RODRIGO Y GABRIELA

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We absolutely love theses guys. They have awesome music, and this show is outstanding. They are in Dublin. LINK

RuBot II - The Rubik's cube solving robot

This is the new version of RuBot by Pete Redmond from Dublin, Ireland. It's very different to the prototype but it has to be the coolest looking robot solver ever. RuBot II set a new Guinness world Record in Jan 2009.

There are cameras in the eyes of the head that scan the cube before the pneumatic arms solve it. It usually solves the Cube in about 35 seconds (not including the scan) no matter how much it is mixed up. LINK: Youtube

There is another video I liked but there was no embed for it. Here is the LINK: Youtube

Powers Of Three (surfing only version)

(Link: Youtube)
This is a surfing only version (i.e. no interviews etc) of "Powers Of Three." Shot entirely in Ireland. The surfers are Tom Lowe, Fergal Smith and Mickey Smith in sickeningly cold, big, heavy waves. The music in this little remixed version is "Tetra-Sync" by Squarepusher. To watch or download the original movie in full , go to: http://www.relentlessenergy.com/films...

50 Best Irish Books You Should Read This Month

There's a whole lot more to Ireland than four leaf clovers and Blarney Stones, so use this month's St. Patrick's Day celebrations as a chance to delve a little deeper into Irish culture, history and art.

Here are 50 great Irish books that will help you learn more about the people and the country and provide a free education on everything Irish for both the more knowledgeable and the total newbie to the subject.

LINK: The Presurfer

Beautiful Photography by Madeleine Calaido Weber

Madeleine Calaido Weber is a Fine-Art Photographer, a Graphic Designer, and an Artist, whose passion for art and for life is the energy that carries her through every day. Her main inspiration and motivation lie in the many forms of beauty offered by Mother Nature, which she finds in abundance living in County Kerry, Ireland. She has amassed an impressive list of awards and publications already. LINK

Victoria’s Way Indian Sculpture Park

An eccentric garden of Indian sculptures in the green of Ireland.

The unusual spiritual visions of an Irishman were created in stone by craftsmen in Mahabalipuram, India, and now populate a sculpture park in County Wicklow, Ireland.

On 22 acres of grounds, the park includes a series of dancing Ganesh figures, Shiva and other Hindu deities. It also includes more bizarre sculptures of a skeletal Buddha-like figure, an enormous disembodied finger, and a sculpture called "The Split Man" which shows a figure ripping itself in two, representing "the mental state of the dysfunctional human".

Intended to represent the spiritual progression to enlightenment, the collection of 14 statues took 20 years to complete. LINK

Anarkitty's Catty Girls

Anarkitty (Emma Geary) is a 31 year old artist from Northern Ireland. Though it's easy to see that she's been influenced by pinup girls, manga, graffiti and toys you may not have guessed that her main source of inspiration comes from cats. Why? It is their "esoteric attitude encased in elegance and cuteness" along with the fact that they are "comfortable within their own bodies." LINK

Dancing caterpillars

All six bugs reared up with their back legs in the air to make themselves more imposing to potential predators, and look just like they're dancing.

The sight was captured by keen amateur photographer Desmond Cannon in the back garden of his home in Brae, County Wicklow, Ireland. LINK



Caterpillars found in our garden in Altos del Maria in Panama. LINK: Youtube

The Guinness Bug

This unpleasant creature - called a Hop Bug (humanus lupalus) - has just been discovered, along with its brethren, amid the hop farms of Ireland, which means that Guinness may have to shift all production to Nigeria. LINK

The Most Terrifying Mountain Bike Trail On Earth

When Hans Rey embarked on a road trip with fellow mountain biking star Steve Peat, the plan, as he told Environmental Graffiti, was “to ride all the cool biking trails and spots in Ireland and to visit a few pubs along the way.” Yet the Swiss trials rider and multiple World Champion had long had his sights on the Emerald Isle’s legendary Cliffs of Mohan and just knew he had to “ride that edge one day.” LINK

"Hans Rey Pub Crawl Ireland. Cliffs of Moher" LINK