Dave Mac On The Blog

act against ACTA (ireland's SOPA) daunt square cork city saturday 3.30pm find out more here...

2012-02-16T19:40:00.001Z

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We live in a world of amazing possibilities, where talent and creativity reign. Unfortunately, we also live in a world gripped with greed and paranoia; fears which have led to the conception of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
Now, whether it was thanks to the online response of groups such as Anonymous, the massive protests in Poland, the resignation of the EU's rapporteur into the issue, or the public apology issued by the Slovenian signatory, the fact that you are here probably means you know something about ACTA already. If more information is needed, you should watch the video above. Once you're done, I'd like you to really sit down and think about what would happen if ACTA were to pass, and the internet as we know it were to die.
I'm sure we've all been bored of the internet at some point or another, but have you ever really thought about how magical it is? How truly brilliant it is to get the answer to almost any question you may have in seconds? To see any film, hear any song, or talk to any one of the 2.5 billion internet users out there?
I admit that it's easy to blow this bill out of proportion, at least to an extent. ACTA probably won't be the killing blow, but it's another step down the road that you can't take back. They've moved on from just monitoring terrorists and sex offenders online, now they're adding 'online pirates' to the watch list. Yes, filesharing is now just as likely to get you monitored. If you're OK with this, you may as well stop reading now.
So the question is, where does it end? Well, you have to remember that the people behind these bills don't tend to be the YouTube-type to say the least, and they really don't understand what we stand to lose here. But if they keep making the laws, then it's only a matter of time before we're left with their view of the perfect internet, and we move from the magical pixie land we know now to an admittedly efficient and clean, but thoroughly grey business platform; LinkedIn: the Only-Option Edition and a few inoffensive lolcats. I'm sure you now understand the gravity of the situation.
Now, there's been a buzzword floating around a lot lately, especially in connection with ACTA's little brother that you may know as the Irish SOPA, and that is 'innovators', so I think it's important we look at this in a bit more detail. Both ACTA and SOPA have been described as 'attempts to encourage innovators' and to remove their apparently crippling fear of putting their innovations online.
Let's get this straight, 'innovators' have not been in hiding since the dawn of the internet, quite the opposite in fact. One of the reasons the internet is worth defending is because of the tremendous creativity that can be seen even from a casual glance at certain websites. Bringing in laws to stop piracy will not suddenly cause a massive influx of people like Steve Jobs to start rushing to the patent office, nor will it cause people who are not already musically inclined to take up an instrument, because in case you haven't noticed, people who are unable to adapt to the way the world is changing generally tend not to be the most creative bunch anyway.
If anything, laws such as these will kill the bulk of modern innovation, as being influenced by a good song is not just suddenly considered a bad thing, the vague definition of 'intellectual property' means that it is now a crime. This is something I haven't been able to get my head around since I left primary school actually. Once we enter the 'real world', we are expected to be motivated by a desire for personal wealth and glory. What happened to doing something for the common good? The idea of charity, or co-operative thinking? Is 'sharing is caring' a concept we're supposed to grow out of at some point?
I can guarantee without the slightest hint of a doubt that the real innovations (and I'm truly starting to despise that word) will come from internet users such as yourself, and not from the financial department of the Recording Industry Association of America.
And so, we come to the end of the rant, and if you've read this wall of text, you have both my respect and admiration, but I must ask you one last favour. Join the March on the 18th of February, and show your support for the cause we're fighting for.
We are here because we believe in the potential of the internet as a tool for the good of the human race, in the insane beauty of the internet as it is, despite its flaws.
We are here because we do not believe in giving such a vague, blank cheque to anyone, least of all to people who saw fit to keep us in the dark.
We are here because we do not believe democracy means letting the greed of a few cut into the freedom of so many.
We are here because we have had enough.

sweet shot...but is it real or not??

2012-02-16T19:23:00.000Z

rag week waterford..quite possibly the last one ever at that!

2012-02-16T16:52:00.004Z

i've heard of reclaim the streets but this is ridonculous...

quite pleasing tho that students & traffic cones are still enjoying a life-long love-affair :p

i put a lot of advance planning into my date nights..a lot of advance planning...it pays off..see here for instance

2012-02-15T19:51:00.001Z

goldfish 3 second memory? dogs colour blind? animal misconceptions busted...

