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Just when you thought Jesus couldn’t be any cooler

  By darraghdoyle | June 18, 2009 - 5:46 pm | Books, Comics, The Culch
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Let’s be honest - Mel Gibson didn’t do a great job of making Jesus cool in 2004′s Passion of the Christ played though he was by Jim Caveziel. Jesus has never really looked that great. He’s not a cool one like Krishna, a happy guy like Buddha or a mysterious one like Mohammed. Here’s a guy in need of pretty good PR. Not even Buddy Christ makes this prophet/deity/messiah/son of a carpenter look good. Not really. There’s long been that thought in Ireland that if Jesus looked a bit happier, a bit more mellow, a bit less “Look what you’ve done to me” and a bit more welcoming, the Irish probably wouldn’t have such a huge guilt complex. It’s propagated in schools, in church - everywhere. For someone with my background anyway, it’s an image that’s been hard to escape. I mean, when you think Jesus, what do you see? … There’s more →

SweetTalk 35 @ The Sugar Club

  By Steph | May 25, 2009 - 10:34 pm | Events
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This Thursday evening sees SweetTalk 35 hitting The Sugar Club with a feast of graphic design & illustration deliciousness. 3 amazingly talented designers/typographers/illustrators will be speaking about their work: Alex Trochut (work produced for Nike, Coca-Cola, the The Guardian, British Airways, Addidas) Ian Stevenson (MTV, E4, Paul Smith, Perrier) Gaetan Billault (Jo’Burger, Bodytonic, Snyth Eastwood, Mongrel magazine) I’ve been to a few SweetTalk evenings and always find them really inspiring, especially the Q&A session afterwards with the speakers. Not to mention the comfy factor of The Sugar Club! But be warned - it’s a very popular event so either grab your tickets now at www.tickets.ie or get there in plenty of time on Thursday and grab them on the door. It’s €10 in, doors open at The Sugar Club at 7pm.