Merry Christmas

From me and Soren Severin

Daily Drop Cap

Came across this little beaut of a site when supposedly searching for images for college on the history of European printing (yawn much). I will never get far with this level of dossing. But my eyes love a treat.

So.... dailydropcap.com, a drop cap a day by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hirsche. She lets you borrow away and use her work to put into your blog, etc. How nice.

Hyper Island

Honest to God, I swear to God this is amazing

The Hyper Island Way from jonny von wallström on Vimeo.

Know Hope

Heiko Muller

Michael Bierut at the 99% Conference

One for all the design nerds. Michael Bierut discussing his notebooks and 5 secrets of successful design. Lovely.

Irena Zablotska

Apart from having one of the coolest names in town (i mean the global town o course) Irena Zablotska also kicks major drawing ass. Check out all this gold....





Girl got game.

As if Paris couldn't get any prettier...

Oh Gee whizz

Every day is art class

Just as I'd hoped! This week was spent making 3D models using a random selection of materials. 

Cardboard knickers anyone???

Hush Sony Ericsson Video

Wowza, this i love!!! Click to view.

Crackin'

Just found this poster for a show posted on Betsy Walton's blog. I really like the illustration so it gets my vote. I'd like to have made it but alas I'm not that good :(

Miaou

There are few positives to working weekend nights, however tonight was one of those nights when working for the man paid off nicely. Tonight saw Odessa Club play host to legendary night Ballroom of Romance and featured 4 crackin' bands with headliners Japanese foursome Miaou. Their music was described by a fellow musician as 'melodic instrumentals' and melodic it was...and instrumental...and fantastic. With my current penchant for swelling lyric-less numbers (I have Godspeed you! Black emperor's Lift your skinny fists... on constant repeat) Miaou were just the ticket! An uplifting gift for the ears on a dreary ould friday in work.



Their dedication is second to none: one of the bandmembers arrived in Dublin at 5pm this evening and flies back to Tokyo on Sunday, quite the trip for a 60-odd hour stay. They play the Oscillate festival in Belfast this weekend. Look them up cos they're so deadly i nearly wept...kindof.

www.miaoumusic.com
www.myspace.com/miaoumusic

Jim Henson Stop Motion

My all-time favourite youtube video. Flawless. Good wholesome fun.

Tits

Brilliant new print from typographic illustrator favorit-of-mine Seb Lester. Available at pretty reasonable 40-odd pounds from keepcalmgallery.com. Ch-ch-ch-check it out.

John Casey

Amazing work, my new favourite. And a great blog.
Feast yer eyes: http://bunnywax.wordpress.com/

i LOVE this

Coming to a theatre near you....

Sin Nombre
Dir:Cary Fukunaga





Broken Embraces
Dir: Pedro Almodovar




Two beauts of movies in my mother tongue....well the subtitles will be. Sin Nombre won the award for Directing and Excellence in Cinematography at this year's Sundance Festival and is executive produced by Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna for Canana their production outfit designed to foster emerging Mexican talent and films dealing with Latin American issues. I've got my tickets booked for Sunday in the Lighthouse as a reward for making it through yet another weekend in work. I remember Fri and Sat freedom with fondness, sigh.

I read a really positive review of Broken Embraces in The Sunday Times Culture magazine. It was part of an interview with Almodovar where the word 'genius' was bandied about like nobody's business. But then someone told me they read a bad review and a tizzy ensued. I'm going to favour the good review. Vive el Pedro.

Studio Folk

Hot damn

www.studiofolk.com

My Love for You is a Stampede of Horses

Amazing. Just amazing. And what a name....


Image by Michael C. Hsiung. Plenty more where that came from...
http://myloveforyou.typepad.com/my_love_for_you/

The Square Project

The Square Project from Jesse Benjamin on Vimeo.

Curry for €2.50...

...at Coin de Mire downstairs in the Moore Street plaza. Roti avec legumes ou viande for €2.50. I'm a fully fledged Indian now...blogging about food....but Ganesha, it's delicious! Where else can you get lunch for way less than a fiver? Grab a samosa while yer at it. I'm starving...

It's been a while but I was book marking images for just such an occasion....

The photography of Daniel Freytag at www.freytag.co.uk




Animated Graphic Score by Shane McKenna

Three for Four-Animated Graphic Score in NCH from Shane Mc Kenna on Vimeo.

And here's a link to photographs of Picasso drawing with light:

http://www.life.com/image/50378941/in-gallery/24871/picasso-drawing-with-light

West African Barbershop sign

Gaetan Billault

Gaetan has some new stuff up on his webpage and I'm blatantly blogging about it to make my page look good (but also to point out that he's one of the guest speakers at this month's Sweettalk on May 28th so go and applaud loudly and in a french accent- why not)

See the whole lot at http://g.billault.free.fr/






Shockingly good.... :)