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• internetz
• May 31, 2012, 08:46

The bad news for Zuck Inc keeps coming following the IPO that pretty much everyone forecast was too hyped and too late. In today’s Irish Times there’s a piece that talks about the impact on other IPOs. The Washington Post …

• Daily Digest
• May 30, 2012, 14:35

Eminem is nearly finished his Slaughterhouse album, and already thinking about his new solo one. Michelle Rodriguez thinks you have to be trashy and black to get an Oscar nomination. The quest for the perfect office chair. Epic Mario fishtank …

• PopLives
• May 30, 2012, 12:58

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming.  Kathy Scott is a curator and producer in the arts & cultural arena. pop up productions is the …

• music video
• May 30, 2012, 10:50

The second best tune on Watch The Throne (next to ‘Niggas In Paris’, obviously) gets an epic video going over from Romain Gavras. The director famously did the biz for M.I.A.’s ‘Born Free’ recently, as well as vids for Justice and Simian …

• Uncategorized
• May 30, 2012, 08:33

It was meant to be a top ten, but, hey. Click through for the top 11 acts I reckon are going to rock IMMA this weekend, and feel free to add your own can’t-wait-to-sees in the comments.

• Daily Digest
• May 29, 2012, 16:15

‘Cyber weapon’ found in Iran. Pizza and Point Break at the Bernard Shaw in Dublin on Thursday. Chris O’Dowd in Girls (via @TheBubbleBoy) Why are we so obsessed with bucket lists? This is something I’ve actually been thinking loads about …

• art celebrity
• May 29, 2012, 12:41

Clint Eastwood’s daughter Francesca destroyed a Birkin bag for artistic purposes alongside her photographer boyfriend. “Destruction is a beautiful version of freedom,” she says on her website, perhaps (I might be stretching this now) riffing on Bakunin’s infamous “the passion …

• celebrity film
• May 29, 2012, 08:33

Digging into this series at the moment. The one linked there on Marlene Dietrich is particularly good, as is this one on Laurence Olivier and Katharine Hepburn’s trousers.

• film music video
• May 28, 2012, 17:42

Missed this at the time, but here’s a nice mini-doc on David Byrne and Brian Eno making music found over on the excellent MutantSpace Culture Blog. And on an entirely unrelated note, although still very much worthy of your attention, …

• Uncategorized
• May 28, 2012, 16:17

Serge (or Sergio depending on what day of the week it is) from Kasabian scoring a brilliant goal at Old Trafford for Soccer Aid. And yes, that’s Will Ferrell congratulating him. The NME has more deets.   Of course, Serge has form

• Daily Digest
• May 28, 2012, 14:11

Bit late today with the aul Digest. Every other day, you’ll have it in the afternoon, but Monday’s is meant to be earlier so you can spend more time avoiding the fact that it’s a Monday. As I’m currently relying …

• sport
• May 28, 2012, 11:12

I wrote this piece on the visibility of sportswomen in Irish life for the weekend’s paper.   One of the things I’m interested in is not so much female athletes and sportspeople not getting coverage, but the type of coverage …

• Uncategorized
• May 28, 2012, 10:13

And guess what? A Eurovision winner can be political. Loreen spoke out against Azerbaijan’s gay rights record and met with gay rights activists before the final.

• Uncategorized
• May 25, 2012, 15:43

“Have you heard of The Streets?” “No.” “Oh you will!” It was late 2001 and a friend of mine at DCU called Ronan Fitzgerald (who went on to write one of the best blogs about dance music ever), was chuckling at …

• internetz
• May 25, 2012, 12:36

  Part 3 in a series of interesting short interviews.

• Uncategorized
• May 24, 2012, 17:59

Stuck for something to listen to? Check out Nialler9′s album stream round up. Seven years ago Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah’s couch. Colin Powell endorses same-sex marriage. The Irish population is aging. Wired thinks texting naked portraits is primal. YouTube …

• music video
• May 24, 2012, 15:10

ASIWYFA performing ’7 Billion People All Alive At Once’ with the Ulster Orchestra at Ulster Hall.

• film
• May 24, 2012, 11:54

  It’s “barking mad”, yet could win the Palme D’Or. It features a character who rampages through a cemetery kidnapping models. Kylie Minogue is in it. IndieWire thinks it’s insane. Leos Carax is an anagram of his actual first and …

• Uncategorized
• May 24, 2012, 08:09

Listen Coop, if you’re going to kick someone off so rudely, no matter what their views are, then perhaps you should consider the logic of having them invited onto the programme in the first place?