2012-02-15T19:43:00.000Z

i love you in 100 different languages...

2012-02-14T19:46:00.000Z

google doodle for V day...t'is sweet :-)

2012-02-14T19:40:00.000Z

in light of this being 'social-media-week' check out hipsters in the future!

2012-02-13T19:29:00.002Z

In the year 2062, a bunch of elderly hipsters are interviewed about the good old days of social media. Created for Social Media Week 2012, this video captures interviews with octogenarian hipsters as they take a look back on what social media and digital culture were back in the day.

wow 1-year old kid got serious piano skills!

2012-02-13T19:27:00.001Z

it's OK I am in on the joke...honestly ;-)

free running/parkour shot in slo-mo...pretty cool to be fair!

2012-02-10T17:38:00.001Z

go full screen, turn off the lights & put the feet up...oh & don't try this at home :p

bourne movies without jason bourne?? yup & the bourne legacy looks amazeballs too plus check out the crazy looking iron sky trailer while yr at it...

2012-02-09T19:28:00.005Z

The first trailer for The Bourne Legacy.

check this too...

from i09.com
Full Iron Sky trailer pits Sarah Palin against Nazis from the Moon
We saw a glimpse of this indie flick several weeks back — now revel in the full trailer for the lunar Reich picture Iron Sky. As much as I'm loving the spaceship designs, I'm hoping the hamfisted political humor plays second fiddle to the insane orbital Nazi-smashing. Iron Sky opens April 4 in Finland, April 5 in Germany, and will expand to other countries soon after. Hat tip to Mike.

maverick sabre on growing up in ireland...lonely are the brave

2012-02-09T19:07:00.001Z

can this be real? god bless america indeed NSFW

2012-02-09T18:50:00.000Z

in need of squee? lil' grizzly bear & lil' wolf cub rollin' and a-playin'...might not sound like much but v.sweet, v.sweet indeed...

2012-02-09T17:49:00.003Z

Uploaded by denmortube on 27 Jan 2012
'Lil' Bear and Tala playing in the Gift Shop of the Woodland Zoo. Note: In the middle of the clip there are pictures of these guys as they are 6 years later. Also note that in the clip I keep referring to the bear as a "boy", it's actually a girl.'

the pic advertising roscrea cattle mart that made me LOL thanks @broadsheet.ie (again and again and again...)

2012-02-09T17:31:00.001Z

mystery solved! this is why gotye's tune somebody that i used to know is soooo catchy!!! & yes you have heard it before...

2012-02-09T16:14:00.002Z

great parody sam!

funniest pub sign ever?? wittiest anyway...

2012-02-08T18:00:00.001Z

eye candy anyone? two displays of Aurora Australis (Southern lights)

2012-02-08T17:34:00.000Z

Red Aurora Australis from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.

go full screen, lie back, feet up & enjoy!

too shy to ask for her number but not too shy to publicize that fact on a giant billboard!! wtf?!?

2012-02-08T16:18:00.001Z

eminem being sued for ripping off idea for this admittedly shithot superbowl ad for chrysler cars...

2012-02-06T19:28:00.002Z

US rapper Eminem is being sued for US$9 million in a hand written lawsuit by a homeless man. Pieck, who listed his address as homeless in the lawsuit, claims that Eminem's Crysler commercial which premiered during last year's Super Bowls was indeed his idea. The man states that he was having dinner in a New York restaurant with Jordon Bratman and Christina Aguilera in September 2010, when the pop singer called Eminem. The lawsuit claims that Aguilera handed Pieck the phone and that he then gave Eminem the idea for the Born of Fire commercial. "I want the court to reward me a judgment in the amount of $9 million," Pieck writes in his lawsuit. "I designed every aspect of the commercial and the commercial was stolen from me. In addition, I did not receive compensation in monetary terms for the work I did." The Born of Fire commercial features Eminem and his song Lose Yourself.

hey did ya see madonna's half-time superbowl performance? here it is with scathing LA Times review...

2012-02-06T17:13:00.001Z

The halftime show? A spectacle by the Cleopatra of the game. It also was a well-planned — and shockingly transparent — ad for her new album, 'MDNA.'

