Photographer Joe Capra took a 17 day trip around Iceland in his car last June, making the most of the midnight sun to capture round-the-clock images for this extraordinary timelapser. He sez:
During my days shooting this film I shot 38,000 images, travelled some 2900 miles, and saw some of the most amazing, beautiful, and indescribable landscapes on the planet. Iceland is absolutely one of the most beautiful and unusual places you could ever imagine.
Go full screen.
Disregarding his party allegiance, questions also arise about Mr Gallagher’s personal suitability for the role. As far as I can see, his entire campaign is predicated on the notion that he is a successful entrepreneur and, by some kind of inexplicable process of osmosis, will use that entrepreneurial spirit to lift the country off the jagged rocks his party colleagues wrecked us on.
Fair enough but, according to the P60 that Mr Gallagher recently published, he earned a grand total of €12,133 last year while his company, Smarthomes, had accumulated losses of €543,000 in 2009 — which, by any estimation, would mean that his business is in some considerable difficulty. Of course, there’s no shame in that. Many businesses are but why tout yourself as a hugely successful businessman when you’d conceivably be in a better financial position working as a JobBridge intern?
All together now: euuuurrroooohgheeugh.
“I was in Madrid recently and while visiting the Reina Sofia art gallery I came across this blob that looks (kind of) like Ireland in a painting called Pink Bells, Tattered Skies by René Magritte.“ (Conor Flynn)
Just be thankful it wasn’t another McNugget.
This Friday is the 44th anniversary of the day when 70,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to protest the Vietnam war.
Later that day, 50,000 marched to the Pentagon, among them legendary counterculture vibesters Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg and The Fugs, who hadn’t simply come to protest the war. They had come to exorcise (exorgasm) the Pentagon, then levitate it using a magical incantation prepared by the Fugs’ Ed Sanders.
The levitation may not have happened, but some who were there apparently witnessed the building ‘shudder a bit’.
They were, of course, very high indeed.
Here’s rare 16mm footage of the day shot by Edward Folger who describes it as an “impressionistic immersion in the experience of the march.”
Oh.
That’s a nice ‘how do you do?’.
Sean Gallagher at the Candy Lab in Dublin within the past hour.
He’s like Daddy Warbucks.
…and all we got was this rude image.
Previously: A Shamrock Rovers Fan Went To London And All We Got Was This Rude Image
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JirCbm7fz_8&feature=player_embedded#!
Max Keiser.
Starts kicking off at 4.30.
Images sent in to Irish Weather Online over the past month.
And, yes, more Elbow.
From Gill & Macmillan:
The fascinating story of the man who blew the boom. Colm Keena, the journalist who first broke the story of Bertie Ahern’s finances, gives us an in-depth examination of the former Taoiseach’s character, his lust for power and his obsession with money.
Keena scrutinises the evidence produced by the Mahon Tribunal about Ahern’s personal finances and his personal political machine, and illustrates the lengths to which Ahern went in his effort to hide the truth about what he was up to.
Ahern’s political career is re-charted in the light of what we now know about his character. Keena looks at how his desire for power existed alongside an almost complete absence of political conviction, this lack of which left him open to the influence of those with strong opinions, and did nothing to arrest his mismanagement of the Irish economy. His lust for popularity brought Ireland from rude good health to economic disaster. An historic opportunity was squandered, but Bertie walked away from the wreckage with his wallet bulging.
His legacy: the near-destruction of a European economy and the collapse of one of the most successful political parties of the past hundred years.
Nice cover.
