Posts by Craig Ranapia

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  • Capture: Art On The Street,

    If anyone would like me to stop boring them with my holiday snaps, speak now or I'll go on forever. :)

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  • Capture: Art On The Street,

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    'Nuclear Dawn', Coldharbour Lane, Brixton. (painted c. 1980-81, Brian Barnes & Dale McCrea), May 24 2012.

    I didn't capture the scale at all well, but it really is rather overwhelming in situ, considering it's about fifty foot high.

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  • Capture: Art On The Street,

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    Detail. New Zealand War Memorial, Hyde Park Corner, London. Sculptor: Paul Dibble, (Image take: May 26, 2012) Model: A very solemn native Londoner called Jimmy. :)

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  • Hard News: Crossing the line into idle bigotry, in reply to Russell Brown,

    Quite - and while I had some pretty harsh things to say about faith-based critics of C4 broadcasting that episode of South Park I'd note that Muslims, Christians and Jewish folks managed to express their displeasure in perfectly peaceful, lawful and non-violent ways. You know, like exercising their freedoms of speech, assembly and recourse to the Broadcasting Standards Authority.

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    Cologne, Germany. May 2012 (top); Amsterdam, May 11 2012 (bottom)

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  • Hard News: Crossing the line into idle bigotry, in reply to Angus Robertson,

    Islam is a fundamentalist religion. What the prophet says is fundamentally correct. The prophet laid down a lot of sayings about how society should function so Islam has a very political function built in. And a lot of what the prophet said was harsh.

    Angus: I could make the same statement about some imaginary monolith called "Christianity" based on the Republican presidential primaries and their election campaign. And it would also be obnoxiously reductive. I don’t have a tone sheriff badge around here, but I think over a billion Muslims who exist in a complex webs of theological, social and political contexts across the face of the planet deserve the same civility and simple intellectual honesty I not only expect – but demand – as a Catholic. A Catholic, for the record, who wishes Cardinal Pell would take a vow of silence and stop being a rapist-enabling embarrassment.

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  • Hard News: Party on, dudes, in reply to Nat,

    And I've learnt so much from Emma! She has helped to open up and refine my views on a whole lot of things.

    So much this with a side order of co-signature. I suspect my base code views on most things haven't changed a lot over the years, but they've become a lot more textured and nuanced. Which is not a bad thing.

    Also a value-adder in life when people are willing to politely (more or less) but firmly (on a strictly amateur basis) spank your arse when you're foolish enough to show it in public.

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  • Hard News: Crossing the line into idle bigotry, in reply to Ana Simkiss,

    Speaking of lazy op eds, anyone have the fortitude to read all of Bob Jones’ epistle in the herald ?

    I hit myself in the face with my laptop after the iridology puff piece and the latest round of "oy noes, Auckland is being ruined by a super-slutty mega brothel" NIMBY-ism. I guess it's cheaper than paying a thug to come around every morning and hit one.

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  • Hard News: Crossing the line into idle bigotry, in reply to Scott Chris,

    in that a state broadcaster has more incumbent responsibility to uphold ethical standards than does a privately owned regional newspaper.

    There's not a word in that I'd agree with. Sorry.

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  • Hard News: Crossing the line into idle bigotry, in reply to Russell Brown,

    Quite. Frankly I don’t think job creation (for Paul Henry) is terribly high on the vast right-wing conspiracy bucket list. But, hey… let’s hope market forces really are in play at TVNZ. Henry corpsed in Australia’s notoriously tacky, cut-throat and unsentimental breakfast television market, and Would I Lie To You? isn’t exactly crushing the ratings for Three. Stick a fork in Paul, folks, he’s done.

    I’m not clear on what his contractual situation is with TV3, but I assume any buying out of his contract would be occasion for a shitstorm.

    Can't imagine it would be cheap either, especially at a time I get the clear impression Three isn't exactly awash in the dough-ray-me.

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