https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7dlHpRyMaU
Phillip McMahon writes:
Emmet Kirwan, writer of Sarah & Steve and star of the Just Sayin’ video has written a new play called Dublin Oldschool. It’s a razor sharp roller coaster ride through the Dublin underground. It premieres at Tiger Dublin Fringe next week, playing at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre.Would love if you could share it.
Above: (from top): Prague, New York, a glen in Scotland, Milan and La Defense in Paris
The quite frankly mind-scrambling work of artist Ben Sack: intricately detailed cityscapes drawn with a succession of 0.05 black Stabilo pigment liners that he exhausts and replaces many times in the months it takes to complete each drawing.
His most recent work (of which you can see much more here) is the circular A Single Note above. It’s 3.8 meters across.
Prints are available.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is an ever present threat.
Judgmental Maps – offensive, bigoted, reductive, wonderful.
Submit your own here.
Should someone do Dublin, Cork or any other Irish location, please let us know.
In the mid 1920’s, cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene travelled around the UK with his (at the time) high tech colour film camera to create a famous series of films called The Open Road, subsequently restored and circulated by the BFI.
Last year, filmmaker Simon Smith retraced Friese-Greene’s journey through London, mimicking the timing, angles and location of the original sequences shot for shot.
If you’re at all familiar with London, the side by side comparison above is somewhat awesome.
Tokyo cityscapes blurred to bokeh abstraction by photographer Takashi Kitajima who surrounds the distant focal points of his nighttime shots with the magical glow of out-of-focus light sources in the foreground.
Bordered by Aughrim Street, Prussia Street and the North Circular Road, the Dublin cattle market was opened by the Rt. Hon. J.P. Vereher, Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1863. It was one of the biggest in Britain or Ireland. It operated every Thursday and before the break of dawn, cattle would arrive in by road from all parts of Ireland, primarily coming from Celbridge, Chapelizod, Dunshaughlin and Ashbourne. Some grazed overnight in fields along the Cabra Road. Many farmers indulged in the spit and shake excitement of selling the poor auld beasties amid the confines of the City Arms Hotel in Prussia Street and Hanlon’s Pub.
The poo-trails radiating out from the place were said to be legendary.
(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)
Yet another depopulated timelapse inspired by Ross Ching’s Empty America series – this time with an added twist.
Using a full spectrum camera with a yellow filter, Bruce Wayne Berry Jr took to the streets of Philadelphia, recording the scenes in infrared.
Previously: Paris, Deserted
Hypocentre – an unnerving short by filmmakers Claire and Maxime that depicts Paris (like the opening scene of London in 28 Days Later, but actually inspired by Ross Ching’s Empty America series) completely devoid of people.
They explain the hows and whys here.
A short film by Louis Morton (his graduation piece from the University of Southern California) uses an atmospheric soundscape recorded in Los Angeles and Tokyo to evoke the simmering organized cacophony of city life.
If you have headphones handy, now would be the time.
