Posts by Mark Cubey
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Charlie Sheen got over 1 million Twitter followers in 24 hours. And now he's on the Duck Sauce.
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Kim's interview with Paul Offit was pretty good. Listen here.
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Lotto should just be banned. StupidPoorTax. Close them down and donate all bureaucrat and agency salaries to tech entrepreneurs.
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It all comes down to talent, determination and team. Too many "artists" have low productivity and useless biz skills (quality,organization, bloodymindness, etc). They need luck and infrastructure. Generally, It won't happen. Meanwhile in India and China. ... Heaps of folk. And audience. Me, I'd put money into trade apprenticeships. No room for navel gazers there. That said, Bachelorette talking to Kim Hill Saturday, bucks the trend. #nzfixthings
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Kim Hill's interview from Saturday with Luke Harding, co-author of the book on Wikileaks and Assange, is available on this page.
At the end of it he talks about going back to his job as the Guardian's Moscow correspondent. But that's not going to happen now.
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Random Play: Alt.Republic: The rolling mall, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Karori has a mall, LOL.
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Love the twatcockery, but the word must be "iPad". Remember the naysayers, the scorn, but now the ubiquity. Also the "thing" of the year, but that's incidental. "aftershock" a close second.
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Make sure you send a copy to Popbitch. They are well into otters.
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Just bought Chris Bourke's "Blue Smoke" . You would need a small truck to transport it. It is one heavy sucker of a book (but worth every magnificent page!)
Not as heavy as Jane Ussher's Still Life though (which is just as magnificent, in a different way).
Other local large-format hardbacks weighing down my desk (and making the Best Illustrated Non-Fiction category for the 2011 Book Awards look mighty crowded):
Angels & Aristocrats by Mary Kisler
The Dress Circle: NZ Fashion design since 1940
Home Work : Leading NZ Architects' Own Houses
Castlepoint Coastal Station and SettlementPublishers obviously see a market for these big, niche art/fashion/housepron/highcountry tomes, at a price point that's pretty good value, really.
And we do like our cookbooks. Couldn't believe that Annabel Langbein's large first print run of her new self-published $60 hardback sold out so fast. I guess TV helps :)
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Chris Bourke did indeed edit RG.
My bad, thanks Gavin.
The launch last night in Wellington of Blue Smoke was terrific. Huge turnout, lovely speech from Chris, nice emceeing by Piripi Walker, plus Wayne Mason, Wayne Mowat, Ray Ahipene-Mercer and an a capella group doing the title track before turning it into a singalong. Sam Elworthy of AUP, in a message from the Frankfurt Book Fair, called it the best book he's ever published.
Later, on the way to dinner, the pianist in the West Plaza foyer was playing 'The Street Where You Live' from My Fair Lady which was just... perfect. (Read the book to find out why.)