Cork Film Festival has selected Point of Departure as one of the films in its CineTransEurope programme. This is a touring programme involving five festivals, which each select films from their festival which 'embody a spirit of experimentation'. These are then played at each festival. The festivals involved are:Signes de Nuit Film Festival, Paris, France 29th March to 11th April 2010European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany 21 – 25 April 2010Cork Film Festival, 7th to 14th November 2010L’Alternativa Festival of Independent Cinema, Barcelona, Spain 12th to 20th November 2010Amsterdam Film Experience, The Netherlands, December...
In the words of the internet, WTF?...
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Lá na Gaeilge is coming up. Are we ready?
Also, Ghost Estates as Gaeilge:
“Eastáit na Si” or “Fairy Estates” is, of course, open to misinterpretation in today’s sexually-oriented parlance, but is an elegant Gaelicisation of this modern landmark feature and can be linked to the longstanding regard in which the Irish have held the “little people” or those from an “domhan eile”.
How economics underlies every aspect of the Google business model, blog post from Geary.
Enterprise Boards could be going, via EI comment?
Played with this app on Saturday, use iPhone to survey a crowd. Crowdscanner.
The top ad music of 2009.
Check out what Penguin Books have planned for the iPad.
Using your network to get innovating.
Using Google Analytics to get better stats for your Facebook...
This weeks Movie Bit podcast is now available to download. Click here to go to iTunes and download it! Featuring reviews of Alice and Wonderland, Ondine and all things Oscars. Also featured as separate downloads are Kirk Jones (director of Everybodys Fine) and Margaret Corkery, writer / director of new Irish flick Eamon!...
Ontology – noun The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of being. - DERIVATIVES ontological adjective ontologist...
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And hopefully the revelations will continue to accrue now that the burst of creativity that gripped me and Soltan in the first two months of this year is spent and I'm not up editing all night, every night. Not sure what Soltan's up to these days. Cagey chap at the best of times.Just to bring things up to date since the last entry... February saw the completion of five further videos. Light / Sound was made with the amazing Vicky Langan. It chronicles a sonic encounter between Vicky, out hunting for sound with her recording apparatus, and a noble and ancient 35mm projector.The other videos are shorter, more sketch-like pieces:Monologue shatters an actress' performance into stuttering fragments, calling on the audience's collective familiarity with cinematic conventions to propose content....
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A common meme of discussion on politics and politicians in Ireland (and elsewhere) is that politicians are "out of touch" with the feelings, concerns and even the requirements of the voters to whom they are responsible and accountable.Maybe they are - some of them certainly are - but it seems to me that it is unlikely that, as a class, politicians are more out of touch than anyone else. To the contrary, in fact.Since so much of our discussion of these matters takes place in the mass media, almost always in contexts chosen and moderated by journalists, and in which journalists are often the only interlocutors, it is inevitable that the voters to whom reference is made in those discussions are not the generality of voters but those voters with whom the journalistic class identify.I do not...
Myself and assistant producer Nuala go all things Oscar!!!!...
Rachel cooks up a healthy breakfast for Esther of Yogatic.com
Ingedients:
Fresh Organic Eggs
Spelt Bread
Yeast Extract
Tahini
Alfalfa Sprouts......
Just back from the Rebel Riders ride to Dungarvan. Unbelievable turnout and I am genuinely privileged to be involved in some level! Mac and Phil went off on the ride as did they deputy Lord Mayor. In years to come, Hassan and Hussein can look back at this day and think what an absolutely wonderful bunch of people! Well done to John Mc and Jay and everyone who turned out!!!...
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The fact that it is her best known song and a standard is irrelevant; it's a classic track and another platform for that...
Joe Duffy is like a character from a Stephen King novel. He and his "Liveline" team will fuck you up, no matter how well prepared you are. Go on air discussing issues about your noisy neighbors, prepare to have dark secrets about your childhood brought up. If you ever hear Joe issuing a Fatwa on your head, you had better run for cover. Going on air to argue your point rarely works in your favor. No, you're better off staying well away.And now for some poetry that I wrote on the matter...Feel the urge,To vent your pain,Summon him now,To solve your bane.Turn him on, Tune him in,And drop the notionOf being without sin.[Witness now, the callers aired.] Tricky calls from across the landThe line is open, free at hand.But no man has ever fared well,At the grips of this tele-hell.Let this be a...
Every year the great people who run the Rosmini centre for adults with an intellectual disability organise a fun and interesting event to promote community integration and inclusion for everyone. This year they are organising a community variety show.
It’s on Friday the 26th of March in the GAA Hall in Bandon. Doors opening at 7.15, show starts at 8 sharp. It is not a fund raising event so tickets will be at the very affordable cost of €5 each.
The show will include:
A DJ
Singing & Music
Magic and Tricks (both kids and adults)
Bingo
Dance & Comedy
Raffle
Street Dancers
There will be spot prizes between performances.
Sounds like a great fun night for all the family. You should start seeing signs for it around the town soon....
So, day one of WordCamp Ireland draws to a close, there is a dinner tonight but the talks and sessions are over for the day.
