Heeeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!  And were back, the first CBS of 2010 dust’s off this Saturday at 1pm.  Usual drill – food, drink, stuff to buy, stuff to sell, good time, good weather (so they say) and the very real chance that you will impale your foot on a rusty nail in the carpark*

So far, your ears will be looked after by…

Orlando (True Lies)
Nic James (Toejam)
& the ballsiest comedian/pub quiz host we know: Ronan Leonard and his Ringo Music Bingo.

Music in the bar after from Toejam’s Nic James and Melodee

:ets get in the moood with some d.i.s.c.o…

Some more event details can be found on the Bernard Shaw event page and if you havnt already, join the Facebook group here

Starts at 1pm.
Free entry (Through Bernard Shaw)
Market finishes 7pm, after party and bar finishes 1am.
Award winning drinks deals all day too.  See below.

…10 x 10 Drinks Specials…
All the following drinks for €10 7 days a week

3 Pint Pitcher Bavaria
2 x Cocktails ( Mojito / Long Island Iced Tea / Nina Simone )
3 x Corona [ L/neck]
3 x Perroni [ L/neck]
3 x Moosehead [ L/neck]
3 x Beamish [ Pint ]
2 x Vodka + Redbull
3 x Sambucca
3 x Jaegermeister
3 x Goldschlager

The Bernard Shaw
11 – 12 South Richmond Street
Portobello
Dublin 2
Ph: +353 (0)85 712 8342
E: john@bodytonicmusic.com
W: www.thebernardshaw.com

The Toejam January Carboot Sale has been postponed for one week, from January 16th to the new date of Saturday January 23rd.

This was in response to lots of emails we got about it.  People looking for a bit more breathing space after Christmas and of course people who’d prefer not to stand outside in -7.

So, we postponed it for one week to allow for a bit of a thaw and let people get geared back up after the December Crazee.

If you have already applied for the January 16th Carboot Sale then your grand, your application still stands.  If you havnt applied and would like to, then just go along here and follow the link to the application form.

Thanks!

Happy Christmas to all Toejammers out there.  Here’s a little gift of a video of GBS launching a new plane back in the 30′s, dropping a few one liners and generally just being a media whore.

Spose this is the official Toejam Christmas bash, a day late but nonetheless, a dame fine party if last year is anything to go by.  Tanked up revellers on the happiest day of the year, full of slow booze and leftover food.  Good times ahoy.

Check out all the details about Father Ted Day at The Bernard Shaw here

Fight fire with fire and use the internet to top yourself online.  That is, kill all your online Facebook/MySpace/LinkedIn etc profiles and go back to the simple life.

Tempting.  Do it here at the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine

Via Swissmiss

Ace realism paintings by Brooklyn artist Kevin Cyr (also responsible for this bicycle/RV mongrel) of battered old mostly American trucks and delivery vans, tags and all.

Here’s more to feast your eyes on:

Chevy unveils their new futuristic Volt car to the world.  A car powered with, wait for it…batteries.

This dance is so entirely irrelevant and almost mocking of the car (imagine you were the crew who worked on this project and this is how your bosses presented it) that you wonder whether they are subtly trying to undermime the car and its sales so they can go ‘told ya so’ and g back to the business of making 10L jet turbine SUV’s for real men (and mom).  Either that or they have stumbled on a viral masterpiece.

The Chevy Volt Dance via Engadget

3 Kiwis from New Zealand knocking out some exceptional future funk.  Unsurprisingly championed by the likes of Benji B, these guys are cut from the same cloth as The Black Seeds but with a bit of Steve Spacek or even a bit of J Dilla on the production thrown in.

Check out the slick vid below for their latest track perception (which samples Inside my Love by Minie Ripperton)

Here’s their MySpace

An exhibition of screen grabs from Google Streetview around the world by Jon Rafman.  The mind boggles at how many miles he traveled sitting at his desk over 12 months looking for this stuff.  Captivating exhibition mind and you can read about it at Artfagcity below.

Via Art Fag City

It’s easy to take this for granted or be a bit cynical about it with the pace of technology development these days but it is now possible to book a flight to space.  Just read that again, you can book a flight to space.  Just go to virgingalactic.com and book your seat in the same way that you might book a flight on Ryanair to Bristol.

The people carrying Spaceship 2 is still in testing and the price tag is still expensive at $200,000 but its a few quid shy of the €30,000,000 or so that various tycoons have been paying in the last 10 years to hitch a ride aboard Russian space missions.

Spaceship 2, the world’s first commercial spacecraft, will start flights from the Virgin Spaceport in New Mexico from next year with evil genius and project funder Richard Branson booked on to the first flight with his family.

Incredible stuff.

Via Design Boom