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Rob Stowell

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:38:15 +1300

Here’s some more of the yards.
I heard someone has been doing a biological study of the land out back. Since it was abandoned, all manner of flora and fauna have flourished.

Robert Urquhart

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:21:51 +1300

if someone could just talk to this family,
organise a Working Bee

I'm part of a group of volunteers working on making something of their other property – or at least slowing the rate of deterioration – talking to the family is nigh impossible, we sprang from serendipity and a…

Joe Wylie

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:02:28 +1300

Saleyards gallery from 2009 by Brendon Keenan.

JacksonP

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:59:52 +1300

And the Instagrams (posted on twits earlier). Including the Diptych.

JacksonP

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:53:30 +1300

Fascinating, Ian.

Here’s some more of the yards.

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:19:46 +1300

barren warren...
Some brief info on the Chchch Saleyards site and why it is in limbo.... has a great aerial shot of the labyrinth of fluorescent throw-ups...

if someone could just talk to this family,
organise a Working Bee this could be
a fabulous walk-thru, al fresco, street art gallery,…

Jane Pearson

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:15:11 +1300

One of my favourite places to be in Christchurch – I miss it.

Rob Stowell

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:50:19 +1300

I can think of four significant periods of my life that I spent much time within 50 metres of that spot in different buildings.
classic strip of chch, that bit of manchester/high st. smiths, alices, so many little shops and bars and places to eat.

Kebabette

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:31:50 +1300

Dad was by the Excelsior on 22 February. And my partner was conceived there.

Hebe

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:42:15 +1300

I guess, having done a Google street view (which still shows the old city whereas the satellite map has been updated) that the phoenix palm is front of the Excelsior. The wall is the side of the Excelsior (you can just see the containers four or five high behind it…

Hebe

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:02:50 +1300

The sense of wrongness, nothing being as it should be. Lilith you have found the words I have been looking for — for a year or so — to describe that feeling.

Lilith __

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:12:24 +1300

That phoenix palm has me foxed also!! I keep thinking it's on the High/Manchester corner but don't think it can be.

What I love about that video is the sad look in their eyes. The sense of wrongness, nothing being as it should be. It's not dramatising the destruction, just…

Hebe

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:09:30 +1300

I like that he found the uplifting (the angels on top of the Basilica ruins still there; walking in the sun by the river and rotunda) among the carnage. I still cannot figure out where that phoenix palm is/was. All beautifully shot, I agree.

JacksonP

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:49:27 +1300

Yes, seriously, I cannot recommend this enough for conveying the atmosphere of now, here.

That is kind of the feeling I got walking through town at night between Pomeroys and the Motel on the other side of the CBD. Beautifully shot video. Wonderful song.

Emma Hart

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:09:49 +1300

It captures the feeling like nothing else I have seen.

Yes, seriously, I cannot recommend this enough for conveying the atmosphere of now, here.

Hebe

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:35:13 +1300

The Bats video (apologies if it has been posted before ). I thought I was over the sad but this is so good. It captures the feeling like nothing else I have seen.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10869529

Hebe

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:08:33 +1300

And a fine woolly jumper for me. I wish I had bought the green teapot....

Kebabette

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:14:46 +1300

Hi Hebe – I too got Viz at the Pallet Pavilion Vintage Market! And a catgirl mask for the bairn.

Hebe

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:43:27 +1300

Thanks Lilith. Better now. I didn't want to whine at the time else I wouldn't have stopped ;-) Looks like you all had a fine and productive time.

We stopped by the Pallet Street market on the way home. Mr D was there with his wares (and I will hold…

Hebe

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:34:09 +1300

some of the *boys* decided it was 'hug-day' and they didn't want to get boy-germs :) No fear of that in our 'hood. I sometimes wonder if the pair will end up living together in an island castle all their lives: they just don't have a strong need for others.…

Hebe

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:29:06 +1300

Anyhoo, what was that about our own thread? ;-)Double happy?

Ours are really happy too; the dreaded year 10 has arrived and they are, at least to the family, lovely (not saintly). Mostly. Well sometimes they aren't; but not seriously unlovely if YKWIM.

Isabel Hitchings

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:23:02 +1300

Lovely photos from both my home towns!

Rob Stowell

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:49:11 +1300

since starting Intermediate this year, they’ve been the happiest kids around.
Yay! Can't beat it.
New school for year 8, and so far, touch wood, also going well for thing one and thing two. Though they wanted a day off Wednesday because some of the *boys* decided it was 'hug-day'…

JacksonP

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:37:52 +1300

JacksonP

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:53:07 +1300

Ha. Monday, 4th. Turned 11. Can't believe it really.

I'm afraid of jinxing it, but since starting Intermediate this year, they've been the happiest kids around. They love the school. Kowhai, FTR. Feel incredibly lucky.

