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12
Feb
2011
Cáca Milis
A short Irish-language film starring Brendan Gleeson, not entirely unlike the wonderful Six Shooter.
13
Dec
2010
You could lose your mind in here; your money too
Been listening to this an awful lot in the past few days. A little gem that this new last.fm recommendation service brought up. Enjoy!
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(Ned Collette – The Country With A Smile)
3
Dec
2010
Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet
I rather like the “A”, “Amer-kawh”, “and”, “for” and “great” bits.
22
Oct
2010
20
Aug
2010
The Videogame Music Preservation Foundation
A friend came across this website a few weeks ago, and I was very excited about it – an archive of plenty of video game music (mainly for DOS, which is what I grew up with), all recorded properly in order to maximise the nostalgia, and made available in ogg format.
I contacted the guy who runs it about setting up a torrent of the entire archive, and he very kindly obliged. You can get the entire collection here (~4.4GB in total). Enjoy!
16
Aug
2010
Welcome to Reykjavík
An eccentric little piece from Reykjavík’s Mayor. Click to enlarge.
Thanks to Hugh for bringing this to my attention.
17
Jul
2010
For a soldier he leads a very fine life and he always is blessed with a charming young wife
Paul Brady’s legendary 1977 recording of the old Irish anti-recruitment song Arthur McBride:
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19
Jun
2010
Do you think it will always be like this?
Thanks to Paddy for bringing this to my attention. (You should really check his blog out too, it’s excellent.)
Please Say Something is a 10 minute short concerning a troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future. The final film was completed in January 2009 and contains 23 episodes of exactly 25 seconds each.
The film won the Golden Bear for best short at the 2009 Berlinale, the Cartoon D’or and several other awards. In 2010 it was given a distinction of cultural significance by the German ratings agency FBW (Prädikat Besonderes Wertvoll).
16
Jun
2010
13
Jun
2010
Unearthed design of the 1950′s
mikeyashworth on flickr has an interesting photostream of old 1950′s design. The most impressive of which are photos, taken officially by London Underground, of posters in Notting Hill Gate tube station, London, which hadn’t seen the light of day for many decades. He writes:
Work at the station has recently uncovered these amazing advertising posters in non-public areas and that date from c1956 – 1959 when the station’s lifts were removed and replaced by escalators. These are in an old lift passageway and will be safe.
Check out more photos, along with scans of mid 20th Century design.
