Posts by Peter Cox
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I agree. James, get to work.
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ah... looks like I'm just slow. Pity it doesn't pop up in google.
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I've had terrible trouble finding a decent online schedule, but just recently came across this on the TVNZ website (lists all free to air channels, except Maori TV). Nice format too. Beats the hell out of the brappy TVNow guide anyway.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/tvnz_epg_skin/
...hopefully that link works...
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Caught Entourage for the first time the other day, and was bloody impressed. Best new thing I've seen on tele for what feels like ages. Friday night, 10pm, after EML. Worth a check out.
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I've become rather fond of 'woot!'... has a nice feel to it. You can also use it out loud in normal human company, unlike 'lol' for example, which saying out loud pretty much makes you a prize dork.
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I'd be perfectly happy to be called weird. Have you seen what the'mainstream' looks like lately? Zoiks!
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Yes, CloseUp thing was really very odd. Wood herself was very dismissive of the entire situation - which doesn't worry me so much as the fact that at the end of the piece I just sort of felt like I hadn't learned anything about the actual contents of the book, only three opinions about it (which were, incidently, very much all in agreement).
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Wow... really interesting to compare the two approaches of Campbell Live and CloseUp to the story.
Campbell Live with really strong with the Brash lied angle - no intereviews; just a comparrison of Brash's statements past stastements about his relationship and knowledge of the exclusive brethren, and the contents of the emails. CloseUp was an interview of Gerry Brownlee and Richard Prebble - no surprises as to what they said: the work being a fiction, everything Hager has ever said before being wrong (no challenge from Wood on any of these statements), and absolutely no mention or description of any of the actual contents of the book. Really weird, I thought.
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Good points, Chris and Tom. Cheers.
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Craig, we can all yank out examples all day of successful design projects which were done in consulation over a long period of time and rushed projects that were botched... just as easily as we can pull out examples of projects consulated into mediocrity and iconic structure that were created quite quickly, took risks, and succeeded often in opposition to approved wisdom of the time and the public attitude.
But let's be quite clear here - just because a design is conceptualised fairly quickly does not mean it will be bad... likewise, taking a loong time and covering your ass with every option does not mean something good will result.
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Te Papa broadly regarded as a good balance of public space and private delopment??
Mate, Te Papa is frickin' gastly compared to what it so easily could have been... jeez, it was SUPPOSSED to be a national icon... instead we get 'good balance of public space and private development'... how inspiring.