Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Live From Dublin: How’s your ‘stache looking lately?

This week started off with me as Stylist and Light Tech for a P51 photo-shoot for the Movember campaign. Movember is for men’s health month (November) and is sponsored by a moustache growing charity organization that promotes prostate cancer awareness and preventative care. Project 51 will be participating in additional events later this month and next, but this shoot was for an ad that will run in the Gay Community News Magazine later this month. We had great weather for the outdoor shoot and great pics and the magazine was pleased with how it turned out.

Sat in on a fitting and gave (fashion) opinions for the wife of one of the Irish presidential candidates who came into P51. The election is later this month and this candidate is neck and neck with the lead, yet everything seems so laid back- the wife came in without bodyguards or aides and there was no paparazzi following her around while she ran her errands, and that’s the norm here.

I attended the 2011 launch of Movember at Coppinger Row (bar) with Sinead Clarke, Martha Lynn, Eily O’Connell, and Caiomhe Keane (pronounced with long e: Que-va) from P51. Great craic and we saw some great moustaches. I ended up trying my first black pudding- with fig on toast. I’ll spare those with queasy stomachs and not disclosed here what black pudding is made from- suffice it to say it is NOT a sweet like Americans might think and it IS an acquired taste. It wasn’t horrible but I don’t think I’ll be ordering it off the menu on any regular basis.

And no journey to Europe is complete without a trip to Ikea (mine was with Sinead and Eily, who were on the hunt for items for P51). I found the chairs my parents bought (and still own) on display and for sale 20+ years later. Great design never goes out of style, right?!

Visited more (and really probably the last of) museums and galleries and attended a piano/clarinet concert at the Hugh Lane over the weekend. Also visited another collective, located on the north side of Dublin, called The Malthouse Design Centre and it is a furniture and interior design collective. That’s all for now- and our hot water heater is still working so I think it’s safe to say crisis has been averted.

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