Another lovely weekend in Dublin

Nice pint in the pub of Dublin city center.

What's up doc  ?

Off course it was Halloween

Scary Cat

No joke ... i found them...

French delicacy found in Dublin shop

The aquarium in Bray

More Kitty Cat

Malahide Walk

Back to shore

Pier

Venezuela in UCH - Limerick

So this sunday, I went to the University Concert Hall to attend a wonderful performance from the Venezuelan Percussion Ensemble

 

You can see more of there stuff here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ensamblepercuve?feature=watch

Fantastic concert, funny, live, fully entertaining and giving you terrible envy to shake your body.

The ensemble is a product of "El Systema" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Sistema ), which is a wonderful idea to promote education through Music.

The idea expressed by the founder José Antonio Abreu:
"Music has to be recognised as an agent of social development, in the highest sense because it transmits the highest values - solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion. And it has the ability to unite an entire community, and to express sublime feelings."

The concert was organised by the Irish Chamber Orchestra ( http://www.irishchamberorchestra.com/ ) which is responsible for a wonderful project as part of the regeneration project in Limerick: Sing Out With String.

Note: I recommend that post about some of the concert: http://magicbulletin.me/2012/05/sing-out-with-strings-this-wednesday/

Playing with Diana

I have been a long time fan of lomography ( http://www.lomography.com/ ) so when i stumbled upon a Diana camera ( not the original, but a recent production ) i could not resist...

Diana by Lomography

I also invested in a couple of roll 120 films and here's below the results:

Night driving in limerick ( 120film color 400 ISO )

Night drive...

Mirror experimenting

Mirror .. mirror tell me ....

Somehow I had better luck with the RescaleX ( 90-200 ) films:

In Kilkee, on te slip

The joker on the slip

The pier

Attack by the waves...

And in Limerick

View from the parking:

Limerick church

Playing with settings

Limerick church

  The docker monument:

Docker monument .. unsafe they say

Docker close up 

Shannon view

Church 

Me

Autoportrait

 

A nice weekend in Dublin

I went to spend the weekend in Dublin.

Summary:

Summary of the weekend

After doing a bit of shopping in the city centre, we went to the Just In Time For The Apocalypse: 2012 group show at Moxie Studios - a bit hard to find the warehouse, but we did it.

Designer room in mox.ie

Love the central piece by the very talented Sinead Doyle - see more: http://sineaddoyle.ie/ .

Flock of clock birds by Jenny Walsh

Also like the clock by designer Jenny Walsh - see more: http://www.jennywalshdesign.com .
 

Inside mox expo

Exploring the mox....

Tree rug 

Off course there was time for food, and some guiness...

Dessert time

 Sunday was even more relaxing with a visit to Dublin Zoo ( http://www.dublinzoo.ie/ )

The old entrance of Dublin Zoo

The africans plains in the heart of Dublin

Happy life for the lemur .. I like to move it , move it...

Sea Lion

Sadly we miss feeding times for the sea lions, and we were'nt able to see the Meerkats ( http://www.dublinzoo.ie/News/66-75/Meet-the-Meerkats.aspx ) but as a result I am even more motivated to go back another time.

A sunday in Kilkee

Another sunday basking in sunny Kilkee

Looks calm in the harbour:

Che watching over the boat..

 Incoming waves:

Incoming Waves

Seagull basking in the sun:

At least some are undisturbed by the rowdy sea

 Back from the dive:

Aughinish back to shore

 
 Pier view:

Enjoying the view from the pier

     Wave coming:

Incoming

     Gone for a swim:

gone for a swim...

  The Joker:

Boat: The Joker

  Nobody jumping today:

The boards...

Pollock Hole Swimmer drying off :

After the swim

A small note, to say there is a wonderful book:

 Kilkee Moments ( http://www.kilkeemoments.ie/ ) available in bookstore, which proceeds are going to the Kilkee Rescue Center.

Later a bit further north the coast, Waves in Doonberg Golf Beach :

Doonberg

My Computer History .... so far

My very first computer was an Alice, a french made computer ; a very impressive beast (RAM : 8 kb  CPU: Motorola 6803 )

The original box with tapes.... yes tapes

The beast itself

It meant a lot to me ( actually I still have it in a storage room in France ), first because my grandfather bought it to me - for reason I have never explained or understood, may be he had some insight - a good one - that this would be the future, secondly because the manual was illustrated by one of my favorite comic artist Moebius ( but I did not know that at the time ).

Illustrated by Moebius....

I remember soon after, the school started using T07 and MO5 as a part of a sponsored state program to promote informatics.

You can read more about Alice history (in French) on this wiki: http://alice.system-cfg.com/
There you can also find links to some emulators.

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My second was an Amstrad CPC464 ( 64 kB RAM CPU: Zilog Z80A )

 I started to play games ( a lot more than previously ) with that, I particularly fondly remember: "Infernal runner" by Eric Chahi

Infernal Runner

You can actually find a very good Java emulator online here : http://www.cpcbox.com/ you can even load games - without the dreadful line by line loading time.


Somehow the computer through more powerful, became less exciting and more an utility tool.
My third was a PC intel 486, it was still under MS-DOS, but had the very premise of a GUI (an ultra basic explorer), but it allow me to be a bit more productive with word processing and some early spreadsheet - which if I recall correctly I use to keep track of my game scores.
My fourth was a PC tower, and finally a jump to today familiar Windows ( 95 I think ), it survived for a long time, throughout my college years and even at the beginning of my fully fledge worker years, helped I have to admit by multiple and regular upgrade ( memory / hard drive / OS .... ).  By that time i was mingling with unix at college and later at work.

I then switch to laptop with a sony vaio, before succumbing 5 years ago to an Apple White MacBook....

Ham Sandwich in Dolans

After missing them at the SeaSession and apparently 3 times at the Electric Picnic ( all this year ), I manage to see the band Ham Sandwich live... in the Dolans warehouse.
Brilliant and full of energy, your man was on drunken fire to the delight of the crowd....

instagram capture

guitar + bass 

I feel loved ...

Ham Sanwich

:D

Everybody all right ?

guitar hero ?

x

balloons and confettis

xxx

xxx

xxx

Playing with balloon

You can follow them here : http://hamsandwichmusic.com/





UPDATE:

• Another photographer of the nigght, picture can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/darraghcorrigan/sets/72157631552267605/with/7993441701/
• Gig Review from Paul O'Sullivan:
  http://www.thesoundout.com/2012/09/attending-ham-sandwichs-show-in.html