• Daily Digest
• May 23, 2012, 17:23

DROP THE BASS, Prince Charles is the new Skrillex. Kind of. The red carpet double standard between men and women in Cannes. Jeremy Paxman has said that Piers Morgan told him how to access voice mails. Interesting piece over on …

• PopLives
• May 23, 2012, 13:05

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming.  Eoghan Kidney is an award-winning London-based Irish director, music video maker and animator. What are you …

• film
• May 23, 2012, 12:32

The trailer features Frank Ocean/Kanye/Jay-Z’s ‘No Church In The Wild’ and Jack White singing U2′s ‘Love Is Blindness’. For Luhrmann, who has made just five films in 20 years, this is the first time he’s worked with Leonardo Di Caprio …

• art
• May 23, 2012, 11:25

This is one of those reviews that makes you go “ooph”, like a whack of a too-hard football to the gut, or watching someone faceplant off a skateboard. No one could accuse Jonathan Jones in The Guardian of pulling punches …

• celebrity video
• May 23, 2012, 10:14

This will mess with your head. And theirs.   (via @jonronson)  

• celebrity video
• May 22, 2012, 17:18

Is that too much to ask? No, actually, it isn’t. Here is Beyoncé’s pool lesson: Pity we never actually get to see her play. Hopefully that will come in part two.   (thanks @SarahJayBee)

• politics
• May 22, 2012, 15:45

Statement from the Harvey Milk Foundation.

• Daily Digest
• May 22, 2012, 14:34

The best travel guide around is off to Karachi. So, Battleship sucked, what does that mean? A chat with Peter Serafinowicz about the new Hot Chip video. Does Facebook wreck marriages?, by Quentin Fottrell (via Broadsheet.ie). Download a free John …

• music industry
• May 22, 2012, 13:51

pic via the Telegraph The Mercury Music Prize has announced a bunch of changes today, and it seems as though the annual best-album-of-Britain-and-Ireland-award-if-you-indeed-enter-it is becoming more punter-orientated. The Mercury faces the same problem that most awards do. Every year the …

• music
• May 22, 2012, 10:41

It’s also World Goth Day, although wishing a goth a ‘Happy World Goth Day’ doesn’t feel appropriate. Tonight Jedward compete in the first semi-final for the-only-good-thing-about-Europe-at-the-moment, the Eurovision. They are the last performers on the night, which is traditionally good …

• music music industry
• May 21, 2012, 16:48

Jim Carroll has an excellent blog post asking the simple question ‘why are you in a band?’.

• celebrity
• May 21, 2012, 13:16

New York Magazine has a great run down of how ‘natural’ shots of celebrities went from being embarrassing candid pics to positive PR moves. pic via Snooki’s twitter account

• celebrity fashion magazines
• May 21, 2012, 12:06

I think so. Here’s the latest edition featuring Tilda Swinton in full on drag queen mode as spotted over on Panti’s blog. pic via queerty.com More gender-morphing action after the jump with Chloe Sevigny, Luke Worrall and James Franco.

• celebrity music
• May 21, 2012, 11:11

With a few gig reviews in as the London gigs get underway, what’s the consensus? The Financial Times gave it a lukewarm review, but then again, also made stock market jokes and Titanic references, so what do they know? Here’s NME review that …

• Daily Digest
• May 21, 2012, 10:23

Went to see The Raid yesterday. Pretty deadly (har har) stuff. Some amazing fight sequences, brilliant inventive deaths (if that’s you’re thing), and it pulled off a trick that many martial arts films don’t: there was a decent enough story …

• music
• May 21, 2012, 10:01

Report here.

• Uncategorized
• May 18, 2012, 16:50

If you haven’t already checked out The Racket, you should do so if you want some finely written narrative journalism in your life. Some refugees from the much missed Mongrel magazine are involved, including Davy Banks and Sam Bungey, and …

• Daily Digest
• May 18, 2012, 15:15

Donald Clarke talks to Gareth Evans about The Raid. Who wins big with the Facebook IPO?. Warning: may contain traces of Bono. Photo portraits of of people who attend Burning Man. (Some may be NSFW). Reasons your QR code marketing …

• magazines
• May 18, 2012, 12:23

Issue 2 of new Irish arts magazine De\Code is available to read online now. Aside from the garish Forbidden Fruit cover, there’s some interesting enough stuff inside, primarily a piece on Myles O’Reilly. Issue 1 is here.

• fashion
• May 18, 2012, 09:01

I think that’s my favourite headline ever. Image via mynewhair.info

• Daily Digest
• May 17, 2012, 19:30

The Queen of Disco Donna Summer has died. Long live the Queen. Make that a triple shot, coffee drinkers live longer. Shit Robot, the awesome Horse Meat Disco, Little Green Cars and more have been added to Forbidden Fruit. 15 …

• Uncategorized
• May 17, 2012, 16:25

Lecs, Rejjie, call him what you like, but the young MC from Drumcondra is getting all the right attention at the moment. This feature in I-D sees him rocking some nice gear. Photo via IDOnline A while ago, Lecs, now …

• film
• May 17, 2012, 12:14

Photo by Alan Betson I wrote this article in today’s paper about The Factory on Barrow Street in Dublin, a creative space where filmmakers, actors, directors, casting agents and production companies call home.  

