The French film festival is underway at the IFI in Dublin, I caught some films over the weekend and there’s lots of good stuff but I’ve got to recommend the Belgian film Aaltra, definitely the funniest film I’ve seen all year. The festival continues until Sunday, full schedule to be found here.
Warhol would have loved the net, not only because of the opportunities to sell ludicrously overpriced dolls of himself (available in 60s and 80s versions) but mostly because of sites like this: American travels to London to queue for days outside Apple shop and becomes net celeb on the process.
Well one explained 59,054,086 to go.
Glorianna Davenport’s RTE science lecture The Storied Machine will be broadcast tonight at 7.30 on RTE Radio1 and wiil be available on the web here. I attended the lecture last week in RTE and while it was a fascinating talk about the future of interactive narrative it seemed to miss the central point, that is that art moves us because it takes us out of our experience and we see how someone else sees the world and this can be surprising, shocking or even alienating, but it forces us out of our comfort zone or presents us with a wonderful viewpoint we could never achieve alone. This is why I love art and great art can change the way we view the world for ever. Of necessity this is a top down process not an interactive one.
A mosaic of Bush giving the one fingered victory salute made of images of apologising Americans from SorryEverybody.com, made with Mazaika mosaic maker
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The website in which Americans apologise to the rest of us, nice try but I think I’ll continue being snooty to them unless they have it tatooed on their foreheads (just in case).
The Videoactive Documentary Festival is on this weekend in Dublin. The festival will showcase a series of feature length politically commited documentaries from around the planet, the majority of which have not been screened in Ireland previously, as well as a selection of recently produced documentary shorts.
Full lineup information here
The Homeless Agency at Parkgate Hall is the hub of services for homeless people in Dublin. The Homeless Agency wishes to commission a work of art which: Expresses, interprets or explores the stereotypes of homelessness. Enhances and improves the environment in Parkgate Hall.
more information and budgets here
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WalkSpace for the iPhone is an alternative walking app to let you navigate the city in a new and unexpected way.
