Happening now.
From The Spire, O’Connell Street, Dublin to Merrion Square.
Pics JC; Darragh Doyle; Caoimhe; Rita; Jane Travers; Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland.
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X Is For Anonymous, a documentary by Heather Browning, Kerry Guinan and Rosi Leonard (all born during the era of the X Case ruling), which premiered last night at Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin, ahead of today’s March for Choice.
Of the gushing, superlative-laden, relentlessly positive reviews of Yelp contributor Katie-Ann M, Orna Cunningham writes:
Having a look at opening times on Yelp, I found this enthusiastic young woman’s reviews. Some personal favourites are Abrekebabra, the particularly incisive critique of River Island and the description of a bread and butter pudding at Bridge Bar and Bistro. Best thing is, she’s written 285 of these ‘odes to the amazing’.
Elsewhere, Irish Ferries is ‘the best-kept secret in the domain of transportation services operating in and out of Dublin.’
Then there’s Oxfam, King Street D2, where ‘everything oozes a disposition that is a lot more vibrant and full of life than most other outlets owing to the items being of such a palpable ‘exotic’ nature.’
And Penney’s, O’Connell Street. ‘I respect Penneys.’
Read all 285 torrid chapters here.
You may need a little lie down afterwards.
Two ice cream cakes created by London designers Doshi Levien for Häagen-Dazs.
Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien say they were inspired by Georges Méliès’ 1902 silent film Le Voyage dans la Lune, Armenian surrealist Léon Tutundjian’s relief work of 1929, a childhood Bollywood song and the near-spherical shapes of early ice cream bombes. The white moon consists of a pistachio biscuit base, layers of macadamia nut ice cream and meringue and a coating of raspberry ice cream. The orange moon has crunchy chocolate at the bottom, layers of nutty ice cream and salted caramel and a coating of vanilla ice cream.
It’s a trOMNOMNOMNOM
(Hat tip: Dara Flynn)
Papercut action vignettes by designer and photographer David Reeves: impressive atmosphere and depth of field from an inexpensive, low tech set-up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIccc-Kdrpw#!
Poor Mitt.
No really, at this stage.
Just poor Mitt.
Warriors and scientists join forces to save the world from an embittered humanoid robot in a dystopian Amsterdam.
OK, there’s nothing about that description we didn’t like, but Tears of Steel is a niftily executed sci-fi short in its own right. With the exception of a few lapses into ham and cheese, the VFX and storyline are great.
Just as impressive however, is the fact that the whole production was created using open-source tech and crowd-funding:
All computer effects in the film were modelled and animated using Blender, a suite of open-source 3D content creation tools.Tears of Steel was produced according to open source values. The film was financed with crowdfunding from Blender users, and everything created for the film, including all graphics and the film itself, are free to use and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution.
In short, a sci-fi that’s genuinely of the future.