• Uncategorized
• May 17, 2012, 10:59

The band Here We Go Magic were driving to Ohio when they picked up a hitchhiker. That hitchhiker turned out to be filmmaker John Waters. Their bassist Jen Turner, tweeted about the bizarre, but amazing added-passenger experience. Gawker has more …

• fashion
• May 16, 2012, 16:02

Image via HighSnobiety.com  Every generation has its key fashion item. From smiley face t-shirts, to low slung wallet chains, there’s always an accessory that becomes ubiquitous. Right now, it’s hard to argue with the popularity of the 5-panel hat. There’s …

• business celebrity
• May 16, 2012, 14:40

I can’t say I saw this career diversion coming. image via FastCompany 

• Daily Digest
• May 16, 2012, 12:30

Aaron Sorkin will adapt the Steve Jobs biography for the upcoming biopic screenplay. Florence and the Machine has a new video for her Snow White and the Huntsman track ‘Breath Of Life’. Fox is trying to repeat New Girl‘s ‘adorkable’ …

• music video
• May 16, 2012, 09:52

Take a bow Eclectic Method. They previously showcased their splicing expertise with 99 Problems In Film.

• PopLives
• May 16, 2012, 08:10

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming.  Michael Roe is the label manager of the Richter Collective, a band manager (Cast Of Cheers, …

• Uncategorized
• May 15, 2012, 19:01

I went to see this exhibition recently at Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, which documents the history of Louis Vuitton from the craftsmanship of the man himself to the brash branding of Marc Jacobs. I didn’t really know too much about …

• video
• May 15, 2012, 16:32

Check out this time lapse map video of the border changes in Europe from 1000AD to 2003. The creepy dramatic music is a slightly off-putting. Hat tip: @drrrop.

• Daily Digest
• May 15, 2012, 13:19

George Lucas is building low-income housing. For pop stars, the new career path is judging others, as Britney Spears and Demi Lovato join the American version of the X Factor. Analogue comes full circle as a spoof about a “real …

• music
• May 15, 2012, 11:09

The Jedwardian era continues its reign as the two human jack-in-the-boxes (has anyone thought of merchandising those with giant blonde quiffs? Would be a winner) embark on their first rehearsal for their Eurovision performance in Baku, Azerbaijan. I got excited …

• media
• May 15, 2012, 10:44

Rebekah Brooks to be charged with perverting the course of justice. Cue loads of people tweeting ‘LOL’. Image via The Independent by Dave Brown

• TV
• May 14, 2012, 17:50

I’ve noticed something odd about reviews of New Girl and Girls. Apart from the discourse that we’re now used to in a post-Bridesmaids world that women are ACTUALLY FUNNY and worth putting on TV, and the sad situation that it’s …

• magazines politics Uncategorized
• May 14, 2012, 17:16

Image via Washington Post. Newsweek really goes for it! A rainbow halo? Really?   I prefer the New Yorker one: Image via Towelroad.com

• internetz
• May 14, 2012, 14:15

Would you let someone see and store your text messages, online chatter and emails and photos for four years? What picture would this paint of your life? And what could an academic do with a massive database of such data? …

• Daily Digest
• May 14, 2012, 09:52

Camden Crawl’s Dublin outpost managed to hook plenty of music fans in the capital at the weekend. It’s a litmus test for the Crawl, and feedback and experiences were largely positive even if crowds were at time patchy for lesser …

• politics
• May 11, 2012, 14:25

There has been a monumental reaction to Obama’s endorsement of civil marriage for same sex couples following this interview he gave to ABC earlier this week: In today’s paper, there’s a fine editorial on the issue. Nathaniel Frank on Slate …

• music music industry
• May 11, 2012, 11:28

  That’s all you need to do. No more excuses.

