Mutt Ugly

Who dosnt like a dog in a pub?  The Bernard Shaw will be hosting a Happy Hour for mutts on Saturday 8th August from 2pm in aid of Dogs in Distress.  There will be raffles, jockeyers of discs and most importantly giddy dogs sniffing each other’s holes half cut on spilled Pear Cider.

Woman, wo-man, wohohohohohoh-man

The one,the only Mr William Shantner reading Sarah Palin’s farewell speech as poetry on the Conan O’Brien show.

Kind of reminds me of this…

Tron returns

This will have sci-fi buffs fizzin’ as the long awaited follow up to cult movie Tron is announced.  Little taster here in the trailer with the full film due in 2011 apparently.

Tron Legacy site can be found here

The People Tree

David Byrne is back with a cameo on The People Tree by NASA project. nice song, nicer vid

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Inside the mind of B.T. Wilderbourne

Musings from learned mind of Dr. B.T. Wilderbourne.  There’s more of them on his site here

555 KUBIK

Amazing projetion on the side of The Kunsthalle in Hamburg, developed by Daniel Rossa and Urbanscreen.

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4646km Beard

This geezer walked from Germany to Beijing and grew a whopper beard in the process. Nice stop motion type video charting his travels and growth

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Secret Wars, shhhhh

Secret Wars hits Dublin for the first ever Irish jam, Saturday at Toejam in The Bernard Shaw.  It will be battle royale as Ireland’s best take on Her Majesty’s finest, finally settling an 800 year old saga….or something like that.  MC’d by Savage,  a couple of artists representing their cities will slug it out on the walls of the BS smoking area, working to the following rules…

The Rules
- 90 MINS ON THE CLOCK
- BLACK PAINT ONLY – ON WHITE WALLS!
- NO SKETCHES / NO PENCILS
- INVISIBLE MIDDLE LINE WITH AN ARTIST EITHER SIDE

JUDGED USING A 3 POINT SYSTEM – 2 GUEST JUDGES AND A CROWD VOTE
(USING A DECIBEL READER)
GO BIG OR GO HOME!

The day will start at 6pm and it is also the official Kings of Concrete after party.  Djs on the day are Toejam’s finest Nic James & Shortie.

If you would like to know more, have a look at the Secret Wars Website and MySpace, check out the event page on the Bodytonic website for full details on the day and venue, and check out the video here to get your head around it better…

Before ya know it

Straight from 1983, Danger Zone by the enviously named Midnight Express Show band is one of the Hot 5 in the current electro-funk revival.  We challenge you not to be in a better mood after listening to this.  And how come nobody does the finger/clap anymore, that was so expertly championed by Carlton in Fresh Prince of Bel Air.  Bring it back we say.

Anyway, if you like Danger Zone you can grab it off the Beat Eclectic blog here

Antics Rogueshow

A few snaps from the Antics rogueshow at Toejam on Saturday 18th July. Great day, some miserable looking art and other odds and ends got worked over by 8 different Dublin artists with some great results. More pictures coming soon.

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Some better pictures of last Saturday’s Antics Rogueshow by Mr Ar Strae

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Carbooteo

Sexy Dublin Architecture

On first glance, I thought this was the sort of well thought out architecture that you usually see in modern progressive cities that place a value on this.  Barcelona, Milan, Stockholm…but no, it’s here, in dirty auld Dublin.  Designed by Amanda Levete, this is the new bridge down Spencer Dock that will be taking punters by luas, foot or car down through the IFSC to gigs in the O2.  Nice to see a bit of uplifting architecture amidst the doom agus gloom.

See and read more here on Design Boom

Antics Rogue Show

The second Antics Rogue Show comes to The Bernard Shaw on Saturday 18th August.  The brain child of local Dail climbing art hooligan Will St Leger, the first installment took place as part of last year’s Fringe Festival.  Its a simple idea: You turn up with your old painting/picture etc, hand it in, the artists are called in, they are given a piece at random, they go to work on it live with spray, stencil, marker, blood or whatever their favourite medium is and an hour later you have a one of a kind updated piece of art.  At this point the hand goes out looking for donations and you pay what you think it’s worth with all money going to the artists themselves.

Artists confirmed for the event are Asbestos, Adam Crane, ADW, Shane, Canvaz, Will himself, Morgan and more to be confirmed.

The event starts at 6:30pm and we reccomend you get there by 6pm to submit your picture for vandalism and get your ticket.

Bottles of Peroni will be €3.50 and 2 cocktails for a tenner too.  Toejam’s Nic James on the ones and twos aswell

Will St Leger blog
Will St Leger Facebook fan page
Check out the video from last year’s event (and other venue info etc at the Bodytonic event page here)

The Gentlemen of Bakongo

They call themselves The Sapeurs (the Society for the Advancement of People of Elegance), they have subsects like ‘The Picadilly Group’.  In the Bakongo district of Brazzaville in Congo, Sape is a religion and these dandys are the priests and subjects, wandering around dusty, rubbish piled high streets , resplendent in perfectly cut pink suits, monacles and caines.

The Guardian tells this story best, the First Post has some more pictures and you can get the book by Daniele Tamagni  on Amazon.

Fixie Fanatics

Toejam this Saturday (11th August) hosts a day about Fixie bikes.  The grafitti in the jacks in The Bernard Shaw calls us ‘trend whores.  Whores yes, trendy no, all we know is that we like all the DIY efforts around town at the moment.  Some are commendable for taking frames that were chained to a lampost for the last 10 years and turning them into something that moves and some are just pure art.

The crux of this Saturday is that anybody who’s into this, from the novice who wants to know where to start, to the pro-couriers who will have their pride and joy on display, to the skinny jeaned trend whores will be able to come down and learn something or meet other like minded souls and talk all thing Fixie.

We will have workshops, fixie vids, a parts market and a best in show.  We will also have the Tour de France on the tellys, which will be at its mental Pyrennes mountain sprint stage.

The day will run along these lines:

Open 2pm
4pm: Fixie Workshop in smoking area w/ mechanic
4pm – 7pm: Market
4pm – 9pm: Fixie DJ Squad
9pm – Close Nic James (Toejam DJ)

Here are some local bike/fixie/messenger sites to check out too:

Velocity Couriers
Dublin Messenger
and here’s the Facebook event page for the day

The Lost tribes of New York City

An only lovely video of old time New York citizens talking about where they come from as told by some outdoor residents of the city

Indistinguishable from magic

Microsoft’s Natal Project has recdntly been generating much nerd interest around the world and this video shows why.  The video is obviously a watered down (or up, depending on your perspective) of what the Natal can actually do with a disclaimer at the start from Microsoft, but idealised or not, with the pace this sort of technology develops its not a far stretch of the imagination that your TV will shout reminders at you, tell you your fly is open or chalenge you to a duel before you leave the house in the recent future. With Steven Spielberg making this a top priority, in 10 years time this is the sort of technology we could be taking for granted in our homes.

At least we’ll get some excercise.

Project Natal channel on Youtube

Toejam Carboot Sale – June 09

Here’s some pictures from the Toejam Carboot Sale at The Bernard Shaw, last Saturday the 27th June.  A whopper day it was too with the sun showing its face for the whole day.  Rednecks and trucker tans galore.

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