Poster Cred: Seattle-based designer Joseph King’s absurdist satire on the pretentious habit of contemporary designers who display work by photographing themselves holding it up as ‘worthy to be presented’.
You can request the Poster Cred stickers (top pic) via King’s webpage and present your own masterpiece to the gallery of mock.
His Excellency Most Reverend Charles John Brown, new Apostolic Nuncio, inspecting the guard of honour and briefly losing his zucchetto at Aras an Uachtarain where he presented his credentials to the President.
Meanwhile, some more awkwardness:
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
A nifty little animated short by editor Evan Seitz: 26 movies as alphabetised icons.
Can you guess them all in real time as the film plays out?
From F Stoppers:
In a scene I can only imagine making an amazing Hollywood heist movie (especially for camera nerds), it seems the official Nikon trade show van has been stolen in Dublin, Ireland. At this point there are few details available as far as how the robbery went down. It does seem like the thieves knew what they were getting though.Inside the van? Oh, just $150 000 worth of camera gear, including the yet to be released D800 and D4.
Made me giggle. A dog that looks like a pillow that looks like a ….. Oh dear twitter.com/duckydarren/st…
— Darren Gray (@duckydarren) February 16, 2012
Minister Joan Burton announcing the results of an upsurge in people grassing on alleged dole cheats.
Despite this:
Fraud and error rates tend to range from 1 per cent in cases involving the State contributory pension to 3.1 per cent with the Jobseeker’s Allowance.
Welfare Fraud Prevention Results In Savings Of €645m (Irish Times)
Earlier: “A Cultural Shift”
A stencil first spotted on Bray Main Street last November, since neatly amended in the spirit of interventive conservation.
The system works.
Greyhound collection teams in Dublin this morning.
Private company Greyhound Waste is collecting all bins in Dublin city regardless of whether customers are registered for upfront payments.
