These Sliotars above are from a new exhibit Hair hurling balls: Earliest artefacts of our national game, at National Museum of Ireland – Country Life in Castlebar. The earliest was made in the second half of the twelfth century.
The balls are made from matted cow hair with a plaited horsehair covering. The National Museum of Ireland claim there is a link between the name 'sliotar' and the Irish word ‘liotar’, meaning ‘hair’.
Via Meath Chronicle and Nótaí Imill
Typeface is a documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, focusing on a rural Midwestern museum (the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin) and print shop where international artists meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique.
Untitled, ink on window, 2013
A second drawing on my studio window (now erased to make way for a third).
Clay artifacts from ancient Egypt photographed in the National Museum of Ireland on Kildare Street.
Man on Bridge is an interactive documentary about Arthur Fields, a Dublin based street photographer who captured an estimated 182,500 photos of passersby on O’Connell Bridge. Arthur was out in all weather with his camera 365 days a year for 50 years.
El Zorrero Films are producing a web-based documentary that lets people learn about Arthur and allows them to submit their own Arthur Fields photo or Arthur Fields-inspired photo into the online story of the photographer.
It has been entered into the Arthur Guinness Projects and the filmmakers are looking for votes to help them secure funding to complete the project.
This 3d dimensional spinning Zeotrope piece is incredible. It is called Die Falle and is currently on display at the Science Gallery as part of their fantastic exhibiton Illusion.
I've posted before about Hilary Berseth's sculptures which he makes by placing armatures into bee hives but the 3B Printing Project takes this a step further by using 3B printed moulds. It's an ad for honey but worth a look anyway. The first minute of the video is about beekeeping, the sculpture part starts after that. via Make
A video of Claire Morgan's installation Gone to Seed shot by Jim Crone at the MAC in Belfast.
This video features selections from the the documentary, Proteus
A video showing some sketch book pages.
This 3D reconstruction of Dubrovnik, Croatia was made entirely by computers from photos sourced on Flickr. It contains 4,619 images and nearly 3.5 million 3D points.
This project is referenced by Victor Burgin in his keynote presentation at Urban Encounters: The Image of Public Space a seminar at Tate Britain in October 2012. Burgin's talk is at the beginning of the podcast embedded below:
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Aleksandr Rodchenko, Spatial Construction no. 12, c. 1920. Plywood, open construction partially painted with aluminum paint, and wire, 24 x 33 x 18 1/2" (61 x 83.7 x 47 cm).
In a fantastic interview from RTE Radio 1 Miriam O'Callaghan interviews Irish artists Alice Maher and Dermot Seymour about their work and their life together [mp3j track="http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/0106/20130106_rteradio1-miriammeets-miriammeet_c20134649_20135499_232_.mp3" title="Listen Here:" autoplay="n"] Direct link to mp3
Rabbit is an animated short film by Run Wrake from 2005.
Kurt Schwitters, Untitled, or Opening Blossom (1942-5)
Photograph: Herling/Gwose/Tate Britain/Sprengel Museum, Hannover via the Guardian
Clever cover design by David Pearson for George Orwell's 1984
via Creative Review
