http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/IAWA IrishCentral IAWA en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/irish-americans-pioneering-video-on-view-at-moma-147448555.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/irish-americans-pioneering-video-on-view-at-moma-147448555.html Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:15:14 PDT
Pioneering video art by Irish American Paul Dougherty is now on view in the Museum of Modern Art’s current show, “SELECTED WORKS FROM THECONTEMPORARY GALLERIES: 1980-NOW”From the punk era, Frankie Teardrop (1979) combines superimposed projector manipulations and high-end video post-production  technology, generally unavailable to artists The resulting video is described by John O’Connor of the New York Times as “an urban ballad of mental break-down” and is included in Rolling Stone‘s “Book of Rock Video”                                                  "Frankie READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/hunger-games-high-for-irish-american-artist-144008946.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/hunger-games-high-for-irish-american-artist-144008946.html Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:30:17 PDT
You see the work of illustrator Tim O'Brien on the covers of TIME, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Harper's, in advertising and on book jacketsThanks to one series of book jackets, an expanding universe of people are enjoying his art, especially starting today, opening day for the film, "The Hunger Games"Tim wrote: "The artwork for the Suzanne Collins novel, "The Hunger Games" was an illustration done in 2008 Since then I did all three covers for the series and now my artwork/design is featured on the movie poster and as a pin IN the movie "The Hunger Games," opening nationwide 3/23/12 READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/who-speaks-for-ireland-rebel-voices-in-blood--dancing-at-lunacy-142929315.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/who-speaks-for-ireland-rebel-voices-in-blood--dancing-at-lunacy-142929315.html Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:00:14 PDT
The sign at The Cell Theater entrance warns “TONIGHT’S PERFORMANCE OF ‘BLOOD’ AND ‘DANCING AT LUNACY’ CONTAINS THE SOUNDS OF GUNFIRE”Take that as a sign that there’ll be none of the season’s shamrock and leprechaun sentimentality, so brace yourself for a riveting duet of dramas on rebellious Ireland, each built around a trio of all-too-human, and in one case, quite inhuman, revolutionaries  “Blood” by rocking Renaissance man Larry Kirwan, conjures a likely scenario for a mystery of the history in the run-up to the 1916 Easter Rising, while the aptly named “Dancing at Lunacy” tells of a helter-skelter clash of IRA operatives in an illegal drinking club in Belfast of 1984The opener, “Blood,” is a story of three key historical figures of the Easter Rising told in three scenes, the first brief vignette set in 1916 in Kilmainham Jail where, bound to a chair, is James Connolly (Ciaran Byrne)--common man, communist, head of the Irish Citizen Army—ruing the day he allied with his co-conspirators in the failed Easter Rising, cursing the Irish people who failed to rally to the cause:“Shower of bastards - spittin' at us and spatterin' us with horseshite as we were frog-marched out of the GPO and into this hellhole!”Scene Two goes the heart of the drama, a flashback to 1913 when Connolly disappeared, held in secret for three days by the rival Irish Republic Brotherhood READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/rock-the-vote-for-irish-eu-logo-video-135788878.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/rock-the-vote-for-irish-eu-logo-video-135788878.html Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:00:17 PST
Logos were digital before there was digital--quick hits, with immediate impact and lots of message delivered in a tight, clean package A powerful visual tweet designed “to aid and promote instant public recognition” a good logo can quickly communicate brand, image, backstory, aspirations and propaganda A new Irish logo is about to go prime time and you can help decide which of the four prototypes will become the official logo for Ireland’s European Union (EU) Presidency during the first six months of 2013Vote now until Dec 31 (by 5PM Irish time) at the Irish government site, merrionsteet READ MORE ]]>