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Sacha

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:14:00 +1300

gorgeous

Russell Brown

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:12:43 +1300

Seun Shote’s fabulous collection of photographs of the people of Splore 2014.

So many smiles.

Mark Thomas

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:20:10 +1300

That is seriously impressive. You guys should be proud

Russell Brown

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:03:39 +1300

Splore just posted this pic of the campsite at 6pm on Sunday, clearly we cracked it when it comes to both educating punters and managing what inevitable waste there was.

That's just bloody brilliant.

lotech

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:21:16 +1300

Meanwhile at Glastonbury (and from my experience – BW Campground @ R&V)

lotech

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:17:09 +1300

Splore just posted this pic of the campsite at 6pm on Sunday, clearly we cracked it when it comes to both educating punters and managing what inevitable waste there was.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=701473796564698&set=a.210303132348436.57017.191108500934566&type=1&theater

Alan Perrott

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:22:40 +1300

five years? sweet, we're hoping to be back again in a year or two. and good to hear some of the rubbish that was creeping in at the last site has been dealt to.

Russell Brown

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:16:27 +1300

A great batch of Splore pictures on the Rip It Up website.

Paul Campbell

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:16:44 +1300

I wish I could go to Kiwiburn again .... but sadly anything on grass in the middle of hayfever season is just out ... but still we're going back to that other burn again this year .....

Russell Brown

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:36:37 +1300

If you like Splore (and have huge amounts of spare cash and don’t mind it being fsking hot) you may enjoy Burning Man. Or Kiwiburn, next year.

Splore’s really not that much like Burning Man though – there’s no “radical self-reliance” and there’s an appropriate level of commerce. Performers are…

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:18:43 +1300

Yep. The new space is great – nice environment, no exogenous security hassles, co-operative local powers. It needs a bit of tweaking to separate camping from sound, and the river isn't deep enough to float the pirate ship, sadly. By all accounts the landowner enjoyed it and we have a…

Alan Perrott

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:40:15 +1300

Ritchie, did you go to Kiwiburn this year? I heard good things about the new space.

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:20:45 +1300

If you like Splore (and have huge amounts of spare cash and don't mind it being fsking hot) you may enjoy Burning Man. Or Kiwiburn, next year.

lotech

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:57:20 +1300

Kim Newalls VJ performance is always a highlight of Splore, he also created the Love Creatures art installation taking advantage of augmented reality and a smart phone app.
Overall – an amazing festival which is a pleasure to produce for you all to experience. Lets all do it again soon.

Mark Thomas

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:59:17 +1300

Hmmm yeah I suspected so. I was sort of hoping it might be further down the hippie scale, a la Splore.

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:53:17 +1300

Very, very hippy. Drum circles, if you like that sort of thing. I'd hope they still have psy-trance.

Mark Thomas

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:49:47 +1300

Thinking about trying out this festival next year http://www.luminatefestival.co.nz/ do you know what it's like?

Mark Thomas

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:47:54 +1300

My pleasure. I like that view from the lookout, we didn't get around to checking it out. What a place, and what lovely people

amanda

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:39:39 +1300

Sat night with Ty

Nick Shand

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:04:10 +1300

Sweet thxs llew40 ... attached is a photo of the costume.
Especially after crowd interaction / reaction pics for my portfolio

Paul Campbell

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:59:47 +1300

I spent Saturday at the Waitati Music festival, (across the street from Metiria'a 'castle').

It's a nice laid back combination of country field day and music, kids, families, I got sun burned ......

Best thing I saw on the day was one time as a band started up a gaggle of…

Peter Darlington

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:55:40 +1300

.. ‘Hooligan 69’ …

you lucky bastard …

You'd have loved them. They also gave it heaps on this one ...

So jealous. Reggae owes me money really arrived like a gunshot, takng dancehall/ragga to a whole new level. It was like reggae from outer space and I guess was…

Russell Brown

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:54:47 +1300

.. ‘Hooligan 69’ …

you lucky bastard …

You'd have loved them. They also gave it heaps on this one ...

http://youtu.be/JIdJTmMMPmk

llew40

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 06:41:25 +1300

Nick I didn't get a photo but stood next to him during the Cuban Brothers, and the costume was outstanding

Nick Shand

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:39:37 +1300

Anyone have pics of the glowing Maori warrior roaming around on Saturday night?

Pure self interest in this request as I made the costume but sadly had to miss this years splore :(

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:11:55 +1300

A nice Splore fashion gallery from the Herald.

Good on the Herald for being there.

Sacha

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:45:25 +1300

harem styles
#hammertime

Simon Grigg

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:10:18 +1300

.. ‘Hooligan 69’ ...

you lucky bastard ...

Rich Lock

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:08:36 +1300

You would have enjoyed the feeling at The Gathering..

Are we still talking about Russell’s pants?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, the answer is blowin’ in the wind.

Sacha

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:34:43 +1300

Bravo. You would have enjoyed the feeling at The Gathering..

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:24:17 +1300

Ha. Just realised I mistakenly captioned that picture as the sunset.

It's not. It's the moonrise.

JacksonP

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:25:50 +1300

Good call. Really does sound like fun all the same.

Martin Lindberg

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:15:20 +1300

starting a Twitter outrage

isn't that the point of twitter?

Michael Bodle

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:12:19 +1300

"Splore is like a great wedding party: everyone’s basically family, but some people just haven’t met each other yet."

This!

Which makes The Cuban Brothers the world's greatest wedding DJs. From Whitney Houston to Gangstar and everything in between with everyone loving it.

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:51:49 +1300

I'm inclined to say 'photo or it didn't happen', but then again it might by best left to the imagination. :-)

There are photos, but I am a bit wary of someone ripping an image out of context and starting a Twitter outrage. Which is a bit sad, but a…

JacksonP

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:05:02 +1300

Arabic patriarch and the seven of them my niqab-clad wives.

I'm inclined to say 'photo or it didn't happen', but then again it might by best left to the imagination. :-)

It does sound like a fun time, and the site looks awesome. I should go next year.

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:27:30 +1300

Here’s a Google Streetview style photo sphere of the main stage area on Saturday morning. Bliss

Yay! Thank you for posting that.

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:33:41 +1300

Here's a panorama I took on Sunday morning, from the lookout point above the site.

Mark Thomas

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:44:11 +1300

Here’s a Google Streetview style photo sphere of the main stage area on Saturday morning. Bliss

https://plus.google.com/102141479797884806186/posts/VuL3ekb34QM

EDIT: link doesn't seem to work in Internet Explorer

Mark Thomas

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:39:12 +1300

Damn you

Lucy Telfar Barnard

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:22:55 +1300

As mentioned once or twice [aka only about a million times...], I'm not really a music festival sort of person, but I've heard this performance was one of the highlights?

Public Address

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:22:55 +1300

Discussion from blog post.