Now in its 4th year, Culture Night 2009 will be the biggest and best yet with museums, cathedrals, galleries, theatres, artist studios and other cultural venues opening late, many until midnight,  welcoming visitors of all ages in for a taste of free culture for one night.

In 2008, Culture Night was an overwhelming success with over 100,000 attending the events in Dublin and this year the organisers hope to exceed that number.  There will be over 120 cultural venues open to the general public including Christ Church Cathedral, the National Museum of Ireland, the Science Gallery Trinity College, The Guinness Storehouse, the Light House Cinema, The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children, the Chester Beatty Library Dublin Castle and much more.

Outdoor Events

Dublin Culture Night 2009 will feature a full and exciting programme of outdoor events taking place across the streets and public spaces of the city. From multicultural events, street theatre shows and walkabout characters, to amazing installations and light and film projections. You can come along and visit RoboSteel at the Designer Mart Cow’s Lane, Old City, Temple Bar, Dublin 8, from 5pm – 9pm.  RoboSteel will have some amazing sculptures on view to the public and if you have time check out the CHQ center down the Dublin docklands (IFSC) where RoboSteel have a 2.4 meter Alien and 2 meter Terminator sculpture on show for a limited time.

Culture Night and its programme of events are a very important event providing people with an occasion to discover and enjoy the rich cultural offering of Ireland’s top cultural venues at night.

The full programme of events and participating venues for Culture Night 2009 can be found on www.culturenight.ie you can also call the Temple Bar Cultural Trust on 01 888 3610 for more information.

Download a map of the event

www.culturenight.ie/docs/map2009.pdf

The motorcycle man is now starting to come together, the basic shape of the head was completed this morning.  This sculpture has been commissioned by the Carole Nash International Motorcycle and Scooter Show and will be on show at the NEC Birmingham 27th November until 6th December 2009

Here are the latest progress pictures of this amazing sculpture:

www.motorcycleshow.co.uk

International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with “Hello,” but with “Ahoy, me hearty!” The holiday, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy. The holiday is a major observance in the parody religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (Wikipedia)  To mark this day RoboSteel becomes a scurvy pirate on 19^th of September and a couple of years back commissioned our Jack Sparrow sculpture that is made from 100% recycled steel.

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With his ruffled mane flowing, this Lion statue presents the essence of the phrase, “King of the beasts.” This Majestic sitting RoboSteel Lion is 2.0 meters high and is truly one of a kind.

Like the Roman eagle, the lion was also one of the most important symbols of the Roman Empire. The lion is also found in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Greek art sculpture. It was further adopted as symbol of the British Empire and lion sculptures are today found in many parts of the English speaking world. Our lions are made from 100% recycled steel and have been carefully expertly hand crafted. These monumental sculptures of majestic animals symbolizing power and determination are perfect for the garden, at entrances or in the home or commercial premises. This sculpture will easily inspire respect and recognition from any visitor.

RoboSteel have donated a unique hand crafted Alien sculpture to Camara to help raise funds for supplying computer equipment to African schools.

This amazing prize will be raffled off exclusively to Google Ireland employees at their European Headquarters in Dublin with 100% of the proceeds  going to Camara.  The winner will be announced at TGIF (thank Google its Friday) on 31st July 2009.

The prize

This 1.1  meter high Alien King is a beautiful sculpture that contains over 750 unique parts. The parts used for construction range from a car, a boat, a motorbike and other pieces of recycled steel. The individual parts have been joined by welding and have been expertly crafted into limbs and other body parts. The sculpture has been expertly polished and sharp edges have been removed. It has been coated with several layers of strong lacquer to protect it from weathering.

Please note this raffle is only available to Google Ireland Employees and is not available to the general public.

Camara Education
Camara Education (www.camara.ie) is an Irish charity that uses technology to enhance the education system in Africa. The mission of Camara can be best described by the old Chinese proverb – “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach him to fish and feed him for a lifetime”. In that spirit Camara believes that education is the key to helping Africans break out of the severe poverty they find themselves in. Camara uses the enormous technological resources in Ireland to directly help schools, colleges and community centres in Africa.

Truckfest shows are among the largest outdoor events in the UK and next weekend 4th and 5th July 2009 RoboSteel will be bringing a few very large Transformers to Truckfest South West at the Royal Bath & West Show ground.  Along with the amazing RoboSteel sculptures there will be loads of quality family entertainment including:

* Celebrity guests
* Car-crushing monster trucks
* Motorcycle stunt display teams
* Trade stands
* Trucks, Trucks, Trucks, and even more Trucks

The stars of the shows are the hundreds of trucks that attend each show, from working trucks and fleets, through to giant ‘European Supertrucks’ with gleaming chrome and stunning airbrushed artwork.

The whole of the truck industry use the Truckfest shows to highlight the latest vehicles and developments in the world of trucking, and to showcase the industry to the general public too.

Even if you aren’t a truck fanatic, you’ll find plenty to do, from the giant trade stand areas, to model shows, craft fairs and the action packed arena entertainment!

Celebrities and Evening Entertainment

Each show has celebrity visitors and for those who camp on-site they can attend the ‘Truckfest Party Nights’ with top entertainment.
Camping On-site

Truckfest events feature family camping areas for weekend show visitors and are able to accommodate caravans, tents and motor homes and have excellent facilities. As ‘Truckfest Residents’, those camping on-site will be able to enjoy both show days plus exclusive ‘Truckfest Party Nights’ with top entertainment.

