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10 Apr 2013
Not a lot of information about it yet apart from this Facebook page and this extended teaser:
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26 Sep 2012
Kylie's most famous asset is on display in this short clip by artist/film-maker Katerina Jebb (website/wiki)
Embedding is "disabled by request" but you can watch on YouTube.
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17 Sep 2012
The internet is awash with (admittedly some pretty cool) projection mapping on buildings, but this Swiss installation/stop-motion project where students in an old tower block open and close the window shutters is much more satisfying just for being... actual, rather than projected. It's remarably effective.
(via TheDailyWhat)
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28 Jun 2012
Dubliner's will already know that we're getting another new bridge (It's been a great few years for bridge geeks in this town), this one only yards from O'Connell Bridge itself, and willl be carrying the LUAS and other public transport. I haven't posted much about it yet even though it's also only yards from my place because at this stage the construction is at the unexciting pile-driving stage and I don't want to bore you all with my bridge geekery. I'll wait till we get to a more picture-friendly phase of the construction.
Meanwhile, the Irish Times letters page has a running thread of people suggesting names for the new bridge - mostly naming it after the great and the good - and they have run the gamut from sportsmen to scientists to (as usual) writers. But so far, unless I missed it, no one has suggested a woman.
Currently there are seventeen bridges between the East Link and Heuston, and all seventeen are named after men. Not one of them is named after a woman.
If you go a little further out there's the Anna Livia Bridge in Chapelizod, but I don't count a poetic 'female' personification of the river Liffey as an actual woman. And the bridge at Island Bridge was previously called Sarah's Bridge after Sarah, Countess of Westmoreland, wife of the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who laid the first stone of the original bridge in 1791. However the brdge we have there now was renamed Island Bridge after independence.
Now I'm not one for advocating gender quotas for the naming of bridges, and of course in times gone by it was much more difficult for a woman to leave a historically significant mark on the city, but when you have seventeen bridges (twenty three, if you go out as far as Lucan) and every single one is named after a man (bar the couple named after landmarks), well, it begins to seem deliberately insulting.
So I say when it comes to naming the new bridge over the Liffey, let's name it after a great Irish woman.
"Artivist" Will St Leger feels similarly about the representation of women among the statues in the city centre, and yesterday morning he tried to restore a semblance of balance by adding a new female statue to the city's statuary. She didn't last too long unfortunately.
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26 Jun 2012
Scott Lifshutz is a well known American painter and illustrator who is perhaps best known for his portraits. Apart from exhibition, his work has appeared everywhere from Vogue to Microsoft ads, and his portrait clients have included celebrities like Susan Sarandon and Isaac Mizrahi.
And now he's added another huge celebrity to that list - Penny!
Scott also paints portraits of animals by commission and recently had the opportunity to hang one in Jonathon Adler in New York, but because they are by commission he doesn't actually own any of his own animal portraits to display, so, being a man of impeccable taste, he asked if he could paint Penny...
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26 Jun 2012
See Me is a group exhibition that brought visual artists together with drag/cabaret artists to celebrate Pride.
"Each artist has been paired with a performer, and the results vary from the poetic to the inspirational, to the terrifyingly vulnerable.
The line up includes: Qasim Riza Shaheen, Maser, Áine Macken, Aoife de Búrca and some of Dublin's most sought after performers including Panti Bliss, Bunny and Lucy Rhinehart."
I was paired with Maser.
The exhibition is on till 11pm this evening at The Little Green Street Gallery, 12A Little Britain Street, Dublin 7. (That's just off Capel Street, other end from Pantibar, across from Mary Street)
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21 Jun 2012
There are more of these incredible pictures and postcards HERE.
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21 Jun 2012
I lke this fishy installation on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, which is currently hosting a UN conference on sustainable development. A coiuple of more pics HERE.
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02 Jun 2012
It's like a giant biscuit tin.
Anyone know who the artist is? And is it pure sculpture or is it disguising a practical object, like the mirrored gas thing on the opposite quay?
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29 May 2012
Charybdis is a water vortex sculpture by sculptor Wiliam Pye who does lots of beautiful work with water.
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