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SWEET TALK 24. Candy in association with Mickey Finn present SweetTalk24 in Dublin.
Thursday June 28th. 7pm doors / 8pm show.
THE SUGAR CLUB, LEESON STREET DUBLIN. Admission: eur10, tickets only available on door.

WIM CROUWEL presentation.
http://www.swisslegacy.com Interview: One & Two
“HELVETICA - The Documentary” Irish premiere with director GARY HUSTWIT: http://www.helveticafilm.com
Followed by Q&A session chaired by Ciaran O’Gaora (Zero-G) with; Wim Crouwel, Gary Hustwit, Michael C. Place (Build, UK), Aiden Grennelle (Image Now, Irl) & Alastair Keady (Hexibit / CreativeIreland, Irl).

About “Helvetica - The Documentary”
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica will only have limited screenings worldwide and we are so happy to bring this unique evening to Copenhagen especially with both the director, Gary Hustwit and e-Types (the Danish strategic design agency specialising in graphic design, brand strategy and identity) speaking before the movie. The movie has played to audiences of over 1,000 in Berlin in the last few weeks and this might be your only chance to see this special film.

Read loads more and watch trailers in my previous post about Helvetica.

Via Candy Culture.

Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface

Global Photographies: Histories ¦ Theories ¦ Practices

Wednesday 27th, Thursday 28th, Friday 29th June 2007.

The Photography Program at the Institute of Art Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire in Dublin is pleased to announce that it will be holding an international conference on photography and globalization in June 2007.

Widely perceived to be the driving force of our era, Globalization has attracted much critical commentary within the field of visual culture. Despite interest in the correlations between globalization and the visual, however, there has been relatively little examination of the role of photography in shaping the global media landscape. Equally the impact of globalization on photographic and artistic practices has been an area that has not received much commentary.

This conference brings together photographers, curators and writers to explore the intersection of the photographic image and globalization across the discplines of photography, art, anthropology, architecture and cultural studies. Sixty speakers from nearly twenty different countries will deliver papers over three days of the conference program on a range of themes including; global archives and the image content industry, migration, photography and the war on terror, colonial archives and post-colonial identities, photography and cultural diplomacy, cross-cultural curatorial practices, photojournalism and the global media, trans-cultural media practices, urbanization, photography and Diasporic identities.

The conference program will also include a special screening of Allan Sekula’s documentary film The Lottery of the Sea.

Keynote speakers include:

Allan Sekula (Photographer, Film-Maker and Theorist) author of ‘Against the Grain’, ‘Fish Story’, ‘Dismal Science’

Shahidul Alam (Drik Photo Agency) Photographer and founder of ‘Drik Photo Agency’ Bangladesh

Iain Boal (Berkley, California and Retort) Contributing author of ‘Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in an Age of New War’

Steve Edwards (Open University)
Research Lecturer and author of ‘The Making of English Photography: Allegories’

NOT TO MISS:
THE LOTTERY OF THE SEA, Allan Sekula
As part of the Global Photographies Conference Programme, IADT will host a special screening of Allan Sekula’s Documentary The Lottery of the Sea at the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray Co. Wicklow on Wednesday 27 June 2007 at 6.30pm. If you would like to attend the screening please send a list of names to justin.carville@iadt.ie

Via Visual Arts Ireland. More info at Global Photographies Conference Programme website.

Analog is a weekend of free live performances celebrating creativity in contemporary music. From congotronics to no-wave guitar noise this series offers a journey through live music and sound.

Located in Dublin’s most exciting new urban space, this will be a weekend not to be missed.

Friday 13th
Cinematic Orchestra
DJ FOOD & DK

Saturday 14th
Konono No.1
Tarwater

Sunday 15th
Glenn Branca, Hallucination City Symphony for 100 Guitars

It is all in Analog

The future of TV? I installed it on my mac and it looks great. I can actually control it with my MacBook remote! There is a small selection of channels so far, perhaps not the best ever, but Im sure if they keep at it the guys that brought us Skype will make an amazing use of the media. You need an invite to join, but I found a way to invite your self to Joost at here. Try it, just watch out for your ISP monthly download allowance!

From Spam Poison:
WWW Robots (also called wanderers, spiders, crawlers, or bots) are programs that crawl the Web continually retrieving linked pages. When a spammer’s bot visits your website, blog, forum, etc, all pages and sites linked to it will be searched looking for email addresses.
Now you can fight back against their robots!

The links added to your site will redirect email harvesting bots to trap sites that will feed it with an almost infinite loop of dynamically generated fake email addresses, mostly on known spammer owned domains! This will render their harvested lists pratically useless and of no commercial value.

If you are a blogger, add the code from their site to your footer. The code will look like this:

Get it at Spam Poison

“Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting” online. Great, where? at Neighbourhood Fix-It. This is the story of a site built by mySociety. They build websites which give people “simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives”. As far as I know it only relates to the UK, but it serves as a good example of what the future of the internet will be like. We need more practical sites that allow us to improve our everyday experiences, and better communicate with those on power. Another great example is WriteToThem, where you can contact your Councillors, MP, MEPs, MSPs, or Northern Ireland, Welsh and London AMs for free. Very well done!

