Ciar谩n

@hellociaran.bsky.social

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Art guy (he/s茅). Occasional Production design/Art direction in CSaloon. Foghlaimeoir Gaeilge (labhair 铆 liom ldt) Woodwork @anceardlann.bsky.social Dundalk/Kilkenny Has a 馃嚠馃嚜 in his profile but not in a problematic way.

A frame from the film Airplane! Leslie Nielsen saying "I just want to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you"
An electric box with graffiti on it. One bit reads "draw better dicks"
A frame from the film Stalker. Three miserable men close to each other but not talking, in a bleak foggy landscape
A poster for a song competition in Irish. Hand painted. Lots of handwritten text. No AI mediocrity.
A screenshot from 15 stories high. Sean Lock is kissing a can of Blue Rat, a Polish energy drink with "all the energy of a rat trapped in a can"
An old cartoon shows an entire tree trunk being whittled down to produce one tooth pick
A strange gif of a distorted Elmo in front of a wall of flames
Lisa Simpson saying it's just another chapter in the pointless rivalry between Springfield and Shelbyville
The burger King logo but it says "we don't need drogheda"
A patch of Bluebells in a forest
A sick bag on an airplane. It reads "your personal wellness bag"
A simple illustration of a chestnut sprouting. A haiku by Issa. In English; little chestnuts how often you are trampled upon. In Irish; a chast谩na beaga nach mion minic a shatla铆tear oraibh!
Australian dollar coin. Kangaroos on one side
A painting of a cockatoo
A photo of an overpass in Tokyo
A hand painted background painting of a city from the animated film, Kikis delivery service
A bilingual road sign for an industrial estate in Wales. The Welsh text actually says "I'm not in the office at this time. Please send any work to be translated to the translation team."
A big billboard. The text reads "imagine more snacks than you can imagine"
An AI-generated poster for a flea market featuring a bus. The bus has no front wheel because AI is dumb.
Gif of Irish news reporter Teresa Mannion trying to give a weather report in a howling gale and lashing wind
A poster in the window of a men's clothes shop that says "massive suit clearance" over a photo of an average size man
A sign for a pizza restaurant in Amsterdam. It is an almost illegible lenticular/hologram style design.
Screengrab from Google. Office hours for a business says they're closed for "imbolc hours" this weekend
A photo of a seals face
A tiny kitten with it's back to the camera and nobody nearby. It looks sad, or as if it's sulking like a big baby.
Silent film actor Maude Fealy
Silent film actor Maude Fealy
A 3x3 grid with a portrait of a monkey in the middle, surrounded by 6 "missing image" icons and 3 "Non disclosure agreement" icons
A page from a picture book with three sheep in an open-top car speeding along a country road. Trees and grass in the background are stretched horizontally.
A piss-take political cartoon attempting to illustrate a painfully useless metaphor for Irish reunification being like eating a Mars bar full of cyanide (according to one Eoghan Harris)
An American politician called Clay Higgins. Higgins sounds a bit like pigeon if you squint your ears.
The front cover of a Richard Scarry picture book with lots of cute anthropomorphic animals going about their day.
A roof with lead flashing for waterproofing
Title text for soap opera Emmerdale. A big black rectangle with white all-caps text.
O'Connell Street Dublin in the 1960s
The Simpsons. Conman Lyle Lanley realises he's stuck in North Haverbrook, a town that wants to kill him.
Bart and Homer Simpson. I didn't realize it at the time, but a little piece of my childhood had slipped away... forever.
A tiny Sylvanian families pig
A box of eggs labelled Irish barn eggs. In Norwegian, Swedish and Danish (and Icelandic), barn means child.
Tugtar banbh ar 贸g an mhadra. Tugtar puis铆n ar 贸g an chait. Tugtar searrach ar 贸g an chapaill. Tugtar coile谩n ar 贸g an gabhair. Tugtar goislin (g贸isl铆n) ar 贸g an gh茅. Tugtar lao ar 贸g an b贸.Tugtar miann谩n ar 贸g an muice.Tugtar uan ar 贸g an caorach. Tugtar sic铆n ar 贸g an circe.
A monkey puppet looking socially awkward
4 British politicians making the same hand gesture mid-speech, where you make a closed fist with thumb on top, slightly protruding.
A scene from spinal tap where the manager is looking at a miniature replica of Stonehenge that wasn't supposed to be miniature. The subtitle says "are you telling me that this is it?"
An old (maybe 1950s) comic panel of a young man with serious expression looking at himself in the mirror and thinking "nobody can find out how much I need love"
A pixelated photo of Barack Obama run through an AI up-res software and it made him white
The Irish flag with the orange replaced by a desaturated purple.
Musician Benn Jordan shares a screenshot of Google's AI overview summary of him. It says he has recently been to Israel and is in favour of Israel's actions in Gaza. Benn clarifies below that literally none of this is true and it has mixed him up with a right wing journalist with a similar name.
old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn't buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he's up to. Guy says: "looking for an obituary." Vendor says "those are towards the back of the paper, comrade." Guy says: "not the one I'm looking for."
A clown
A children's book titled "more stories for seven year olds"
Undulating parallel lines of clouds over Dublin bay
The cover of a Toto record called I'll supply the love.
A breakfast cereal called Curiously Cinnamon
A childs toy rainbow of wooden pieces. It is all shades of grey brown
A desaturated browny red
A photo of a snow-covered floodlit cathedral in Russia
A large slab of wood with very notable and contrasting colours due to fungal rot
A Google search result showing that Kilkenny has one Irish language school
A photo of a rowing boat in front of a tug which is pulling a big ship through the fog
Two kinds of pink. One weak, one strong.