I heard Chris de Burgh broke his leg while painting his house. He was overcome by fumes, became dizzy and fell off his ladder. Apparently he was High on Emulsion.

Inspired by Adam & Joe’s Made Up Jokes

More cool work related stuff – there’s an amazing exhibition opening in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle called Telling Images of China opening on the 12th February. It’s an incredible collection of paintings from the 15th to 20th century from the Shanghai museum.

The exhibition includes scrolls and albums by artists active in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties and the early Republican period after 1912. Each of these ‘story paintings’ retells or illustrates a tale from folk and religious lore, oral and official history, poetry or literature. The exhibition is presented through four sometimes overlapping, sometimes interweaving themes, namely ‘crossings’ – stories about exiles, loyalists and rustics; the supernatural world of popular religion; models and exemplars in history; and finally, emperor-concubine and scholar-beauty romances. There are artworks which illustrate texts inscribed on or beside the paintings themselves.

We’ve had the pleasure of working with these images in X Communications to create touch screen interactives and iPod tours (hours of hard work and heartache by Stephanie), so if you’re there please check them out!

Here’s me, handsome as ever (click to play with me!)

And who could this be?

Awesome.

This had me and the sister in stitches over th weekend.

It would be great if imdb.com had a stripped-down version if their site for the iPhone, but what would be even better is an iPhone app with the following features:

- Sound detection: just record a bit from a show and it would find the epsiode or movie, just like Shazzam and Midomi do for songs

- Barcode scan: snap the barcode from the DVD box to pull up the details.

- Storage: remember what you’ve looked up and tag it so you remember if you’ve seen it.

- Facial recognition: snap a picture of an actor from the TV and it will tell you what you know them from.

- Sharing: so you can annoy your friends with your awesome taste in movies and TV

Anything else you’d put in an imdb.com iPhone app?

Amazing artwork inspired by Masters of the Universe, currently on exhibit in Los Angeles – wish it was closer!

Really looking forward to this.

Via Buzzfeed