Pleasing to watch, whether or not you’re a Star Wars/LEGO geek.

Model maker Francisco Prieto sez:

Assembly of the Lego set 10179 from Star Wars Ultimate collector series in stop motion in 3D. Created using 3ds max and V-ray. A very long work over 3 years, modelling all the pieces by myself. and rendered frame by frame.

Music: Chambermaid Swing by Parov Stelar

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CkxlOQ_prA

Continuing today’s mirror theme, here’s a cute video for French musician Yuksek‘s single ‘Off The Wall’ (geddit?), produced by SoLab.

The making of video shows how it was done by running the same sequence, minus the mirror effect.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6q-0dmaIiU&context=C387f189ADOEgsToPDskIiyNXA4tsL53-k8RYx4ik2

When hope and history don’t rhyme.

Poem by Pamela Brown, Music by Connor Kelly, Kinetic Typography by Michael Breslin.

Two seals were discovered on Tramore Beach, Co Waterford (above) during the past 24 hours with gunshot wounds.

From Irish Seal Sanctuary

The Irish Seal Sanctuary was horrified to learn that adult grey seals were coming ashore dying from bullet wounds to their heads. The first, a mature bull seal had been shot with what appears to be a .22 bullet to the head. Had this been an authorised shooting under license from the NPWS [National Parks and Wildlife Service] it would have been shot with a weapon capable of  killing it outright.

 

Illegally shot seals At Tramore, County Waterford (IrishSealSanctuary)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzSfdtCqPgGood luck with that

Inside Supermac’s in Eyre Square, Galway, (video and top) and on the square itself (above) last night.

We did warn them.

Pics via Galway Independent (Facebook)
Video via Galway Advertiser (Facebook)

Thanks Marian Kelly and Colm Gannon

Don’t fancy a JobBridge?

Try the route to forced labour pathway to work so.

From Joan Burton Minister for Social Protection (above) :

A key element of the Pathways to Work approach is the transformation of social welfare offices into new one-stop-shops in the first half of the year where clients can access their entitlements and get help with planning their return to work. Four will open in King’s Inn, Parnell Street, Dublin; Tallaght, Dublin; Arklow, Co. Wicklow and Sligo by May with a further ten coming on stream by the end of the year.

Customers will be asked to complete a profile questionnaire when they register with these one-stop-shops so that their case worker can assess the Probability of Exit (PEX) from unemployment during the subsequent 12 months and put the right supports in place. This will allow the Department of Social Protection to profile 150,000 customers this year.

Case workers will also hold group interviews with 30,000 customers this year as well as 130,000 one-to-one interviews with those most in need of assistance in returning to employment.

The Department of Social Protection will require people to engage with the Pathways to Work approach. The Department will also review the current rules and strengthen them where necessary to ensure that individuals do engage with Pathways to Work.

Also as part of the Pathways to Work process, claimants will sign a rights and responsibilities contract and commit to a progression plan with the Department of Social Protection.

Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton launches Pathways to Work (Labour)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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