Billed by the team of IBM engineers who made it as the ‘world’s smallest movie’, this 242-frame stop-motion animation was shot with a two-tonne microscope operating at minus 268°C and a special probe which arranged 5,000 carbon atoms into the ‘pixels’ of the moving image.
The magnification factor is 100,000,000x – about the same ratio that exists between an orange and the planet Earth.
Show offs.
What you may need to know.
1. This trailer is definitely NSFW, and most other places. It’s rather gory.
2. Eli Roth is the dude who made Cabin Fever (2002) and the Hostel flicks. He also played The Bear Jew in Inglorious Basterds (2011). And made the trailer (but not the film) for Thanksgiving.
3. Roth produced and stars in this. He also has a new Netflix Series, Hemlock Grove, and produced the hilariously titled Last Exorcism Part 2 (2013). He’s moving into theme parks next.
4. Mass mayhem + splatter = box office gold.
5. If it’s this or The Impossible (2012), we’re going with the former.
Release Date: Summer
The Fine Gael Parliamentary meeting in Leinster House from Kildare Street last night.
Lucinda Creighton FG
Brian Walsh FG
Damien English FG
Peter Mathews FG
Terence Flanagan FG
Billy Timmins FG
Paul Bradford FG Senator
John O’Mahony FG
Michelle Mulherin FG (above)
John Paul Phelan FG
Michael Creed FG
Patrick O’Donovan FG
Tom Hayes FG
Jim Daly FG
Sean Conlan FG
Fidelma Healy Eames FG Senator
Catherine Noone FG Senator
James Bannon FG
Paschal Mooney FF
Brian O’Domhnaill FF
Jim Walsh FF
Mattie McGrath Ind
Ronan Mullen Ind Senator
(TDs unless othwerwise stated)
Sido writes:
With regard to the “emotional debate” within FG I’m compiling a list of politicians who oppose the Abortion Legislation. I wonder if anyone can think of any additions?
Earlier It’s All Gone A Bit Emily Brontë
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
The Underground (left) and No Romance.
By Aiden Grennelle who sez:
This week’s cover image is an homage to two former icons of Dublin’s street culture and music scene — both long gone, but never out of my mind. Noel and Jeff Brennan‘s The Underground on Dame Street was the spiritual home of indie during the mid-80s to the early 90s. Susan and Regine Moylett and Aongus Hanly‘s No Romance in the Dandelion Market on St Stephen’s Green was the spiritual home of punk during the late 70s and early 80s. Their logos have been 3D-printed as mini sculptural monuments in ultra vivid colours, a tribute to these two era-defining landmarks.
This week’s le cool Dublin issue
A profile in Shoot magazine in 1982 of Republic of Ireland midfielder Tony Grealish, who died last month.
Did he get to meet Henry Hog?
Via Brand New Retro
Dayum, girl.
Nearly €9 million [of public money] has been spent on providing two airstrips in West Connemara – both of which are now overgrown with no possibility being opened in the near future. The airstrips at Cleggan and on Inishbofin [above] were built more than five years ago but then plans to provide an air link between the two locations hit a brick wall through lack of funding. The airstrips are currently falling into a dilapidated state.
€9million wasted on airstrips grounded by grass (Declan Tierney, Connacht Tribune)
Too late.
Dr Peter Boylan responds to the eleven members of Opus Dei consultants that attacked his credibility yesterday.
The signatories then go on to assert their certainty that termination of pregnancy can be performed “where ruptured membranes are accompanied by any clinical or bio-chemical marker of infection”. This is a truly astonishing statement. It implies that an elevated white blood cell count, which is a non-specific marker of inflammation, on its own would justify a termination of pregnancy. Such an opinion would not surprisingly be welcomed by those advocating a complete liberalisation of the abortion law in Ireland because, if adopted, would truly “open the floodgates”. I suspect that many of our colleagues in active clinical practice would not subscribe to this view.
Previously: Toxic Culture
Peter Boylan And Breda O’Brien: The Transcript
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
John O’Mahony TD with Cora Staunton in happier times.
Fine Gael TDs John O’Mahony and Anthony Lawlor and Senator Michael Mullins were said to have been “emotional”, with Mr O’Mahony having to leave the room to compose himself, but saying he wanted to engage on the legislation.
Heavens.
Any excuse.
Pic: Michael Donnelly
Bertrand Russell (top), Bodger’s idle idol, rejecting an invitation to meet Oswald Mosley.
Had to have hurt.
Via Guy Walters
Sandymount, Dublin, yesterday evening.
Thanks Mick Veale
A little later upstream
Eoin Kernan writes:
As the sun sets, two boats compete in Dublin Bay on the first official day of summer during the opening series of the Poolbeg YC sailing season.
Via Blathnaid Healy, taken from West Pier, Dún Laoghaire yesterday evening.
