Daydreamer Blog

We’re loving the mood and music from this mini-vid by NMRKT. It features Shenae Grimes frolicking around Manhattan with sparklers in hand. Nothing more makes us want to pack our bags and be Stateside bound! 

Shenae is behind the Spread The Heart Campaign which raises funds for the Japan Relief Fund. More info here http://officialshenaegrimes.com/tag/spread-the-heart

You can check out the other films here http://nmrkt.com/film

Photos by Cathy-Ann Goulding

Thanks to everyone who came to the Daydreamer Summer Party and Exhibition on Saturday and made it such a lovely evening!

Photos will be coming soon, meanwhile enjoy these blue buttercream golden cupcakes!

Photo by Cathy-Ann Goulding

News just in, We’ll have an awesome selection of classic pizzas by the lovely people at Domino’s Pizza tomorrow at the Daydreamer Summer Party and Exhibition! Come and grab a yummy slice!

We all love Diet Coke, but what we love even more are cute new bottle designs!

We are super-stoked to announce that we’ll have the new Diet Coke bottles at the Daydreamer party, which are a limited edition collection by none other than Chanel’s creative director, fashion genius Karl Lagerfeld.

The whimsical, pretty and quirky designs on the three bottles are a perfect match for Daydreamer. So come and grab one for free. These ones are a keeper! 

We’re delighted to share with you our very FIRST Daydreamer Party! Mark July 2nd on your calendars as your daydream day, as we’ve got some great fun planned for you all. With sweet treats, dreamy tunes and the amazing artwork of our talented contributors to capture your hearts, we’ve got entertainment to cater to people of all ages and sensibilities. So bring your imagination and don’t forget your dancing shoes!

Live music, free food, and free drinks….and more surprises

Watch this space for more details.

I probably overuse the word ‘love’. I love cheeseburgers, Spiderman

comics, and my iPod with the tenacity of a world-embracing

four-year-old. I also love homecooked meals, 19th century French

literature and vinyl records. I have become almost too indiscriminate

with my usage of the word. But should there be a distinct rating

system for the things we love? If only to preserve the grandeur of the

word, instead of turning it into a general term we bandy about and

abbreviate to ‘luv’ or ‘<3’ which seem to diminish its intensity. If only to

evoke in the word ‘love’ the ardour of the emotions it stirs in us.

I don’t say ‘I love you’ to people very often. Not because I’m embarassed

by saying so, but because the word ‘love’, when directed to a person,

becomes heavy for me. A simple four-letter word, that I can casually

throw out when talking about fast food, suddenly becomes a

monumentally large word with many tangents, some misleading or

ambiguous. I love you…we were separated at birth. I love you…I’ve created

a playlist on my iPod with songs that remind me of you. I love you…no,

listen, I really love you, let’s do six more shooters. I love you…you’re my

best friend. I love you…as a friend. I love you…here’s the key to my

apartment. I love you…here’s the key to my apartment, if I die, go in and

clear out my contraband before my parents find it. I love you…so much

it makes me sick. I love you…you give me butterflies. I love you…here’s a

song I wrote for you on my guitar. I love you…you’re so cute. I love

you…let’s fall in love.

A simple four-letter word can send hearts racing, stomachs fluttering,

and worlds spinning. Maybe it’s not so simple after all.

Anahita Tabarsi

Co-Editor

Illustration by Derek Conlon

What do you love?

Here’s an editorial from our second issue

I get dunk on life quite often. I have this strange capacity to be stunned with it, like a newborn that finds wide-eyed-wonder in his toy rattle. I have never been swayed by promises of heaven, because being here – right here, right now – this is paradise to me. To be in this world, live and kicking, to be utterly human and utterly fallible, with everything that is good and bad, to be able to see, think, feel and do the things we can do, to run and dance, to create, to give, to move and do wondrous things with our brains, and hearts and bodies and souls – all of it, I find sublime.

The permutations and combinations that life has to offer, of chance meetings, peculiar encounters, strange coincidences, the most generous and kind people turning up when you need them the most, the weird ways things work out sometimes… and a lot of the times, even in the most mundane things, I see an extraordinary poetry in the way life is.

But even when the bad stuff happens, the hard knocks and the downsides and the craters and the dark times – the human proclivities to survive, to persevere, to dust yourself off and to get back up, to try and try again, to do your absolute best, to be able to regret, and feel guilt, and remorse and yet have hope and longing, and be forgivable and forgiving, and … love, to love. To feel love and be loved and just unconditionally, truly love with all your heart and might – keeps me amazed.

 I love the strange and wonderful ways we are human, finding a harmony in the discord of life. I dig life, I love being human and alive down to the extremities of my fingers and toes, from the starry twinkling of that heartbeat within all of us to the rush of every tiny molecule dancing through me. This is my one true love.

Arsheen Qasim

 Co-Editor

 Photo by Emma Turpin

One of our exclusive illustrations in Daydreamer 2 by Joana Medeiros.

A perceptive portrayal of the  profound longing and optimism harboured deep in a human soul. Let us know your thoughts. 

Happy Easter Daydreamers…enjoy the sweeping sunshine, the choc eggs and the cherry blossoms in the air.

Gorgeous photos by Nikki Browne

http://www.nikkibrownephotography.com/

“Teach me how to sleep like you do, with soft lavender snores..” Sarah Griffin’s sweet ode to her boyfriend’s stupor on page 9. Her book Follies is now available at 9 Crow Street, Temple Bar. Photo by Katie Lilga Mooney Sheppard

www.daydreamer.ie

If you liked the Hired Hand’s track ‘The Quay Wall’ on our player. It is also available to download here 

http://soundcloud.com/hiredhands/the-quay-wall

One of State Magazine’s faces of 2011, read our interview with Cillian from Hired Hands on page 114 and don’t forget their album launches on April 23rd at the Workman’s Club on the quays.