“A lot of people say, ‘You destroyed your career by tearing up a picture of the pope‘” – on an infamous apperance on US TV in 1992 – “but I define success differently in this spiritually bereft business. To me, it’s ‘Can I be myself?’ I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don’t need millions of dollars. That was why I tore up the pope’s picture – I knew I had enough money that I didn’t have to marry a man with a very small penis to get the bills paid. I don’t want any man to have control over me. And that is success.”

 

Sinéad O’Connor: ‘I Define Success Differently’ (Caroline O’Sullivan, Guardian

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This.

Wait for the night shot, and the final sequence.

French designer Oscar Lhermitte sez:

Instead of making a normal movie, I am trying to get a colour gradient of what the camera is shooting. There is no post production involved, the effect is achieved by connecting the lens of the camera to a drilling machine. The video is taking 15 frames per second, whereas the drill is spinning at more than 20 turn per second.

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Women in Ireland earn 17% less than men and only half of all working women earn more than €50,000 a year.An EU Commission study suggests that Irish women in their 20s earn about 90% of what their male colleagues do.The study suggests that Irish women in the 35 to 44 age group only earn 71.5% and this falls even further for women in their 50s and 60s.

 

Irish Women Earn 17% Less Than Irish Men (RTE)

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