Posts by Russell Brown
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Steve Barnes,
This one is only $109 but that is still the price of a decent bottle of Scotch ;-)
The country is bloody awash with overpriced Laphroiag. There are better whiskies you could spent $108 on, for serious.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to 3410,
BTW, TV Guide does publish TVNZ 6 & 7 listings. Not terribly expansive, but it is there.
TV Guide are champs. They also regularly feature a clip from NZ On Screen.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Steve Barnes,
A bit like gardening.
(I don’t do that either) ;-)Well, we have that in common. Although Damian does do the gardening ...
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Hard News: Locking in the Future, in reply to Sacha,
It’s not that black or white. Sensible business people are also unimpressed by the way this government are behaving, as Russell notes
Last time, it got to the point where NBR ran an editorial endorsing Labour policy on local loop unbundling.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I concur, Twitter is aptly named I think, just a bunch of people twittering, it’s like white noise, like the meaningless squiggles on the on the monitor of the Matrix.
I find it highly useful, stimulating and very often jolly good fun.
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Righto ...
I've confirmed that from launch TVNZ 6 and 7 listings were made available at no charge to newspapers and other media.
Very few chose to use them, including newspapers that will run listings for Sky channels with much smaller audiences. Make of that what you will.
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Muse: Rugby World Kitsch, in reply to Chris Bowden,
Long time listener, first time caller here. I just wanted to say that I went inside the rugby ball when it was in London and thought it was fantastic
I won’t be missing it, for sure. It’s a rare treat to see the large-scale installation work of Mike Mizrahi and the Darkroom people actually in New Zealand.
This clip of the opening in Paris four years ago features quite a bit of ooh-ing and ahh-ing in the second half:
This PR-ish piece claims it's "been seen by more than 400 million people around the world". Not all from the inside, presumably ...
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OK, I know there was never a hope in hell of New Zealand doing anything on the scale of London next year, but there seems to have been some joined up thinking going on where arts wasn't a "nice to have" afterthought. (And they're having a recession too, Bill.)
Well, it's what we've got. The mandate, according to Internal Affairs minister Nathan Guy was:
The festival will showcase the best of New Zealand's arts, food and wine, heritage, entertainment, and experiences during the Rugby World Cup 2011.
So it was never going to be the Cultural Olympiad, especially with only 1/20th of the funding and no corporate support.
FWIW, the criteria were:
• The funding priorities are events and/or activities that:
•showcase New Zealand’s culture, heritage and diversity
are one-off, although they may be within an ongoing activity
encourage diversity of participation by communities and visitors
• deliver community benefit of a public nature
• deliver community benefit that would otherwise not be available
•encourage volunteering.Funding will not be provided for:
• events and/or activities that may be funded by other Lottery distribution committees
• capital expenditure projects. This includes the purchase of land or buildings, and the construction or extensive alteration, repair or maintenance of buildings
• Rugby World Cup 2011 Fan Zone costs (e.g. venue hire and/or construction and set up costs)
• commercial ventures
• salaries; except for fixed-term event related contracts
• promotional events and/or activities of a commercial nature
• activities not directly associated with showcasing New Zealand during the Rugby World Cup 2011
• an allocation of an organisations' overhead costs to an event and/or activity.Bob Parker, Sir David Gascoigne, Bob Harvey, Sharon Hunter and Wally Stone were appointed by the minister to consider the applications, which ran to about four times the available budget.
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Hard News: Locking in the Future, in reply to Sacha,
if “They” include their business mates
isn’t that the point
Actually, if you look at who Tuanz represents, it’s some of the biggest companies in the land. And they’re really unhappy with Joyce.
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Muse: Rugby World Kitsch, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Can’t disagree with you there, but plenty of people are and there’s a faint whiff of concern-trolling and political opportunism in play. Did The Herald cover the REAL New Zealand Festival Lottery Fund Committee announcement at all?
It appears not. Nathan Guy made the announcement on March 31 – 175 events sharing $9.48m – and Stuff and NZPA recycled the press release almost verbatim and that was it.
But, again, there was a process, people presented proposals. Pita Sharples calling the Auckland Council and trying to get them to agree to take ownership of the waka right there, over the phone, just sounds like a shambles.