Foodgame Cafe, Ballsbridge, Dublin, this morning.
Any excuse.
Thanks Brian O’Farrell
Can you tell what it is?
An aerial view of a pint, a knapkin-covered sanger and a pot of mustard from Grogan’s, South William Street, Dublin.
London-based Lauren, art director of Totally Dublin, sez:
I’ve been living away from Dublin for just over three years now, and it’s a bit of a ritual to go for pints and toasties with my mates when I get back into town, usually Grogan’s or Peter’s Pub. I made this with Illustrator. Adobe Creative Suite for everything else.
It [the cover] also looks like kind of a weird cuckoo…
NY-based artist Bradley Hart painstakingly injects acrylic paint into bubble-wrap bubbles to create ‘pixellated photorealistic’ pictures. In his artist’s statement, he sez:
The pictures are copies of both snap shots of important people captured by me or given to me and maintained as a part of my own personal photograph collection, as well as powerful images obtained from other sources. […] As the paint is injected into a bubble the excess drips down the back of the piece. Upon completion of the injected work, the drippings are removed surgically from the backside of the plastic to reveal an impression of the work — a derivative work with its own meaning and story.
(Above: Steve Jobs, Dam Square in Amsterdam and Sara, a friend of the artist.)
Currently exhibiting at Gallery Nine5 in New York.
(Above, from left: Daniel Bradley (9), Nahla Burke (3), Martha Quinn (9) and Benjamin Bradley (9) in Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Academy, launching the 23rd Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year Awards.)
That changes TODAY.
Children’s Books Ireland has announced its shortlist for the Book of the Year.
And what a page-turning 12 months it has been in children’s writing.
The shortlisted include:
The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan
Hóng by Anna Heussaff
Na Laochra is Lú by Laoise Ní Cléirigh and illustrated by Steve Simpson
Spellbound by Siobhán Parkinson and illustrated by Olwyn Whelan
Mise agus an Dragún by Patricia Forde and illustrated by Steve Simpson
Dark Warning by Marie Louise Fitzpatrick
Oh No, George! by Chris Haughton
This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers
Grounded by Sheena Wilkinson
And we have all TEN to give away to the favourite niece/nephew of YOUR choice in a competition that could help you win their affection for at least a YEAR.
To enter, complete this sentence.
I would like to give my [niece/nephew]___________the Children’s Books of the year because________________
Lines close at 3pm.
Winner announced in comments section by 5pm.
(Photocall Ireland)
Kidnapping
at
Tuesday’s spin Irish Times.
In which the following appeared:
The Irish Government welcomed the agreement, describing it as a “positive development for Cyprus, the euro zone as a whole, and Ireland ”.
“The Cypriot case is a complex and difficult case and it was a significant achievement to reach an agreement between all parties,” a Department of Finance spokesman said yesterday. “This agreement provides a sustainable solution, which deals with Cyprus’s financial system and its funding requirements.”
This would be the same Department of Finance….
Yes.
Ireland Welcomes Bailout Deal As Positive (Irish Times, March 18)
Will Cork County Council compensate for damage caused by potholes?
In their holes they will.
Well it depends….
Roisin Burke writing in the Cork Independent details one motorists claim for reimbursement for damage caused to his car by a pothole.
Kevin Walsh’s car suffered two punctures as well as damage to the rack end tie rods and car tracking, costing him €266.13.
In reply to his claim, the council informed him they would not be reimbursing him because the pothole had been caused by “natural wear and tear”.
The general rule is the Cork County Council do not compensate for ‘natural’ potholes; only in situations where the council has repaired the pothole and it has reappeared
For example, the pothole that damaged Kevin’s car has since been filled in so if it falls into disrepair again. the next person will be compensated.
Hope the councillors realise that there’s no votes in not fixing the roads.
Any excuse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD2LBsAP3-s
What you really need to know:
1. The first season of Veep rocked.
2. Julia-Louis Dreyfus is a goddess.
4. It’s not the American Thick Of It, although we keep expecting Malcolm Tucker to turn up.
5. They did a pilot for an American version of The Thick Of It. Apparently it’s HORRIBLE.
6. Armando Iannucci has been involved with more genius comedy than any individual this side of Graham Linehan and/or Limerick TD Willie ‘Working For You’ O’Dea.
Screening Date: April (US)