Pitchfork’s staff top 100 awesome videos on youtube, from the good to the deeply dodgy epitomised by Pat Benatars’s Love is a Battlefield possibly the best and the worst video of the 80s. Should be made compulsory viewing for every director considering a story video.
Issue three of the excellent collaborative Dublin Comic This Way Up is now available for download and should be hitting the streets in print format before too long
New scientist reports that scientists in Japan are working on a device to record odours and play them back later, the device which uses 15 chemical-sensing microchips, or electronic noses, to pick up a broad range of aromas. These are then used to create a digital recipe from a set of 96 chemicals that can be chosen according to the purpose of each individual gadget. When you want to replay a smell, drops from the relevant vials are mixed, heated and vaporised. In tests so far, the system has successfully recorded and reproduced the smell of orange, lemon, apple, banana and melon.
Excellent 3D world cup goal visualisation tool which lets you replay all goals from multiple points of views.
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The opening of Matthew Barney & Bjork’s Drawing Restraint in San Francisco gets, appropriately enough, the Artforum social diary treatment. Check out the ad at the end of the page, the hottest new space for the arts community, classy.
The Darklight Film Festival kicks off this Thursday at Filmbase in Temple Bar starting at 6.30. Two events that caught my eye on Saturday a public interview with John Thompson of Electronic Arts Intermix conducted by John Gerrard 2.30-4.45 and Straylight Curator Mark Cullen presents an Al and Al artist talk at Filmbase 5pm
Adam Curtis’s powerful three part BBC series The Power of Nightmares which tells the story of the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists and explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion available for free download from the Internet archive. Essential viewing.
Barry McGovern reads from Ulysses on top of the Joyce Tower in Sandycove.
Bloomsday events at the James Joyce centre in Dublin have been cancelled because of the state funeral of former Taoiseach Charlie Haughey. There will be still events at the Joyce Tower in Sandycove where Barry McGovern will be reading the Oxen of the Sun chapter from 9am and at the James Joyce House on Ushers Island, more information here And of course there will be a State funeral making it’s way through the city.
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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.
