Posts by Joe Wylie
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Nice Totoro pic with atmospheric hydrangeas. Click to enlarge. -
Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
Oh yeah, Totoro! The landscape in that was the biggest star
Meant to credit background artist/director Kazuo Oga.
(BTW your link is broken)
The Totoro pic or the Spirited Away .gif? Both seem OK here.
Yeah the Arrietty voiceover is awful. The voice dubs of the Ghibli/Miyazaki films have been pretty immaculately done in the past.
Geoff Lealand: Those gardens look stunning. I remember in the early 90s there was an attempt by religious fundies to have human-sized statues of Ancient Egyptian deities removed from a Hamilton public gardens. I seem to recall that the Council caved in. From the photo I recall they looked pretty nice. Hope they made it back at some point.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
Love that hydrangea pic. I’d never really appreciated them until the first of the two amazingly atmospheric rain scenes in My Neighbour Totoro.
And his stunning azaleas, or maybe rhododenrons, as seen above from Spirited Away. -
Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
Way to reassure.
Looks like the Communicator of the Year for 2011 reverted to an orange pumpkin on the stroke of midnight Jan 1st.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
The Gallery reopening situation doesn't seem to have progressed beyond this state of affairs, and no-one seems very forthcoming about the reasons why.
Coming soon, coming soon . . . -
Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
Love the waterlily, clicking the image to full size gives a great virtual bee experience.
As a workaround for sticky broadband speeds it could help to reduce the image & file size a bit. The waterlily is 1.4mb and over 3000 pixels wide, which is gorgeously generous, but it still looks great at 2000 pixels. I gave it a quick try, which dropped the file size to just over 300kb.
Hope to see the bird of paradise, what made it through looked great.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
But these are lilies, right?
You did that with your phone? Jebus.
Onetime president of the Auckland Lily Society Rob Muldoon would know. On his Radio Pacific show Lilies and Other Things he was quite the lily expert, though legend has it that Thea did the real heavy lifting.I'd vote lavender for the bluish things in the background. Very fetching.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
Srsly??
Grrrrr . . .
Seems to be the emerging expert-quote pattern, gilding the lily of the bleeding obvious with a touch of loopy conjecture.At least they didn't ask Prof. Newbold, who seems to have developed the almost psychic ability to draw a gobsmackingly insensitive conclusion about someone he probably never met. Perhaps some kind of annual dunce's cap award is needed to discourage this rubbish.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
CERA are running a series of ‘Pop up community events’ picnics and movie screenings in local parks . . . guess it would be a mixed signal to have bouncy castles and Gerry Brownlee…
Bouncy castles . . . eat yer heart out Ian Athfield.