ONE MORE THING TICKED OFF THE BUCKET LIST I’m doing well working my way through my bucket list, there’s lots on there but there are equally a good number of things ticked off. Some of them I wish I hadn’t ticked off, some of them I was pleasantly surprised to tick off (“Try drinking a [...]
Mancy Boys
MANC | WKND The lads and I got away to Manchester last weekend to go see our mate Cooper who has himself pretty set up in the UK now with a nice apartment in a nice area. The only downside are all of the MUFC fans around the place. We wandered around the city centre [...]
My Mate Conor Has a Big Penis (Apparently)
My Mate Conor has a big penis Ladies & gentlemen, may I introduce to you, a close friend of mine – Conor Savage. Yes, yes, he has a great surname and generaly people tend to like him more than they like me so I keep him locked away elsewhere. Now! If you ever needed proof [...]
One Very Important Life Lesson
Years ago, when I was a teenager in school at Castleknock Community College (picture a chubby nerd with jam jar glasses wearing the worst green uniform you can imagine) I had a teacher called Mr. John Cronin who took our class group for English and History lessons. He later became our class tutor, then our [...]
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Awesome Hat!
Hong Kong On! I’ve re-worked this post after getting suckered back into the “Per Post Styling” fad that swept the inter-web in the onslaught of Web 2.0 design trends. Put simply, I made this shit look nicer than it did before. Why am I suddenly surrounded by crazy Indian guys?! No. I don’t want a [...]
My Notebook is Not a Horcrux
Found a cyber cafe in Queenstown, New Zealand, that had a scanner so I added these pages from my moleskine to the Notebooks Page. Also, I am unashamedly, a massive Harry Potter fan. Lately I have been listening to a track that features in the Deathly Hallows but never made it to the official soundtrack [...]
Posted in I Made This, Songs I Like Tagged Artist Journal, Moleskine, Nick Cave, O Children 1 Comment
Lick Her Shoes
Omfg | Shoes This year in Ireland has been designated as ‘Year of Craft‘ by the Crafts Council of Ireland. In recognition of this event, An Post has recently comissioned a new set of stamps which recognise and celebrate some of Ireland’s best craft makers. Amoung them is one of my personal heros, Helen McAllister. [...]
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Graphical Masturbation
My Graphic Designer alter-ego “Slogan Studios” is currently working on a design project for the cover of a book about inspirational teachers while I am travelling around the world. Everytime I think about it I can’t see past all the obvious clichés like apples, smiling students and corrected copybooks. So I turned to Google to [...]
Posted in I Made This, Songs I Like Tagged Amanda Lepore, Book Cover Design, Logan McLain, Making a Difference, Uffie Leave a comment
I Challenge You Not to Like This Song
Yes, yes oh yay! I love it when you discover a song you like so much that you bang in your earphones and hit ‘repeat’ for days and days. I went on a little road trip from Queenstown to Wanaka (New Zealand) with some mates. We shared responsibility for the soundtrack along the way and [...]
Woof!
“Gone to the Dogs“, an exhibition of new printed and embroidered textile works by Nigel G. Cheney will be on show at the NCAD Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8. Ireland. (Tel +35316364390)“Gone to the Dogs” officially opens on Thursday 5th May, from 6 – 8 pm. The show will run 6th – 28th May [...]
Bucket List
“Walk around all day with a sign saying ‘Free Hugs’ and hug random strangers.” Tick. ACDC – Thunderstruck (Crookers Remix)
You’re Not Alone
Very simple post in recognition of the first anniversary of a close relative.
Don’t Let It Get You
Because it got me. The man flu. While I was in Wellington, capital of New Zealand. I spent three days in my hostel bed surrounded by used tissues and empty boxes of nurofen. At least I had taken this cool photo of a window display before I was struck down. Phoenix – 1901
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Lantermons
I got to see the Festival of Lanterns in Auckland, New Zealand. It looked like someone released a load of glowing Pokémon into the park. They were all over the place, even up in the trees. Been making my way around the north island here, all the while listening to some tracks from Arcade Fire’s [...]
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Lucky 777
The seventeenth marks seven months of spectacular sight seeing! So, to salute this significant stage, see below for seven slamming songs. Sweet! Das Racist – You Oughta KnowThe laziest song I have ever enjoyed. Moullinex – Love it Is, ThenFor a while maybe… Skrillex – Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites (Redial’s Blastoise Edit) Reminds [...]
Posted in Songs I Like Tagged Dancing with the DJ, Love It Is Then, Moullinex, Psychic City, Seven, The Knocks, Yacht Leave a comment
Slán Leat Rio
For the non-irish speakers “Slán Leat” means goodbye. I have left Rio after over two months of living in the city. While there I picked up a new addiction to forofa and guarana – fuck me where am I going to get that stuff now? I also met some fantastic people and made some really [...]
Posted in Check This Out, Songs I Like Tagged Lego Street Art, Only Girl in the World, Release me, Rihanna, Rio de Janeiro, Zoe Badwi Leave a comment
JJ Still (Alive)
Yes, I de-activated my site when I left Ireland in August 2010 to travel around the world. Yes, I have made it to Rio de Janeiro alive and have been living here for the past few months with access to a laptop. So yes, I re-activated my website after moving it to a new host [...]
Magpies – Do They Really Exist?
One day, I was waiting at a bus stop trying very hard to ignore the stream of inane babble spouting from the mouth of a young girl beside me who was chatting to her friend. She was talking about her plans to "try on this dress, like, that I saw, like, and I know it [...]
book. Fuck you Conor, fuck you very much.