To label the selection of Madonna as a halftime performer at the Super Bowl as curious is to neglect the surreal history of what has become one of the year's most discussed 10 minutes of music on American television. From the high-water mark Janet Jackson-Justin Timberlake nip slip to the weird nonsequitur Rolling Stones gig to a children's choir singing "Michael Row the Boat Ashore," the Super Bowl has never been short on ridiculousness.

But all different kinds of musical craziness had nothing on this year's Bridgestone Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show performance. Madonna was defiantly unconcerned with the more conservative red state wing of the football fan base who'd never be caught dead singing along to one of her songs, and her halftime show was pure spectacle by the Cleopatra of the game.

Think about it. In less than 10 minutes, America watched marching warriors pulling a massive chariot; faux trumpeters announcing the arrival of Madonna; a man name Redfoo with a ridiculously large afro fronting a duo called LMFAO; a polyglot British-Sri Lankan rapper slyly flipping the bird at the camera; a cartoonish multiple-personality Nicki Minaj; and a charismatic Buddha of a singer with a golden voice in one of the best bandleader outfits ever created, to say nothing of his stunning black choir robe.

At the center of it all was Madonna in her element, vogueing with a break-dancing lyre player, riding a bejeweled human serpent, slipping into her best single of the '00s, "Music," dancing near a tightrope walker who did a back flip as she passed, and sitting on Redfoo's shoulders during a mash-up with LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem." We saw Madonna looking absolutely silly as a 53-year-old cheerleader with equally noncheerleaders M.I.A. and rapper Minaj, and, perhaps most improbable of all, Madonna in front of a church choir pretending to be chaste.

In fact, if you break down the show, produced by Stuart Davis (known to dance fans under his moniker Les Rhythmes Digitales), the whole thing was arguably more outrageous than the notorious Jackson nipple shot. Madonna's new album, "MDNA," is a sly reference to the drug Ecstasy; M.I.A.'s father was part of a Sri Lankan rebel group called the Tamil Tigers (once listed as a terrorist group by the State Department); LMFAO is an acronym in text slang for "laughing my ... ass off;" and singer Cee Lo Green hit the big time with a song about a middle-finger kiss-off. In this company, Minaj looked positively PG.

But despite its success AND extravagance, this whole halftime package most of all was little more than an ingeniously well planned — and shockingly transparent — advertisement for "MDNA," and not much more. The rollout for the album began with the announcement that she'd be performing at the Super Bowl and was teased by a music video released Friday for her new single, "Give Me All You're Luvin'," featuring Minaj and with a remix also featuring LMFAO, which, of course, she performed. Talk about marketing to a lot of eyeballs.

But then Madonna is Madonna for a reason. And we saw it firsthand Sunday.
randall.roberts@latimes.com
Copyright © 2012, Los Angeles Times

so sorry to interrupt & damn this beastly slurring but i have something important to contribute to this debate on sport...

2012-02-06T16:13:00.002Z

european parliment earlier this week...we pay these clowns right?
A UKIP MEP has admitted being “drugged up” on a cocktail of alcohol and prescription painkillers while making a speech in the European Parliament. Godfrey Bloom stumped colleagues in Strasbourg last week, interrupting a debate on sport with a bizarre question about a university rugby club. Departing from his usually brisk and coherent delivery, Godfrey slurred his words as Tory MEP Emma McClarkin shook her head.

scroll down a couple of posts to the wonderful irish mep marian harkin who does deserve her money...

look who has waaay too much time on his hands...amazing pool trick-shots to be fair tho...

2012-02-03T01:26:00.001Z

i have one word for this female irish mep: legend! say it like it is sista'

2012-02-02T20:40:00.002Z

go marian harkin...she's the new vinnie brown you know...

light festival gent 2012

2012-02-02T02:23:00.000Z

Lichtfestival Gent 2012 from Lieven Vanoverbeke on Vimeo.

i know some walls near me i'd like these on...

2012-02-02T02:09:00.001Z

Deks, Phats, Scie & Dope @ The Bernard Shaw, Christmas 2011 from Colm Barry on Vimeo.

if maintained & not f***ed with

i love these! badlipreading.com strikes again...this time it's rick santorum..i dunno some republican presidential hopeful whatevs it's funny...

2012-02-02T01:18:00.003Z

can someone do this to some of our prize specimens...

i think this one is my fav tho cos like i love ice cream too

fox news gets properly pwned by the muppets - suitably enough to be fair!