More community sites at mySociety projects.

A 4 day event combining exhibits, workshops, screenings and master classes, discussions. Form the 21st to the 24th of June 2007, at Film Base, the Irish Film Center, and Cineworld Dublin.

FRIDAY 22nd June

Forum 1. TELEVISION 2.0 - The Future of TV
10.00 - 11.15am

Are we entering a time where genres are evolving with a new fluidity between art, design, film, TV practices and platforms, where commissioners are looking to grass roots producers and the tyranny of TV scheduling may be a thing of the past? What was previously considered “television content” is being burnt onto DVDs, time delayed by Personal Video Recorders (PVRs), broken into fragments, piped on demand over the Internet, downloaded into mobile devices and syndicated around the globe. How is this affecting the type of programmes being made and commissioned?

Forum 2. THE EVOLUTION OF SHORT FILM:
From Production to Distribution, Networked Communities Consuming Culture.
1.30 - 2.45pm

How has short film evolved as an artform in recent times? Responding to digital production methods, desktop movie making, interactive narrative, access to audiences through networked communities and downloads, we will ask a number of short filmmakers, writers, curators and distributors to respond to these questions.

Forum 3. ANIMATING FILMS AND GAMES:
From Dioramas to Real Time FX: The Impact of real time technology on Film production.
3.15 - 4.30pm

Filmmakers and animators are getting new and more sophisticated tools to achieve their vision. Users are getting in on the action too as gaming technology allows them to indulge in ever realistic worlds and even create films of their own. How exactly is technology developed for gaming impacting film, SFX, animation and motion graphics

SATURDAY 23rd June

Forum 4. ARTISTS AND FILMMAKERS:
New Practices in Production, Exhibition and Education.
11.00 - 12.30pm

In recent years, the familiar boundaries between art and film have been called into question by practitioners, critics and educators. While artists seem increasingly drawn to the modes of exhibition and production that were traditionally associated with cinema, the film and television industries are currently undergoing a period of significant change, in which multiple and diverse structures of production and exhibition are emerging. Is it possible for artists and filmmakers to learn from each other, particularly in relation to low-budget projects? For example, do those coming from a visual art discipline have access to different resources, enabling them to produce work on much smaller budgets than is usual in the industry?

Forum 5. MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES
2.30 - 3.45pm

This forum will investigate current and future technologies for archiving creative digital content. To look at this issue from a long term Perspective, a historical perspective and a practical one, to raise awareness in Irish media artists, filmmakers, designers etc. and try to come up with some practical suggestions for them of how or why to preserve their creative work.

To book a place for the event you must register at www.darklight.ie or send a cheque or postal order with your name and contact information to

Darklight Film Festival,
69 Dame St,
Dublin 2,
Ireland.

“Dear Voter,

Do you know who you will vote for next Thursday 24th May? Do you even know for sure what the main parties really stand for? Wouldn’t it be handy if you could compare each of them side-by-side, issue-by-issue? Yes, it would.

So to that end, dear voter, I introduce to you Fx3 VoteAssist.”

Sponsored by Fingal Fitted Furniture, this downloadable software will help you to decide by giving scores to the actual polocies that the parties themselves emphasise in their manifestos, and not to their image campaign.

Lets try it.

Looking better than many other 50-year-olds, Helvetica enjoys now the pleasures of its own revival. Well, revival although it has never left the scene really. Now it comes back as a film. And it looks like a very inspiring one. I wonder what Mark Kermode will say about it!
Quoting the filmakers, ‘Helvetica’ is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.

Erik Spiekermann

Experimental Jetset

Wim Crouwel

Wim Crouwel

Neville Brody & Rick Poynor

Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface

I recently found a video in YouTube about a proposed development in Dublin Bay. Wasaki Global Corporation plans to build a clover-shaped cluster of mand-made islands, Dubay style. The video is priceless! In particular the fast paced voice at the end!
quoting from the site:

The Dublin Coastal Development.

The solution to Dublin’s property needs. A new city centre. A new Dublin. A new seafront with luxurious properties and an ocean view.
The development will be constructed in five phases:

1. The construction of the South Wall motorway to the proposed development site in Dublin bay.

2. The construction of three artificial islands with a total surface area of over 12 square kilometers.

3. Infrastructure finalised. The tracks for the luas link tramway are laid. The completion of the link to the East Point Toll bridge and the N11.

4. The construction of the impressive central business district, the hub of commerce and industry.

5. The construction of the residential areas. The 2 tiers of apartments and villas. Over 42 thousand separate residences.

Welcome to the future of Dublin. Welcome to your future.


Find more bullshit at http://www.dublincoastaldevelopment.com



So, what do you think? Will there be a Centra there?