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OFFSET REVIEW OF 2013 PART 2 INTRODUCTION
Looking through the pages of this review, I’m overwhelmed by all that happened in 2013 and all the inspiring work that’s being created both internationally and in Ireland. Amazing and sunny Spring days welcomed hoards of attentive OFFSETers to the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. We were treated to three days of amazing talks and debate. It was a personal highlight for me to see Oliviero Toscani appear on the main stage. He inspired me as a teenager with his wonderful creation, Colors Magazine. To this day I don’t think I’ve found a magazine as brilliant as it was. His uncompromising approach to creativity is awe-inspiring. It’s both daunting and motivating to read about everyone 2013, to see all the projects that these creatives have poured blood sweat and tears into. So, as I flick through these pages I can’t wait to dive into 2014 and try and emulate some of the work of these fine creatives. It’s great to see what inspired them, what they’re listening to while they work and how it’s sometimes the smallest projects that give the greatest rewards. 2014, Let’s Roll! PETER O’DWYER OFFSET
AISLING FARINELLA FASHION STYLIST : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Big Massive Huge.
What annoyed you the most? Seagulls.
Achievement of the year Professional: Publishing Thread Issue 6. www.threadfashionmagazine.com Personal: Married David Wall <3
Biggest disappointment Not being picked for Prom Queen.
Favourite piece of work Yours: Palermo street casting - Linda Brownlee photographer featuring Simone Rocha Archive. Someone else’s: Rick Owens SS14 Womenswear show. Favourite event Exhibition: Pugliese contemporary sculpture at MUST Lecce. Gig: Müm in the Button Factory, Dublin. Festival: Beach House in the Iveagh Gardens was the closest I got to a festival! Other: Fumbally power breakfasts with Rich Gilligan coffee, toast and jam and early morning rants. www.thefumbally.ie Find of the year The Plant Journal - The beautiful images inspired a new interest in plants. www.theplant.info What blew your mind? Naples.
Best meal A pre-wedding meal cooked by my Sicilian cousins. Stocking fillers Best song: Lisa O’Neill ‘England has my man’. Best album: I am the cosmos ‘Monochrome’. Best book: ‘The day of the locust’. Best film: ‘Stories we tell’, Sarah Polley. Hero of 2013 My brother Gio. Villain of 2013 George “Pornstache” Mendez in ‘Orange is the new black’. www.imdb.com/title/tt2372162 One thing you would have done differently? Nothing. Most memorable moment Wedding dancing with my friends, family and handsome husband. Thoughts for 2014? Gonna be awesome.
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Intro page and left page: The Plant magazine. www.theplant.info
This page: Thread magazine. www.threadfashionmagazine.com
This page: ‘Stories we tell’ by Sarah Polley. www.imdb.com/title/tt2366450
Right page: Rick Owens SS14 collection. www.rickowens.eu
Next spread: Street casting with Linda Brownlee for Simone Rocha in Palermo, Italy. www.lindabrownlee.com www.simonerocha.com
MICHAEL GILLETTE ILLUSTRATOR : SAN FRANCISCO
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words BABY, BABY, BABY!
What blew your mind? My mynde.
Achievement of the year Professional: I dunno about achievements, but I’ve worked solidly for The New Yorker throughout the year which has been a delight. I Also wrote and illustrated a kids book which is a first. I’m shopping it around. Personal: We had our second child a year ago, so much of it has been the survival of that wonder.
What annoyed you the most? I try not to go there.
Favourite piece of work Yours: Well, this is hot off the err.. Universe. I did it yesterday. I’ve been working on a retrospective book, on and off, probably longer than the Bible took to produce (Old and New Testaments). This is the end spread of it so I must be getting towards the Revelation (See next spread). Someone else’s: I really dug this piece, it’s simple and really captures the BIG SUR vibe in a way that would be good to have hanging on your wall. It’s by Nat Russell, Mollusk Jamboree (See across). Favourite event Exhibition: Chances of going out and about has been slimmer than a rattlesnakes hips, but I did get to see Justine Frischmann’s first solo show in San Francisco last month and that was a good time. Gig: Blankety Blank on the gigs this year. Good job I spent the last 25 years going out. Festival: We went to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in Golden Gate Park. We stayed just long enough to hear Steve Martin say “You can follow me on Twitter, or you could do something more meaningful with your life”. Find of the year AD BLOCKER.
Biggest disappointment Hmmm. I’m not going there either. Best meal Always the crepes at Higher grounds, Glen Park, San Francisco. Stocking fillers Best song: I’ve really enjoyed the Psyche renaissance that’s been going on TEMPLES Colours to life. Or Bibio Tout A l’heure. Best album: Melody’s Echo Chamber Best book: Antonio Lopez: Fashion, Art, Sex & Disco. Best film: What are these films of which you speak? Hero of 2013 No more Heroes any more. Villain of 2013 No more Villains either. One thing you would have done differently? Too close to call, but I could always do things with more Love. Most memorable moment My first daughter starting school. Thoughts for 2014? My thoughts will hopefully be more closely monitored (not by the NSA), and combed and rinsed for unhelpful bullshit.
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RICH GILLIGAN PHOTOGRAPHER : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Intense. Amazing. Inspired.
Biggest disappointment Not skating as much as I would like to.
Achievement of the year Professional: Publishing my first book (DIY) and having it sell out its first edition and then somehow landing a bigger publisher for a revised second edition which comes out this Spring. Personal: The birth of my daughter Robyn.
Best meal The Butcher Grill.
Favourite piece of work Yours: I got to randomly shoot a portrait with Ice-T which was cool. Someone else’s: Ari Marcopoulos ‘Stoopz’. www.gnartifact.com/10779 Favourite event Exhibition: Paul Gaffney ‘We Make the Path by Walking’. Gig: John Grant, Dingle. Festival: Paris Photo 2013. Find of the year www.sortmylist.com
Stocking fillers Best song: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ‘Jubilee Street’. Best album: Villagers ‘Awayland’. Best book: Alec Soth ‘This side of Brightness’. Best film: Cheryl Dunne ‘Everybody Street’. https://vimeo.com/70639661 Hero of 2013 Petria Lenehan. Villain of 2013 Billy Lomax. One thing you would have done differently? Less time wasted stressing about irrelevant things. Most memorable moment Becoming a father.
