Artist and photographer Eric Cahan uses homemade resin filters to capture the skylines he encounters whilst travelling. His passion, like the Impressionists of old, is to depict natural light and its ever changing qualities. That said its little surprise "Cahan is particularly compelled to pursue the magical light of a sunrise or sunset". The Sky series featured is made up from early morning and late evening photographs from round the world. He has an interesting process too read more here.... [Read more]

I've often wondered what might become of the now almost defunct payphone kiosk. With the rise of the mobile phones phone boxes in Ireland are usually a lonely looking scene. New York's John Locke thinks people should read more. So in the past few months, the Columbia architecture graduate has been sneaking around Manhattan with a sack of donated books and custom-made shelves, converting old pay phones into pop-up libraries.... [Read more]

Having seen half our country's home owners fall foul of negative equity and the other burdened by non-existent access to credit, in an effort to live closer to his kids, architect Dominic Stevens was forced to rethink the property process. With the help of his friends, family and a few specialists, in 50 days and for a total cost of 25,000 euro Dominic built his own 3 bedroomed house. He has logged the project and made public his detailed plans for anyone who would wish to replicate it. Great job.... [Read more]

Tiny Plays for Ireland is a really great project from The Fishamble Theatre Company in association with the Irish Times. Tiny Plays for Ireland attempts to take a snapshot of the country right now via a series of 3 minute plays script-written by a mix of the general public and some of Irelands best loved writers. The brief posed to the Irish people was, "what can be achieved with three minutes of stage time, what are the issues that need to be addressed, and who... [Read more]