Against a white background, the Kishu Collection by Maya Selway appears to be a series of minimalist sketches of everyday items.
In fact, it’s a (just about) functional set of trompe l’oeil sculptural forms crafted from oxidized copper – each piece carefully weighted to help it balance.
(Hat tip: Aaron McAllorum)
Isobel Scally writes:
This beautiful bird was photographed by my sister in Ranelagh Gardens this morning. Just wondering can anyone identify it?
Four years in the making.
Leviathan is holding a US Presidential Election party tomorrow night at the Sugar Club, Leeson Street, Dublin.
It promises to be a night of self-important people running around shouting ‘We’ve got Wisconsin fun, laughter, political intrigue and heavy drinking.
Music will be supplied by Paddy Cullivan and panellists on the night will include Dr. Jane Suiter, Noel Rock, Cllr. Rebecca Moynihan, Marc Coleman; Constantin Gurdgiev; Senator Paul Bradford (Fine Gael), Dr. Eoin O’Malley (DCU, We The Citizens), Dr. John Gallagher, Senator Mark Daly (Fianna Fáil), Cathal Lee, Suzy Byrne, Colette Browne.
It will be like bathing fully-clothed in the Vinb twitter stream.
PLUS an appearance by Broadsheet.ie’s much loved ‘ricksmith John Moynes. John will be live Limericking the election for this site – through the night – along with a crack political reporting team and Ewok.
Tickets: €15. Start time is at 6:30pm with the first panel beginning at 7:30pm.
We have four – Yes FOUR – tickets to the Leviathan Presidential Election Night bash to give away.
To enter just finish this sentence:
I would like to go the Leviathan thing because….
Lines close at 3pm 4.30pm 6pm
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Rise, the biggest public artwork ever commissioned in Northern Ireland, has won its first international design award. The two large globes on Broadway roundabout in west Belfast have a nickname. Locals refer to them as “the balls on the Falls”. The 37.5 metre high sculpture was the brainchild of Nottingham artist Wolfgang Buttress. It consists of two large globes cast in silver and white steel.
Video by Stephen O’Kane
Hardcore.
A few more from the ingenious ‘Sharp Suits’ challenge wherein Ireland’s creative community get to release “a lot of pent up anger and sadness through the medium of the A3 poster” in aid of Temple Street Children’s Hospital.
All the posters are currently exhibted at the Little Green Cafe, Dublin, until Wednesday.
Thanks Barry H
Mercer Street, Dublin, this lunchtime.
Anyone?
Thanks Sean
7pm, Thursday September 25th, 2012.
One day last month, more than more than 500 Irish kids filmed a moment in their lives and submitted the footage to producers Macalla Teo for inclusion in the documentary series Life’s Like This.
The results, in the form of 12 three-minute documentary films, will be broadcast tomorrow (Tuesday 6th November ) on the hour, every hour between 8am and 7pm on RTÉ2 – each three-minute compilation transmitted at the same hour of the day it was filmed.
A fiesty supercut by Jonathan Keogh who, while admitting that not all of these films come from the top 250 on IMDb, sez (in admirably geeky style):
If Peter Weyland wanted David to learn about cinema while the crew of Prometheus was still in hyper sleep, he’d probably have him go down the IMDB Top 250.
(Hat tip: Barry McKenna)
