METRO Tuesday, September 29, 2009 D LET THE WORLD SEE THROUGH YOUR EYES sponsored by WIN A TRIP TO ANY METRO CITY WORLDWIDE! Imagine your photography being seen by millions of Metro readers worldwide! Its that time of year again. Yes, the Metro Global Photo Challenge is back! This year the themes will be: People,Places and Climate Change. For your chance to see your work in print around the globe and win one of 3 trips for two to a Metro city of your choice, simply submit your photographs by Sunday 18th October 2009. No entry fee required. Go to www.metrophotochallenge.com/ie for more details. Now let your imagination run wild! By Miles erwin Falling foul of the fads that fail test of time... So fad theyre good Big Mouth Billy Bass Shell suits SodaStreams Boil in the bag dinners Man and Baby posters Knitted toilet roll covers Tupperware parties Macrame owls Pogo sticks Tamagotchis 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. RT has announced plans to revamp its landmark Donnybrook site to keep up with the digital age. The State broadcaster said it will apply for planning permission to transform its dated production suites, to a purpose-built complex. But it said construction will not start until at least 2012 and would not be paid for out of licence fees. Earlier this year staff were forced to take pay cuts as advertising revenue plummeted. Subject to planning approval, Project 2025 would begin with new high definition (HD), digital TV and new digital radio studios followed by production areas, rehearsal and performance spaces, and staff offices. RT Montrose site to get a digital facelift Lucys in the sky with angels now THE woman who inspired the classic Beatles song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Lucy ODonnell has died aged 46. The song featured on the 1967 album Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. John Lennons son Julian said it was inspired by a picture he drew of his classmate when they were at nursery school in 1966. Julian took the picture home and showed it to John, explaining: Its Lucy in the sky with diamonds. MULLETS, wet-look hair gel, leg-warmers, snap- ping wristbands, the macarena, scratch-and-sniff T-shirts. Weve all been there. Weve all done it. Weve all fallen foul of the fad. It seemed like a good idea at the time, didnt it? Now youre left with an attic full of singing fish and shell suits. These nostalgic nightmares have been studied in a new book, which highlights some of the most bizarre crazes to sweep the nation. Rhodri Marsden, author of The Next Big Thing, said: Throughout history, we have been prone to jumping on a band- wagon and collectively deciding that something is a great idea, while managing to suppress any nig- gling thoughts in the back of our minds that it might not be that great after all. His top ten includes knitted toilet roll covers, Tupperware parties, macrame owls and the Man and Baby posters. I tried to collect together a guide to some of the most inexplicable crazes of all time, the things that just make you think: why? said Marsden. Many of todays fads, including reality TV and Twitter, are also destined not to pass the test of time, he says. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html