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ROADMAP Michael McDermott STICKERZ “STICKERZOFDUB
LIN was a creation born from a love of the Dublin Streets. Out of the corner of your eye you spot some colour slapped to a street lamp and your head instantly turns. This is basically what happens to me every single time I’m walking around town. Sometimes I get the feeling that I am annoying my friends when we are out walking because they always turn around and I’m still half way down the road, taking a picture of a street lamp that has some mini art stuck onto it. STICKERZOFDUBLIN is a collaborative effort and it’s now fuelled by everyone who walks the streets of Dublin. Everyday I get a notification of someone sending in an image of a sticker they have found and loved, and I get to share that image in the hope of potentially finding the artists who created it and then, in turn, sharing more work from the artist. The foundation of STICKERZOFDUBLIN is basically to share the amazing artists we have here on our island. So much talent oozes out onto our streets and its very visible in these “Mini Masterpieces”. A large majority of stickerz that caught my eye back in 2011 were mostly stickerz created by local tattoo artists, or even those from abroad who were doing guest spots around Dublin. Now everybody is creating stickerz. Since creating this page, the sticker community has grown tenfold. Business are starting to notice it too and frequently come in touch to have designs created so they too can slap their work around the streets. I urge anyone and everyone who has access to creating art to do it. Put your ideas on paper and then on some sticky paper and get it out into the world and have it immortalised in an image that will last forever. Help make our streets more colourful and vibrant with your beautiful art and ideas. Art is for everyone, so go create.” – Carl Foran @stickerzofdublin SHROOM WITH A VIEW… now is the time for mycophiles everywhere as they truffle out morels the best the season has to offer. And what urbanite doesn’t wish to take to the forests without looking the part in this ‘must have’ Jacquard knit scarf by Ciara O’Neill? The first batch sold out pronto so keep your peelers peeled for the next pre-order which goes up on October 20. €30, ciaramakesthings.com NECROCHANCERS They’re back! The dastardly duo and absolute Ghouls (Classquatch and Mick Minogue) behind Chancers are “summoning the spirits of some of the most loved and hated Dubs who has passed on to the Otherworld.” Posting a new card every day during October, with clues in advance, the full deck will be ready to purchase in time for Halloween, we have already been treated to Paddy Drac, Werewolfe Tone, George Bernard Saw, Countess Marcowitch and Frankie Bacon. @classquatch chancers.bigcartel.com SHORT STORIES… to celebrate its 25th anniversary, the National Print Museum commissioned Short Stories in Print, a limited-edition collection of unpublished work by some of Ireland’s leading writers. Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Claire Keegan and Colm Tóibín, in response to an invitation from the Museum, have written original, unique pieces. These beautiful and handsomely printed broadsides by master printer Seán Sills are now available as a signed, limited-edition portfolio of broadsides. €895 with all profits to the Musuem. 8