Selfeed is a retina-destroying, high-speed live update of the Instagram #selfie tag.
Probably not advisable for those prone to epilepsy, anxiety or extreme hatred of the mobile phone self portrait oeuvre.
[From top: Des Bishop and his Chinese friend Leo in Des’ new documentary series Des Bishop: Breaking China, and Des, Leo and another Chinese friend in Des’ Work Experience documentary series from 2003]
Des Bishop’s six-part series, called Des Bishop: Breaking China, started on RTÉ One last night. In it, Des moves to China for a year and enrols in college to learn Mandarin.
He also reunites with his Chinese friend Leo, whom he worked with in Abrakebabra in Waterford for his Work Experience documentary series, during which he lived on the minimum wage in 2003.
Leo went on to work with Des in The International Bar comedy club in Dublin but moved back to China a few years ago because of the recession.
On last night’s show, Des asks Leo to help him start up a comedy club in Beijing.
Fair play, in fairness
Watch back here
A cautionary tale of opportunistic charging and battery drain by Supinfocom animation student Francois Heysen.
[Students from St Kieran’s National School in Broughal, Co. Offaly]
Irishblacknight writes:
MissionV is a virtual reality platform for teaching and training which is currently beta-testing in 11 Irish schools. Recently, MissionV founder James Corbett brought me to visit one of those schools: St Kieran’s NS in Broughal, Co Offaly. The kids there are expert users of MissionV, which uses OpenSimulator, the open source version of Linden Labs Second Life, running on a closed server, with access controlled by their teacher.
Normally they use a desktop client, keyboard and mouse to build and explore their virtual world, but today James has brought something different: the Oculus Rift VR headset.
Virtual Reality is cool – sure! And Oculus has generated a lot of speculation since its acquisition by Facebook last month. But what’s really cool is that these 10 – 12 year olds learned 3D modelling and scripting, raided the web for textures and images, and recreated a historic site after a field-trip to Clonmacnoise.
H/T: Mark Coughlan
Phoenix Park, Dublin this morning
Jammy writes:
“From the start line of the Ray D’Arcy Show Half Million Half Marathon earlier for LauraLynn [Children’s, Fair play Today FM. They hit the €500,000 target! In the pic, Mairead Farrell, Jane McKenna, Ray D’Arcy, Bressie and Jenny Kelly.”
There may be blasphemy.
Peter writes:
“FREE for all Brian’s TONIGHT at our open-air screening of Monty Python’s The Life of Brian (1979) in Fitzwilliam Square [Dublin]….”
Randall Munroe tackles those “silenced” for holding controversial opinions.
Randall sez:
“I can’t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you’re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it’s not literally illegal to express.”
FIGHT!
In Cork
at
This morning.
Paul Byrne of TV3 tweetz:
“Garda injured during high speed chase on the Mallow Rd Cork. Two arrested.