2012-01-31T15:35:00.000Z

cool cover of everything counts (depeche mode) by mexican/spanish dad & his two cute kiddies...

2012-01-30T18:16:00.001Z

luvs it!

sneak peek at the new frank and walters single? alright so...

2012-01-30T18:06:00.001Z

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more at frankandwalters.wordpress.com and @frankandws

irish movie makes empire done-in-60-seconds shortlist...

2012-01-30T17:56:00.000Z

see what ya think...

so have you heard Nic Cage's rather droll take/version of LMFAO's sexy & i know it??

2012-01-30T16:55:00.002Z

holy crap i thought i thought about things too much sometimes...check this out it's nerdy,cute & funny!

2012-01-27T17:14:00.002Z

awww american tourists are nice! altho some can be a little too easily wound up...

2012-01-27T16:54:00.003Z

Was workin in bar in ireland my friend second name was o hurley she told some americans her great great grand father invented the game of hurlin they believed her came back next day with hurley for her to sign lol Yvonne

Hi dave. During the summer my brother told some tourists that on a clear day you could see the statue of liberty from mizen head.... They actually believed him and headed down... Aoife
MIND YOU SOMETIMES IT'S US IRISH WHO FALL FOR THE SPOOF..
Dave durin the summer i was n Galway wit 4nz nd 1 of my 4nz was told dat d headland u cn c 4om strandhill was america and she fell for it! Kathy

hey do u hold much truck with psychics? you might not after seeing this..

2012-01-26T19:12:00.001Z

Psychic Fail - The One (Aussie show) from Discern4 on Vimeo.

how to speak australian...by two aussie cuties ;-)

2012-01-26T16:38:00.001Z

lesson 1

lesson 2 - focusing on differences between the aussie accent and american accent...

happy australia day! but if u do go down unda' go easy mate it can be kinda dangerous you know...

2012-01-26T16:28:00.001Z

think you know scalextric? trust me you ain't seen nuthin' yet...

2012-01-26T16:17:00.000Z

Slot geeks gather at the European ‘Wing Car’ Championships in Helsinki back in 2010. It’s claimed that the custom made cars travel at scale speeds of 5000mph, which all sounds a bit mad until about the blink-and-you’ll-miss-’em race starts at around 0.50.

the northern lights over the skies of donegal in timelapse...nice work sir!

2012-01-25T19:52:00.001Z

go full screen!!!

fancy a visual illusion? well there ya go then...enjoy & share!

2012-01-25T16:40:00.000Z

A nifty ad for the Sony Cybershot.

1. Stare at the red dot on her nose for 30 seconds.
2. Turn to face a blank, light coloured surface (ceiling or wall).
3. Blink repeatedly and quickly.
4. Now be amazed, very amazed!

top ten myths debunked...well most of them! look away arachnophobes

2012-01-25T16:30:00.000Z

woops someone didn't know opera lane is pedestrianized...

2012-01-25T16:18:00.001Z

i guess their beemer knows now tho...

from starring in one of the best irish movies ever - i went down - to an oscar-nom for his debut directorial short...say hello to peter mcdonald...

2012-01-24T17:08:00.003Z

Pentecost, written and directed by Peter McDonald (I Went Down), is a coming of age story of a young boy who learns how to rebel against his father and the community. Against his will, Damian Lynch (11) is called in at the last moment to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in the local parish. He faces a choice: either conform to the status quo or serve an extended ban from his passion in life, football.

can this possibly be real? dear god please say yes...literally the worst church singer you have ever heard...

2012-01-24T16:27:00.002Z

alternate red drive thought-of-the-day today...

2012-01-24T16:15:00.001Z

afghanistan? a cake walk...at least compared to the giant sling-shot in orlando...

2012-01-23T16:29:00.001Z

wait, wait, wait, before you go one last utterly ridiculous/brilliant thing from me to you! it's the dope zebra y'all...

2012-01-20T19:42:00.001Z

and finally: there's cute...and then there's new born deer cute...

2012-01-20T19:34:00.000Z

happy weekend!

mad french dude climbs elysian tower in cork...

2012-01-20T19:19:00.001Z

mother of god: siberian truck resurrected from watery grave totally against the odds...

