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NOTHING TO SEE HERE
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There's tall and then there's really tall.
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I'm tall enough to be very aware of living in a world where I don't really fit. Clothes, doorways, seats on a train, seats on a plane, seats... I've destroyed so many seats. To a seat, each one of us is merely just an arse. However, I seem to provide a different balance proposition to the conventional arse...
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I am also tall enough to get daily reminders from some of my fellow humans. The vast majority of which are just an alternative form of pleasant yet observant greeting, and for some it's an understandable verbal reaction of surprise. Others are just plain weird about it.
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THE HEIGHT OF NONSENSE
There's tall and then there's Giant tall.
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There's a true story of an Irish giant, Charles O'Brien (anglicised to Byrne) that I've been itching to tell. A lofty tale of freakish proportions about the short life of a long fellow who grew up in a farming backwater not far from where I did in Ireland, and came to be in London, the big smoke, like I did.
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And so this Irish giant has become the focus of my fifth Zine in the series A Patchwork Province - stories of Ulster. Each one a labour of love, created primarily for my own family, and secondly for anyone who's interested.
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There is nothing to see here...
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Nothing to see here - The front cover of the new Zine.
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The Irish Giant - A double spread from Zine #5.
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Scenes from a tall tale - A little bit of insight from a different perspective in Zine #5.
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ZINE HAMPER
I thought I'd give Visual Thinkers (that's you) first dibs on purchasing this hot-off-the-press 22-page Zine. There are only 50 available via the website, each one individually numbered by me.
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But even better than that, my intern suggested that we create a Zine and sticker bundle - a hamper if you will - so that anyone wishing to avail themselves of the full back catalogue can do so, and get a couple of custom stickers (hello laptop!) too.
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All that's missing from the above festive scene is a bottle of Bushmills Irish whiskey...
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