httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-7JS4fu6-s&feature=player_embedded#at=93

We would like to draw your attention to Nina Hynes and her efforts to raise money to complete her new album.

Nina is currently on fundit.ie where she has raised €1,980.

We are fans

But don’t let that put you off.

LOL.

Nina Hynes on fundit.ie

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHw6WjGdSk&feature=player_embedded

Until you’ve watched the 1994 movie Patriots; a timeless, savage and often poignant portrayal of Northern Irish and English accents. It takes place in Belfast but was actually shot in Boston.

Mark Newell, of course, went on to forge a successful career as a James Joyce lookalike  mainly doing hen parties.

Below is the last known DVD edition cover, something of a design classic:

IMDB: Patriots (1994)

Thanks Peter Molloy


Context

Getty Images photographer Rich Lam sez:

I was covering last night’s Stanley Cup Playoffs for Getty Images when Vancouver erupted in riots after the Canucks’ Game 7 loss to the Boston Bruins. It was complete chaos. Rioters set two cars on fire and then I saw looters break the window at a neighboring department store. At that point, the riot police charged right towards us. After I stopped running, I noticed in the space behind the line of police that two people were laying in the street with the riot police and a raging fire just beyond them. I knew I had captured a “moment” when I snapped the still forms against the backdrop of such chaos but it wasn’t until later when I returned to the rink to file my photos that my editor pointed out that the two people were not hurt, but kissing.

Either the best riot photo ever, or a cynical, staged troll. The jury is out.

Love in the Time of Rioting (Updated: Backstory of a ‘Kiss’) (Esquire)

Riot Kiss Sparks Mystery (Guardian)

Wonder Woman (USA-version): Super strength, stamina, agility, magic lasso and bullet proof bracelets.

Wonder Woman (Ireland version): Artistic ability and can fall from moderate height on to her back and be back up painting a Guinness sign a day later.

Annacotty’s ‘Wonder Woman’ Survives 20ft Fall (Rebekah Commane, Limerick Post)

Thanks Niall O’M

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLm_YzY3kLU

The Skydive Arena in Prague, opened last May, has a 4m diameter glass-walled vertical wind tunnel where you can flail about screeching while professional skydivers like these guys laugh at you.

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