What blew your mind? The amazing weather last summer. What annoyed you the most? My life before I discovered www.sortmylist.com
Thoughts for 2014? Breathe deep and take the plunge…
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Previous page: Ice-T portrait by Richard Gilligan. This page: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;DIYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; book cover by Richard Gilligan. www.richgilligan.com
Left: Villagers ‘Awayland’. www.wearevillagers.com Right: ‘Looking for love’ by Alec Soth. www.alecsoth.com/photography/?page_id=56
ÁNGEL LUIS GONZÁLEZ CURATOR : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words It was ‘New Irish Works’ before it became ‘4 Temple Bar’. Achievement of the year Professional: Celebrating the biggest and most enjoyable PhotoIreland Festival ever, finding the ideal location for The Library Project, and opening a specialised bookshop! Personal: Surviving it all while working with the best team and having a constant laugh! Also, meeting really great friends involved in the arts in Limerick and Cork. Favourite piece of work Yours: All about ‘New Irish Works’, the identity, the book, and the TV advert. Created with the magic touch and hard work of Cian Brennan. Someone else’s: Paul Gaffney’s ‘We Make the Path by Walking’.
Favourite event Exhibition: David Galjaard and Cristina De Middel at The Copper House Gallery during PhotoIreland Festival 2013. Gig: A busker that decided not to play outside The Library Project. Award winner. Festival: Unseen Amsterdam. www.unseenamsterdam.com Other: ‘Making Space’, curated by Orlaith Ross, at The Library Project over 4 weeks, bringing great work by The Project Twins, Mick Minogue, Lynn Rothwell and Cáit Fahey, and Kitty Moss. www.tinyurl.com/pzs32q6 Find of the year Filmon.tv app What blew your mind? 1. All the kind people that helped and supported us to be in Dublin, Cork and Limerick in 2013. 2. Getting PhotoIreland Festival featured in The Guardian (UK), finally! www.tinyurl.com/q8448o2 3. To be listed as one of the 60 most creative people in Ireland right now in the Irish Times. Mental. www.tinyurl.com/mflpc6b CONTINUED >>
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‘New Irish Works’. Published by PhotoIreland. Designed by Cian Brennan. 2013.photoireland.org/about/new-irish-works
Paul Gaffney’s ‘We Make the Path by Walking’. www.paulgaffneyphotography.com www.photoireland.org/product/paul-gaffney
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What annoyed you the most? A carefully designed pack of 2 eggs on sale at the local newsagent. Biggest disappointment No revolution yet. Best meal Bento box lunch at Yamamori. www.yamamorisushi.ie Stocking fillers Best song: The xx - Sunset (Jamie xx edit) www.youtu.be/ofe_htVvaaY Best album: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba ‘Jama ko’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2vQAmySTfw Best book: ‘Who told you so? The collective story vs. the individual narrative’, http://bit.ly/Kbu344 Best photobook: Paul Gaffney’s ‘We Make the Path by Walking’. Best film: Defo not the best, but I really enjoyed ‘The Lone Ranger’ and I wondered if it was silenced because it depicts the dark side of the American Dream. Otherwise, ‘The Great Beauty’.
Hero of 2013 The citizen. Villain of 2013 Irish abortion law. One thing you would have done differently? Holidays. Missed the whole thing, though it was worth. Most memorable moment Having a few drinks with all the festival’s international guests at Hogans. Thoughts for 2014? More truth, better told.
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JOSHUA GORDON PHOTOGRAPHER / CURATOR : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Filthy, Filthy, Filthy.
Biggest disappointment Pitt Bros. www.pittbrosbbq.com
Achievement of the year Professional: Getting Collection 01 out into the world and finally setting up the Filthy Club/ FF studio space. Personal: Doing photography work for Carhartt in Berlin, i-D in Dublin & Dazed & Confused in Belfast was pretty nice, all things I would have never expected to be doing in the year previous.
Best meal Spuntino’s, Soho. www.spuntino.co.uk
Favourite piece of work Yours: Collection 1 video for The Filthy Club. Someone else’s: Conor O’Sullivan’s Nudes.
Stocking fillers Best song: Phlash ‘1471’. Best album: ‘6 feet beneath the moon’. Best book: ‘Fuct’ Rizzolli / ‘Tim Head - Maximum Respect.”. www.rizzoliusa.com/book.php?isbn=9780847839667 www.smalltimebooks.com/shop/maximum-respect Best film: Big Booty British Chicks Volume 3.
Favourite event Exhibition: ‘Sergei Vasiliev’ Saatchi Gallery. Gig: Skream / Jack Master / KK at Pyg. Festival: Primavera, Barcelona. Other: No Way Back - Galway.
Hero of 2013 Daire Carolan.
Find of the year Tim Head. www.timhead.com
One thing you would have done differently? Took more pictures. Can never take too many…
Villain of 2013 Me whilst hungover.
Most memorable moment Floating through Paris in a heap.
What blew your mind? Tim Head. Most annoyed you the most? Not doing more work with Tim Head, which will be rectified in 2014.
Thoughts for 2014? Improve my interview skills.
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Previous page: The Filthy Club promo design. www.thefilthyclub.com This spread: Works by Tim Head. www.timhead.com
“The thing for me is that I’m not really hindered by craft…” David Shrigley
Aiden Grennelle inspired by David Shrigley 3D Models by 3D Dave 3ddave.blogspot.ie
AIDEN GRENNELLE GRAPHIC DESIGNER : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words WTF?!… (see answers Favourite event) Achievement of the year Professional: Contributing to “David Bowie Is” at the V&A in London. www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/david-bowie-is Personal: Giving up smoking, finally. Favourite piece of work Yours: Horny Organ Tribe at The Grand Social. Someone else’s: Christoph Nieman’s ‘Tribute to Marice Sendak’.
