Posts by Richard Llewellyn
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"Should I, though, expect to get paid for the work I did years ago when I was new at it and inexperienced and unknown?"
Fair enough, but if the owners of your early work onsold it tomorrow for 25 times what you sold it for then, should you as the original creator get a slice of that increased market value?
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Actually Craig, this is the point where the two separate strands of RB's post do converge, the professional sporting market has long used contracts that allow for a slice of 'future earnings' to be factored in.
Its a market driven response to the same sort of issue, if a club invests all the time and sweat into developing a youg athlete who goes on to bigger and better things, then under the terms of most football contracts the original club gets a cut of any future transactions.
I don't know Michael Smithiers work, but the idea of artists or their families getting a slice of the future value of their own work seems a similar principle.
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The opening of the rprofessional ugby market for players is an interesting - some would suggest inevitable - trend.
If one was to compare with football (soccer for any heathens out there) then the global open market often has little impact on the national game (take Brazil for example, virtually every single national team player plys their trade offshore and Brazil is still the strongest - shudder - 'brand') yet domestic competitions around the world become a survival of the richest.
Domestic football competitions survive for different reasons however, not always financial - the UK is not the richest country in Europe by a long shot yet currently has the strongest comp. Maybe prospective investors in sport (the budding Abramovich's) are attracted by the heritage and history and glamour as much as by dollars.
Oh, and by television rights and viewing figures. And shirt sales. And size of the potential market ...... (what comes first, the quality of the 'product' or the investment in dollars that enables us to compete with global market)
Hmmmm, OK, maybe the future may be a little bleak for NZ domestic comps.
Sorry to see the Big Guy go, hopefully he'll come back a better player in time for the 2011 World Cup.
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On Iain Banks - I had the privilege of meeting him in a cozy Edinburgh pub once, and while the subsquent hour or two shed no light (at least to me) on his views on the universal nature of humankind, I can attest to the fact that he can put away more than his fair share of pints of 'heavy'.
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Simon, I completely agree, its just that Wikipedia and Google are just so darn, well, handy ....
As a kid I soaked up some the more esoteric sources of information such as The Peoples Almanac, and the Book of Lists. Heck, even the Guinness Book of Records was devoured from cover to cover.
Unfortunately, while researching with my 7 year old daughter on her recent school project on volcanoes, my mixed bag of surviving 30 year old reference books just didn't cut the mustard, often being hopelessly out of date (30 year old Atlases are a nice way to demonstrate how much the world has changed).
So its Google or the Library.
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Another one that I haven't seen mentioned yet, but that I loved, Perfume, by Suskund.
Terrific book - I hear a movie version is coming, how do you visually represent the sense of smell in all its glory?
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"Noel Holmes' Trek Out of Trouble, about the 1960 All Black tour to South Africa is the best sports book I've ever read."
Ooh, thanks for the recommendation - our Dad gathered the most amazing collection of NZ sports books (mainly rugby and cricket) from the 60's and 70's, all of which are sitting in boxes in Mum's garage - I'll have to ask A to rifle through them next time he is there to see if the Noel Holmes book is there :)
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"I hope these air marshalls are on the lookout for flatulent muslims"
Heh - you're way ahead of me, I was thinking about cigarette lighters, hankies, and bottles of spirits from the drinks trolly ........
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I always love the (seemingly annual) 'No Shit Sherlock' studies that announce that university students drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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And yet, as far as I am aware, cigarette lighters are still 'free to board' so to speak