Unexpected products from well known brands imagined by Russian designer and former engineer Ilya Kalimulin.
The meme has since gone viral on Russian art blogs, with other designers and Photoshoppers chipping in new variants.
Labour TD Kevin Humphreys and Dublin’s Lord Mayor Oisín Quinn at the opening of a new Dublin Bikes station beside the Convention Centre within the last hour.
Yay!
Previously: Meanwhile, Back At The Dublin Docklands
Meanwhile, At The Dublin Docklands
Pic: Kevin Humphreys
Oh.
IdiotGate. The badge.
From Spike Badges.
Yours for .99 cents.
Idiot.
Earlier: “The Idiots Behind You Are A Bit Of A Distraction”
Thanks Damien Mulley
Oh It’s Ron
at
Again.
Previously Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) – promoting Anchorman 2 – talked about the Love/Hate season finale.
This time it’s The Late Late Toy Show.
Insulting movie PR overhype or enjoyable Hollywood bottom pat?
YOU choose.
Fed up of space-invading fellow commuters on the packed commuter trains of Singapore, industrial designer Siew Ming Cheng repurposed strips of spiky plastic material normally used for keeping birds and cats away from plants to create the Spike Away Vest.
It’s her take on a wonderful Japanese design concept known as ‘chindogu’, which you can read about here and decide for yourself whether or not she’s achieved.
Harry Crosbie with the first Dublin Docklands Lifetime Achievement award at the Gibson Hotel, Point Village, Dublin.
Right so.
Previously: Pointless
So You Saw Harry Crosbie On The Saturday Night Show, Right?
Gorey, Courtown and Riverchapel, North Wexford.
Filmed from mini-helicopters by ANTS.
Konjow films writes:
“It was filmed to test new gears/solutions (frame, vibration, gimbal etc) No Fpv was used. Filmed around Riverchapel, Courtown, Gorey area Co Wexford in Ireland – summer 2013.”
Thanks Ruairí Brennan
On this three-bed bungalow at 8 Mather Road South, Mt. Merrion, Dublin.
And it’s still going up apparently.
The Irish Independent reports:
“Number 8 Mather Road in Mount Merrion was put on the market early this month for €445,000 but after just two viewings auctioneer Owen Reilly put up the price by €100,000 to €545,000. And the price keeps rising. The latest offer on the property is around €625,000, the estate agent confirmed.”
8 Mather Road South, Mt. Merrion, Dublin (Myhome.ie)
Asking price for three-bed home in ‘golden triangle’ soars by €100k in just one week (Irish Independent)
Meanwhile…
Poor article in IT on Dublin house prices – complete with "cultural obsession", "bubble" and income multiples. http://t.co/HOqnRivYCw
— Ronan Lyons (@ronanlyons) November 28, 2013
Previously: “The Idiots Behind You Are A Bit Of A Distraction”
A desperately missed Kilkenny cat.
Faye writes:
I know ye don’t usually do this but… My cat has gone missing. Her name is Suki and she has been missing from the Riverside/Sycamores area in Kilkenny City [Co Kilkenny] since tlast Saturday. She is a long-haired tabby with a white chest and white paws. She is just over a year old so is still quite small. She is missed desperately.
Anyone?
The independently-produced Irish feature film ‘Trampoline’ has won the Best Narrative Feature award at this year’s Williamsburg Independent Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York.
The small Irish drama set and shot in Tipperary – about Angie Corbett returning to her hometown after getting a teaching job at her old secondary school – was made on a budget of less than €1,000.
It was written and directed by Tom Ryan and produced by Claire Gormley.