• festivals gigs music
• May 11, 2012, 11:13

Happy Friday! Today is the first day of the Camden Crawl Dublin, a new multi-venue music festival across the city centre and little sister to the massively successful Camden, London version. It kicks off late afternoon, with wristbands and free …

• art celebrity
• May 10, 2012, 17:18

The first exhibition of 45 drawings by Courtney Love is currently hanging (probably in more ways than one) at Fred Torres Collaborations, a gallery in Chelsea, New York. The Dublin connection is with the drawing ‘March 2010 Dublin #2′ which references …

• Daily Digest
• May 10, 2012, 16:43

Now you know why buttermilk tastes gross. Because it’s not buttermilk. Everyone accidentally drank buttermilk from their granny’s fridge as a kid, right? Great piece on Freakscene, one of Ireland’s longest running club nights. Short term commercial leases are becoming …

• politics Uncategorized
• May 10, 2012, 13:59

In a world that’s obsessed with women wearing makeup, it’s also weirdly one obsessed with women not wearing makeup. Hillary Clinton – no stranger to having her appearance slagged off – bore the brunt of those who feel it’s appropriate …

• TV
• May 10, 2012, 08:50

The annual pilot season chaos is in full swing, with a few key pilots being ordered to series by American networks, others not yet at that point being fully cast, and then the hangers-on shuffling nervously at the side of …

• PopLives
• May 10, 2012, 07:57

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming.  Philly McMahon is one half of thisispopbaby and writer of Alice In Funderland, which finishes its …

• photography
• May 9, 2012, 18:01

Great interview with Ron Galella over on VICE. An exhibition of Galella’s photography is running at Foam in Amsterdam from June 8th. Image from Galella’s collection via Foam.org

• Uncategorized
• May 9, 2012, 16:57

WiFi pavement? Yes please. Major Roy Lichtenstein retrospective forms part of the programme for Tate in 2013. As Creative Week came to an end in New York, Gawker wonders if advertising is swallowing the ‘creative class’. Like the Eurovision? Like parties? …

• Uncategorized
• May 9, 2012, 16:07

Yes, that’s right, because according to E! News he will be flogging Chanel No. 5. Chanel No. 5 is, of course, a woman’s perfume, but Pitt is a celebrity of such gigantic gender-transcending proportions that it doesn’t matter which chromosomes make up his nucleotide …

• facebook internetz Uncategorized
• May 9, 2012, 15:45

So says Emily Yoffe in the latest edition of Slate’s Manners For The Digital Age, which you can listen to here. Her statement is in response to a listener who contacted Slate’s technology columnist Farhad Manjoo asking Manjoo what he …

• celebrity film
• May 9, 2012, 14:38

TMZ has a video of Lindsay Lohan and Woody Allen exiting a restaurant in New York after a dinner date. Lindsay Lohan dining with Woody Allen. It’s basically the equivalent of Pat Byrne from The Voice heading off on a fishing trip …

• film music photography
• May 9, 2012, 11:53

I wrote this piece recently about the digital and analogue divide and debate across film, music and photography, asking if digital is really delivering on its promise that it will improve everything, or whether it’s a poor imitation of bygone …

• Uncategorized
• May 8, 2012, 17:59

People are making predictions about books in paper form again. The buzz is building around Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’, which features Sandra Bullock in space and the daydreams of one hundred million women realised as George Clooney stars as an astronaut. …

• Uncategorized
• May 8, 2012, 16:55

1995 was a much simpler time. Kurt Cobain was still being mourned, people were yet to tunelessly roar ”afewtimesahbeenroundthattracksoitsnotjustgonnahappenlikethat” in da club, and Gavin Rossdale still didn’t know he was Pearl Lowe’s daddy. It was also the year No Doubt released …

• Uncategorized
• May 8, 2012, 16:37

Poor Miley Cyrus had a bit of a mare at the box office this weekend. Her latest flick ‘LOL’ (also starring Demi Moore) has done a ‘Glitter’. No amount of screen shots of iPhone texts and IMs could save it. …

• art books Uncategorized video
• May 8, 2012, 16:13

Maurice Sendak has died aged 83. For most people, Sendak will always mean ‘Where The Wild Things Are’, one of the best children’s books ever (although Sendak says he never set out to write a children’s book), laden with mystery, …

• fashion gigs Lady Gaga music photography Uncategorized
• May 8, 2012, 15:36

Terry Richardson has some shots of Lady Gaga before, during and after her Born This Way Ball in Seoul. Check out this fetching Carlo Rambaldi-esque mitre, um, thing, below, while the CGI threeway mash of Gaga, Courtney Love and Madonna (that …

• Uncategorized
• May 8, 2012, 15:12

Permission granted. Sarah Jessica Parker dressed as the curtains in your granny’s good room. Sparkly micro-turbans are a thing now. Kirsten Dunst came directly from the office. January Jones enjoying her new life as a mother/ bee superhero. Singing in …

• DIY documentary film ireland music music industry video
• May 8, 2012, 14:02

A Joyful Slog, directed by John Breslin for Dublin Community Television, is a new documentary examining some of Ireland’s DIY bands and the surrounding culture and periphery heads on the Irish music scene. You can watch it right here. It’s …

• Uncategorized
• May 8, 2012, 13:51

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