another crappy movie clip

[waider]

There's an odd new sculpture down in the waterfront park near Sandycove (approximately here[1]) which looks like a small cluster of boulders. It showed up some time earlier this year, if I recall correctly, and initially I thought it had been vandalised by local graffiti artists using fluorescent paints. Then I noticed one day that the colours disappeared and reappeared, and since then I've been meaning to go and take a video clip of it. However, I feel very self-concious (by which I mean stupid) holding my phone up to do this, so the clip I took this evening isn't very good. It's apparently some sort of James Joyce thing, since there are words from Joyce scrawled across its surface that are only properly visible when the lights come on, and the lights themselves are inside the sculpture. There's a closed-circuit camera nearby, which I presume is intended as a vandalism deterrent. Anyway, here's the clip in that horrible MP4 variant known as 3gp. I know that mplayer at least will play these, and probably quicktime.

[1] Slack. There is no maps.google.ie.

Comments

[mopti.livejournal.com]

Joyce? That movie seemed reminiscent of Beckett to me.

[waider.livejournal.com]

I think it's lacking the howling wind and the unexplained, uncommented-upon appearance of a man in a tweed suit and flat cap.

[zadcat.livejournal.com]

Quicktime plays it on my mac, but not mplayer.

I like the long approach to the subject. Whose voices do we hear?

[bitpuddle.livejournal.com]

That is funky, but what are those things supposed to be? They look like turds.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Some random people discovering it from the other side from where I'm, er, clipping.

[waider.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know. I did a brief google search for "james joyce sculpture dun laoghaire" and only came up with references to The Archer which is further down the park towards the aforementioned Dun Laoghaire.

[mopti.livejournal.com]

But there is an unexplained trainer disappearing behind the art.

[waider.livejournal.com]

...and but for you it would have been uncommented-upon.

MY ART IS DESTROYÈD, OH WOE.

[waider.livejournal.com]

DESTROYÉD

DESTROYËD

one of those wacky european characters, anyway.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

One of them seemed to have a nail, which made me think they were toes.

Now I know why you never went into multimedia

[waidesworld.livejournal.com]

At first I thought to myself, thanks fuck I am not subject to motion sickness, or my keyboard would be all kinds of colors now. I thought this new phone had a better video resolution than that.

Still, bro you managed to once again record something of historical importance onto the net and I am sure historians in the future (2007) will long remember your contribution to the Irish culture.

Now what useful things do I normally do on my lunch break, oh yeah, watch grass grow and the paint dry.