2012-01-20T17:59:00.002Z

how? seriously, how? did you see how long the trailer is when he gets it out!!

too soon to ask lisa hannigan to marry me? i did meet her once (sort of...)

2012-01-19T19:36:00.001Z

ok enough already here is her cool new vid & song

TED talk on why SOPA is a bad idea...

2012-01-19T19:27:00.001Z

see post below for more on SOPA and why it is a scary thing for th'ol t'internet yokey

fight for the future of the internet...

2012-01-17T19:27:00.001Z

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

this is very good: how come americans can't figure out ireland isn't part of the UK...

2012-01-17T19:19:00.002Z

in celebration of mad pride founder john mccarthy RIP...helped change attitudes to mental health as will this vid too...

2012-01-12T19:25:00.001Z

now that's what i call a dramatic page-turner...

2012-01-11T19:39:00.001Z

kid remains calm as MASSIVE lion paws at glass to get at her!

2012-01-11T19:09:00.003Z

who got out of the wrong side of the bed today then...

and then there's that! don't worry that glass hardly ever shatters

chilean street artist completes amazing paintings as-you-watch...simply staggering to be fair

2012-01-11T18:57:00.001Z

if i didn't see this with my own eyes i wouldn't believe it!

the sounds of dublin...corcaigh version anyone?

2012-01-10T19:04:00.001Z

bungee cord snaps over zambezi river vid & 81-yr old irish grand aunt rocks the nevis bungee swing in NZ...see it to believe it!!

2012-01-10T16:25:00.005Z

first, what you don't want to happen!

second, will you have this kind of guts & spirit at 81??

This is my 81-year-old-grand Aunt Maureen from Gibbstown in County Meath doing the Nevis bungee swing in New Zealand! She did it because they had a sign saying “free for anyone over 75″. They said at the Nevis swing they hadn’t had anybody older than her doing it! She said it was very relaxing and would highly recommend it!

shit irish girls say...this is pretty classic

2012-01-09T19:57:00.000Z

shit girls say to gay guys...

2012-01-09T17:07:00.001Z

these just get better & better click through to youtube for the full series...

senator collins explains how the front fell off but don't worry the ship was towed out of the environment...

2012-01-06T15:17:00.001Z

John Clarke and Bryan Dawe debate the merits of ship design and the concepts of maritime law in this Monty-Python-esque comedy sketch.

and now for even more quality irish hip-hop peeps...great vid too more for 2012 purlease...

2012-01-06T15:04:00.001Z

classic advise from tim hawkins on things to not say to your wife...

2012-01-06T12:44:00.000Z

another nice mix of foster the people pumped up kicks thanks @musicpupireland

2012-01-04T15:47:00.000Z

ufo or chinese lantern?? spotted on cctv cam over dublin early hours of new years day...

2012-01-04T15:18:00.002Z

spooky or stoopid...you decide... (i did note tho that it was uploaded on the 31st of dec 2011 but has a timeline of 01/01/2012 so hmmmmm)

lickle jam-aken gyall rants about aunty: she done get pon me nerves me no badda wit hur no more...

2012-01-04T13:17:00.002Z

"MI NAH GIVE HAR NUH MORE MILK FI PUT INNA DI CONFLAKES" ! LMFAO !

west cork on 8mm camera 50 years ago: galley head 1962

2012-01-04T12:22:00.002Z

An 8mm cine camera is clamped to a vw beetle and driven alohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifng the narrow road to Galley head entrance. thanks kgrabe

Indeed @broadsheet.ie this is what every street reporter dreams of doing!!

2012-01-03T15:46:00.000Z

some funny lost & found posters for your titillation and delectation...

2012-01-03T15:24:00.001Z

interesting developments @occupycork from street protest to direct action...for or against...the choice is yours...

2012-01-03T14:03:00.002Z

100 years in 10 minutes...pretty cool but eh didnt anything happy happen?

2012-01-02T15:51:00.000Z

wanna see how they do new year at the worlds tallest tower in dubai?

2012-01-02T11:50:00.001Z

yr wish my command...
if ya wanna cut straight to the truly flash stuff got to around 4'30'' and prepare to be pretty astonished...

sporting highlight of 2011? simples: stand up for the cork city! (thanks fermoy boy)

2011-12-23T16:35:00.000Z

republic of telly want you to have a very irish xmas

2011-12-23T02:29:00.001Z

love this! rudolph you don't have to put on the red light...

