Writer’s block as seen by Lyn Allen, who goes under the alias Kitty Moss, an illustrator and designer based in Dublin. That’s one of the first Dell laptops.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-WaElI
DJ and master remixer Jim Pavloff whips up a multi-sourced home-brew version of The Prodigy’s (NSFW) ‘Smack my bitch up”.
Chin-strokingly good.
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Not necrophiliacs, certainly. An eerie and atmospheric work in progress by Jake McKee.
Tracking courtesy of the Dynamic Perception Stage Zero dolly (if you’re into that kind of thing.)
(Thanks D Fallon)
This literally just in.
‘Bagheera S*Krasa Mira’, a seven-month old Sphynx from County Dublin, has scared off (with just the power of her stare) hundreds of other cats to to win the ‘Summer of the Cat’ competition, a UK and Ireland-wide search for feline squee-ness, organised by cat food maker Royal Canin.
Members of the public were asked to submit photos of their cats during July and August. The next 10 top Irish cats in the list included:
‘Tarmac’: Age: 1 month Breed: Domestic Short/long Hair Location: County Kildare
‘Kiltonga Moonshine’ Age: 8 years Breed: Birman Location: County Kildare
‘Bertie’ Age: 3 years Breed: Exotic Shorthair Location: County Galway
‘Mono’ Age: 4 months Breed: European Shorthair Location: County Kilkenny
‘Frozi’ Age: 10 months Breed: Colourpoint Longhair Location: County Wexford
‘Gulliver‘ Age: 1 year Breed: Domestic Short/long Hair Location: Co. Meath
‘Phoebe’ Age: 2 years Breed: European Shorthair Location: County Antrim
‘Angel’ Age: 4 months Breed: European Shorthair Location: County Dublin
‘Pagan’ Age: 4 years Breed: Maine Coon Location: County Laois
‘Lulu’ Age: 1 year Breed: Domestic Short/long Hair Location: County Meath
You shouldn’t really have favourites.
But ours is Gulliver.
Summer of The Cat 2011 Competition Photo Gallery Gallery (Royal Canin)
‘The Ides of March’ starring (and directed by) George Clooney as a presidential candidate and Ryan Gosling as his press secretary.
‘Melancholia’, a dark wedding tale, starring Kirsten Dunst and directed by Lars Von Trier. This was the movie Von Trier was promoting when he got thrown out of Cannes.
‘Like Crazy’, Sundance-winning ‘indie weepie’ set in England and America and casted by ‘unknowns’.
Moneyball, about a struggling baseball team, starring Brad Pitt and Philip Seymour Hoffman directed by Capote‘s Bennett Miller.
On the other hand…
Could this – for the re-make of Footloose – be among the worst film posters ever?
What is this I don’t even of the day:
The spectacularly stupid Ashley McDowell was approached by two men in a McDonald’s parking lot where they offered to sell her an iPad for $300. She only had $180, but they gave it to her anyway. When she got home, she found out it was really just a block of wood with an Apple logo painted on the back.
But it’s sort of an amazing block of wood.
Woman Buys a Block of Wood with an Apple Logo Thinking It’s an iPad (Gawker)
Brian O’Driscoll is the most popular outside centre in the world, according to latest voting in the Daily Telegraph:
Despite World Cup winner Will Greenwood available for selection, as well as Jeremy Guscott and New Zealander Frank Bunce, O’Driscoll leads the way in the most popular midfield for the greatest Rugby World Cup XV.
Amazed that this “mercurial talent” with an, admittedly, patchy World Cup record could garner such a big vote, the Telegraph conducted a poll among its online readers to double check:
Greatest Rugby World Cup XV statistics: Public want BOD at Outside Centre (Telegraph)
August Fails
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZvL58nBC68
The monthly faceplantastic compilation from Twisternederland.
It’s a doozy. No really, some of these clips are truly horrific. Pain connoisseurs only. You’ve been warned.