Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Splore 2014: Everyone's…, in reply to lotech,
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.
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A very interesting 2005 story from the Herald, on the topic of journalists and political affiliations. Includes my 20-years-ago membership of the Auckland Central branch of Labour.
Also notes two journalists who came back: Helen Bain (ministerial press sec) and Deborah Coddington (MP).
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A great batch of Splore pictures on the Rip It Up website.
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Hard News: Bad Judgement, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
But there’s actually a clear process in place to manage any actual or perceived conflict of interest, and I’m damned if I can see any such thing in place at TVNZ.
I suspect you're right. Again, this comes back to editorial leadership.
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Hard News: Splore 2014: Everyone's…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
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 paid, etc. At least you Kiwiburn organisers had the good sense to find a riverside site!
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Hard News: Splore 2014: Everyone's…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
.. ‘Hooligan 69’ …
you lucky bastard …
You'd have loved them. They also gave it heaps on this one ...
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Squeeze was entirely shot in real city locations – Auckland streets, inner-city flats and houses
Party at Brooklyn apartments!
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Auckland punk provided the movie’s soundtrack: Toy Love, The Features, and the Marching Girls. The movie’s title derived from the Toy Love song of the same name which provided its title-theme. The selection of music is indicative of Squeeze’s continuing cultural relevancy for it is precisely this music that is now seen as a valued legacy of the era. It adds considerably to the raw urban feel of the film.
The title and the soundtrack were why my friends and I went to see it in Christchurch. It depicted something we knew existed but hitherto had no way of seeing.
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A nice Splore fashion gallery from the Herald.
Good on the Herald for being there.
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Ha. Just realised I mistakenly captioned that picture as the sunset.
It's not. It's the moonrise.