David Lawlor writes:
Standing on the sholders of giants. Smyths of Haddington Road [Dublin] at 1.30pm today
From Moonbot Studios. Produced by Lampton Enochs and co-directed by Brandon Oldenburg and William Joyce, who also wrote the screenplay. Currently up for an Oscar.
Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, “Morris Lessmore” is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/ illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a new narrative experience that harkens back to silent films and M-G-M Technicolor musicals. “Morris Lessmore” is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.
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The horribly-carpeted Boeing 787 Dreamliner currently parked in a hanger at Dublin Airport (that’s Today FM reporter Fergal O’Brien third pic down goofing about in the ‘hold’).
The Dreamliner is “the first mid-size airplane capable of flying long-range routes”. And premier class (top pic) allows you to fashion your seat into a weight-lifting bench. We think.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner (Wikipedia)
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
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Georgia Salpa with Kermit the Frog at the premiere of the new Muppet movie in London last night.
The Muppets UK Premier (Facebook)
Thanks Darragh Doyle
Youtuber krashOPS sez:
Yesterday I discovered a .gif image with this “DJ Cat” and then I did a little research and found the video, so I just downloaded it and edited so it matches the track. Track used in this video is by Datsik and Excision and is called “Swagga”
In other news: Keyboard Cat to headline OldSkool Nite at the Lavey Inn, Cavan.
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPKsm_xkrQs
Here’s the twist.
They interview only Americans.
Who are, it must be said, giddy-upped by Galway’s awesomeness.
Broadsheet commenter Peter Farrahy writes:
“Let me see if I have this.
You base your economic growth on the building and housing market.
You stoke it up with tax breaks to developers and builders.
You protect the cement industry by refusing to introduce EU regulation on minimum standards of house insulation.
You encourage a people who have a built-in desire to buy their homes to “get in” before prices go beyond their reach.
You deregulate the banks and appoint regulators that don’t regulate.
You allow 100% mortgages and in some cases 120% mortgages and turn a blind eye to the fact that NO property bubble EVER had a soft landing.
You pay yourself some of the highest salaries in the world including almost unlimited expenses. You bask in the glow of the Celtic Tiger and sneer at all and any who question you.
You do nothing to control inflation, resulting in Tesco making higher profits in Ireland the the UK!
You allow a situation where we pay five times the European average cost for Pharmaceutical products.
Everything we pay for from insurance to schoolbooks cost whatever the seller decides to charge with no interference from any of the 850 quangos created for jobs for the pals and costing some €3 billion a year to run.
You sold off Eircom and set back broadband for a decade while the company was asset stripped and sold time and time again.
Instead of building a good rail network you built roads and then gave them to private companies to charge us to use them.
If we wish to go, by rail, from Cork to Wexford we must go via Dublin!.
And this is all because WE (the people) were greedy?
Ah, it is little wonder that I rant.”