Stocking fillers Best song: Bowie ‘Where Are We Now?’. Best album: London Grammar ‘If You Wait’ Best book: Adrian Shaughnessy ‘Scratching the Surface’. Best film: Sarah Polley ‘Stories we Tell’. Hero of 2013 David Shrigley. Villain of 2013 The Obama administration for treating Snowden’s heroics as treason.
Favourite event Exhibition: Ciaran McClelland, Taylor Galleries, Dublin. Gig: Either I have cronic amnesia or I have to admit I wasn’t at a gig this entire year?! Festival: Maybe next year, Burning Man perhaps… Other: AGI Open, London.
One thing you would have done differently? Included Drico’ in the starting 15 in the Lions v Australia final test.
Find of the year The work of Xavier Veilhan.
At the Bowie show in the V&A this summer, my eldest son Cody pointed to a piece of work I had contributed to and said to the invigilator “my dad did that”, the guy shrugged his shoulders and said “so what”…
What blew your mind? Half time score Ireland 22 v All Blacks 7.
Most memorable moment There were two, can I have two?
I paid tribute to David Shrigley in your Creative Project last year, I made 2 sculptures based on a piece of his work. Out of courtesy I sent them to him, he sent me back a photo of them on his mantleshelf, what a gent and a genius to boot, fingers crossed for his Turner prize nomination.
Biggest disappointment Full time score Ireland 22 v All Blacks 24. What annoyed you the most? Peter Saville at AGI Open. Best meal: The full breakfast at The Jugged Hare in London, included Clonakilty croquettes, say no more…
Thoughts for 2014? I must get out more…
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This spread Horny Organ Tribe, Hot as Phuck 2013. soundcloud.com/aoifeniccanna/hotasphuck-mix
The League of Decadent Bastards featuring Big Chief Random Chaos Paddy Fagin Lucy Rhineheart The Orchids Gar Cox Christian Talbot Frank Sanazi Lady Grew Bre Breeze Kevin O’Hare
H.O.T. djs Eggz Aoife Nic Canna Tonie Walsh & special guest Mark Dixon (Phuturegroove) Visuals Ciarán McClelland Evan O’Maoilearca
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MATTHEW GRIFFIN ILLUSTRATOR : ENNIS
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Onwards and Upwards. Achievement of the year Professional: Getting accepted into the Society of Illustrators ‘Illustrators 56’ Annual & Exhibition. Personal: My second daughter’s arrival. Favourite piece of work Yours: A poster for The Bogs (see across). Someone else’s: I spend far too much time admiring other people’s work. But Niall McCormack has been on fire recently, so I’d say his Flash Gordon poster for Hollywood Babylon. Favourite event Exhibition: ‘The Illustrated Beatles’ show curated by Illustrators Ireland. Gig: Parenting has put a stop to that. Festival: As above. Other: Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2013. Find of the year Electronic cigarettes.
Best meal A pork meatball dish. Or a sausage & butternut squash roast thing. I like to cook. Stocking fillers Best song: Reflektor by Arcade Fire. I don’t care that they’re considered too ‘main stream’ now. That song is amazing. The album is a disappointment by comparison. Best album: ‘Drenge’ by Drenge. Or ‘Paracosm’ by Washed Out. Best book: Iremonger: Heap House by Edward Carey. A spectacular feat of the imagination. Best film: Stoker. Hero of 2013 Soppy, but - my wife. She has endless patience. And can create life. Villain of 2013 Enda. One thing you would have done differently? Learned more, earlier. Most memorable moment Can’t top a new daughter really. Or a son, I’m sure.
What blew your mind? OFFSET never fails.
Thoughts for 2014? Interesting times ahead I think. Some exciting projects coming up. Please God I’ll stay busy.
What annoyed you the most? Unsolicited use of my work. Biggest disappointment Getting a job totally wrong and having to start from scratch. Was the first time. Hopefully the last too. Painful.
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Left: Arcade Fire â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Reflektorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; guerrila promo design. www.arcadefire.com www.juxtapoz.com/music/arcade-fires-reflektor-the-story-behind-the-album-cover Right: Flash Gordon poster by Niall McCormack. www.home.hitone.ie/Flash-Gordon
HVASS & HANNIBAL GRAPHIC DESIGNERS : HELSINKI
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Work, tea and business-boots. Achievement of the year Professional: Adding Public Speaking to our line of work and especially speaking at OFFSET2013. Personal: Moving to our new lovely studio where we have built the ultimate shelving-loft-bed system that we have always dreamed of Favourite piece of work Yours: Visual identity for the ‘We Love Graphic Design’ seminar in Copenhagen. Someone else’s: Victor Carrey’s music video for Efterklang’s song ‘The Ghost’. Favourite event Exhibition: The flower exhibition at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. Gig: Kraftwerk at this year’s Roskilde Festival. Festival: Roskilde Festival – always! Other: Visuelt Seminar in Oslo.
Biggest disappointment Almost landing a dream job (designing a stamp) but then not getting it. Best meal Restaurant AMASS. Stocking fillers Best song: That’s a secret. Best album: Phosphorescent – Muchacho. Best book: It’s only just about to come out and haven’t seen it yet but sure it’s the best: “Atop a Hill in Frostville”, by Daniel Frost. Best film: La Grande Bellezza by Paolo Sorrentino. Hero of 2013 Stupid Studio – who last-minute rescued us by collaborating on the animated intros for We Love Graphic Design. Villain of 2013 The Spinning Beach Ball.
Find of the year An egg boiler for the office! :-D
One thing you would have done differently? Better posture.
What blew your mind? Adrian Westaway’s (Vitamins) talk at Visuelt Seminar, Oslo.
Most memorable moment Speaking at OFFSET!
What annoyed you the most? Bad avocados.
Thoughts for 2014? Maternity leave + tropical–inspirational–sabbatical.
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Left: We Love Graphic Design festival graphics by Hvass & Hannibal. www.hvasshannibal.dk
Right: Victor Carrey’s music video for Efterklang’s song ‘The Ghost’. www.victorcarrey.com www.efterklang.net www.vimeo.com/62250952
CHRIS HAUGHTON ILLUSTRATOR / CURATOR : LONDON
Achievement of the year Professional: Finishing my third book. Personal: Not doing such crazy hours.