Show Dates and Venues

Truckfest South West, 4th & 5th July – Royal Bath & West Showground
Truckfest Scotland, 1st & 2nd August – Royal Highland Showground
Truckfest North West, 12th & 13th September – Haydock Park Racecourse

The Euro Millions jackpot is an estimated €55,000,000 this Friday. Play early before your chances are TERMINATED. Miss Universe Ireland, Lynn Kelly faced an action packed day at  Designer Studio & Mart, Cow’s Lane today to announce this Fridays estimated Euromillions Jackpot of €55,000,000. Lynn charmed the fierce RoboSteel T-800 Terminator and would like to reminded everyone, on behalf of the National Lottery, to play early before 7:30pm on Friday, or else face the fact that their chances to win the estimated €55 million jackpot will be terminated.

National Lottery good causes benefit from the EuroMillions draw, with one third of all sales going to fund beneficiary projects. Since the National Lottery was launched, over €3 billion has been raised for good causes. This funding has made a significant difference to communities, projects and individuals in the areas of Youth, Sports, Recreation & Amenities; Arts, Culture & National Heritage and the Irish Language.

Cow’s Lane Designer Studio opened in Old City, Temple Bar January 2009. It features an eclectic mix of handmade home, art and fashion designs from some of Ireland’s hottest new designers who are normally found at Designer Mart at Cow’s Lane. For more information about the studio log on to http://www.cowslanedesignerstudio.ie/

RoboSteel creates Amazing Art and Sculptures from Recycled Steel and are part of the Cow’s Lanes Designer Experience. Our sculptures are hand welded not cast, and are finished to the highest levels of craftsmanship. Commissions of life size sculptures have included Aliens, Predators, Transformers, Terminators and many more. Please visit www.robosteel.com to find out more and see our amazing range of sculptures.

Xtreme Promotions and Slick Magazine are once again coming together to bring to you a spine-tingling line up for this year’s event. After the unprecedented success for both Coolnights and Heatwave in 2008, you are forgiven when you might ask “How can they top that?” Well we can…on the 14th of June 2009 they are going to bring to you an event that will take your breath away.
While the cars are the stars of the Heatwave Motor Show in Swords, Dublin, Ireland there’s a full range of activities to make it a fun outing for the whole family. The Heatwave Motor Show is more than a Motor Show of 2009 — it’s an event!

RoboSteel will be there at Heatwave with our new Transformer sculpture check us out www.robosteel.com This Optimus Prime is our most complicated sculpture to date and at 2.5 meters high it’s amazing to behold. Come and get a sneak preview of one of the star characters Optimus Prime before you go and see the new movie Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen.

Date: Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 12 pm until 6pm
Venue: National Show Centre, Swords, Co. Dublin (Beside Dublin Airport)

Web Link: www.bebo.com/coolnights08

“Cows Lane Designer Studio” is an innovative new design outlet situated in West Essex Street, Dublin 2. The shop features goods by a collective of Dublin based Designers including RoboSteel other artists who inititally met through Cow’s Lane Designer Mart.  The majority of items on sale are hand-made here in Dublin and one-off or limited edition. All the designers involved are passionate about strengthening Ireland’s indigenous craft and design industry and share a desire to offer discerning shoppers something different from mass produced generic items.

As a collaborative venture Cows Lane Designer Studio hopes to overcome some of the problems often faced by small scale designer/makers by giving its members a venue to showcase their products and an opportunity to pool resources, share costs, spread risk and avail of each others strengths. At Cows lane Designer Studio one can find unique quality designer products at reasonable prices.

At present the studio features womenswear, jewellery, millinery, sculpture, glass, ceramics, knitwear, scarves, lighting and cushions.

The designers at Cows Lane Design Studio also take commissions, so if a customer has an idea in mind, they can work with the designer directly to produce an individual piece.

Cows Lane Design Studio is Open Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri 11-6, Thurs 11-7, Sat 10-6 and Sun 12-4.

Video Link http://www.cowslanedesignerstudio.ie/?p=193

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Having a nosey at Chanel Five’s Gadget Show Live in Birmingham yesterday, we saw many a creative stand, but none so awe-inspiring as the display that steel sculpture comapany RoboSteel had created. This is where the crowds were gathered and there were enough camera flashes to incite interest that the paparazzi had somehow found Madonna amongst the Brummies. When we got to the stand, this conjecture wasn’t far from the truth.  Instead of the usual visual of a sales team in matching T-Shirts, we were treated to steel sculptures of Optimus Prime, Predator and a Transformer all over 6ft tall and all made entirely from scrap metal- steel to be specific.  There is no better heaven for your old 1984 Ford Escort, than by bringing it to life again in the shape of a larger-than-life Darth Vader.  Not every sculpture was taller than a street lamp though. Most items on sale could easily fit in your palm, or in a regular shopping bag which would make for the perfect mantelpiece display next to your mum’s bone china plate.
All materials used in constructing these feasts for the eye were recycled from cars, motorbikes and even airplanes, which makes for a good way to sneak some fighter jet into your world.  If you have a certain item or character that you’d love to see embodied in twisted metal, the guys at RoboSteel take requests and say proudly that they can make anything from steel. Sounds like a challenge to me…

Gadget Show Live NEC 2009 – Video Link