I briefly helped John Handelaar during his talk on WordPress MU, but my main talk was on WP Super Cache. Thank you Hanni, Jane and Sheri for recording the talk. Hopefully it’ll be available online next week. In the meantime here’s the OpenOffice slides of my talk.
I must extend a big thank you to Sabrina Dent and Katherine Nolan for organising a great day and to the sponsors who made the weekend possible.
Looking forward to the dinner tonight, and the rest of the conference tomorrow.
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The two main subjects of this post (Johansson and make-up) aren't really mean't to be taken together, I'm actually taking them as separate entities. I want to talk a little about Scarlett Johansson and then use her as an example for the make-up part. Just in case anyone thought this post was about having a go at her or something.
The truth is I don't know enough about her to have a go at her. From what I had seen of her she never did much for me. Until that is, I saw the picture above. It's been some years since I saw it first, and I may have even blogged about it (at least I planned to; maybe this is the post I planned now? Lord, the memories are gone!) Anyway, she "does it" for me here. So I investigated her more after this, not a lot mind you, but more than before, and I found some...
A few thoughts I noted over the past few months. Usually I would have popped these onto my Twitter (What the hell do you call it anyway, Twitter blog??) but for one reason or another I decided against it.
I went to the doctor the other day and he told me I had syphilis. I couldn't believe it as I hadn't slept with anyone in months. The doctor said I might have gotten it from a door handle. Well it looks as if my days of fucking door handles are over then!
They say you should live your life as if each day is your last. But what if it isn't!? I'm not sure I'd like to go to jail for killing all those people in the day previous.
Jade Goody was lying in her hospital bed, with medics and family all around her. One doctor turns to the family and says: "I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do,...
I like Ricky Gervais, I'm a fan of his work you could say. I liked The Office, Extra's, his stand-up shows, and I quite enjoyed his last major film role before this, Ghost Town. I thought then I might also enjoy his last effort: The Invention of Lying. I thought wrong. They should have called it "The Invention of Boredom!"A moderately interesting premise: a world in which lying didn't exist. Unfortunately however, the execution of this plot was poor. Why does not being able to lie mean people have to say stuff just to offend a person rather than shutting up, and the use of sarcasm by characters in the film seemed off, since sarcasm is a form of lying. I was willing to look past issues like these however as there will always be paradoxes and inconsistencies in movies dealing with altered...
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"Extremity in rhythm, yeah that's what you heard.So just clean outyour ears and just check the...
In another example why I’m happy with my choice of the Nokia N900 over the iPhone as Apple removes Wi-Fi finders from App Store . After all, Apple knows better than it’s customer what it should allow on IT’S product. The customer is stupid and incapable of using OUR product without proper controls.
So Apple joins Amazon in determining what the customer should be allowed to do on THEIR product....
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A recent decision by the Irish High Court (Peart J.) exposes some of the sloppy banking and legal practices which characterised the Madness, and have contributed to the scale of the crash. The case is remarkable in a number of ways and I may return to the sloppy practices on another occasion.I will here confine myself to noting this summary by Peart J. - a former solicitor, be it noted ! - of how the court will approach an application to enforce a solicitor's undertaking: In summary, the following principles emerge from the judgment of Laffoy J. and Geoghegan J. in Coleman, and the authorities considered therein:
The Court has an inherent jurisdiction in matters concerning the conduct of solicitors, being officers of the court, including but not confined to compliance with...
Few know it, but today is actually "Hi-Res Images of Sexy Older Baltic-Country Ex. Leaders, With Nice Hair, Wearing Headphones" day. Yep it's right up there with May Day and Christmas. Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (her full name with all the bells and whistles) stepped down from her post as Ukrainian Prime Minister on the 4th March 2010 (see that, I'm almost as quick as the mofu REUTERS!)She is the leader of Ukrania's conservative party, "Fatherland" (well with a name like Fatherland it gets my vote anyway). Not only that, but it's official colour is pink. A conservative party with pink livery? Where do I sign up! David Cameron are you listening? And to a lesser extent, Enda Kenny are you wearing your pink silk knickers today?Whatever you may or may not think of her looks, you cannot...
Unless you’ve just come out of a coma you’ll know the Oscar’s are taking place this Sunday (1am GMT) and I’ll be tweeting / blogging the whole thing live! From about 1230am (GMT) the movie bit site will change somewhat! The tweet box , will move to the center of the screen and become far larger! It’s set up to update automatically, so no need to be click the refresh button! Last year I had a lot of fun with the whole thing, and this year it’ll be full of smart arse commentary again! So thats, this Sunday, from 1am GMT!!!!! on the movie bit!...
My studio is a disaster. I've still got over 10 or 15 thousand records at home alone and milliions of CD's too. All four corners of my house are covered in music and it's getting to the stage where I (and my wife) have said enough is enough! I already started by cleaning my office in RedFM last night and am starting my studio this weekend (even little Lola is giving a...
oh yes! Covered and sampled by many; epic! Charles Stephney deserves respect here too as...