Irish artist and photographer Richard Mosse reveals the stories behind the making of his latest film The Enclave (2013), shot on 16mm infrared in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The film will be shown at the Irish Pavilion of this year’s 55th Venice Biennale.
(Hat tip: Alan Butler)
The Bord Gais Energy Social media Awards – The Sockies – on TONIGHT.
We HAVE been invited (report to follow)
One day we might even get nominated
*sniff*
Carton House, Maynooth, Co Kildare, this afternoon.
Thanks Alan Daly.
Lunch by the Grand Canal, Dublin.
Thanks Finn McDuffie
Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, this evening
Thanks Macky
Dublin tonight.
Thanks Eoin Kernan
Last year’s Forbidden Fruit festival (top) and frenetic preparations for this weekend’s two-day concert (above).
Paul Trainer of TNT24.ie writes:
We filmed a timelapse video of the build at the Forbidden Fruit festival site [starting Saturday at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin].
Two days condensed into three minutes featuring sunshine, fluffy clouds, a small army of technicians and some heavy lifting equipment dancing to Primal Scream.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Thanks to the Civil Service Childcare Initiative, 2001.
Sorry, the whatnow?
Nelly Bergman explains:
In Budget 2001, the Minister for Finance allocated €12.7m for the provision of 10-15 crèches for the children of civil servants throughout Ireland.
The allocation was part of a major Initiative by the Government to improve childcare provision and increase the number of childcare places available in Ireland.
The CSCI also aimed to contribute to the equality agenda and increase female participation at higher executive officer level and above and to help employees to combine employment with their family life.
European countries and the things they look like.
Sure, that’s just stupid.
Taken from a far more comprehensive 2012 video by German Youtuber Zackabier.
Above: Teddyland (which looks a bit like Ireland), Armenia (Angel Shark), Latvia (Baby Eagle), Slovenia (Chicken), Croatia (Dragon), Cyprus (Mouse), Poland (Baboon), Montenegro, (Stegasaurus), Greece (Old Man with a Pointy Hat), Monaco (Surreal Elephant) and, below, our personal favourite…
Denmark (A Fish Eating the Slime Off of a Filthy, Fat Batman Who Is Talking to an Old Ghost).
Suir where would you get it?
On the Luas red line at Suir Road, Kilmainham, Dublin, minutes ago.
Thanks Aoife Surgeon
On the N7 near Newbridge, Co Kildare, minutes ago.
Thanks Alan Costello
Luke Ming Flanagan, Clare Daly and Mick Wallace in Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin, earlier calling for for an independent inquiry into the penalty points issue.
The independent TDs propose a Private Members’ Bill in the Dail, before it breaks for the Summer, “relating to the structure on policing in Ireland and weaknesses in the powers and independence of the gardai, particularly related to the issue of penalty points”.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
In lieu of a public inquiry.
Guaranteed! by journalist and documentary-maker Colin Murphy.
An ensemble of actors plays a myriad of ministers, bankers and bureaucrats as they wrestle with the unfolding crisis. You will come away informed, enraged and perhaps a little heart-broken. We have stripped back our assets for a recession-friendly, bare-bones presentation where we will hold on to our scripts, while you can hold on to your wallets.
€440 billion.
