http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/johnleemedia IrishCentral johnleemedia en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/shadowy-ninjas-of-irish-dance-fusion-fighters-set-to-debut-march-17-video-196768001.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/shadowy-ninjas-of-irish-dance-fusion-fighters-set-to-debut-march-17-video-196768001.html Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:47:15 PDT
Pray that they only use their awesome hip-hop, techno, disco, martial arts, Celtic dance powers for goodI discovered Fusion Fighters today when I opened a mysterious Facebook message sent in a plain brown envelope (new service, still in beta), and throwing caution to the wind, followed a cryptic shortened URL to its YouTube sourceNothing could prepare me for the Mcfunkadelicness I found, and now share with you:http://wwwyoutube READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/dublin-tweep-gets-epic-tweet-from-cory-booker-177460891.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/dublin-tweep-gets-epic-tweet-from-cory-booker-177460891.html Tue, 06 Nov 2012 05:31:02 PST Cory BookerCory Booker is on something  Twitter  A lot  The Newark, New Jersey mayor uses the social media platform relentlessly to voice opinions, dispense inspiration, update citizens and engage with them one-on-one over all the issues effecting them, right down to the potholes on their street READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/iconic-photo-shot-80-years-ago-today-still-intrigues-video-170552266.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/iconic-photo-shot-80-years-ago-today-still-intrigues-video-170552266.html Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:17:25 PDT
Eighty years ago today, an intrepid photographer created the iconic image of eleven ironworkers, casually dangling their feet hundreds of feet above 5th Avenue while breaking for lunch on an exposed steel beam they had likely riveted into the framework of the rising 30 Rockefeller Center Many, if not most, of these rugged individuals were almost certainly Irish AmericansAnd despite the fact that the builders anticipated one laborer's death for every ten floors constructed, the men on the beam were happy to be high in the sky when about a third of their fellow citizens down below were out of work in Depression-era New YorkIrish Filmmaker Seán Ó Cualáin is among the many who have fallen under this picture's spell, investing much of his past five years exploring it in a nearly finished documentary READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/irish-isles-designs-on-venetian-isles-168906416.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/irish-isles-designs-on-venetian-isles-168906416.html Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:47:05 PDT
Regular as the tides, another cultural acqua alta is washing over Venice now in the form of the Biennale Architetttura 2012 The theme this time is "Common Ground" and joining the many international firms exploring that theme in this cosmopolitan design petri dish are four from IrelandThe country's official representative is the Dublin-based heneghan peng (no caps--it's a design thing), a firm already on global design map with such projects as bridge at the London Olympics, Giants Causeway Visitor Center in County Antrim, Northern Ireland and new museum at the Pyramids in Egypt"Shifting Ground" photos by Marie Louise HalpennyIn "Shifting Ground" the firm has created a site-specific sculptural exploration in the languages of architects, with references to materials, balance, numbers, projective geometry, and to the ebb and flow of Venice's tides READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/pinging-from-snail-mail-to-a-joe-hurley-wail-163073326.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/pinging-from-snail-mail-to-a-joe-hurley-wail-163073326.html Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:15:59 PDT
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You know the old line about the Great Wall of China being the only manmade object visible from outer space?  Now Google Maps and Google Earth are bringing the whole world into focus, right down this acre’s worth of Ireland, rendered in red brick in the Irish Park in the upstate New York town of East Durham  It’s the largest county-accurate map of Ireland in the worldThe park was built in 2001 at a cost of 500,000, funded in part by New York State, Greene County and the Michael J Quill Irish Cultural & Sports Centre, Inc READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/irish-eyes-on-china-a-chinese-man-looks-to-ireland-video-144659915.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/irish-eyes-on-china-a-chinese-man-looks-to-ireland-video-144659915.html Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:00:17 PDT
While Irish eyes follow the official visit of Taoiseach Enda Kenny to China, a little gem of an Irish film has surfaced on YouTube tracing a more humble trip in the opposite directionMade ten years ago, but gaining viral traction now, Yu Ming Ainm Dom (or My Name Is Yu Ming) sketches in a scant 13 minutes the story of a bored Chinese clerk, who, with a leap of faith and a spin of the globe, sets his sights on Ireland, where his research tells him the language is GaelicYou can see where this is going… Daniel O’Hara wrote and directed the short which was produced by Grainne O'Carroll   The cast includes Daniel Wu as Yu Ming, Frank Kelly as the old man, Paddy C 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 ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/social-media-fuels-irish-artists-cycling-odyssey-128333058.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/social-media-fuels-irish-artists-cycling-odyssey-128333058.html Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:53:29 PDT
So quaint--itinerant artist pedaling through the Irish countryside, paying for a night’s lodging with a deftly done painting—all so very analog But it’s digital that drives this clockwise, one-man, two-to-three month, slo-mo, 32-county, social media cycling and painting tour of Ireland Irish artist Eolaí, ak READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/virgin-territory-irish-social-media-ceo-turns-ordeal-into-opportunity-90365034.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/virgin-territory-irish-social-media-ceo-turns-ordeal-into-opportunity-90365034.html Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:20:11 PDT
Around St Patrick’s Day, when you’d expect to see the Irish all over the news, one Irishman monopolized the media, but not because of the holidayInternet entrepreneur David Hugh Martin, a native of Coolock, a few miles up the R107 from Dublin, became American media’s most wanted after he used his own social media platform, wwwkontain READ MORE ]]>