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"getting them in the right order, now that's the trick"

Removal of Bath Party & WMD's

The Fun Laoghaire Baths. How I enjoyed them when I was 8, when I didn't mind the freezing changing rooms, the flaking paint, the men who stare, or the reclaimed building site rubbish shoots they told us were water slides which sadly closed when a high speed child came skimming out the bottom sans left index finger, later found wedged between slide panels. Splish Splash

Back Blowing

Now I reveal the all uniting apparatus, from which stems the seeds of all digital creativity I have undertaken since I first put mouse to movement.

Ow my back

Who Killed Space?

Sitting in the front row in of a 400+ seat auditorium I looked at my Dad in disbelief, I was here, it has has taken 20 years but I'd finally made it to NASA.

Blast off

Incest fun

I've been scowering the increasingly surreal world of AOL Instant Messanger for a conversation combatant worthy of contending to the throne of last years unique chat with a rather forthcoming white supremicist, and oh dear I think I've found one, and I feel quite abused after it.

Lets take a moment and consider the changes portable technology has brought about in the world around us, and what further provocations it might have on our future.

Essay-time

Halo's Shadow

I will now point by point prove that the Halo franchise exists purely because of a ill conceived and even worse executed dare that most likely origionated on a drunken night out.

Go Go Go!

Looking back for Meaning

Mission: Attempt to find a lesson, a pattern, or a incurable epidemic hewn into the very fabric of my work to date.

Status upload GO!

Fun with a White Supremacist

I found a rather forthcoming KKK member on AOL instant messenger and what a jolly old - but certinaly unexpected chat we had this Saturday afternoon.

Can you feel the love?

Academics Talk Shite

From the desk of Ged Murray

Do you ever get the feeling that one of your lecturers may not know what they are talking about? Perhaps you feel they do know but cannot communicate certain concepts simply? I do, anyway, and I’ve done research that suggests I may be right..

oh do read on...

Bank Wank

I sent Swasticow off to be late for/and or be binned from its first overseas film festival today; The Toronto International World of Comedy Film Festival. I as usual had college, so I woke up extra early, figuring I could get my get my 30 dollar bank draft, pop it in the parcel and post it off... all before college started. suck on this

It's coming, but if you've become accustomed to the shade of that rock your hiding under then by all means I suggest you read no further...

Defy me!

Movie moments that raped my childhood !

YAY!

As you might expect I've watched a few films (the few ones I haven't seen Martin Scorssese has) & whilst I've been wracking my brain trying to come up with articles that aren't film related. The subject I now attempt to tackle I see as more like a coming of age tale, or a token of wisdom then yet another film related piece. Its actually entirely incidentle that all the tramic experiences in my childhood happen to be from films, It's proably better then being actually abused, I suppose.

Prepare to be scarred

Planning

Planning things poorly is a universal ailment. Wether you still suffer from the condition after ignoring repeated diagnosis, or wether you've made a conscience decision to battle the illness and as a result have come to live with you problem, its still important to remember that poor planning is very much a disease.

PLAN IT

CGI Actors

An exploration on the implications of CGI in cinema. Does the future of computer hardware and software mean one day teenagers will have access to Hollywoods present level of technology on home computers? Will it spell death to the livelyhood of cinemas actors and actresses?

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Extra-Ordinary

...I'm not exaggerating when I say this man had the desperate look of a murderer in his eyes, coupled with a gritted smile that would bite through steal. He'd stare at me for long periods of our 15 hour day, when we'd be doing miming as the crew recorded sync dialogue, he'd stare, gritting his teeth, and I'd try to smile... but inside... I felt like calling the mental police.

Breath it in...

The Dark Knight

Batman has always been my favorite comic book hero, I didn't use the word super-hero since neither he nor the villains of his world have any superpowers onto themselves, that said Metropolis and Superman lie on the opposite side of the Gotham Bay...

Holy nerd-sockets batman

Cannes

Dave Lester Mooney and Luke Leslie of Buckled Cranium Productions just got home, and I'm keen to digi-pen something about the last week while the experience bounces around inside my brain. First big question I suppose is: Was our a trip a success?

francais?

