If you’re one of the people who say,
That life is too dangerous today,
To avoid life’s cruel sting,
Stay under the wing,
Of Wunsy, the African Grey.
John Moynes
The Crossing
at
Paddy and Colin.
By Sligo-based “grumpy old Illustrator and sometime cartoonist” Annie West
Annie sez:
“This is an idea I had for a children’s book showing Dublin landmarks as seen by Paddy Pigeon and his sidekick Colin. Colin Pigeon. I get ideas when I do the morning walk. Always. Has to be a circuitous walk. I don’t have anything as formal as a sketchbook, that’s far too organised for me. So I scribble on the back of an envelope. Bring the envelope home, scan it, do it again, then again, then sit down with my pencil and my vast array of lovely Dr. Martin’s inks and get to it. I tweet while I wait for layers of ink to dry. “
Joe writes:
Just spotted this in Tesco (Athlone) and I had to share it before the big sale ends.
What you may need to know.
1. Moone Boy mammy Deirdre O’Kane IS charity campaigner Christina Noble.
Seriously, like.
2. It’s not all that unusual for comics to make a leap to dramatic roles.
3. That said, she does share the screen with her Paths To Freedom
husband Brendan Coyle. Where’s Rats From The Flats when you need him?
4. Noble is directed by O’Kane’s husband Stephen Bradley, previously
responsible for Samantha Mumba starring zom-com Boy Eats Girl (2005).
5. Also starring the great Liam Cunningham, doing his finest Liam Cunningham.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: If Pat Shortt can do it, etc…
Release Date: TBC
Thanks Baz
Ah Here
at
Who’s Home?
at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-z3vXAs5TM
Oh yeah. That guy.
Mmf.
(Thanks Erin McNichols)
Currently exhibiting at Milan Design Week 2014, the one-piece cast aluminium Manta Ray seat by architect Zaha Hadid may look like some class of butt-cupping fetish chair but is in fact a minimalist dual armchair for two with built-in arm rests.
It’s all about the ergonomic use of surface area.
It would be wrong to find it in any way arousing.
Everyone was there.
In the good room.
Irish fashion designers, cobblers, writers, mavens, stylists and various Loubs-soled divils at the Fashion Lunch in the Irish Embassy, Grosvenor Place, London hosted by Sabina Higgins and part of the President’s state visit to the UK.
Top from left: Cecilia Gallagher, Simone Rocha, Joanne Hynes, Carol Hanney, Dermot Rowan, Greta Mulhall, Louise Kennedy, Sabina Higgins, Paul Costelloe, Melissa Curry, Liz Shanahan, Norah Casey, Orla Kiely and Willie Walters.
Bottom from left: Darren Kennedy, Danielle Romeril, Greta Mulhall, Gemma Williams, Sabina Higgins, Richard Malone, Derek Lawlor, Una Burke, Rory Parnell-Mooney and Michael Power.
Fairly ferosh, in fairness.
Earlier: Meanwhile At The Irish Embassy
(Photocall Ireland/Aras)