Best meal Potatoes.
Favourite piece of work Yours: My new book, ‘SHH we have a plan!’. Someone else’s: ‘Petting Zoo’ by Christoph Niemann, ‘This is not my Hat’ by Jon Klassen. Favourite event Exhibition: The node Show at the Design Museum also Museum of Everything at the Hayward. www.blog.madebynode.com/design-museum-launch-2 Festival: Edinburgh Festival. Other: Squidboy at Edinburgh Fringe. Find of the year Nuit de Réve by Laurent Moreau. Biggest disappointment Not finishing my app!! But it’s scaled up to be a much bigger project so it’s worth it.
Stocking fillers Best album: I have no idea, I’m like an old man. Best book: Alphabetical by Michael Rosen. Hero of 2013 Edward Snowden rocks! Villain of 2013 I dunno. Most memorable moment Doing the show and talks at the Design Museum http://chrishaughton.com/node-design-museum-launch Thoughts for 2014? Finish the damn app Chris!
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Previous page: node handmade artist rugs, a project curated by NoBrow. www.madebynode.com
This page: A spread from Jon Klassen’s book ‘This is not my hat’. www.youtube.com/ watch?v=6MuDfdxESOQ www.jonklassen.tumblr.com www.jonklassen.blogspot.ie
Spreads from Chris Haughton’s new book ‘Shh, we have a plan’. www.walker.co.uk/Shh-We-Have-a-Plan-9781406342321 www.vegetablefriedrice.com
Left: Christoph Niemann’s ‘Petting Zoo’. www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/christoph-niemann-petting-zoo-app.html Right: node rug, design by Chamo. www.madebynode.com/rugs
BRIAN HERRON BLOGGER : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Cycled more often.
Achievement of the year Professional: Working on a new beer brand. Personal: Drinking the brand’s new beer.
Find of the year Waxahatchee. What blew your mind? James Gliek’s ‘The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood’. Awesome stuff about how computers work and how information is organised. What annoyed you the most? Shitty UPC interface and remote. Just like every year. Biggest disappointment Twerking not making it into the Oxford English Dictionary. Best meal Some place in NYC that I can’t remember the name of. I can’t remember the food either. But the meal was memorable because all the OFFSET crew got wasted on some drink called a Spanky Gimlet, then there was an awkward accidental grabbing of a waitress’s bottom and then Albert Hooi go-go danced on a bar counter. Stocking fillers Best song: ‘Misery over Dispute’ – Waxahatchee. Perfect 90s post-punk, except y’know, done now. Actually, I think that the whole album just counts as one song really. Best album: Breakbot ‘By Your Side’. Just ‘effing brilliant. Even if it technically came out in 2012. Best book: Hip Hop Family Tree - Ed Piskor, Fantagraphics. The best of music and history and comics. Best film: Seeing Dazed and Confused in the cinema. Yeah, ok it’s not new. But it’s timeless, and that’s better.
Favourite piece of work Yours: www.dartofphysics.ie or possibly working on bits of the Vodafone site that no one will every notice. Someone else’s: Neil Gaiman’s ‘Ocean at the end of the lane’. Favourite event Exhibition: I feel like I spent most of the year going to little exhibitions or group shows. I like that Dublin’s gotten so casual about putting on these cool no fuss events. And I like that everything seems less cliquey and siloed. In the last month alone there’s been the Hollywood Babylon poster show, Mess It Up, Chris Judge’s solo show, Steve McCarthy’s Souvenir project, Matt Griffin’s residency at Whelan’s, the Superstition IGI show at Fire – just tons of stuff all the time. So, while there’s not one show I loved and maybe taken one at a time they’re small potatoes but I have acquired tubes and tubes of reasonably priced prints that I have to get framed and also a bread board with a hippo painted on it (thanks Chris!). So that’s good right? Gig: Le Galaxie, Meeting House Square. I was very proud of mixing Jameson and ginger ale to match the exact colour of Nestea so that I could sneak booze in. Gig also fun. Festival: No festivals this year – just seemed too busy at all the wrong times. And I have that too old for tents feeling. Oh wait, OFFSET counts as a festival. So, yes OFFSET. Other: Achewood, one of the greatest comics ever, coming back to life after a four year-ish hiatus. I’ve started reading it again from the beginning.
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Previous spread: ‘Achewood’ comic strip. www.achewood.com
Left: Pulled pork sandwich. www.bbcgoodfood.com/ recipes/2252641/bbq-pulled-porksandwich
Right: Le Galaxie, live at The Olympia, Dublin. www.legalaxie.net
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Hero of 2013 Pulled pork sandwiches (But I think this craze is over now. We need something new). Villain of 2013 My UPC remote. One thing you would have done differently? I wouldn’t have gone to A&E that time after coming back from a stag in Amsterdam when I freaked out and thought I had thrombosis but, in fact, didn’t. I can’t think of many ailments that would be a worse experience than actually going to A&E. I reviewed St. James on Yelp and gave it No Stars. Most memorable moment Albert Hooi go-go dancing on a bar counter. Thoughts for 2014? 2014? Didn’t it just turn 2013?
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OLIVER JEFFERS ARTIST / ILLUSTRATOR : NYC
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words It’s not over. Achievement of the year Professional: ‘Nothing to See Here’ solo show at Lazarides in London. Personal: Getting health insurance. Favourite piece of work Yours: ‘Ordinary Love’ lyric video I made with Mac Premo for U2. Someone else’s: Prune Nourry’s ‘Terracotta Daughters’ project in Shanghai. Favourite event Exhibition: Hopper’s drawings at the Whitney. Gig: Chris Thile giving a private performance of Bach’s Sonatas on his mandolin. Festival: Didn’t make it to any unfortunately. Other: TED 2013. Epic. Find of the year The cultural powerhouse that is India.
