The Sphero – a smartphone-operated bluetooth RC ball designed to do your cat’s head in.
Available for pre-order.
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The Specials, photographed by Jill Furmanovsky in November 1979 (and featured in the latest issue of ‘Mojo’) when the band played a double bill with The Beat at the ‘Stardust Club’ in Artane.
‘Dubdoug’ of Brand New Retro sez:
I love the suitcases, Easons shop, the Players Please billboard, the two-tone floor, the well dressed lady on the left, the fashion of others not with the Specials and of course the Specials themselves.
Via Brand New Retro
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra9tq5gp8Oc
Beggars with brollies.
Under a jobbridge.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqpE8CZXgYw&feature=channel_video_title
This could be our favourite one.
Thanks Trev
Face/Off
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Realtime face substitution by OpenFrameworks developer Arturo Castro. Made with Kyle McDonald’s ofxFacetracker, Jason Saragih’s facetracker library and parts of Kevin Atkinson’s image clone code.
I for one welcome our new face-stealing overlords.
via
httpv://youtu.be/UKjErC2JLQc
Prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic of the same name.
“It’s Not Human. Yet.”
Worst movie slogan ever?
Release Date (Ireland): December 2
Muirne Lydon (on floor) and Peggy Reme (on scaffolding), both easel painting conservators, work on the Marriage of Strongbow And Aoife (1854) by Cork artist Daniel McLise at the National Gallery this morning. The ongoing work on the painting can now be followed online.
Painting Conservation Goes Online (Tim O’Brien, Irish Times)
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
David Hanlon writes:
A Kerryman (right) arrives back on site in Saudi Arabia to a warm welcome from the overseas Dublin supporters club.