Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: The Editorial Image, in reply to
Didn't know NZ had tunnels -
DimPost: These old caves are spooky. I wish we’d stayed up in the office.
Key: This is more private. Besides, I rather like it. The dark . . . the silence. Helen told me these caverns extend for miles but I’ve never taken the time to explore. [Laughs] Apparently Mike Moore would disappear down here for weeks – they had to send the army down with dogs and climbing gear to find him.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to
You don't see rabbits being walked down the street
You can see a lot of stuff on the internet that you'd never see on the street.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to
I thought Ross meant the Commissioner who recently made a very qualified apology to the unfortunately inconvenienced folks of Ruatoki.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to
Careful, The Commissioner will be at the gates of Haast if he sees those threatening sorts of comments you know.
You're not wrong. Only avowed white supremacists are allowed to run about in the wilderness playing sillybuggers with guns without arousing the anxieties of the defenders of Mr & Mrs Whitebread.
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to
Not sure who the artist is, but liked this collection in the MCA.
The Yellow House poster looks very much like the work of Martin Sharp, as mentioned above by Ian. None of the other works look like his.
At the very beginning of the 70s Sharp's Yellow House in Kings X was an interesting venue. -
Hilary:
So who are the young political cartoonists now?
While I don't think he's exactly fresh out of school, Guy Body is almost too good for the Herald.
Russell:
. . . so if you wanted to do some curating ...
+1
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to
Sydney is full of it.
As pretty much anyone in Melbourne will tell you.
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Hard News: The Editorial Image, in reply to
Strongly recommend Hilary's essay.
Admirable history with some great observations, e.g. the selective use of "Maori" elements to further dubious agendas. Much appreciated.
It's not a cheap shot to raise the Nazi spectre in this matter.
As Hilary's essay illustrates, while we find the aims of the NZ eugenicists reprehensible today, many were motivated by what they believed to be genuine humanitarian concern. The excesses of the Nazi era demonstrated how horribly mistaken they were. Beyond common stupidity Laws doesn't have that excuse.
There are still a number of New Zealanders alive damaged by their first hand experience of Europe's historical "cultural identity" issues. There are a hell of a lot more of us whose lives have been shaped in ways we'll never measure by the legacy of that damage to an entire wartime generation. It's our raw history to deal with as much as it is Germany's, and there's nothing cheap or dishonest about acknowledging that.
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to
The gold tree.
Dixon Street. Chinatown?
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Hard News: The Editorial Image, in reply to
Context is everything, but it's an astonishing film.
As Henry Fuseli said of William Blake, "damned good to steal from". George Lucas, for one, certainly thought so.
As it was an awful long time ago I can safely fess up to having lifted a few seconds from the VHS soundtrack for a commercial project. When the deadline's pressing and the client's logo morphing from the starry firmament just screams for an ethereal choir emerging from all that synth, why the hell not?