First catch your pot.

Kodachrome slides taken by cultural anthropologist Robert Creswell.

Creswell conducted a major study of the inhabitants of Kinvara, Co Galway in the mid-1950s,

He discovered they enjoyed bacon..

Cresswell died in 2010 and donated his archive of black and white photographs, colour slides, 16mm film footage, documents and notes etc. to the nation. He also insisted the hoard remain copyright free. Bit of a dude to be fair.

Robert Creswell Gallery at Kinvara.com

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

The Superman logo from 1938 to 2013 by Maurice Mitchell. The small print below the title reads:

Jerry Siegel and I came up with the ‘S’ insignia — we discussed it in detail. We said, ‘Let’s put something on the front of the costume.’ From the beginning we wanted to somehow use the first letter of the character’s name. We thought ‘S’ was perfect. After we came up with it, we kiddingly said, ‘Well, it’s the first letter of Siegel and Shuster.’ Initially I made it like a shield, a fancy little triangle with curves at the top. I had a heraldic crest in the back of my mind. Progressively, as the strip evolved, the emblem became larger and larger.” – Joe Shuster [co-creator of Superman with Jerry Siegel]

The Batman logo from 1940 to 2012 by Scottish artist Cathryn Lavery.

22words/biotv

A combination lock built into a folding saddle designed by Lee Sang Hwa, Kim Jin Ho and Yeo Min Gu who won a Red Dot Design Award for the concept in 2012.

No need for any other locking mechanism. Literally unstealable. Nope, can’t see any way to pinch this bike at all. All other locking mechanisms are now redun…Dear Broadsheet, I know you don’t normally do this but….

likecool/yanko

If you enjoy “long-form immersive improvisation for saxophones and live electronics” coupled with dreamy heart-tugging scenes of Dun Laoghaire’s East Pier.

And who, to be fair, doesn’t?

Seán Mac Erlaine – Rave At Close Of Day

A winter solstice “lamenbration/clement” by Jennie Moran, music by Seán Mac Erlaine

Filmed at the bandstand, East Pier, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin on  December 21, 2012.

Damn atonal jazz-loving, shortest-day observing chillaxed hipsters

Jennie Moran

Sean Mac Erlaine

You may recall the post this morning about the stolen vintage Mercedes.

Mark Rudden writes:

Police have the car after it was spotted on Broadsheet. Thanks to everyone who shared it, liked it and talked about it! Never thought I’d get it back let alone without much damage (door lock and alarm damaged). Now to see if the people who took it can be caught!

Yay.

Paul McGrath (above) was tweeting at the weekend about the game between Manchester United and Liverpool. His tweets included criticism of Liverpool defender Glen Johnson. McGrath was then sent a small number of tweets taunting him about his drink problem and this morning he went on Ryan Tubridy’s 2FM radio show to discuss the matter.

The interview in which McGrath apparently sounded drunk has been cut from RTE’s playback version of this morning’s show.

Tubridy told his audience:

Ryan Tubridy: “Lot of people inquiring after Paul McGrath. To be honest with you, I don’t know what the story is, other than, I wasn’t, he literally came on the phone, I thought we were going to have a bit of banter about what happened with Twitter yesterday. But lots of people want to wish him well and see how he is.
I don’t want to judge him or comment on what the story is, because I don’t know. But what I am gonna do is I’m gonna call him later on in my own time and see how he is, and see how he’s getting on.
Cause we spoke to him earlier on in the morning, you know, around 8-ish. And he was absolutely fine and we wouldn’t have put anyone on who wasn’t other than, maybe, in the mood to come on, shall we say.
We certainly got the impression that all was well in the world and that’s why he was put through. And, you know, I interviewed Paul on the Late Late Show last, I think it was last season. And he was, you know, you couldn’t meet a nicer, more gentle man. You know that expression ‘a gentleman’, he’s both a gentleman and a gentle man.
And he’s happy to chat away, as you know, on Twitter, no matter what they throw at him. And he’s, you know, he seems to be up for that. But he is loved by people in this country. He’s a national treasure, he’s an icon, he’s a hero.
And that’s why a lot of people are just wondering how he is, and I’ll get back to you on that as they say, and I’ll talk to him. But I’ve been looking at the texts and it’s almost like people a family relative needs to be asked after and that is what we’ll do. I’ll make that call later on.”

Listen here (59.54)

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