Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I still feel queasy seeing the likes of Bob Parker on a stage
Queasy is good.
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Up Front: One, Redux, in reply to Lilith __,
This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisiesWe used to microwave
Now we just eat nuts and berriesThis was a discount store,
Now it's turned into a cornfieldDon't leave me stranded here
I can't get used to this lifestyleTalking Heads, (Nothing But) Flowers
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Up Front: One, Redux, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Can we get a photo? Jus' sayin ;)
Church Corner, Upper Riccarton.
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Up Front: One, Redux, in reply to Russell Brown,
The response to institutional failure could simply have been despair, but people did something better.
Or event management, which comes across as a kind of corporatised smiley-faced despair ('Ellerslie' Flower Show, ffs. When the Garden City has to buy one off the peg . . )
The traffic cones appears to be an initiative of Henry Sunderland, who as far as I know teaches at CPIT when he's not dreaming up great ideas from the good of his heart.
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Hard News: CELEBRITY DRUG SHOCK NEWS! AGAIN., in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
JFK had used [edit: LSD] while President
Do you have a theory about who killed Kennedy?
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Hard News: NZ On Screen: The…, in reply to Hebe,
Namazu
A catfish dunnit? Sure; why not.
This print depicts a namazu as a priest seated inside a giant rosary. The creature does not want to cause any more earthquakes, but the "worshipers" -- tradesmen such as lumber dealers and carpenters who profit from the disaster -- are praying for it to act up again. The ghosts of earthquake victims float overhead.
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Hard News: NZ On Screen: The…, in reply to nzlemming,
The concept of sentient earthquakes is deeply disturbing on many levels...
It has a bit of a track record - Ruaumoko, Poseidon, Namazu.
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Hard News: MySplore, in reply to Russell Brown,
Great silhouettes & clouds banner pic.
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My brother visited Kaikoura the other day, and was struck by how little the view from the point by the old customhouse chimney had changed since he spent the night in his car there in nineteen-seventy-freaking-THREE, and grabbed this shot at dawn.
So Gudrun Gisela scanned it, & I rotated it 1 degree right & removed a couple of dirt specks and here it is after sitting in a box of slides for nearly fourty years.
Ektachrome, Pentax, and a hulking great zoom of dubious pedigree that needed occasional attention with a screwdriver.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Unless Lockwood's rather shorter than I'd imagined him, that's a bloody big bull.
Former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser got into trouble a few years ago when one of his stud bulls being exhibited for sale allegedly damaged a prospective buyer. The aggrieved party claimed that the the barrier behind which the animal was displayed was too low. Rumour at the time had it that this was a common but dodgy practice to make the merchandise look bigger.
