Archive for August 25th, 2007
Diversions
August 25th, 2007
I have a few things I’ve been waiting to post, so why not roll them all in together. There’s a theme in that none of them are about law…and there’s some sort of cultural thread.
The Festival of World Cultures takes place in Dún Laoghaire (pron: dune leer-ah or dun leer-ee) this weekend. Photos if I get around to taking them. This was a great event last year.
Kew has started to beat the drum for a special Henry Moore exhibition (here’s a tantalising map (PDF); a version of Reclining Connected Forms (right) is about 30 seconds walk from where I’m typing from right now). Really hope to get to this at some stage.
Closer to home, the National Gallery has an exhibition of Jack Yeats works, Masquerade and Spectacle : The Circus and the Travelling Fair in the work of Jack B. Yeats, running until November. The Gallery houses the Yeats Archive and a whole heap of paintings. The first painting I can remember seeing in the National Gallery (pre-renovation edition) was Yeats’ The Liffey Swim (left).
The Quill and Quire blog (Q&Q is a Canadian periodical about books, books and more books), to my pleasant surprise, posted this photograph (right) of a sculpture outside Trinity’s library this afternoon. I’m a fan of the sculpture, by Arnaldo Pomodoro (and have managed to visit three others in the same series!); I posted a nice ramble as a comment to their post but I think they’ve all gone to the pub, as it’s in a moderation queue. Either that or I scared them (they came back).
Penguin has a series of retro cover books. Nice. Looking forward to spending too much money on them. (Soon, I’m buying this).
And finally. A collection of (mostly) fielding moments (the bulk of them are magic 6-3 plays) by John McDonald of the Blue Jays (that’s baseball, by the way). Some devoted fan put this together and it has just gone up on GooTube. A 6-3 play is where the shortstop (fielder who positions himself back and to the left of second base) gets the ball and throws it to first base, thus achieving an out. It’s a fairly standard play. McDonald has a particular way of doing this which you’ll see from the video…this, too, is art 
