A spot of chess

Arlington Hotel

Check out the shot on 500px here for a nice large version

Apocalypse Dublin and the Queen

Apocalypse Dublin a photo by Ben Millett on Flickr.

This week Dublin was literally closed down for the Queens visit. Streets completely locked down, completely closed off to vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Some streets appearing apocalyptic, which is sort of fitting considering the supposed Rapture. At times, bridges the length of the liffey were closed preventing movement between north and south, I got caught twice for about 40mins a piece….

Despite all the disruption I think it mostly was a success and most Irish people felt it went well. I am just in the last couple of weeks of finishing my industrial design degree so its pretty busy, but here are a few shots of this epic event. Now for Obama on monday…. want to try and find some time to pay him a visit.

MY EDC – An everyday bag of an industrial designer

Recently stumbled across this blog EVERYDAYCARRY … (when i say stumbled across, I didn’t actually STUMBLE across it, I think I was actually reading ZITE at the time (which is awesome by the way) and there was a featured post from EDC there). Anyway, browsed through this blog a bit, noticing everyones attraction to knives and guns… but ignoring that over compensation it was very interesting to see the things that people carry on a day to day basis and what they consider preparedness. Especially as an industrial designer this was interesting. Anything to do with people’s habits and things that people do with products and what products they use interests me. But anyway, I realised I was quite similar in terms of preparedness as people on this blog. I have previously done a “What’s in my bag” before, a while ago… here. Thought i’d do a new one, going along the theme of EDC and thinking about the posts on EDC where most people post only things they carry in their pockets or on their person. I have divided the image up and have a section of on my person and then the rest in the bag. I had the camera set up  so i shot a quick video of assembling everything into a nice neat order. Maybe you should do one of these pictures too, it’s always interesting to empty out your bag and see whats hiding.