Stocking fillers Best song: Although it’s not new, I’d have to say ‘Not Fade Away’ by Buddy Holly. Best album: A weird one, but I found a French version of Peter and the Wolf on vinyl, that I found outside my building. I think an elderly neighbour was throwing it away. Best book: ‘White Teeth’ Zadie Smith. Best film: Beasts of the Southern Wild. Hero of 2013 Tommy and Kathleen, my granny and granda for being the rocks of our family and showing how to be happily married for 70 years. Villain of 2013 TSA and their new fangled body scanner. Those things cant be good for you. Not when you go through airports dozens of times a year! One thing you would have done differently? Got my shoulder seen to earlier.
What blew your mind? India- Varansai in particular. What annoyed you the most? My right arm- I have to get shoulder and wrist surgery. Also my dogs love of drinking leftover coffee when left alone. We ran up a few vet bills. Biggest disappointment Not spending more time in India.
Best meal Blue Hill Stone Barn tasting menu. Or the slow roast pork we grilled in the freezing cold in upstate NY.
Most memorable moment U2 phoning me (they were all on speaker phone) to ask me to paint Mandela for their song ‘Ordinary Love’. Thoughts for 2014? Less projects but bigger in scope.
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Oliver Jeffers x Mac Premo video for U2’s ‘Ordinary Love’. With U2: www.u2.com/news/title/ordinary-love-new-video Without: www.alexandrosmaragos.com/2013/11/u2-ordinary-love-lyric-video.html www.oliverjeffers.com www.macpremo.com
Prune Nourry’s ‘Terracotta Daughters’ project in Shanghai. www.prunenourry.com/en/projects/terracotta-daughters
Oliver Jeffers â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Nothing to see hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; solo show at Lazarides, London. www.lazinc.com/story/607,oliver-jeffers-nothing-see-here-opens-lazarides-rathbone
CHRIS JUDGE ILLUSTRATOR : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Work, eat, sleep.
Biggest disappointment Realising I will never be able to paint with oils.
Achievement of the year Professional: New book published. Personal: Learning to drive a bit.
Best meal BBQ in my parents house.
Favourite piece of work Yours: Beastly Hobbies screen print series. Someone else’s: Anything I have seen drawn by Phil Barrett this year. Favourite event Exhibition: The Original Art in Society of Illustrators NYC. Gig: They Might Be Giants. Festival: Too tired for festivals. Other: Fergal Brennan’s performance piece in IMMA. Find of the year Warm shoes. What blew your mind? Seeing original Norman Rockwell paintings. What annoyed you the most? My iPhone.
Stocking fillers Best song: ‘What’s Wrong’ by Grizzly Bear. Best album: ‘Friday Syndrome Vol. 2’ by Sunken Foal. Best book: ‘Worst. Person. Ever.’ by Douglas Coupland. Best film: ‘Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story’. Hero of 2013 Jaime Hernandez. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Hernandez Villain of 2013 Didn’t come across any this year which is nice. One thing you would have done differently? Learn to drive properly. Most memorable moment Baby scan. Thoughts for 2014? Work hard!
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Left: Tom Ungerer documentary ‘Far Out Isn’t Far Enough’. www.faroutthemovie.com
Right: ‘Moon Man’ by Tom Ungerer. Animated by Cartoon Saloon. www.tinyurl.com/o4xp33h www.cartoonsaloon.ie
Chris Judge ‘Beastly Hobbies’ screenprint illustrations. www.chrisjudge.com
JAMES KELLEHER GRAPHIC DESIGNER : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words More sleep please.
Biggest disappointment People continuing to be wrong on the internet.
Achievement of the year Professional: Seeing The Lonely Beast ABC appear on Apple TV ads and billboards all over the world. www.pilcrow.ie/abc Personal: The birth of my daughter Elina, who is ace.
Best meal Christmas Dinner.
Favourite piece of work Yours: The Lonely Beast 123. www.pilcrow.ie/onetwothree Someone else’s: Chris Ware’s ‘Building Stories’ – a box of holy fucking shit that took Ware a decade to create, and something that I couldn’t hope to accomplish in ten lifetimes. Favourite event Exhibition: GAME at Science Gallery. www.dublin.sciencegallery.com/game Gig: The Unthanks at The Pepper Canister. Festival: ATP End of An Era at Camber Sands. Other: The Story at Conway Hall, London.
Stocking fillers Best song: PVT ‘Cold Romance’. Best album: Bill Callahan ‘Dream River’. Best book: Donna Tartt ‘The Goldfinch’. Best film: Sightseers. Hero of 2013 Edward Snowden. Villain of 2013 The Grim Reaper. What a prick. One thing you would have done differently? I would have hired a professional exorcist; it turns out there are some things you can’t learn on YouTube. Most memorable moment The arrival of my firstborn.
Find of the year Richard III in a Leicester car park. www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/23290 What blew your mind? This video for The Paper Kites by Oh Yeah Wow. www.bit.ly/JVpHNM
Thoughts for 2014? My entire life is an elaborate rebuke to my 5th year careers guidance counsellor, a rebuke which I plan to escalate to ‘frenzied’ in 2014.
What annoyed you the most? Our political class throwing our most vulnerable citizens under the bus, and then jacking up the bus fare.
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EOGHAN KIDNEY DIRECTOR : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity & transdisciplinarity Achievement of the year Professional: The ongoing process of creating beta. www.rotor.ie Personal: Driving license achievement unlocked! Favourite piece of work Yours: Daniel Crabgif. http://imgur.com/x79XxI4 Someone else’s: Upstream Color Favourite event Exhibition: Accidentally went to the Venice Bienniale and saw some cool art. Gig: Bjork at EP because of the Tesla coils but she was wearing something over her face which was disappointing. www.electricpicnic.ie Festival: Gonna give a big up to the Galway Film Fleadh, I love it everytime I go. www.galwayfilmfleadh.com Other: The Science Gallery shows have been really interesting and I get in free because my brother works there. Find of the year Found me moh didn’t I. What blew your mind? Gravity. Take THAT 3D hataz (except the percentage of people biologically unable to see stereoscopic 3D, thats a bummer, hate away). What annoyed you the most? Not having a bicycle. I should get a bicycle. Biggest disappointment The Chromatics gig coz of it being in worst venue in town but has since been destroyed so let’s all forget about it and move on.
