The sign posted on the entrance to the Dun laoghaire Baths says swim in every Sunday noon. This is a bathing place for the public not a bedding place for the elite.
Anyone know any more about the swim in? Get in touch.
It’s that time of year again with graduate exhibitions at NCAD, Dun Laoghaire IADT and DIT
Some MP3s to download from a Emiliana Torrini live session on Planet Claire, also check out the Cat Power and Mary Timony sessions from their archive.
As I mentioned earlier I attended a presentation by the Architects and planners behind the new development proposal for Dun Laoghaire Baths. After seeing the plans in more detail and hearing them address people’s concerns I am now more concerned then I was before. Following are a few of the issues I find troubling.
An interview I did with Pau Waelder while at the Metanarratives conference at Fundacio La Caixa in Barcelona has been published in Spanish art magazine A Minima. In the interview I talk about my work in progress and the advantages and difficulties of working in series and in particular of creating work based on Ulysses, a shortened version of the interview is available online at Furtherfield.
Voyager has officially crossed the “termination shock”, the region where the speed of the solar wind drops abruptly from supersonic to subsonic, and has entered the shell of dense solar wind called the heliosheath that separates our solar system from interstellar space and has begun it’s interstellar mission.
Eyebeam’s contagious media showdown is now open for voting, includes many classics you’ve heard of already like crying while eating, ringtone dancer and goodbye bitch
Nouvelle Vague are a French collective with eight chanteuses who do cover versions of late 70s early 80s new wave songs, download this version of the Clash’s The Guns of Brixton (direct mp3 link) from Insound sung by the latest French singing sensation Camille , you’ll either love it or hate it, I love it.
link via fingertips Music weekly finds
rehashing the main stories of the day, useful if you don’t read a paper or get any news but would you be reading blogs then? Right wing political opinion that belongs in Bush’s America or Thatcher’s Britain but is so far out of the Irish mainstream it might as well be the anarchist news ehh not exactly relevant to current political dialogue.where even the right wing parties pretend to be socialist and taxi driver/pub bore d’ya know what’s wrong with the world bud
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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.
