Posts by Sacha
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Maybe like Kickstarter with a public component - and some coaching and support through the application process to level the playing field.
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How hard would it be for creators and knowledgeable curators to use social technology to make collective decisions about who gets a share of the funding pool, recognising both previous efforts and future potential.
Not a cosy little group, but not beyond those who have some qualified expertise about the form/s being considered either - including the commercial side. Perhaps an audience vote, but I wouldn't want that to be the dominant factor either.
Been done already anywhere?
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Andy Shaw
Tasteful chap
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Agree. I understand the arguments for commercial leverage and a single-minded focus on radio airplay when NZonAir was established.
But really, like so many govt schemes it amounts to corporate welfare - public funding for the industry (labels, radio) but not necessarily the creators. And this artform is mostly ignored by "arts" funders too.
Times have changed and so have the channels musicians can use to reach a lucrative audience and to carve out a cultural presence for our nation in the world. No reason why clips posted online for self-produced music shouldn't also qualify, for instance.
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I bought my first record. Joy Division Closer.
Luckily I put the Duran Duran one back.Sure sounds like one of those life-changing decisions..
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The Wire has never been that - talk with no music. Part of what makes it special is that it's never treated music and current affairs as things that live in isolation from each other.
There's a reason for the local habit of following korero with waiata
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Longer ad breaks, that's what's needed :)
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Oh, is that how you can be more than one person around here?
Works anywhere polite, Nick - just say "I'm the secretary of the Act Party" or whatever your role is.
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If it wasn't his genuine opinion then that's either downright unprofessional or a forgery. I cannot respect that.
I think your anger and disappointment needs to be directed at the senior staff that signed off the report, not Daniel.
Quite. Managers don't seem to put their own names to a report instead when they insist that underlings make sometimes significant changes to or deletions of content. Part of being a public servant, I guess.