Originally art, nowadays lecturing in moving images. Part cirrus cloud. Functional introvert. West of Ireland. That's enough excitement for now.
PIPO. Poison in, poison out...
David RobertsIsrael is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
Monumentally human. The concentration of feeling in Käthe's work speaks through time and informs the present.
womensartblueskyArtist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) used the genre of Expressionism to stress the emotional toll of poverty, war and grief #womensart
Mr. Gibbons - as always - worth reading, especially when highlighting with such clarity the wilful avoidance of reality here.
John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺“While EU states like Denmark, Holland race ahead in green transition, Ireland is mired in the past. Our politicians seem more focused on engaging in populist follies like facilitating chaotic rural one-off housing” My take on #climate crisis in @thejournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/wildf...
That's just so Roger Dean/YES. I wouldn't call it gross though so much as Testicular Gothic.
Edwin HeathcoteThis is an actual design for a building. MVRDV. ‘Shift Embassy’ whatever that is. Gross.
'Every drop counts'. Liars. The Irish government routinely runs interference to protect data centres from scrutiny. They don't even know how much water these centres are extracting! Time and again politicians here conspire with capital against the citizen. www.rte.ie/news/2026/07...
Hosepipe ban extended nationwide from FridayUisce Éireann is extending its hosepipe ban nationwide, bringing every county under water restrictions from just after midnight on Friday.www.rte.ieGreat reminder of the relationship between absent evidence and cultural contingency in speculative images throughout history. Here it's possible to love both Viking and Bonestell images equally and for different sets of reasons in terms of what they can tell us about ourselves in relation to places.
Don DavisThe first glimpse of the Martian surface was long anticipated. Bonestell's art dominated ideas of what Mars was like, basically the desert Southwest with most air absent. The idea of a dark blue sky on Mars persisted in space art until that morning. Here are those first looks at the Martian surface.