So this guy has an art director called Rosie and she gives him illustrative briefs and then often hates his work and lets him know in no uncertain terms.

The Irish Web Awards are being organised by Damien Mulley who has already organised the highly popular and successful Irish Blog Awards.

Only representatives of a website can nominate their website, nominating your site is free, and entrance to the award ceremony is €30 quid and it’s in Dublin.

If you want more info, visit the site.

Laura Daly is having auditions for her play which will be in the New Directors Festival in the Granary Theatre (Cork, Ireland), she is directing Duck by Stella Feehily.

The cast consists of six actors, three men and three women, who collectively play thirteen characters.
2 girls - 18-24
2 boys - 18-24
1 man - 40-60
1 woman - 40 -50

This is the story of two young girls coming of age in contemporary Dublin. Drugs, older men, violent boyfriends, difficult familial relations, college choices, transvestites and a bath all play a central role in this hard hitting, unapologetic portrayal of life in Ireland in the wake of the Celtic Tiger.

Auditions:
When: Friday the 22nd of August, 6-8pm.
Where: The Granary Studio in the Granary Theatre, Mardyke, Cork.
Contact: Email laura Daly at laura.mdaly@gmail.com before Thursday the 21st of Aug.

The show will not be fully paid gig, but some there will be some remuneration, contact Laura for details.

This week is brought to you by the letter ‘Batman’.

Myself and Eoin have been chatting about where Nolan might take Batman next if he does a third installment. So it was interesting to come across an article where Gary Oldman, who plays Commissioner Gordon, muses that it might not be necessary to recast the Joker seeing as “they’ll have the riddler”

But did he mean that he knew the Riddler was going to be in the next movie or did he mean that theoretically they could go with the Riddler, seeing as he’s another well known Batman villain - or was he mischievously starting rumours for the hell of it?

The article also alludes to the fact that Oldman didn’t really want to be in The Dark Knight but was contractually obliged. Shame, because I think he’s excellent in it and am hoping for more, and better, scenes with him!

But anyway, let’s pretend for a minute that the Riddler IS the next villain, who would you cast? Empire suggest Casey Affleck -oooh, nice choice.

Who would you suggest to play The Riddler?

Yes we’ve gone Batman mad here at BifSniff, well, us and half the blogoshpere.

So Eoin was telling me about the rumour Depp might step into the role of the Joker… but really I only posted this to see what kind of traffic it would lead here.

Back when I did a quick photoshop of Heath Ledger as ledger when he first got cast we got deluged with traffic, and one of the images got used on loads of blogs because it ranked well in Google images. Pretty funny seeing as all i did was change the oclour of his face hair and lips - others were out there doing massive amounts of excellent photoshop work and probably didn’t get half as much exposure

So here we go again with Frank’s two minute photoshop jobs. Of course this time I have the benefit of Nolan’s Joker already being available to work from. Ok, so I spent more than two minutes on it, but I’m not admitting that here.

Anyway, these Johny Depp to play Joker rumours are, I’m sure, just that. Rumours. Surely nobody could possibly be discussing how to fill the void left by Heath Ledger’s untimely death already? Besides, wouldn’t it be weird with Depp already possibly being one of the actors finishing ledger’s role in a Gilliam movie? And anyway, Depp? Don’t get me wrong I love Depp, but he lacks grit…

I don’t think I’ve ever liked him in a serious film that didn’t play on his otherworldliness. The problem is that otherworldliness tends to be rather nice - like Edward Scissorhands, or Finding Neverland, or Willy Wonka or even the most excellent Dead Man.

The kind of ‘normal’ films I can think of:
Secret Window - awful
Ninth Gate - awful
Blow - hard to take him seriously as a drug dealer
Donnie Brasco - eeeehhh.. wasn’t gritty enough

On the other hand, maybe Nolan could make it work if he finds a way to use that otherworldliness like Gilliam did in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas say.

In other rambling news, because I don’t keep up much with what’s going on in either world of films or comics anymore, I’m not quite sure what the story is with Lee Bermejo’s Joker - did the film use Bermejo’s visualisation of the Joker, or did Bermejo decide to use the Nolan type Joker for hisnext project or what?

Update: Another pic here, which was done prior to the film, but as concept sketch, or based on the rumours, or co-incidental or what? Anyone?