Best meal Taster menu in 777 was really amazing and we nearly couldn’t pay for it because we ordered too many delicious cocktails. www.777.ie Stocking fillers Best song: Somadrone ‘Reckoning’, the man’s got a soul made outta synthesizers. Best album: Lasertom ‘Drift’, Simon Cullen, also in Ships, also produced lots of albums this year - what an industrious young man. www.soundcloud.com/lasertom-blast-crew Best book: ‘The Luminaries’ but that’s huge and if your stocking is too small, try The Sisters Brothers or get a bigger stocking. Best film: ‘Upstream Color’ or ‘Gravity’ or ‘The Hunt’ or ‘Stoker’ or ‘Only God Forgives’. AMAZING year for movies!!!! Hero of 2013 Snowden I guess. But for movies its Alfonso Cuarón because he made me believe in Hollywood again. Villain of 2013 The NSA. One thing you would have done differently? Gone to the cinema a lot more. Written more. Gone to that thing in Iceland. Most memorable moment Talking at OFFSET, OBVS. Thoughts for 2014? After a year working in the field of automatic video editing I’m very eager to make a film with people talking to each other in it.
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JEREMY LESLIE PUBLISHER / BLOGGER : LONDON
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Bang. Crash. Whallop. Achievement of the year Professional: Getting the first magCulture conference up and running, and feeling it had matched my vision for the day. A big thank you to everyone involved in making it a success, particularly my wife Lesley. Personal: After many previous attempts finally developing a gym habit. Favourite piece of work Yours: My Favo(u)rite Magazine, a crowd-sourced celebration of magazines we published to raise funds for injured art director Bob Newman. Created on the fly, we felt it would be a worthy project but were genuinely surprised to receive 88 excellent submissions from around the world that together make an excellent case for the power and relevance of magazines. Worthy and good! www.magculture.com/blog/?cat=62 Someone else’s: ‘Where You Are’ by Visual Editions. Delicious storytelling using maps. Envy! www.visual-editions.com/our-books/where-you-are
Favourite event Exhibition: Paul Klee at Tate Modern. I knew it would be good but it was great. Gig: Kraftwerk at Tate Modern was the perfect gig. An uncrowded hall, great sound and updated versions of the favourites. Festival: Made my first trip to the Manchester International Festival. A popular, cultural takeover that made the whole city hum. Other: AGI Open, a real buzz seeing so many students enjoy graphic design. www.agi-open.com What Design Can Do (Amsterdam), two days of design talks in the broadest sense, set in a Victorian (or whatever the Dutch equivalent!) theatre hall. Highlight – a gospel choir rendition of Dieter Rams’ 10 commandments. www.whatdesigncando.nl The Drowning Man by Punchdrunk, experimental storytelling at its best, with multiple scenes performed at the same time across five storeys of a carefully art directed old Royal Mail sorting office in Paddington. I can’t pretend to have followed the narrative but enjoyed trying to find the links. www.punchdrunk.com/current-shows CONTINUED >>
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Previous page. The Modern Magazine book by Magculture’s Jeremy Leslie. www.magculture.com/ blog/?p=18940 This spread: Massive Attack x Adam Curtis live. www.vimeo.com/76571554 Next spread: ‘Designing News’ by Francesco Franchii. www.shop.gestalten.com/ designing-news.html
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Find of the year World Music by Goat. From 2012 but I only discovered it this year. Indescribable (thanks David). What blew your mind? Massive Attack x Adam Curtis at MIF actually was mindblowing. And in amongst all the boom it was wonderful to hear Liz Fraser singing live. www.mif.co.uk/event/massive-attack-v-adam-curtis What annoyed you the most? This spiteful, mean-spirited British government. Biggest disappointment Trying to work with one of the UK’s leading magazine distributors and seeing at first hand how poor they are at what they’re supposed to do. We work with so many great, dedicated people and companies it’s an unpleasant surprise when you come across one that is the opposite. Best meal End-of-summer-holiday dinner with family in Boston. Soooo grown up.
Stocking fillers Best song: ‘Treason! Animals’ Franz Ferdinand. The monochrome set reborn. Best album: ‘Reflektor’ Arcade Fire. Hated it at first, but then slowly and inevitably... Best book: ‘Designing News’ by Francesco Franchii, intelligent insight into editorial news design at this critical moment in its development, written and edited by one of the form’s leading exponents. Best film: None. Hero of 2013 Globally, Edward Snowden. Personally, Pablo Martin for replacing my damaged font file in time for my AGI Open talk. Villain of 2013 Idiot rich people, so many to choose from. I’ll go with Vincent Tan booing his own football team. One thing you would have done differently? I wish I’d arranged for my sons to skip school and attend The Making Magazines conference. Most memorable moment The night-time taxi ride from airport to hotel in Delhi, veering past and narrowly avoiding endless numbers of unlit goods trucks. Thoughts for 2014? More generosity please.
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FUCHSIA MACAREE ILLUSTRATOR : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Fun, confusing, hangovers. Achievement of the year Professional: Surviving my first year of freelance without any major catastrophes. Personal: Joining the gym, going to the gym three times, quitting the gym. Favourite piece of work Yours: Jimmy Whelan’s Foodstore. www.blog.fuchsiamacaree.com/post/62271596808 Someone else’s: Map of Days by Robert Hunter www.nobrow.net/12580 Favourite event Exhibition: All the Making Space exhibitions in Kaph and the Library Project. Gig: Ginnels in Molloy & Dowling Opticians. Festival: Forbidden Fruit. Other: Ira Glass at the Phil. Find of the year The lifesize Niall Horan cutout left outside my room on my birthday morning. What blew your mind? Steve Espo Powers’ way with words, so good! http://instagram.com/p/buNNuGrClZ What annoyed you the most? Working from my bedroom towards the end of the year - never again.
