Achill Island’s monument to the boom.
One year old today
Still Standing 12 Months Later (Edwin McGreal, Mayo News)
Pic Mayo News
Achill Island’s monument to the boom.
One year old today
Still Standing 12 Months Later (Edwin McGreal, Mayo News)
Pic Mayo News
“The best journalists are those who leave aside bogus notions of detachment and become protagonists in the things they write about.
“In this course, John Waters will apply his 30 years of experience as an analyst, reporter, columnist, author and protagonist in order to pass on his experience, perspective and approach to a new generation of journalists.
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REALLY?
REALLY?
Pukka Tukka From The Chubby Fukka – Jamie Oliver Dundrum,(Niall Harbison, LovingDublin.ie)
(Pic Lovingdublin.ie)
Thanks Cathal O’Rourke




A 1963 shoot for Harper’s Bazaar “Bubble’ Spring Collection in Paris by American photographer Melvin Sokolsky, featuring model Simone D’Aillencourt ‘floating’ inside a plexiglass bubble.
Long before the days of Photoshop, the floating effect was achieved by way of doing the thing for real, with a crane and ‘invisible’ wires. It’s as if Simone is actually suspended above the streets of Paris, because she is.
(Hat tip: Aaron McAllorum)
…is about as grim as Karma nightclub regulars can recall.
Via Mike Sorrentino
A first-person POV trailer for the upcoming crowdfunded auto game Project C.A.R.S. from London’s Slightly Mad Studios, due for multi-platform release midway through next year.
Bones the whippet belongs to an American family living in Belfast. Every week, her ‘dad’ Redditor Rcrowley32 dresses her up and posts a picture on his kids lunchboxes to cheer them up at school.
Last week she was a pilgrim for Thanksgiving.
“Fuel allowance. I’ll give you fuel allowance.Wa-hey.”
Enda Kenny having the ‘chat’ on his way into government buildings earlier.
Meanwhile, here comes Mr Angry:
Eamon Gilmore with deputy government press secretary Cathy Madden.
She thought he was going to be more like Jed Bartlet.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5OhNplEd4
Don’t go in.
From an (unnamed) Brazilian candid camera show.
(Thanks James McGoldrick)