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Stainless – two videos by Adam Magyar who filmed crowds from the vantage point of trains pulling into platforms at Shinjuku in Tokyo and Grand Central Station, New York. The technique – shooting at (corrected) 56 times normal speed with a high-speed camera – gives the impression that the train is moving at normal speed past almost but not quite motionless people.

MORE: Einstein’s Camera: How one renegade photographer is hacking the concept of time (Medium)

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What the fupp is Alice Looking at?

WE have one (yes ONE) print – worth €20 –  from Irish artist Pat Byrne’s ‘Alice Meets…’ series [available from Jam Art Factory] to give away to the first PERSON who Can NAME all the creators of the works Alice is viewing above.

Lines close at 4.45pm

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Thanks Mark

Update: DeSelby wins the print!

 

18/6/2013 G8 Conferences In Ireland

He’s gone full Tsartard.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says gays should feel welcome at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, but they must “leave the children in peace.”

Putin told volunteers Friday that gays visiting Sochi “can feel calm and at ease,” and vowed that there would be no discrimination at the games. But he emphasized that, according to a law banning homosexual “propaganda” among minors, gays cannot express their views on gay rights issues to anyone underage.

Putin: Gays must ‘leave children in peace’ (AP)

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At the Cork Person of the Year awards in Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork. World 50K Walk champion Rob Heffernan (right) is named Cork Person of the Year while Jeremy Irons (left) is made an honorary Corkman.

Controversial, in fairness.

Previously: Rob Heffernan on Broadsheet

Meanwhile, ‘Out There’

Pic: Deirdre O’Shaughnessy

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Newstalk listener Brendan McCafferty complained to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland about comments made by  the station’s Breakfast Show’s presenters in relation to Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s decision not to participate in a public debate on the referendum to abolish the Seanad.

Mr McCafferty complained the presenters compared Mr Kenny to Chairman of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong and did not give an alternative view based on facts.

Mr McCafferty claimed the presenters ‘should have known that no Taoiseach ever takes part in such debates outside of general election time and, in fact, there is much precedent for this stand by An Taoiseach’.

Mr McCafferty claimed the presenters lacked impartiality and balance.

Newstalk responded saying previous Taoisigh did debate matters outside of general elections, including former Fine Gael Taoiseach, John Bruton, who debated the 1996 divorce referendum on RTÉ’s ‘This Week’ and in several radio interviews, and fellow former Fine Gael Taoiseach Garrett Fitzgerald, who debated a previous divorce referendum in 1986 on RTE’s Today Tonight.

However, the BAI decided to uphold part of Mr McCafferty’s complaint.

It decided:

“The Committee was of the opinion that other perspectives on the decision of An Taoiseach Enda Kenny not to participate in media debates were not provided. Further, the Committee found that the presenters made a number of comments that should have rightly been balanced by other perspectives. These included comments on the decision of An Taoiseach not to participate in a television debate, as well as the broader media communications decisions of An Taoiseach, as being akin to those of Mao Zedong.”

“In view of the above, the Committee found that the programme discussion failed to meet the requirements of the BAI Code of Fairness, Objectivity and Impartiality in News and Current Affairs and the complaint has been upheld in part further to Section 4.1 of this Code.”

DEBATE! Fight!

Read the complaint and decision in full here

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