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Don’t forget that recent Irish musical artists have defined their own role in our nation’s cultural history (U2, Van Morrisson, et cetera).
And the Corrs (face it – they write some “good” songs and can play their instruments) have brought flavours of traditional Irish music worldwide…
In other words, all is not lost, and new Irish traditions are still developing all the time. Although for the record, Britney can go and kiss my ass.
literally.
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on a completely seperate point:
does anyone know when the next section is going up?
(surely someone’s got good inside info on schedule)fjp
you want bizarre??? slight boredom on my part presents the strangest view yet:
I’d like to remind “people” about that music comparison point I jsut amde, since I feel ED209 should re-examine it once more. This has got nothing to do with “rights”. it’s to do with some people understanding/appreciating things better than others.
I’m not an architect (just look around a lot), but I do think I get some of what’s going on. I just came back from London (again) and it’s full of modern things that would never be allowed in Dublin, but which are simply fantastic.
the “snob” word is dangerous (and most forget that it works both ways – up and down).
compare architecture to music if in doubt. would you really want someone passing judgement on a record if they never listened to any music, or only listened to what they heard on the late late show. ideally someone who criticises music should have as much knowledge about it as possible and an understanding of the history involved.
well the same goes for architecture. so the point is this: you wouldn’t trust your deaf granny’s opinion on your favourite band (as it would be ill-informed), and there are people out there who shouldn’t be trusted on architecture.
I presume you mean this photo here.
It’s the view from Dundrum. A photo taken through binoculars (dodgy, but better than nothing). But yeah, Ballymun looks like its got the horizon covered, although this is very narrow angle of image.
fjp
I’m a little late, but everyone in the office just went home – couldn’t get in.
For those who haven’t seen it – it’s frickin’ gorgeous (this section is not under plastic). The steel looks extremely “creamy”, and words like “silky” and “smoothacious” could also apply. What’s more, it looked good even on a typical crappy wet Irish afternoon (which is really something). Colour-wise it’s not what I expected. I thought it would be more of a typical stainless steel colour, but it gives a very different impression (due to size I suppose) that’s most impressive. It even matches the colour of the GPO stone – ie, it actually fits in very very nicely in every respect.
The new images in my spike directory (down the bottom) are fairly accurate in terms of colour, so it should give those far away folks an idea…
Or has everyone gone away for Christmas???
anyhoo, click here for another nineteen spike photos fresh from photoshop
And a Happy Christmas to Each and Every One of You.
fjp
I was just thinking that about concrete (and you beat me to it). We used to live on the northside and I remember all the estate roads were made from concrete. I was back in the same area a while back and fondly found all the same roads still there. We moved to tarmac on the southside, and the concrete roads that did exist were all resurfaced with tarmac over the years.
More to the point – footpaths. I’ve noticed a lot of footpaths/sections of footpaths replaced with tarmac lately (Harcourt Street for example). Is this just temporary or is this the start of a new trend. I think concrete looks a lot better than tarmac for footpaths…
Poor telcos. And has anyone been down Harcourt Street on a bus at speed lately – pretty exciting stuff!!! You know the road’s bad when everyone bounces up and down and then giggles (I know, I know, it’s Luas work).
fjp
I would have been there, but honmestly didn’t know they were putting it up this morning. Of course, I never listen to any Irish radion or news stations, so perhaps I’m partyl to blame myself…
Anyhoo, there’s a bunch of fast shots added into my “spike” directory. They’re down the bottom, called spike-021218-XX” (seven shots – including “mad mary” dancing in her new location).
Quality’s a bit dodge, so apologies:
click here to see them, then just click the image name
fjp
Can the section be seen on O’Connell Street or it it hidden away already??? And for those who haven’t been down there in person, even the height of the crane creates a new precence on the street that’s very impressive, so the spike itself (wait for it sceptics) might actually be very good!!!!
If that section’s visible I might hop a ten again at lunch. I’d also be happy to upload anyone else’s photos onto the web for people to see (photos would remain their property and not be displayed on my site – just in a blank addressed directory).
fjp
Here it is again up close:
You’ll see directory contents (my spike directory). Today’s files are crane-021217-1.jpg (and 2 and 3 as well)
fjp
Here’s the crane from the top floor of a Lower Baggot Street Georgian.
Don’t forget – this is from far away (and that’s why it looks so small).
I might try and nip down at lunch (state of apathy pending).
fjp
on a lighter, slightly separate, but still Luas based note:
they were putting christmas lights across the main span of the Dundrum Luas Bridge this morning (attached to the top of the handrail).
this pleases me…
fjp
Well this is all unprovable. The English certainly didn’t perfect their design skills on the first go, so it’s unfair to assume that we’re less skilled than they are. Discussing a “what might have happened” on this matter wuold surely just turn into a hypothetical points scoring match.
And were English designs really that unique? I thought a lot of it was based on classical designs…
fjp
Perhaps take the actual Spike seriously, but rectally purify any politicians responsible for delays with 120 metres of stainless pain…
Hurray – it’s filth day!!!
