[YouTube thanks to Damien Mulley] I did a quick Twitter post last night when I noticed a story on RTÉ News online about two anonymous paintings of a naked Brian Cowen that had appeared in two Dublin galleries yesterday. Underneath a picture of one of the paintings a sub editor had made a pun about …

The Dashboard boys are back in 4 Dame Lane this Thursday March 26th with a country themed gig this time, featuring The Blood Red Mountain Band, The Hot Sprockets and The Sly Brothers, along with DJs Dino, Mark Lam and Conor Murphy. More info from the Dashboard 3 Facebook event page or from dashboard.4dl@gmail.com.

Just a quick heads up about a new occasional residency I’ll be doing on Saturdays in Wax, along with fellow residents Aidan O’Connell, Mark Alton and Barry Farrell. Expect a good mix of house, techno and electro. It’ll be access all areas between Wax and Spy, it’s a tenner in every week even when there’s …

Saturdays at Wax

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I was trying to describe the big reveal in this video to a friend in the pub the other day, and failed miserably. It happens between 5.00 and 5.30 but it’s worth watching the whole thing.

Much and all as I like thought provoking low budget movies in foreign languages, I always have room for a big blockbuster in my schedule now and again. This summer has a lot of “big” movies coming up. Here are a few of the trailers to whet your appetite. (There is no trailer for Avatar …

I don’t know a lot about the man apart from he wrote and continues to write funny TV shows, and he runs a pretty popular blog called Why, That’s Delightful. Recently he posted a piece about an unforgiveably misguided piece in the Scottish Sunday Express that had to do with teenage survivors of the Dunblane …

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. After reading a bit about it I understand what tilt-shift photography is, but I still don’t understand how it fools my brain into thinking what I’m seeing isn’t real when clearly it is. I was sure when I watched the video above for the first time that is …

I’m speechless, which isn’t a good way to start a blog post, but what a game! The 61 year wait for a Grand Slam is over. It’ll be a long time before I forget that drop goal from O’Gara going between the posts. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did. [Update …

Four pictures I found on FFFVVOUND, the picture blog of James Cullen.

FFFVVOUND

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Seeing is believing! This is the $194,000 Terrafugia Transition. We’re obviously a long way off from this being normal in any sense, but I’d love to see this catching on. See more images and the video of the car transforming into the plane on Jalopnik. [Via Jalopnik]

The Flying Car

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