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Normally the ould slug of wine is to open the exhibition no? ? ?

Nice one Gabriel.

what is their web site?

I mean, for myself and those other posters who aren’t aware of who/what/where/when/how….. in relation to DTO…

Talking of environment/health/school transport etc, etc…. I am sure I am not alone in this experience either…. but when I attended a comprehensive down the country about a decade ago now, we had to endure an hour long bus journey each and every morning/evening of our lives….. which basically went all over the landscape to various little bungalows collecting the kids who lived in them.

Now, it is very topical at the moment to talk about smoking and how secondary smoking can damage the health of those working in pubs…. but I was a non-smoker going to school and still am thankfully…. but for every day of those five years I did attend the secondary school, for a full hour to and from school every day…. I was in a bus designed to transport around 50 or 60 students I think, which instead carried about 100,…. or which 70/80 of them smoked!

I.e. Everyone except the youngest first years… I can tell you one thing,… when the bus reached its destination at the school in the mornings… one could not see from one end of the bus to the other, the air was so laden with smoke. This is no exaggeration, or embelishment of the truth. It is just funny how that was ‘tolerated’ 10 years ago in Ireland, while today, 50/60/70 year old regular pub go-ers cannot even sit back at weekends and enjoy their smoke/drink with their buddies,… in some well ventilated area of a local pub.

Brian.

P.S. Nice pics of a new design for a train station/park n’ ride type of thing here:

http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/showthread.php?t=5373

But interestingly the Office (who essentially plan the city’s transportation) really don’t blame parents for driving their kids to school, they acknowledge how dangerous the city is now for children, mingling with busy roads and being hassled by weirdos etc.

🙂

I agree, lets just ‘roll over’ and just let those ‘weirdos’ have the public domain, which is the city all to ’em selves eh? 🙂

Seriously though, I haven’t a child or nothing has ever happened to a child of mine…. my co-worker has three though…. and judging by the amount of ‘hassle’ he has with even simple things every hour and every day of the week… I can ‘kinda’ see where you are coming from.

However, some of these drivers driving to schools are trying to get out of suburban estates, onto ‘major’ commuting arterties,… only to exit 5 minutes down the road again,… and que up with another 50 cars leading up to a school gate or something like that…. then the said mother/father repeats this whole process except often in reverse this time…. so that they can get back to their suburban estate and meet ‘Bernie and Jossie’ for tea and pies at 9.30am and a good old chat on the sitting room couch, while the washing machine and dish washer does the work in the kitchen…. by then… it is time to start thinking about ‘collecting’ the kids again!

it is this nature of the way a car carrying kids to school behaves, which makes it cause that many problems I think to general ‘people going to work’ kinda traffic. Noone is going to tell me…. there isn’t some other way… to hell with weirdos… I am not really sure who are the weirdos and who are not anymore to be honest…. the kids who grow up like this have absolutely no sense of their own independence…. and grow up ‘hating’ their own parents for being so over-protective and over-bearing upon them as kids and their personal space…. they do not actually thank the parents for it.

The point is, that in other more well planned, higher density urban environments…. things like LUAS actually become things, which the kids can grow up with and become very familiar with… and learn to trust and to ‘know’…. as all the other kids do. I mean, nowadays… the only highway that kids in Dublin city are beginning to know and trust unfortunately is the information super highway…. and we all know what this leads to…. all kids get carted back and forth from schools nowadays… have computer and broadband connectivity and I think end up… to much in these little ‘computer cell worlds’ both at home/school/university…. where you can really meet the ‘weirdos’….

Modern housing design trends…

http://www.planetizen.com/news/item.php?id=12711

Brian O’ Hanlon.

Just on that point lads,… because it is a good one… the Dublin traffic lately in the mornings did resemble something like rush hour after Sunday mass in a small village in Bally-go-backwards…. than the usual Dublin traffic which people are most used to.

I still think that providing ways for kids to get to school, somehow, other than driving through the traffic in moms back seat…. is going to be the answer in Dublin… I mean, look at a picture like that… you would probably get soaking wet before you reached the end of that road, not to mind getting to the local school this morning in the rain.

If things were denser, it would be much more efficient to run public transport systems… I think this point was raised quite well in the LUAS threads here at Archiseek.

Harold’s Cross – the late and unlamented. Where every flick had a break in order to force you to buy overpriced drink and choccies from their shop.

LOL!

Down in Limerick, they used to deliberately ‘cut’ the film itself about half ways through the film… and pretend to be ‘fixing’ it… you could see the the end of the film flying of the reel on the screen and you knew it was time for pepsi cola… 🙂

Amazingly, still open. Is there a worse extant cinema anywhere in the western hemisphere?

No, that would have been Listowel in Co. Kerry I think… until they converted the barn, with hay bales into something more ‘upgraded’…. 🙂 The crucial things to know about Cinema though are these:

1) In the earliest days of Cinema it was not the young audience, but a more mature audience who went – then TV came, the mature people stayed in and watched the small screen and the young ones ‘escaped out of the house’ to their domain… the local cinema… so movie/markets/contents reflect this shift around 1960s onwards.

2) Womens protrayal in cinema early on was very different to the present – in that women were actually very strong, independent individuals early on in the B+W days and later just became ‘victimised stage props’ late on, for the young audience to watch….. this trend sort of peaked I think with Drew Barrymore’s performance in Scream.

3) Mikey Rooney said, recently in Parky interview, that cinema used to be cheap… now it is expensive… not exactly pocket friendly anyhow… and is all just special effects… interesting comment I thought, coming from such a great old actor as him.

4) Then you had a cinema too, in the early days in America, which was like the ‘freak show’ on the boardwalk sort of thing… where you could go in to see ‘slasher’ style movies which never appeared in mainstream cinema… in fact, apparently at one stage in America these types of non-mainstream movies were grossing more than the mainstream hollywood features.

Hence why Hollywood changed to capitalise on this market.

Does anyone know where exactly around here, that DL/RD council starts and DCC ends?

Is this bridge perhaps like a termination point between the two? 🙂

On that very point Paul, I noticed on lately, that the IFI also hosted ‘a very hidden kind of institution’….. the only ‘give away’ is the little windows visible from the courtyard… up at the very top…. you will notice from this vantage there is actually a whole office space, or other institution operating out of that high up tier in the complex…. which while it benefits from views down into the courtyard… the actual public are never really conscious of its presence up there near the rafters…. a bit like that ‘hidden private garden’ idea you often mention…. but a different kinda slant on it.

This is usual nowadays, since we have become just so accustomed to this ‘trumpet blast’ IDA big symbolic Leopardstown office park,…. which has all kinds of trees and scrubs around it… but you cannot walk next or near it, owing to the security ‘goons’ who will come out and ‘rugby tackle’ you if they feel like it. I mean, here is a classic instance of an Irish Film Institution which doesn’t have the mandatory slick curtain wall details and the half acre of green lush prime development land as its front garden….

I could also imagine that the IFI people actually hold their ‘conference meetings’ in the cafe downstairs and all. 🙂

Brian O’ Hanlon…