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Last night.

Sugar Club, Leeson Street, Dublin 2.

‘Rapture’, a 60-second ‘spec ad’ for Ryanair, written and directed by Dave Fox and produced by Laura Gaynor, won ‘Best Spec Commercial’ at the Emerging Director Awards.

Full credit list here.

G’wan the Laura.

Previously: Commercial Break

The evangelical broadcaster who left followers crestfallen by his failed prediction that last Saturday would be Judgement Day says he miscalculated.

Harold Camping said it had “dawned” on him that God would spare humanity “hell on Earth for five months” and the apocalypse would happen on 21 October.

Mr Camping said he felt “terrible” about his mistake. But he said he could not give financial advice to those who spent their life savings in the belief the end was nigh.

Rapture: Harold Camping issues new apocalypse date (BBC News)

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vj8-_jhFAA

Lyn Benedetto, there: failing to avoid the Tribulation in the most horrible way imaginable.

Meanwhile, (top pic) a trollboard on the I-40 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Because life goes on.

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This amazing time lapse featurette is a mere preview of Astronomy Photographer Tom Lowe’s soon to be released feature Timescapes, memorably described by the Washington Post as ‘the Planet Earth series on crack’.

Timescapes