A hypnotic clip (actually a teaser for an upcoming video for ‘Sparkles and Wine’ by French electronica group OPALE) in which director Nacho Guzman shows how lighting and the angle of illumination can radically affect how a face appears, in this case the face of actress Stella Stocker.
Guzman acknowleges the influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished 1964 film L’Enfer.
Via Independent.ie and Evening Echo
Behold: ten thousand iPhone5 dominoes (a quick calculation reveals at least €6.7 million worth of hypno-candy right there) all kitted out with Apple’s not-yet-available Near Field Communication (NFC) feature.
Not really. Only the first iPhone in this video from Aatma Studios is real. The rest are CG. Aatma has officially sanctioned form in this regard.
What you may need to know.
1. A Trailer Park first – a trailer for a play. What next?
2. Drum Belly is written by Michael Richard Dormer, the man of the moment thanks to his top performance in Good Vibrations (2013) – best Irish movie of the year, possibly the decade. He’s also in the new series of Game Of Thrones.
3. The testosterone heavy cast includes Declan Conlon, who just won the Irish Times Theatre Award, alongside Liam Carney, Phelim Drew and Karl Shiels.
4. Want to win two tickets to see it?
5. Care to pitch us your own Irish mob movie?
6. Call it Paddywhacked, and leave an outline below by MIDNIGHT tonight (Friday). Best pitch gets the tix.
Release Date: Now Playing
Tonight.
Some Like It Hot (1959) starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe.
On the big screen, in the open air in Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin.
Hosted by Open Air Cinema, a non-profit group putting on “low to no impact, leave no trace events” around the city.
€5. 7.30pm.
If late, don’t worry.
Nobody’s perfect.
“Financial reality” is one of the main reasons RTE is going down the path of iPhone journalism. #newsrw twitpic.com/ckf8ko
— BBC Journalism (@BBCCollege) April 19, 2013
Ness Woods, Derry.
Copulating couple in Vauxhall Ampera (out of picture).
People are coming from “far and wide” to get involved in ‘dogging’ in Derry, a DUP councillor has claimed. Maurice Devenney said he has been contacted by a number of people over recent days who claim to have stumbled across “lewd sexual activity” at Prehen and Ness Woods.“One such incident was witnessed by a person out walking their dog at 3pm one afternoon, so these incidents are taking place in clear daylight,” Mr Devenney said.
“I am told that one person saw a male running around the woods with nothing on but a pair of stockings and suspenders.” Mr Devenney said there is now an onus on the police and council to act. He said if the land was Council owned he would campaign to have it gated off and appealed to the PSNI to step up patrols of the areas.
Let us all come together in peace.
Fnarr, snoik, etc.
Ness Woods Dave Mitchell
Lorcan O’Connor (right) and Alan Shatter.
€125.97 a month for socialising.
Their shirts cost more.
From the Financial Times:
“On Thursday Ireland’s Insolvency Service set out monthly spending limits for people seeking debt deals from their creditors, highlighting the impact austerity is having on Irish spending habits. A single person will be allowed just €247.04 a month for food, €57.31 for heating and €125.97 for “social inclusion and participation”, an expenses category that includes tickets for sporting events and the cinema.”
“A reasonable standard of living does not mean a person should live at luxury level, said Lorcan O’Connor, director of the newly established Insolvency Service of Ireland (with Justice Minister Alan Shatter above). “But nor does it mean that people should be punished and live only at subsistence level.”
“In most cases, people seeking debt deals will also have to give up private health insurance and their cars, although they will be able to keep their vehicles if they do not have access to public transportion.”
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“Under Engish insolvency law, which is less proscriptive than Ireland’s new guidelines, “reasonable” day-to-day expenses for bankrupts include holidays, mobile phones and video rentals. While gym memberships, private health care, gambling, cigarettes and alcohol are considered unreasonable, English debtors do not face monthly cash limits.”
Ireland picks through debtors’ lifestyles (Jamie Smyth, Financial Times via CNN)
Previously: It’s Like Getting A Divorce In The 1980s
Pic: Breaking News
A House – I Am The Greatest (1991)
Ash – Free All Angels (2001)
Bell X1 – Music In Mouth (2003)
David Kitt – The Big Romance (2001)
Damien Rice – O (2002)
The Divine Comedy – Casanova (1996)
Engine Alley – A Sonic Holiday (1992)
Fatima Mansions – Viva Dead Ponies (1990)
The Frames – Fitzcarraldo (1995)
Horslips – The Book Of Invasions (1976)
Lisa Hannigan – Passenger (2011)
Microdisney – The Clock Comes Down The Stairs (1985)
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (1991)
Planxty – Planxty (1973)
The Pogues – Rum Sodomy And The Lash (1985)
Power Of Dreams – Immigrants, Emigrants and Me (1990)
The Radiators – Ghostown (1979)
Sinead O’ Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (1990)
Sinead O’ Connor – The Lion and The Cobra (1987)
Taste – On The Boards (1970)
Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak (1976)
Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History (2010)
The Undertones – The Undertones (1979)
U2 – Achtung Baby (1991)
U2 – Boy (1980)
U2 – The Joshua Tree (1987)
Van Morrison – Moondance (1970)
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks (1968)
Villagers – {Awayland} (2013)
Whipping Boy – Heartworm (1995)
The virtually club-less top 30.
In no particular order other than alphabetical.
As chosen by John Meagher in today’s Day & Night with the Irish Independent.
FIGHT!
Thanks Nialler9
