Hard News: Invasion of the pagan matrons
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Quilter's is where I get my rugby programmes and stuff. I was annoyed by the move to Cuba because I can't browse in my lunch hour
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Quilter's are open on Saturday now? Score!
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It's great that things which were once ghettoised as 'craft' are now 'art', and can be lavish and crazy and weird if the artists feel the urge. (And also that more traditional 'craft' is so much more valued than it was previously. I note that I'm typing this next to an ad for Felt...)
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Riddiford Street is the new Cuba Street.
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Does that mean Cuba Street is the new Upper Hutt shops?
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I was there roaming Wellington with a group of ten Waiheke women. I did think we were youngish in comparison to most other obvious groups. After thursday opening night WOW we had great fun at the MIghTy Mighty two nights in a row. Shame the City Art Gallery didn't open until Sunday, just as we were getting back on a plane. Apart from that we all thought it was to be repeated. Wellington=good girlie city with lots of shopping and bars that serve cocktails in teacups.
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the heart of the Cuba quadrant
Oh puh-lease... when I last lived in WN the council were trying to pretend it was Paris (Left Bank anyone?) with their "Lambton Quarter" "Cuba Quarter" signs etc... and now they want us to believe it's Westminster?
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It would have been hard to choose a more unfortunate acronym for something that is "for, by and about women" than WOW, since that is already pwned by World of Warcraft.
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already pwned by World of Warcraft
Well the wearable art did come first.
However, a surprisingly large number of women play WoW.
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However, a surprisingly large number of women play WoW.
Or at least by men who like to play as female characters.
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I still haven't gotten over WoW moving away from Nelson. In large part because (due to my parents being there) it was feasible to go at least every 2-3 years.
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I still haven't gotten over WoW moving away from Nelson. In large part because (due to my parents being there) it was feasible to go at least every 2-3 years.
After the third time all the entrees start to look the same though.
"Haven't we seen that crawling crab couch before dear?"
"No, it was something similar but made of aluminium cans and gull feathers."
"I thought that was the dancing goat faced baby?" etc...
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After the third time all the entrees start to look the same though.
That's why you skip a year or two :-)
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After the third time all the entrees start to look the same though.
It's surprising how much similarity there is. And the organisers are quite ruthless with grouping all the like stuff together. You've made a Marie Antoinette dress? Yeah, well, so have all these other people, so yours had better be great.
I'm not fond of anything that looks like I could buy it from a clothing shop or rent from a costume hire place. But there are many sparks of orginality among the giant lizards and grass skirts.
But the wearable art itself isn't really what's worth going there for. It's all about the stagecraft - the choreography, lighting, sets and theatrical trickery. That's the real star of the show.
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However, a surprisingly large number of women play WoW.
Or at least by men who like to play as female characters.
For further enlightenment...
Nick Yee: WoW Gender-Bending
Wow.com: Boys that Play Girls that Play Games -
pwned by World of Warcraft
Only among geeks, I'd venture.
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It would have been hard to choose a more unfortunate acronym for something that is "for, by and about women" than WOW, since that is already pwned by World of Warcraft.
I'm more concerned that wearableart is supposed to be one word. Bring on WOWA
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Yeah, Left Bank of what? Even with rain like today and the Bucket Fountain going full bore, Cuba St is hardly the Seine.
I think it all comes down to Kerry really wanting to be Mayor of Paris, but failing on account of neither being French, or any bloody good. So she tries to infuse pretension into Wellington and spends half her year on overseas jollies.
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"I thought about the extent to which WOW is for, by and about women. More than two thirds of the 33-strong production team, including the event's founders and creative leaders, are women."
Having spent a bit of time there Fashion Week in Auckland is the same, it's run by and for women.
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Lagarus Ovatus En Masse is totally going steady with Frank from Donnie Darko. I also really need to get my act together and write about WOWA from a Pretty Pretty Pretty perspective...
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However, a surprisingly large number of women play WoW.
I was making a joke, btw, not attempting a threadjack. I'll just be amused by anyone out there attempting to Google the Wearable Art and ending up wading through Warcraft forums about designer armor and mounts.
Re genderbending in WoW, I have to say the more interesting thing to me is why women don't tend to do it, not why men do it.
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I remember reading about some gender research that showed most men would give being a women a go but most women would prefer being a dolphin. Long ago, no refs.
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most men would give being a women a go but most women would prefer being a dolphin.
My parents were fond of telling us we could be anything when we grew up, so when they asked my brother Rick what he wanted to be, he replied "oh, a skunk or a cannonball".
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Heh! Give your big bro' A+ (yep, know the French) for total originality...
any female human who knows anything about some dolphin behaviour (Tursiops truncatus I am so looking at you), or the parasite load most species carry, would emphatically reject being a dolphin...
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I appreciate the WoW entries that are less costume-like and more haute couture art that can be *moved* in. The garments need to work with the performative nature of the show; grab attention in what can be a very busy show visually, and have a strong conceptual element that translates well but is not too literal.
So to my taste the entry by Wellingtonians Hayley and Fiona that won the 2009 Runner Up Supreme WOW Award & Winner Creative Excellence Section - Fold was outstanding.
It is called Second Skin.
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