2011-12-22T19:30:00.001Z

this is hilarious (i think?) - lego civil unrest set...perfect for fascist parents worried their kids might care...

2011-12-22T17:47:00.001Z

the tim minchin baby jesus song you won't be hearing on jonathan ross tomrrow night...

2011-12-22T17:42:00.001Z

Being Christmas, I thought it would be fun to do a song about Jesus, but being TV, I knew it would have to be gentle. The idea was to compare him to Woody Allen (short, Jewish, philosophical, a bit hesitant), and expand into redefining his other alleged attributes using modern, popular-culture terminology.

Subsequently, Suzi [producer] and her team edited the show and everybody was happy. Suzi felt it had a nice balance of big-ticket celeb action, local talent, and a nice bit of that cheeky, iconoclastic spirit for which Jonathan is known and widely loved.

And then someone got nervous and sent the tape to ITV’s director of television, Peter Fincham.

And Peter Fincham demanded that I be cut from the show.

He did this because he’s scared of the ranty, shit-stirring, right-wing press, and of the small minority of Brits who believe they have a right to go through life protected from anything that challenges them in any way.

sunset over cork on shortest day...thanks @CorkEveningEcho!

2011-12-21T20:04:00.001Z

t'is only onwards and upwards from here lads happy xmas and many many happy returns

seen the hobbit trailer yet?? you may wish to...trust me on that

2011-12-21T17:13:00.003Z

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for more movie stuff vic barry here
and the comment posted on youtube re this trailer that you really just couldn't make up is here

ahhhh my little angel in the nativity play....and she is the worst singer ever....eek!

2011-12-20T18:39:00.002Z

This is perhaps a little festive but definitely guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. I am the embarrassed angel in the middle with the gold tinsel halo. You can't really miss my little sister with her humongous wings, she definitely steals the show. The person filming is baby Jesus' mother...who amazingly managed to sleep all the way through!
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slightly OTT xmas lights bedecked house set to vicious dubstep toonage...see it to believe it

2011-12-19T17:41:00.001Z

Christmas in Meridian Idaho to the strains of Skrillex’s First Of The Year. 35,000 lights, 64 Light-O-Rama channels.

redfm TY jingle bell ball @pavilion 2011 in full flow!

2011-12-19T17:33:00.000Z

i gotta feelin'...

red drive secret sound revealed: baby rhinos who wudda thunk it!

2011-12-19T17:16:00.000Z

this...this is how to parallel park...all it takes is a little nudging :p

2011-12-15T18:06:00.001Z

this is fun-e: shit girls say...

2011-12-15T17:49:00.001Z

mhmmm a lot home truths here sistas...

holy freak that's a wave! tow-in surfing mullaghmore stylee (last monday folks)

2011-12-14T22:15:00.003Z

http://vimeo.com/33652914 how disappointing it won't embed soooo worth clicking through on though...
MULLAGHMORE went for broke during a gap between two storm systems on Monday, December 12th.
Why was it so big? Because the storm was so close. Why didn't they run the Billabong Tow comp? Because storm number two was too close. Morning's perfection rolled into a stormforce afternoon but not before allowing a thrills-and-spills tow and http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifpaddle session in the teeth of the storm.
"Well what a day, it had it all, we all agree it was some of the hollowest nastiest 20ft plus barrels we have ever had out there" Said Richie Fitzgerald. "Great crew, me, Gav, Paul, Nezza, Dylan, Pete, Barry, Roo, Easkey, Jayce, Lyndon, and http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifphotogs, we all had some mental waves."
It was a brutal day in the frigid Irish waters. Casualty list included Jayce Robinson's knee, a couple of tow boards and Paul O'Kane's ski. Barry Mottershead got absolutely hosed from steep and deep whilst Fergal Smith and Tom Lowe's paddling stole the show.
"It was truly epic seeing Tom, Ferg and Dan Skaj paddle those waves from the peak." Said Mickey Smith "Next level shit."
all from magic seaweed here

i love fred...the band...dotcom (check cool animated vids to two fred toons here shhhh)

2011-12-12T19:24:00.002Z

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From fredtheband.com: The great Toronto based Leo Kavanagh has just finished a brand new video for FRED. He has painstakingly animated 3 minutes and 48 seconds of loveliness for the song Somewhere Else ('Leaving My Empire')
This is Leo's second video for FRED, having previously animated Keep Me Clear ('Go God Go')

Ahhhhhh one of the fav's from that great Fred album! Yay go Fred! Xmas gig Triskel Christchurch Thurs 22nd Dec...

trampoline...oh my god...trampoline...

