This video is obviously going for the Cloverfield factor in a big way, and it could be accused of lacking taste, but, whatever it’s selling, the novelty value comes from blowing up a bit of Dublin. Next up, a giant monster demolishes Liberty Hall.
Will Ferrell is in the country. Maybe he came to get away from it all. But he couldn’t. Because every time he so much as stopped for directions someone would ring Today FM with the latest on his location.
It was like The Running Man, except he’s not running, and his head won’t explode despite the laser-beam stares of starstruck Paddies. (more…)
Dan Sullivan has spotted that Antony Gormley’s planned Liffey sculpture already has a brother in the University of Limerick. He informs us that:
This is the exact same figure that Gormley did for UL except he filled this one in … He is known as the rusty man
Apparently, he’s also known as Brown Thomas. It’s officially called Together and Apart, was installed in UL in 2001 and is a good 46-metres shorter than the one Dubliners will get.
Update 18:00: Green Ink has posted a vision of how what the sculpture could be.
Antony Gormley has released an image of his proposed 48-metre high Dublin Docklands sculpture. He tells The Irish Times that it will be “like a charcoal drawing against the sky, changing as your position changes in relation to it. Up close you will see through it, in the distance it will cohere into a bodily image.”
It’ll be two-thirds the height of Liberty Hall, so Dubliners had better like it…
