Michael (left) and Ciaran Le Cool.
The chaps behind Le Cool Dublin.
Four YEARS putting the dayum into damn hipster Baile Atha Cliath.
Many happy returns from all of us.
All that is needed now is a cover featuring bathing cauliflower people.
Lovely.
By Cuts, who sez:
“My only suggestive input is this piece is through the title, Heterotopia.”
Mmm.
More cake?
‘Complacency Revisited’
A Hillen-esque study of a relationship gone all mechanical.
By Jason Kearney, AKA Cuts
Who sez:
Complacency Revisited to me conjures up the emptiness experienced when a relationship degrades to the point where neither person is living a fulfilling life, instead they both seem content with being passengers along the other’s ‘road’, regardless of this being pointed out to them.
But enough about the coalition, etc.
This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue
The Underground (left) and No Romance.
By Aiden Grennelle who sez:
This week’s cover image is an homage to two former icons of Dublin’s street culture and music scene — both long gone, but never out of my mind. Noel and Jeff Brennan‘s The Underground on Dame Street was the spiritual home of indie during the mid-80s to the early 90s. Susan and Regine Moylett and Aongus Hanly‘s No Romance in the Dandelion Market on St Stephen’s Green was the spiritual home of punk during the late 70s and early 80s. Their logos have been 3D-printed as mini sculptural monuments in ultra vivid colours, a tribute to these two era-defining landmarks.
This week’s le cool Dublin issue
‘The Corrections’.
A pint of Guinness and a pack of Tayto.
‘Corrected’ with 3D printing.
By Aiden Grennelle, of ImageNow, who sez:
This is a reference to one of my favourite public sculptures in Dublin. A set of very large asymmetrically cut granite stones laid out on the grassy terrace above the formal gardens in IMMA. I’ve long been a fan but only recently saw a tiny plaque with their details and the artist’s name: Iran do Espírito Santo, and the name of the collection is The Corrections. I love them even more now. I wondered if I could “correct” some simple everyday Dublin icons.
Like the omnipresent pint of Guinness and the humble pack of Tayto. I asked a colleague 3D Dave to help me model the objects and then 3D print them, which I shot on an iPhone and very slightly retouched.
This week’s le cool issue
Platon, by Biennale-bound Richard Mosse, who sez:
This valley shows a pastoral farm in the hills of Masisi, North Kivu, which is a heartland for Tutsi armed rebels, such as the M23. These guys traditionally worship their cows, and love them like family members. In spite of the extraordinary beauty of this landscape, it’s sadly riven by an endless cycle of ambush, massacre, and systematic sexual violence. I titled this image Platon after my Congolese friend’s two year old son and because the meandering river seems almost platonic in form.
Richard used a “discontinued aerial surveillance film called Kodak Aerochrome, which registers infrared light in shades of lavender, hot pink and teal blue”.
Get him
This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue:
“Of Lillies and Remains”
…by Ireland’s representative for the 55th Venice Biennale, Richard Mosse.
Who sez:
“This is the skull of a victim of the massacre carried out by the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) in Busurungi, Walikale, North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2009. The skull was secretly taken to Chambucha at the request of surviving relatives, so that it could be documented without reprisal on the villagers of Busurungi by FDLR. The skull was placed in wet grass near a riverbank and dressed with cut flowers, a memento mori. The title was lifted from a song by Bauhaus.”
Second (and final) offering from Totally Dublin art director, Lauren Kavanagh
Who sez:
Dublin is the only place I know of where you thank the driver when alighting from a bus. It probably stems from the lack of middle doors, causing us to barge out past people trying to get on. Such haphazard behaviour would never happen in Germany or the UK, but it’s nice to say ‘ta’.
Can you tell what it is?
An aerial view of a pint, a knapkin-covered sanger and a pot of mustard from Grogan’s, South William Street, Dublin.
London-based Lauren, art director of Totally Dublin, sez:
I’ve been living away from Dublin for just over three years now, and it’s a bit of a ritual to go for pints and toasties with my mates when I get back into town, usually Grogan’s or Peter’s Pub. I made this with Illustrator. Adobe Creative Suite for everything else.
It [the cover] also looks like kind of a weird cuckoo…
Took their damn hipstery time about it.
Ciaran le Cool writes:
We were asked by Irish creative festival OFFSET to take part in their Art Week, essentially they handed over their website for us to talk about the Irish people we currently find inspiring in the run up to the festival. In return, we collaborated with Irish photographers, seanandyvette, to produce photoessays on those we consider to be Craft Punks and we worked with Louise Gaffney to produce this short filme; le cool’s (Short) Guide to Street Art.
Defiantly live.
By Alé Mercado (Kilkenny-based, Spanish illustrator)
Who sez:
One of my favourite things about Dublin is the music gigs. I’ve been able to see bands that I wouldn’t have thought I’d ever see while living in Seville. Dublin has such a thriving music scene! I remember being amazed at seeing a full venue wanting to see what I would have thought were obscure bands… of any genre. Some of my favourite gigs include Therapy?, Bang on a Can, Slint… to mention a few.