2011-12-08T18:55:00.000Z

news anchor fail compilation is 6mins 26 secs of win!

2011-12-01T19:20:00.000Z

not quite like this down inch, east cork way but we can all dream of the surf perfection captured here...

2011-11-29T02:20:00.002Z

oh fiji...someday i will return with money and time

check this out! un-be-freakin-lievable #mostincrediblethingyouwillseetoday

2011-11-29T02:00:00.003Z

go to at least 4 mins in this vid has it's money-shot!

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

and even more murmurations i.e. amazing aerial feats by our feathered friends the starlings...who once battled to the death over the skies of cork some 400 odd years ago...so basically just after i moved here...

cork band fred get new track on cool canadian tv ad...go fred go, go fred go...

2011-11-24T16:53:00.001Z

more at fredtheband.com

Helicopter Crash Auckland Waterfront - ouch major woops moment...

2011-11-23T18:06:00.000Z

'Don't worry about that Richard, ring the news room!' LOL
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says it is amazing no one was seriously hurt when a helicopter crashed on Auckland’s waterfront this morning. The helicopter was working to put up the city’s Telecom Christmas tree, when it appeared to clip a wire and spin out of control

a dream come true for robbie...winning the, eh, what's it called again?

2011-11-21T19:44:00.003Z

oh she cute ;) can interview me anytime...

irish fans mob russian reporter in tallin & robbie's 'yay' pic photoshopped to shit...

2011-11-15T16:37:00.006Z

ok so first the irish fans in notveryimaginativechantshocker mob poor russian tv reporter who tries to look like he is having ze craic but clearly isn't (much to the amusement of the female anchor back in studio as you will see)they just better hope he hadn't any mafia friends lurking in the shadows...

now the typically awkward robbie celebration snap that sparked the following flurry of photoshopping madness (at the behest of broadsheet.ie)

let the photoshopping begin...

good work @billiejohnson!

bruno mars it will rain official video from breaking dawn OST

2011-11-14T17:40:00.000Z

Bruno Mars - 'It Will Rain'Official Video
Taken from the Breaking Dawn Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Breaking Dawn hits theatres nationwide Friday November 18th

@desbishop makes a classic even more classic leimigi thart

2011-11-14T17:04:00.001Z

well done free music winner on red drive dave walsh from the collig 3 cds of pure hip-hop out in post asap...

wanna see a dude surfing the biggest wave ever surfed? yeah is the answer...

2011-11-09T16:39:00.001Z

Garrett McNamara has surfed what is considered to be the biggest wave ever. The Hawaiian big wave rider caught the huge monster in Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal, during the ZON North Canyon Project 2011.

The wave caught by McNamara is estimated to be about 90 feet (30 meters). Garrett was tow-in surfing with Andrew Cotton and Al Mennie when he suddenly caught this giant wave. Watch the biggest wave of all time, here.

"Everything was perfect, the weather, the waves. Cotty and I surfed two big waves of about 60 feet and then, when Garrett was ready came a canyon wave of over 90 feet. The jet ski was the best place to see him riding the biggest wave I've ever seen. It was amazing. Most people would be scared, but Garrett was controling everything in the critical part of the wave. It was an inspiring ride by an inspiring surfer", says Al Mennie.

This was not the first time that Garrett McNamara rode giant waves at Praia do Norte, which is under the influence of a phenomenon known as "Nazaré Canyon" that creates unusual giant waves.

The conditions of swell and wind direction observed on McNamara's big day were quite special. The local maritime authorities registered a wave of about 8 metres off Nazaré coast, in one of the buoys. With a WNW swell direction and a favorable wind, the canyon does the rest

"I feel so blessed and honoured to have been invited to explore this canyon and its special town. The waves here are such a mystery", says Garrett.