The Irish Comics Wiki has been launched. I have to admit I’m a bit green about what’s out there, Bob Byrne and Dermot Power being the only names I know so far, but that’ll change with the wiki, won’t it? Great idea, I think anything that pushes Irish visual culture in its many forms is a good thing, although the wiki could do with a images around the place.
Via Forbidden Planet.
I honestly thought I’d got a letter from Firefox this morning. The stamp is massive and every time I glance at I see the Firefox logo.
It’s a thing in design that sometimes when you get that click in the brain that says finished, it’s actually saying, this is sufficiently similar to some good design I’ve seen before to satisfy me. I’d a similar thing a few years ago when I designed a stilt costume that was a silver flightsuit with mechanical wings. The very same costume was in the Bond film Octopussy. I’d obviously been carrying it around in my head since I’d seen it as a kid.
Anyway 2008 is the Year of Planet Earth according to the stamp. I went there once. The locals were very unpleasant; they threw rubbish everywhere.
I didn’t get a chance to post these last week as I’ve been so busy (I had two weddings in one day on Saturday, more on that later).
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Thomson Safaris is an American-based company that’s been linked to a story that Trent Keegan was investigating before he was murdered, on the forced eviction of Maasai in Tanzania.
Karen Schwartzman, a spokeswoman for the company, had this to say in response to their name being associated with the murder:
“Obviously it’s a tragedy. But the fact this company has had its name associated with this nightmare is another tragedy.”
So according to Thomson Safaris the fact that their name has got muddied is as tragic as the brutal theft of Trent Keegan’s life, the permanent denial his family now endure of their son and brother, and the numbing grief felt around the world by the hundreds of people Trent befriended.
That attitude alone is enough for me to ask, if you’re going on safari, don’t go Thomson Safari.
UPDATE: Karen’s rhetorical flourishes continue: ‘”We have nothing to do with this,” says Karen Schwartzman, a spokesperson for Massachusetts-based Thompson Safaris. “This company continues to be victimized by a number of rumors and innuendo.”‘
Victimised. Rumours. Innuendo. Protest. Too. Much.
Recently I was asked what I thought about the Galway Arts Festival…
Also, I’ve been asked to perform in this year’s parade. I think I’m one of these guys:
