Posts by David Hood
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Nudity in the Hobbit- You see, to be properly invisible you would need to remove your clothes (aka the Invisible Man). So when an actor is being invisible, they are naked.
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I think we are seeing not just the death throws of a union (and speaking as a unionist the lack of a clear, coherent response to the Wellington actor's question "Why aren't Auckland actors targeting the American T.V. serieses filming in Auckland?" says lack of strategic campaign collective sharing of struggle planning to me) but also the death of a movie, as this situation is getting so P-addled-snake-pit I am having trouble seeing a way forward (particularly using international talent) whatever country it might be filmed in.
Arguably, killing the Hobbit will be good for the U.S. and U.K. actors unions, which may well have some trickle down effects for N.Z. actors. I'm not sure it is doing anything leading to more concrete local improvements though, such as renegotiating the Pink Book. -
Jan - My impression is that anyone (be they architects, lawyers, doctors, actors, or others) who works in New Zealand is working at an inferior rate to the rest of the OECD.
While I would like to see wages higher in NZ, for actors and all others, I'm far from convinced that the actions of the MEAA and the SAG have been in the best interest of the New Zealand workforce, particularly where those interests collide with those of their own local constituencies. -
Cynicism snap.
So the acronym for Association of Consumers and Taxpayers can be lACkwitTed
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Because it belongs in this thread as an antidote, for those that missed it, Kim Hills interview with Professor Wiseman on the self help industry:
http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20100821-0815-Richard_Wiseman_self-help_science-048.mp3 -
nd, okay, they didn't have Al-Qaeda in the seventies but passport fraud still wasn't a merry whim of idle youth, you know?
He got the passport in 1984. To add context, 1985 was the Rainbow Warrior bombing. The late 70's was the Mr. Asia period (and I see from the Dom. Post that someone involved with that was found in the same police passport sweep that netted David Garret). So at the time false passports were definitely being used by very bad people to do very bad things.
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I'm sure Gerry could fix the prose.
My general impression is the further from evidence-based decision making something is, the less well it clearly holds together. The quotes here, which I think are saying my vision is to bring together your visions, does nothing to dispell that stereotype.
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We have a new saying around the household-
"Should have got Gerry to do it"
it works for everything from people stymied with temporary difficulties, to those arrested because they were doing things that were illegal (at least for them to do) -
Since we've moved into the Earthquakes measured in atomic bombs, I thought I'd mention I found out last week about the banana equivalent dose for measuring radiation.
wikipedia -
At this rate they'll soon be taking the pulse of the Nation from women who've never flexed their ovaries at all.
It depends if it is an arithmetic sequence (where the next will be "Mother of None") or a geometric sequence (which would be "Mother of One" followed by "Egg Donor")