Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Here's one I prepared earlier, in reply to BenWilson,
Aw c'mon, I still find it pretty funny to think of all those punters looking out at the alluring come hither eyes of one of our elected representatives when they go for their payday roll in the hay.
Well, yes. She's offered her own image for use in a large outdoor display advertisement for a tenant that sells sexual services. There's nothing wrong with any of that, but it gets a bit silly if no one's allowed to mention sex when they talk about it. And it is a somewhat unusual thing for a landlord to do.
I actually tweeted something along the lines of whatever Calvert's eyes were saying to me in that billboard, it wasn't come hither. I thought that was alright, and true. Bomber's blog post on a similar theme crossed a line into tacky and wrong.
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to Tamsin6,
Also Russell, I am interested to know – what kind of people are library people? I think you need to clarify what your thinking is on this.
No slight intended. Library and archive professionals have different training, different priorities and different personal networks to people who have worked in or around, say, the music business.
The project that Simon proposes is going to require a lot of interaction and winning of trust with music people – especially when it gets to the physical archive phase and you’re talking about master tapes getting handed over, or rights being granted for works to be made available online.
For NZ On Screen part of clearing, say, episodes of Barry Barclay's Tangata Whenua for release on the website has been contracting the right people to go out and do the talking. I think Tainui Stevens is doing some work in that vein for us at the moment.
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to Sacha,
Thanks buddy. Genuinely appreciated.
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to Sacha,
I want this thread to be civil, in the hope that people in the archives sector will feel comfortable coming in and contributing. That was a bit snipey.
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I deleted your comment, Sacha. Ease up.
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One thing I think has been important at NZ On Screen is having people, employed or contracted, who are well integrated in the screen production industry and can build trust.
Commercial producers have generally been happy to allow programmes from their catalogues to be freely available for the public good, but industry networks help.
NZ On Screen, of course, only does the digitisation and access part, not the preservation, but I strongly suspect something similar would apply to Simon's project.
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to David,
Can only hope this new "entrepeneurial" approach to collecting is better informed about what already exists than those on that thread!
Fair enough, David. I'd be very happy for you to critique those comments, and explain more about what the Turnbull NZ Music Archive does. Seriously.
But just to be clear, I meant entrepreneurial more in the sense of Information Entrepreneurs, the paper I gave to a Friends of the Turnbull conference.
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Hard News: Here's one I prepared earlier, in reply to Greg Wood,
I had extra-hype versions of the dreams I’ve always had – which generally involve me and friends past and present, in a variety of shifting settings (in this case, at one point, an undreamt-of version of New Plymouth). Communication seemed to be a theme.
I don’t ever recall dreaming of structure in the way you describe. But, then, I was crap at woodwork.
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to David,
which thread is that Simon? - some of us are new to this site, so it is good to catch up.
This one, I think.
But, further to the note about the existing NZ Music Archive some recent interesting accessions have included audio archives of Radio Active live music, audio archives of Happy alternative music venue, further additions of audio to the Huggard Jazz archive, further papers of Richard Nunns. All seems a pretty healthy operation to me. Certainly could do with more funding though
Couldn't they all. But, much as I treasure the Turnbull, I just don't think there is the entrepreneurial spark there that what Simon's proposing would require. The kind of people who'd make it tick aren't really library people.
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to Claire,
I agree that we shouldn't hand over our archives to a non-public organisation, but think its a bit rough to be dismissing the Film Archive when they have been surviving for years on excruciatingly small amounts of funding.
I'm honestly not trying to dismiss them, but Roger Horrocks' review did identify quite a few problems -- while, as I noticed, offering particular praise for the archive's excellent interaction with the public.
But would you merge our entire broadcasting heritage into the NZFA as it is? Hell, no. That's the issue.