Been a mixed week. A mixed month. Quick and gone. Already. So fast, into thin air, evaporated. Where does time go? The month has been mostly spent worrying about over – due tax returns, loss of earnings, future projects that are on hold, building traffic and page rank for mutant space and looking and searching for new technologies, free technologies that will help our resource on its way

TweetShare You will be reading this well after Christmas is over. However, I write in its wake, the season of the most delicious leftovers of the year. How I love them and next year, I promise to give you some timely hints about what can be done to convert the detritus of your Christmas dinner [...]

TweetShare Cork woman Annette Buckley recieved rave reviews after releasing her debut album “the ever changing colours of the sea” with 8.5 out of 10 in Hotpress. She combines lucious vocals with great piano playing, think Bjork fused with Billie Holiday and you get a sense of her vocal dexterity and quirkiness. Having collaborated with [...]

TweetShare A Field Guide to getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit ‘Never to get lost is not to live.’ “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” is a provocative investigation into the nature of loss, losing and being lost. Starting from the revelation that what is totally unknown to you is usually what you most need to [...]

TweetShare  The Sky Congo airplane was not just an abandoned and rusting shell, it was also a symbol. To look at it wither away on the tarmac, even before disembarking, the visitor would scarcely find a more potent symbol of the country’s decay. Today there is no sign of either half of it. At the [...]

TweetShare A Field Guide to getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit ‘Never to get lost is not to live.’ “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” is a provocative investigation into the nature of loss, losing and being lost. Starting from the revelation that what is totally unknown to you is usually what you most need to [...]

TweetShare I was on National radio this week. Very exciting. Nerve wracking. I was petrified. This was it, my one moment, my pitch, my call to the nation to take action. I couldn’t afford to mess it up. Some people find radio easy; they’re relaxed, have an affable manner, are clear, concise, confident. Not me.  [...]

TweetShare  Been busying myself with SEO marketing…trying to optimize mutantspace.ie and its proving to be a long laborious process. What I have noticed is how many web marketing companies sell themselves as SEO experts and yet are not ranked highly on the very search engines they claim to be masters of. As someone recently said [...]

TweetShare Beetroot is perhaps the most outrageously delicious of the vegetables available from Irish soils this month or any. Recent near hysteria has replaced a childhood spent sticking my nose up at the some what intimidating deep purple orbs. Much beetroot is to be found pre-cooked in jars or plastic on shop shelves – boiled [...]

TweetShare  There is a strange part of me that is attracted to Performance Art like some sort of radiator that seeks me out or do I seek it out? When I am out in the cold. Literally. This piece of work was a sort of follow on to the work I did in Cork last [...]

TweetShare Our father Old people holding on to something, in old people’s homes, nearly dead, a life gone. Seeing it all disappear, grains of sand, scared Who art Floating off, on some kind of cloud. Relatives waiting patiently on the other side In heaven What are we afraid of?  Being lonely, alone. This is heaven [...]

TweetShare The daily, three-phase, hundred and forty kilometre round trip was recurringly tedious. Arduously hot. It began by getting to the main road at 6a.m., to wait there, to be picked up and bumped around on a hardened flatulence of tyres bloated to the extreme in an arrogant preference for efficacy of the speed machine. [...]

TweetShare When Ronan first mooted this idea for a column I was delighted – even more so to get the chance to throw in my tuppence worth. So here it is my ‘Things I Keep Going Back to…” Before I begin I just want to clarify something. As someone who is constantly online and trawling [...]

TweetShare Leaving a friend’s house the other night I noticed for the first time above the door a shelf full of bric-a-brac. Most of the items were made of glass, bottles, jars, a decanter, there were some brass candle holders, old tins speckled with rust and a few other assorted pieces. He told me he [...]

TweetShare  So what is this all about? The anatomy of mutantspace is complex. It doesn’t lend itself to soundbites. There are no easy answers only questions and it is the questions that must be found. It must be questions that the maker must look for as he travels down the road. Anatomy is structure and [...]

TweetShare  Non – places: An Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity by Marc Auge An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls ‘non-space’ results in a profound alteration of [...]

TweetShare Hereditary compulsion perhaps, Burning desire more than likely, Circumstantial I suppose, People choose, I Choose, We Choose, God religion, Jesus and sex, pornographical images, Dollars and war, Vegetarian, veganism, Lies and truth look very similar, Are they identical twins? Maybe conjoined, Severed, by our conscious guilt, Blaming, controlling fucking weird, Be us, be you, [...]

TweetShare A new sound but the right direction… STAR, is the latest release from French bound band Carosel. Hailing from both sides of the pond, Ireland & France, these pair really know how to take a tune and popify it. They kind of tick all the boxes too; good looking, great image and most capable [...]

TweetShare The Mire has learned that the interim financial watchdog is to reform the language of banking as an initial step in trying to change the behaviour of banks. “Most bankers don’t think they did anything wrong,” a spokesman said. “By changing the language of banking we believe bankers will come to accept that what [...]

TweetShare A mid-life crisis pushes a mild mannered Simon and Garfunkel fan to go skydiving. Andy Christie is co-owner of Slim Films, an illustration and animation studio in New York. He is a Moth GrandSlam Champion. Visit him at www.AndyChristie.com. The Moth features people telling true, engaging, funny, touching and eye-opening stories from their lives. [...]