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§ September 10th, 2008
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§ September 10th, 2008
§ September 10th, 2008
Squires everywhere ...climbing on my camera!!
§ September 10th, 2008
The path back down the hill from Fort Aonghus on Inishmore island. It rained on the way up. Rained the kind of rain that bounces back up off the ground and soaks you twice instead of once. My prediction was that it'd stop within 3 minutes and 30 seconds; I think I was wrong by about 5 seconds. Thankfully, the sun came out and dried everything out within a few minutes. Also thankfully, there was significantly less "I'm not going up there" on the way back down. It was worth it...
§ September 10th, 2008
I don’t like to post too many photographs of flowers for obvious reasons of avoiding cliché as much as possible - that’s not to say that I take many photographs of plants and flowers, the very opposite in fact. I take photographs of things that strike me as interesting and things that are apart of my life, such as these red honeysuckle fuchsias which I had to move away from my face as I entered my gate to my house last year.
§ September 10th, 2008
Are stickers Street art?
I think so. They are the slightly nicer version. In theory its easier to get a wallpapered sketch (or stencilled) work off a wall than paint.
Stickers are harder, tougher glue, more likely to remove paint and plaster than wallpaper paste.
This sticker for the non-existant website Manky.ie (and why Richard Nixon?)
Lets face it Mank.ie has got to be the male counterpoint to Beaut.ie, Does anyone want to help me build it?
Will Knott
§ September 10th, 2008
§ September 10th, 2008
Seeing as we are still here and were not sucked into a black hole…
No dairy, no eggs, no wheat, no gluten. BananaMoon will be bringing their cakes to St Georges Market each Saturday between 9 and 3.30pm from this weekend.
The Guardian has completed their website and blog redesign, ditching MovableType for its own platform, R2.
Last night Elbow, won the Mercury Music Prize, with their bland, yet good album, The Seldom Seen Kid.
iLovePhotos is a free Mac application which launched earlier in the week. Using facial recognition the app can filter photographs to the show only photos of specific people.
Cali Lewis wallpapers!
Some awesome photographs of london at night, from above.
Google is cutting the time it stores personal data from 18 months to 9. Not that they need any more any way.
Kiss a girl, and go to Hell
A collection of very old Japanese photographs, by Flickr member Okinawa Soba
Ashton Kutcher unviels his celebrity gossip site, Blah Girls.
Fascinating mix of real-time and animation via Hugh McGrory
§ September 10th, 2008
Pete McCarthy wrote a great book called, McCarthy’s Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland which I and my wife have both read through and enjoyed immensely. Unfortunately Pete died in 2004 after being diagnosed with cancer but this book and his second are well worth reading.
I just noticed the discrepancy between the spelling of this bar in Castletownbere, and the photo of it on the front of book. I wonder if they had someone modify the image?
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§ September 10th, 2008
Man woman cannot live by bread alone. This woman would become very bored if I had to. With this thought in my mind and a cupboard emptying faster than water in a colander I made a list on Monday and prepared to deal with the chore of shopping. Thankfully I have four large Supermarkets to the north, south, east and west of me all almost equidistant giving me the option of a choice of scenery for the journey.
Monday dawned bright and dry so I decided to go to Carrickfergus for the shopping, taking one way there and returning by another route. On my approach as the road dropped down towards Carrick, Belfast Lough glistened. “The shopping could wait another hour” I thought. I headed for the car park at the harbour and took the camera for a walk.
I noticed this boat looking folorn and neglected. It was a sorry sight. Even I was more upright after a night in the pub following CreativeCamp on Saturday. I moved a little closer to get a better angle.
A gentleman saw me clicking away and told me the boat was going for scrap on Tuesday. He said it was called the Walpaul and had been filmed many years ago as part of some programme for RTE Television. Now how true this fact was I have no idea. Perhaps some of you can tell me.
As I approached it Two men were busy draining oil from the boat. Perhaps this was the reason why it lay at such an angle.
I love this last shot of the peeling paint. It would make a great starting point for a Creative Needlework design.
Surrounded with water and boats my mind turned to ‘old salts’, when into view came Captain Birdseye and I couldn’t resist…
Meet Norman! With a gentle squeeze and a great big smile I headed off to do my shopping.
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