Toilet Roll

Have you ever actually sat and pondered the ideas and thought processes behind a piece of toilet paper? Sadly I have, there's often no reading material in the toilets I frequent. The notion that toilet paper in a bum is somehow more civilized then using water (see the middle east) smells a little pooey too me... Flush it

Deadmac

I sit here, day 3 into the assault, no I'm not invading Iraq. (say that with an Alan Partridge voice) I am in-fact trying to get back into my computer... more

Party-Time

Socializing as a young adult is great, I suggest you try it. Yes meeting other people is a joy, if you’ve never met someone in your life, you’re missing out, don’t leave it too late, before you stop being so youthful. .more

The popularity of inferiority

I like my tech, I like my friends, but most of all, I like blending the two. No I do not intend to build my own army of killer cyborgs, I refer of instead to Social networking websites. Myspace, Bebo, and now Facebook, are 3 Vast online communities I'm sure you've heard of, they all share a lot in common. more

Beginning/End

Cerberus the bulldog was having a bad fur day. Looking up at his new owner, Cerberus was struggling to keep pace. They were taking a hasty jaunt along some cracked pavement – crack also being the word for a substance his owner was fond of inhaling. more

I liked my ears

Dear shitting christ what I'd give to be deaf right now, I've debated it over and over with myself and I'm sure it wouldn't be too much of a hindrance for my film career, i could still write, shoot, direct and edit. If anything Deaf people have a tendency to shout and that would probably be an asset to a director. more

Solution to Winter

I woke up today. I am severly disinclined to waking up early. Big deal I hear you say, everyone hates getting up early. But getting up has to be one of my least favorite pass times, most my friends and family I'm sure would attest to this. I love sleeping, especially for long excessive periods of time. more

Rant on Genetic Engineering

Cloned by Alex Glenn Murray

Genetic Engineering AKA GE Genetic engineering was a thing of the past, i mean future, well really its a very present issue from the time you wake up to go to sleep, and consciousness of this process ( I guess you could call it that) is only increasing.... Moms and Pops all over the world are going out to the shops and deciding what type of bacon to bring home... more

A Big Internet Rant

It's amazing to think that just a generation or two ago people's primary way of staying in contact over long distance was pen and paper, rather then keyboard and mouse. In my opinion, there currently still ain't no way of properly communicating online.

Boredom awaits

How's your Summer job?

Being a film student sucks sometimes, there's very few female film students, your sometimes expected to work late nights on shoots with no overtime - and often no pay (it's for the experience asshole!), you have college 5 days a week - all day, and your lecturers know when you miss class because the classes are so small...

im cooler then you

Midsummer Nights MURDER

Once upon a year, the coastal town of Dun Laoghaire becomes a melting pot of culture and a mixing bowl of musicality. As the summer draws to a close, and the sun goes to bed for the rest of the year, all sorts of everything decent on the suspecting citizens....

Kill the hampster

Warning Something might be Imminent

Crash may have won the oscar - but another one is just around the corner. Dispite recent arguments in the forum which have lead the majority of onlookers at this establishment to the conclusion that I'm mind-numbingly arrogant and utterly Fucktarted, you can't deny that when it comes to techie geeky shit I know what I'm talking about... more

War of the Systems

If your interested in why the world is divided into between Macs and PC's heres a History Lesson, some interesting news and a Prediction for the Future. I've been using a Mac my whole life, and unlike PC users who's arguments for using their brand of Computer mostly lie firmly in the ignorance department... more

The Sleeping Messanger of Mt. Olympus

Its not that often you get to write an article about something in the present tense - That means - as its still happening for all you remos in Arts in UCD. I feel very inclined to write something right now because it's been so long since I've written anything on here, and also that my current subject is journalistic Gold. more

The Long order of the Law

Fitzy, Hugo and I were frequenting the local chip emporium the other night. Hugo it seemed had been out and having a couple of cans with the trinners for beginners football squadron. Just then a fellow of the law enforcement agency entered the premesis. Curry chips please

Continuity?

I dunno about this blog stuff I find that it kinda gives off a some sort of attitude of ‘yeh people wanna hear this’ but you know maybe they don’t, but I think I’ll continue for now until enough complaints are thrown through my window in brick form. I was at work the other day in the good old m to the s... Fock

The Internet

The most stupid, petty and annoying things about the worlds greatest technology.

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I'm Famous?

I take the dart home from college every day, I do so because I hate Dublin bus ever so much, the fact that u don’t get change is a bit gay, u get bus refund coupons, cool. So I walk from the good ol’ ucdd down to the old school station that is Booterstown. more

A Flashback

by Ben and Ed

It was a rainy night out, i knew this because I was wet, my mind, as u can tell has a great way of working things out, as soon as i became wet that night, i knew that it must have been raining...

shes a strange one

Cardboard

One of Ed's

I work in a supermarket, and we, like many other supermarkets, sell food stuffs. Nothing suspect there right? Well, it is the material that these products come in, is where the fascination lies for me. I was breaking down boxes the other day in the store room and putting it into the compactor as usual, and it occurred to me, I have no idea where this stuff goes...

more exciting then...

George Lucas...

Ok so the film literate amongst us will know what I'm talking about just from reading this articles title. And I'd like to pre-empt those 2 words with a Seinfeld-esque "What's the deal with..." Because I just don't get this guys thinking...

now for the 98th special eddition

Do you like your ligaments?