Posts by Russell Brown
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Further thoughts on the K Road folly ...
When I saw it on Saturday night, I was flabbergasted, because it seemed that the metal screen cut off the entire view from the bridge, but it gets lower towards the middle.
This says to me that the architects had no idea what people actually do on K Road. Had they ever been there at night?
People congregate in that space in front of the Rising Sun. The footpath is about 8 metres wide, and there's seating and people can smoke. Granted, the people who congregate may not always be in a sober state, but that's not illegal.
The new screen closes down that space. Although the glass was murky, you could see across to Hopetoun Bridge. You can't now.
Also: did they really not think that a long, white metal screen might be tagger bait?
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to Simon Bennett,
We used the old K-Rd over bridge as a key location in Sione’s 2. I loved it’s dinginess, and those motley colored tiles. Felt like an integral part of K-Road and Old Auckland.
I think it really got me on Saturday night because I've walked over the bridge so many nights. The footpaths were wide, wide enough to swerve around drunken munters and crazy people. Which is an excellent feature on K Road.
The replacement is just so bland and soulless. Sad.
Solution: commission an Askew piece for the north side screen at least. That would look like K Road.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to Simon Grigg,
And much of that is cash in pocket – I’ve yet to see or hunt out figures on this part of the US grey economy but it must be massive.
The fact that their whole revenue system is fscked is quite possibly their number one problem.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to Hayden East,
Far from ‘smartening up’ K Rd, it’s just made this end feel cold and lifeless.
So, not just me then.
I think most of the people who think it's great have only seen photos. It feels wrong in real life.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Sacha,
How has one of our many tabloid tv shows not done a story on this guy?
Close Up did. Hayden Jones is his special friend.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Simon Lyall,
I remember hearing years back that Don rings up the council/police daily to complain about minor things. The guy has been wasting people’s time for years.
I'm told he calls Radio NZ's newsroom every time a helicopter takes off from the hospital.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to HORansome,
Given what you’ve just quoted, I think McDonald might be a spambot. Either that or he comments under a different name but in the same style on my blog.
Could be. He's been around for years on the local internet. And I'm sure he's not malicious, just eccentric.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to 3410,
He’s clearly somewhat trying to deal with.
Meh. BSA is for judging complaints, not complainants.
But it costs quite a lot of money for each complaint – about one every two weeks from McDonald last year, to TVNZ alone – to go through a fairly complicated process at the broadcaster, and then to the BSA.
In my view, the BSA made a poor call in this instance, but it was based on a frustrating history.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Lilith __,
My info may be out of date, but I seem to recall a large study in the Netherlands some years back finding that the risks to mother and baby were higher in hospital births than in home births for low-risk deliveries . The reason being that higher levels of intervention carry their own risks.
It would be nice to have such data here ...
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I’ve obtained the text of one complaint in which he was apparently alleging that the isobars on the TV weather map had been altered to provide subliminal advertising for the new Shrek movie:
Form compl8 one weath 2nite 11p thu
24 jun 630 fri 25th isobars subliminal advertising new shrek
animate cartoon movie eye nose face repeatHe’s clearly somewhat trying to deal with at times.