Mr Ogle, a union boss,
Is making the whole nation cross,
Like a Stalinist Grinch,
He’s planning to pinch,
Your Christmas and not give a toss.
John Moynes
(Gareth Chaney/Photocall Ireland)
The trailer for Sign Painters by Faythe Levine and Sam Macon who, in 2010:
…travelled the United States, documenting the remaining practitioners of this near lost art, but also covering a resurgence of interest in the trade, from both the public and the people holding the purse strings.
Sign Painters, the first anecdotal history of the craft, features the stories of more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States. The documentary and book profiles sign painters young and old, from the new vanguard working solo to collaborative shops such as San Francisco’s New Bohemia Signs and New York’s Colossal Media’s Sky High Murals.
The film also features work from Dublin’s great sign-painter, Kevin Freeney.
Screening at Dublin’s Sugar Club on December 5th from 8pm.
(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)
The first episode of a new animated web series by Terry Reilly.
He’s from Monaghan so he is
(Thanks Terry)
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When robins built a nest in a hanging basket on Fred Margulies’s porch a few years ago, he documented the arrival of four eggs and the subsequent nurturing of the chicks by the parent birds, right up to the rather poignant moment a month later when the entire brood left the nest for the last time.
Via Pablo Píriz
Otto Mann of God.
Maidhcí writes:
“The Holy Joe bus spotted in Cork City today.”
More to follow.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Colin McGann, Darragh Clifford, Enda Cunningham, Iain Henderson, Paul Murphy, Brian Oliver, Geoff McGrath and Joe Donnelly
They’re boldly going.
Alex McLeaod writes:
SES-8 telecom satellite launch live with the lift-off in 20 minutes [10.40pm]…