigs – Ireland’s equivalent to Workfare – they don’t have the time to fight. Every year 90,000 people leave Ireland, most of them young. And the remaining ones? They don’t have the will. Disenfranchised, demotivated, they struggle to keep their heads above water and some sense of self-esteem intact as they’re funnelled here and there by aforementioned government programmes in the vague hope that – one day – it’ll all end….”
Ireland Is definitely Not The Best Country In The World To Live (James Nolan, Vice UK)
Thanks Stuart C
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
Further to the Tuam babies mystery.
Blogger Izzy Kamikaze writes:
New evidence has come to light in the Tuam Babies case, which tends to support the view of local researcher Catherine Corless – that the bodies of almost 800 children who perished at the site may be inside the disused sewage system of the Workhouse which occupied the site prior to the opening of the Mother and Baby Home (a Catholic institution for unmarried mothers and their children.)
“…The illustration (above) is a “section” from the architectural plans of Tuam Workhouse, later the Mother and Baby Home. A section is a drawing showing a one-dimensional slice of a building or structure. Being one-dimensional, it doesn’t show the depth of the structure, just the height and width. This “cesspool” is 9’ 9” tall (just under 3 metres) and appears more than 3 metres wide. It has a high arched ceiling and looks much more how we might expect a vault or tomb to look than what it actually is – a sewage tank.”
“…I might as well come out and say it – it seems quite probable the #800deadbabies are buried in the sewage tanks.”
More here: Vaults Under Tuam Babies Site Are Part Of Sewage System (Izzy Kamikaze)
[Angel Dzhamazki]
Yikes.
“A very dangerous trend in the destruction of the value system grows in Europe. A beard lady became a symbol of the Old continent…This bearded creature, called with the European name Conchita Wurst is like genetically modified organism and won the Eurovision. And I wonder, if the vice of our time is that we tolerate the perversity. I don’t want such a song contest for my children….”
Angel Dzhamazki, Bulgarian MEP from the newly-formed Bulgaria without Censorship party.
Kate writes:
“An interesting interview with one of Fianna Fail Ireland South MEP Brian Crowley’s new bedfellows in the ECR {European Conservatives and Reformist Group] …”
Interview with Angel Dzhambazki MEP (Oneeu)
Previously: Nothing In Common
