“They weren’t as good as they thought they were” went one bogus argument. In fact, I’ve always felt Off The Ball was driven by the deep neurosis that they weren’t good enough which, naturally, propelled them towards brilliance.
They were Burt Bacharach doing 32 takes of Alfie in search of that “little bit of magic”.
Radio Bean-Counters Switched Off To Diamond In Their Midst (Dion Fanning, Sunday Independent)
Previously: Anything Sad In The Phoenix?
(Pic: Business&leadership)
Another speedrun film classic from 1A4 Studio, what sez:
Put machines, dreams, Neo, dystopia, and more machines into a blender and chug it really fast – that’s the taste of this condensed version of the 1999 hit movie.
Previously: Back To The Future In 60 Seconds
Spotted on sale at B&Q, Tallaght.
(Thanks Alan Byrne)
Leslie Williams tweetz:
Interesting crab dish at Tani Sushi Restaurant in Terenure…
Peter Welfare, president and head inkmaker of the Printing Ink Company in California, talks us through the strangely Zen process by which ink is made from powder and varnish.
Sindo fails to mention that it was in fact Gardai who actually contacted me to have penalty points removed.All revealed&more in Dail tues.
— Luke ming flanagan (@lukeming) March 10, 2013
Covers to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
LEGO aficionado Alice Finch from Seattle spent a year making this 400,000 brick recreation of Hogwarts Castle, which won People’s Choice and Best In Show awards at the BrickCon LEGO convention last year.
Last week, it was reassembled at Emerald City Comic Con 2013 in Seattle. The completed sections – ferried to the convention centre in six SUVs – took three hours to set up.
From RTE Sport.
“As the golden generation fades away.”
An existential Tom McGurk sets the stage for today’s Ireland Vs France rugby match, from the home side’s Kildare retreat, Carton House.
Previously: Paris, 2000: Le Ledgebag.
Earlier: Happy Women’s International Day
Members of The Venezuelan Ireland Network, Sinn Fein and Labour Youth held a ‘red flag Vigil’ to commemorate the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez outside the GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin, yesterday evening. Including from top Miah Ni Cheithearnaigh Sean Edwards
During the vigil, passerby Kleber Ancheta (pic 3, in white) told the vigil he was forced to leave Venezuela, due to the increasing violence and “mismanagment” in the country which he blames on Chavez.
Previously: If You See Only One irish-Made Hugo Chavez Documentary
