http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNah7Ga9CPY
In the Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar yesterday for a screening of the ironically-titled documentary Amazing Azerbaijan (2012) were from left: Liz Mermin (director), Aisling Ahmed and Rasul Jafarov.
The documentary (extracts above) takes a hard look at this oil rich/human rights poor country, ranked 156th out of 179 countries in Reporters Without Borders’ Press Freedom index.
Rasul is the Chairman of Human Rights Club Azerbaijan and the ‘Art for Democracy campaign’ and is in Ireland to discuss how the International community can provide help with these issues in the run up to the country’s upcoming presidential elections.
Pic: Emily
It’s one hundred years since Big Jim,
Got the workers to stand behind him,
Today we get whines,
About Miley’s Blurred Lines,
And that’s why we sink and not swim.
John Moynes
(VMA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4W9aYkyZtc
The animatic (roughly animated sketch) of a proposed epic scene involving Iron Man that ultimately never made it into the final cut of The Avengers.
Mind The Gap
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Bruno Imbrizi, a visual developer, has created a wonderful, interactive, live 3D map of the London underground. He achieved all this by combining the real time data from Transport for London with Freedom of Information requests for the depth of tube lines and London Underground Station locations.
GO HERE: Mind the Gap
Twirl the map around, sit back and just watch the flow of the trains through the city.
Explore the London Underground With This Awesome 3-D Simulation
(Hat tip: Jon Sedar)
Merlot,
Found hobbling in the grounds of a restaurant in Glasson, Co. Westmeath.
His left front paw had been severely injured and “some of the pads were missing leaving the bone exposed”.
The injury was so severe that it was thought that Merlot would have to have his leg amputated.
But it was decided to try a course of intense treatment in an effort to save the leg.
It worked!
Carmel Murray of the ISPCA writes:
Merlot has received great care at the ISPCA National Animal Centre with bandage changes every second day. He has been a model patient and, despite all he has been through, he continues to be a very affectionate little fellow. The Vet and staff are very pleased that his wound has healed so well but he will now need physiotherapy to regain to maximise the movement in the leg.
When fully recovered, Merlot will be available for adoption and will be seeking a home where he can live inside the majority of the time.
Anyone?
The suave Spyfox confronts an evil Hammerhead shark intent on flooding the world. A nifty short inspired by 1960s spy films and produced by Yoav Shtibelman, Taylor Clutter and Kendra Phillips – all students of the Ringling College of Art and Design.
Making of video here.
Then you may like this.
YOU share the joystick.
“Have you ever wished your theatre show had the excitement of a video game? Live performance collides with gaming as this adventure comes to life before your eyes. The audience shares the joystick and must work together to guide our hero through a variety of mind-bending puzzles.
…FUSED is a live theatre interpretation of a point-and-click videogame, where audience members take it in turns to direct a character through levels, solving intricate puzzles and (hopefully) completing an exciting mission.”
Fused, which will run as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival, from September 10 to 14, at the Lir Academy in Trinity College, Dublin.
More details here.