Archive for March, 2009
A Barrel of Turnips maybe?
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You know that saying – “If he fell into a barrel of tits, he’d come out sucking his thumb”. Well, this is closest thing I’ve seen to a photograph of a barrel of tits.
This is the bizarrest grabbing machine I’ve ever seen. It’s lined up right beside the Winnie the Poo machine.
There is a possibility they could be turnips though, isn’t there?
[Via Buzzfeed]
Remember Us?
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A few weeks ago I was sorting through a load of books in my room and came across US.
Saturday 1st October 2005. A day like any other in Ireland apart from the fact that the Ray D’Arcy show asked listeners to take a photograph on that day and send it in to the show.
The aim? To create a “snapshot of Today’s Ireland. The Irish. Us.” 20,000 photographs were received by the show. They had a mammoth task to sort through them all. The final result was a wonderful book produced and sold in aid of Childline.
If the project was undertaken today, I’ve no doubt it would show that we are still the same. Despite the changed circumstances the country finds itself in, we are still us.
We still laugh.
We still play.
We still make funny faces in photographs.
We still get married.
We still celebrate the arrival of new life.
We still care for our senior citizens.
We still wear our county colours with pride.
We still toast our good health.
We still enjoy our heritage.
We still run free on the beaches.
We love.
We cry.
We dance.
We pray.
We dream.
We make music.
We hold hands.
We are still us.
We always have been us.
We always will be us.
This week’s header image on le craic
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This is the Ferris Wheel currently located at the funfair on Merrion Square in Dublin for the St. Patrick’s Festival.
Love the angle this picture was taken at. Have only been on a Ferris Wheel twice, so I will have to get going on this one to see a view of Dublin I’ve never seen before.
Image owned by Darragh Doyle and used with permission.
The Lives of Others 2.0
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The Lives of Others is open to all now.
The idea is a simple one :
Tell us about you, tell us the post you could never out your name to…
Don’t say I never told you.
Photo owned by crigcheff and used under the terms of a CC License.
Culch.ie gives Pop Culture a new name – and a kick up the arse
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Really excited about the newest blog on the block in Ireland and delighted to be part of it.
It’s comes from the brain of Rick O’Shea , a man who will probably cringe when I say he’s a maven. Maven being a term I picked up when reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book “The Tipping Point”. Wikipedia describes a maven thus :
“those who are intense gatherers of information and impressions, and so are often the first to pick up on new or nascent trends.”
And so, seeing an opportunity to bring together Irish bloggers to write about films, books, TV, music, theatre and exhibitions, Culch.ie has arrived. As he says in the welcome post on the site, pop culture is a thread that runs through almost all the blogs of those who are part of Culch.ie.
A huge amount of work has gone on behind the scenes to get this off the ground. Anyone who has set up a self hosted blog will know what it takes to get it up and running. To get it up and running for a group of 25 bloggers is even more of a challenge. I give a major tip of the hat to Rick, Darren, Sinead and Pedro for busting their culchured asses to bring this site to life.
Make sure to add it to your feedreader and spread the word as well.