Biggest disappointment My best pal’s visa expiring and her having to move back to America in July. Best meal Pulled pork sandwich, Brother Hubbard. Stocking fillers Best song: Villagers ‘Nothing Arrived’. Best album: Girls Names ‘The New Life’. Best book: Jon McNaught ‘Dockwood’. Best film: Gravity. Hero of 2013 Michael O’Leary, as usual for the holidays I couldn’t otherwise go on. Villain of 2013 Our neighbours who broke into our house, very uncool. One thing you would have done differently? I would have applied for residencies abroad instead of spending time talking about applying for residencies abroad. Most memorable moment A picnic above the Vico bathing area with a view over Killiney Bay on one of the first great days of summer. Lots of hayfever and Sunday supplements. Thoughts for 2014? Hopefully more sleep at the right times, and being able to cycle in town without being terrified.
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JOHN MAHON PROMOTER : DUBLIN
Achievement of the year Professional: Keeping The Bernard Shaw open despite constant attention from various authorities! Personal: Finally became a grown up and got married to Emma! Favourite piece of work Yours: The collaboration with Trevor Finnegan on his OUR TYPE street installations at The Bernard Shaw, which lead in a round about way to my screening of the US Documentary Sign Painter Movie, which also lead to us (Toejam) producing our own documentary about sign painting in Dublin which you can see at www.gentlemenofletters.com Someone else’s: Designgoat’s Gray project, their Eileen Gray inspired ash chair and accompanying lamp and table. Favourite event Exhibition: Not so much an exhibition but the large mural Australian artist Fintan Magee did on an old building beside The Bernard Shaw blew me away. Serious talent this lad. Conor Harrington-esque. Gig: New York jazz man Gregory Porter at The Sugar Club in May. www.tinyurl.com/nmdot8l Festival: SXSW. Other: Dublin Web Summit. Find of the year I found her last year but refound her this year the amazing Fatima from London label Eglo records. Such an amazing voice and am happy to have put on her third show with us in Dublin in October just gone. What blew your mind? SXSW in Austin Texas. Lived up to its own hype. What annoyed you the most? That people still don’t put Dublin in the same sentence as Berlin, Amsterdam et al... but that is most definitely changing...
Biggest disappointment Ireland not beating the All Blacks, so very close…. Best meal A tie between A random lunch trip to Yotam Ottolenghi’s Nopi restaurant in London - incredible flavours and new Dublin restaurant ‘Forrest Avenue’ from John & Sandy Wyer. Stocking fillers Best song: Andrew Ashong ‘Flowers’ (Theo Parrish Remix). Best album: I am the Cosmos ‘Monochrome’. Best book: ‘The Art of the Restauranteur’ Nicholas Lander. Best film: ‘The Irish Pub’ by Alex Fegan. www.irishpubfilm.com Hero of 2013 Toronto Mayor Rob Ford… a rare type of political entertainment and freshness. Villain of 2013 I tend to forget people who piss me off. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. One thing you would have done differently? Hindsight is great isn’t it. Make mistakes, learn from it, be better next time. Most memorable moment Getting married to Emma….awh…but seriously. Day was great and so good to have all our emigrated friends back home. Thoughts for 2014? It’s going to be a good year for Dublin, we’re out of the hole, if only psychologically, theres a lot happening in music/art/food/drink and it will be noticed.
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Designgoat’s ‘Gray’ furniture collection. www.wearedesigngoat.com/?ds-gallery=gray
Ireland vs All Blacks. www.tinyurl.com/nh8z2ua
Half time. Ireland 22 v All Blacks 7. :)
Full time. Ireland 22 v All Blacks 24. :(
MASER STREET ARTIST : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Travel, Focus, Love. Achievement of the year Professional: Creating an edition of fine art prints with Tandem Press in Madison Wisconsin. Previous artists to me working on an edition with Tandem were Jim Dine and Sean Scully, two artists I have huge admiration for. Personal: Keeping the demons at bay. Favourite piece of work Yours: Hard to say, I’ll base it on the experience, but saying that there’s been too many great experiences shared with good friends to name one. Just before Christmas I completed this installation in Limerick “No.27, a nod to Ed Ruscha” This was a great week, good crew working with me. (photo attached) Someone else’s: Wasn’t created in 2013 but for the first time I got to see ‘Blue Green Red’ by Ellsworth Kelly at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.. Overwhelming feeling of ‘this all makes sense’ when I saw it, I even bought the small cheap glossy print in the museum shop and now hangs proudly in my living room.
Favourite event Exhibition: JR the artist in CAC in Cincinnati, 3 floors of work with a large piece on the exterior of the center. It was a great insight into not only how his work touches and communicates to the world but gave me a better understanding the scope of his passion and hard work ethic, left feeling very inspired and motivated. http://tinyurl.com/p9ejqd2 Gig: I don’t go to many gigs, I should make more of an effort so its Damien Dempsey in the Sallynoggin Inn. Creamy pints and a few sing songs with mates. Festival: Body and Soul. I got lost in it for 3 days. www.bodyandsoul.ie Other: The Homebird parties (our clothing label). We host pop up parties when we release a new range. Always a full house, good people, beer and music. www.facebook.com/homebirdclothing What annoyed you the most? How quick the year went by. Biggest disappointment How much the government lie to the hard working people of Ireland, I see it first hand here in our city. Their empty promises result in our empty pockets. Best meal Dinner with the mother for her 60th. CONTINUED >>
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Stocking fillers Best song: Al Stewart ‘Year of the Cat’. Best album: ‘Almighty Love’ by Damien Dempsey. www.damiendempsey.com Best book: ‘Total Recall: My unbelievably true life story’ by Arnold Schwarzenegger (See across). Best film: Searching for Sugar Man. Hero of 2013 Christy Moore. Have had the pleasure of hanging out with him on a few occasions this year. He holds court in conversation, takes everything at his own pace, even walking! Once took us half an hour to just walk through St. Stephen’s Green park. He stops when making a point, always a valid one though. I learnt a lot from the man in just one year, always great conversations. He also makes a serious chicken curry!