Anyhoo, what was that about our own thread? ;-)

Rob Stowell

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:49:39 +1300

Thanks Hebe, it was a little under-done, but lovely anyway. (Rip-sticks instead of surfboards. Family dinner at the Joyful… )
Yeah, I so understand that ‘demands have lifted’ feeling! Even though they haven’t really, a change is as good as a … change :-)

Stephen Judd

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:35:35 +1300

Will the burghers have burgers? Or kebabettes?

Well, it will be a bunfight...

Lilith __

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:13:56 +1300

Sorry to hear about the lurg, Hebe, that sucks!! Glad if things are looking up now, and your boys are making you proud. :-)

Hebe

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:10:45 +1300

I know another pair of identicals from this side of town whose birthday is March 5....
Hope 'your' birthday was great Rob. 15 snuck up on me: in some ways I feel the huge, sometimes overwhelming, demands have lifted. Wonderful hashtag....can we have own thread now?

Rob Stowell

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:56:53 +1300

BTW, our tween twins had a birthday this week too. ;-)
Jeepers, ours were 12 on Feb 28- is that a cluster? :)
#aren’ttwinswonderfuloratleastafterwhatwe’vebeenthroughwe’reentitledtothinkso

Hebe

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:54:14 +1300

Really! What day? Ours were15 on Wednesday. We gave them a surfboard each, took the afternoon off school and went to the beach to play; then Cassels Tannery (Coolston! heh) for a big family dinner. Great day; to see what were 1kg scraps now healthy intelligent goodlooking and very cool…

Sacha

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:44:04 +1300

and you survived. #bravo

JacksonP

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:41:15 +1300

I'm impatient to get snapping again after five weeks of vicious summer flu

So sorry to hear that Hebe. I recall being knocked out by a sinus infection at the same time last year. No fun at all. Hope you are fully recovered soon.

BTW, our tween twins had a…

Hebe

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:27:08 +1300

Here the good burghers of Chchch drag their meagre offerings from their low hovels Will the burghers have burgers? Or kebabettes?

Hebe

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:25:32 +1300

Sorry to have missed you Jackson and PASers; next time the gathering will go to the top of my to-do list. I was excited to see your first photos, thinking 'there IS some beauty here", then realised they were of Nelson. No matter, it's a brief trip to the past…

Lilith __

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:51:48 +1300

I’ll be the one chasing airborne ephemera all over the show

Ian, I thought of you (and Joe, too) when I saw this last night on Twitter: http://vimeo.com/60647216

Video of a traditional glass signwriter at work. Jaw-dropping virtuosity.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:29:32 +1300

Hail fellow well met...
Good to meet you too, Jackson, in the photonic reflection zone, as it were, unmediated by devices or subject to power spikes or tithe...
Here's the poster for the Twilight Market, you are missing, at the Pallet Pavilion tonight!
(finishes at 8.30pm not 9 as on…

Joe Wylie

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:31:47 +1300

Three nice ones there Jackson. Definitely a different eye.

Lilith __

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:04:08 +1300

A couple of relics on Tuam St.

JacksonP

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:33:38 +1300

I seem to recall there were some other night ones?
Yes there were.

On my blog Episodic Table.

Thanks for that. Lots of great stuff in there.

Rob Stowell

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:21:27 +1300

Great pics- thanks for sharing :)

BenWilson

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:43:33 +1300

Great shots, Jackson.

Lilith __

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:35:36 +1300

Lights on the Avon.

Love that shot! So very Chch.
I seem to recall there were some other night ones?

Was terrific to see you and share with you some of the bits that are left. It made me painfully aware how much more has gone, even in the last…

Joe Wylie

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:26:48 +1300

On my blog Episodic Table.
Thanks!

Nora Leggs

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:14:58 +1300

Welcome back Jackson! Looks like you had a fine time there.

A hint of autumn.....

Corn lady

Kebabette

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:12:22 +1300

You might also be interested in this wee project. I am working on pulling together some Christchurch photos for each month – gives a bit of a visual indicator and reminder of what's happening and changing. Have done them from January 2012, just published July 2012 (when the Michael Parekowhai…

Kebabette

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:50:05 +1300

Definitely!

JacksonP

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:26:22 +1300

Lights on the Avon.

right back at you from Ōtautahi.

Thanks Kababette. Sorry didn't manage to catch up on this trip, but will be other chances I hope.

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:26:03 +1300

Lovely stuff, Jackson!

Kebabette

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:21:25 +1300

And I spotted this piece of art on Colombo Street yesterday. Like the trompe l'oeil curtain.

Kebabette

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:19:41 +1300

Wonderful wonderful stuff Jackson – both the words and pics. Arohanui right back at you from Ōtautahi.
Here’s a pic from the Re:START in Christchurch this morning.

Public Address

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:19:41 +1300

Discussion from blog post.