One thing you would have done differently? Went swimming more in the sea with friends. The summer came and went before I knew it. Dublin is blessed to have the sea, I realise this more when I spend a few months in the US in landlocked states. Most memorable moment I spent approximately five months of the year in the States, traveling, painting and exhibiting in new cities, Cincinnati, Chicago, Wisconsin, Arkansas and NY. Meeting interesting people and making new friends. Same for Europe, best memories come from new experiences. Thoughts for 2014? I would say they are the same as mostly everyone else, just to work harder and to spend more time with family and friends. Hope to visit and paint some new cities again this year.
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PAUL McBRIDE GRAPHIC DESIGNER : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Frenetic, Fractured, Forty. Achievement of the year Professional: Expanding the size of our own studio and establishing the 100 Archive alongside AAD, Atelier David Smith and Conor & David. www.100archive.com Personal: Maintaining www.facefoods.tumblr.com for my 3 year old’s breakfast… No mean feat; she’s a tough art director. Favourite piece of work Yours: Pictograms, lots and lots of icon-work; apps, sites, way-finding but loved getting lost in expanding the icon suite for Meteor mobile. Nerdy, I know! Someone else’s: Our old mucker Stephen McCarthy and the team at GDS’ work on GOV.UK. Rational, transparent, simple. It would never happen on eTenders… take note Enda & Co. Favourite event Exhibition: ‘Traces of Peter Rice’ at the Farmleigh Gallery. Intelligent retrospective. Exhibition design nicely handled by Wolfram Weidner Studio. www.tinyurl.com/l4glz2q Gig: David Byrne & St. Vincent at Electric Picnic. Oh the brass, so much brass! Festival: Electric Picnic or OFFSET, flip sides of the same coin! Find of the year Minecraft and the crazy, wild worlds my kids make in it. It’s a socialist, virtual Lego! What blew your mind? The rise and rise of Irish animation; Brown Bag’s omnipresence and Boulder’s anarchic Gumball giving Adventure Time a run for its money! Really looking forward to Cartoon Saloon’s follow up to ‘Secret of Kells’.
What annoyed you the most? The golden parachutes, handshakes, top-ups and bonuses… on a lighter note, the inconsistency to the icon suite in iOS7. Biggest disappointment Fractured wrist; bound for 6 months, not being able to use a pen, car or bike. Best meal 777 with my better half. Mexico never tastes so good. Stocking fillers Best song: Arctic Monkeys ‘Do You Wanna Know’. Sleazy riff, dirty bass. Best album: John Grant ‘Pale Green Ghosts’. If Ron Swanson & Karen Carpenter had a son this is what he’d sound like. Pure Genius. Epic set at EP too! Best book: ‘Dave Eggers ‘The Circle’. To paraphrase The Shins... sharing is creepy. Best film: I’ve small kids so trips to the flicks are few and far between unless it’s with them, so The Hobbit DOS was a treat to watch with them, arms out trying to grab the 3D! For the adult I’m pretending to be, it would have to be Nick Ryan’s excellent ‘The Summit’. Great storytelling, tragic, layered. Totally gripping. Hero of 2013 Keith Byrne; renaissance man. Villain of 2013 A Kardashian. Any of ‘em. What’s the point? One thing you would have done differently? Not let George put diesel in the car, it all went a bit Zoolander. Most memorable moment Floating on a surfboard with my eldest, Tom, waiting for waves as the sun set. Thoughts for 2014? Slow down. Make time. Say yes to new things. Vasectomy?
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Previous spread: Facefood Tumblr images. www.facefoods.tumblr.com
This spread: Cartoon Saloon’s upcoming film ‘Song of the sea’. www.songoftheseamovie.blogspot.ie
Left: iOS7 icons refreshed. www.apple.com/ie/ios Right: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Traces of Peter Riceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; at the Farmleigh Gallery, design by Wolfram Weidner Studio. www.wiedner.co.uk/traces-of-peter-rice
Left: GOV.UK redesign. https://www.gov.uk/design-principles/style-guide www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/17/design-of-the-year
Right: Poster for Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit. The Desolation of Smaug’. www.thehobbit.com Next spread: The Kardashians. www.uk.eonline.com/shows/kardashians
STEVE McCARTHY ILLUSTRATOR : DUBLIN
Sum up your 2013 in 3 words Never ending Summer. Achievement of the year Professional: Taking more control over my work. Personal: Having less control over my life! Favourite piece of work Yours: The Souvenir project. www.souvenir.4ormat.com Someone else’s: Granby Park. www.granbypark.com Favourite event Exhibition: The Making Space series curated by Orlaith Ross, an incredible line up of artists in unique locations around the city. I was delighted to be a part of it. Gig: Grizzly Bear in the Iveagh Gardens, my mate Camille got me a ticket for my birthday, it was like they scooped the whole crowd up and took us to New York for 90 mins, then dropped us all off at Grogans after. Magic. Festival: Day 2 of Forbidden Fruit. I’m told I had a really nice time. Other: The Nuit Blanche (Don’t call it a rave) party, organised by Hunt & Gather, in Moxie. In the future, everything worth attending will be hosted by them. www.huntndgather.com/2013/10/14/nuit-blanche-neon-2 Find of the year My passport. What blew your mind? Ghost Stories, a short film by the late night working club, a collective of deranged nocturnal geniuses! www.vimeo.com/73554156
What annoyed you the most? Chic. Yea yea, I know, I love them too, but really, if you want my honest answer. Chic. Biggest disappointment I never went to Vico. Best meal Steaks. Cooked by my housemate Mr Breffni McGeough, on one very good pay day, after a very long summer of enforced poverty. Stocking fillers Best song: Disclosure ‘You & Me’ (Flume remix). Best album: Chapelier Fou ‘Invisible’. Best book: ‘In Patagonia’ by Bruce Chatwin. Best film: ‘Upstream colour’. Hero of 2013 Roman Mars, creator and host of the 99% Invisible podcast, never has any one person inspired me so much. www.99percentinvisible.org Villain of 2013 FOMO ( the experience of, and popular abbreviation of, in equal measure). One thing you would have done differently? Wrote, this, sentence, with, less, punctuation. Most memorable moment Somewhere between the 40ft and Grogans on some particularly sunny day, I can’t remember which exactly. Thoughts for 2014? I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
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