Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Du jour nailist!
John Oliver does Journalism…
I guess we already have HONC and STONC!*
*Herald On-line News Content and Stuff On-line News Content
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As to that Aussie swimming sledger - no surprises there I guess - but I thought that kind of behaviour was up there with doping as a something contrary to the Olympic sporting ethos...
Maybe they'll offer 'Bullying' as a demonstration sport at the next Olympics - though those seem to have fallen away since Barcelona in 1992. -
I loved what I saw of the opening ceremony - a real ingenious hands on approach (though gawd knows what those huge on floor screens cost) - a real Creative Junk solution to a low budget but high spectacle - this is before the athletes arrive.
Disappointed that the Herald ran with a real middleaged white guy take on it 'Giselle Bundchen steals the show' fer chrissake!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11688498 -
Hard News: All right, then – take me to Rio, in reply to Tom Semmens,
in Hawkes Bay, where I am currently on holiday,
Which book did Hemingway write in Hawke's Bay?
or should I say welcome back...
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icon see clearly now…
The NZ Herald seems a bit revisionist in its take on Auckland’s secret history – their Auckland City ‘Lovebite #17’ states that –Iconic record store Real Groovy has been selling and trading vinyl for the past 25 years, making it an Auckland institution.
That only seems to cover the period from 1991 when they moved into the old 1920s building and doesn’t cover their time (metres away) at the even more ‘iconic’ 496 Queen street site on the corner of Queen St and City Rd, or their earlier (original?) premises a bit further out of town at the start of Mt Eden Road (end of Symonds street) in the ’80s… (IIRC)
…the ownership may have changed slightly at times but the logo remained the same (I think it is a Chris Mousdale design originally).So even when revealed, Auckland secrets still have secrets…
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an adult conversation is being held in Chchch tonight:
CPN August Forum
The Housing crisis
Monday August 8th, 7.15pm
WEA Hall, 59 Gloucester StreetGuest Speakers:
Phil Twyford – Labour Party Housing Spokesperson
Metiria Turei – Green Party Housing spokesperson(New Zealand First MP Denis O’Rourke and Minister of Housing Nick Smith have given their apologies)
The second part of the meeting will be chaired by Sheena Dickson to discuss how Christchurch housing groups can work more closely with the community to pressure council and central government for the resources needed to meet the housing crisis in Christchurch.
We will also discuss whether Christchurch should organise a solidarity sleep-out in cars to highlight the housing crisis here.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to John Farrell,
New English
you’re fired!
They’re obviously getting a better ‘calibre’ of journalist covering the Olympics, as Stuff reports:A bullet was at a press conference room at the equestrian centre landing inside the building, a New Zealand Olympic spokesperson said, and the shot was fired about the same time an explosion was heard near an Olympic cycling venue
from:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/81912309/rio-olympics-while-you-were-sleeping..
Unless it s code for ‘pinhead’?Meanwhile rookie mistakes can still be found in their political opinion pieces:
Under the privileges of Parliament, they have certain powers to illicit answers from Ministers that cannot be dodged without consequences.
see;
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/82853889/stacey-kirk-parties-to-war-over-chinese-trade-can-the-opposition-glance-a-blow
it certainly elicited a groan from me…
…or perhaps they were trying to make a broader point about National ministers’ ‘illicit answers’ – at times it does seem like they are forbidden to deal with the truth.PS: this story drew to a close with an unfortunate and clumsy boxing or shooting analogy, which also contained some, er. contautology* of English?
It’s what the Government knew and when – of which many Ministers and officials are still contortioning around – that will produce the body shot.
*okay, okay I made that word up …
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Speaker: Colouring Girl, in reply to Lilith __,
my old friends at Microfilm Digital Print in Chch
Were you a ‘Copy kid’ too?
I used to work for Pandamonium Publishing that did all MF’s digital and design many years ago – I think Andrew is still there – though it’s owned by Caxton these days… I worked on a lot of Cadsonbury books for them as well, like the Tram book in several volumes (on a Mac SE30 – it was like being on the deck of the Enterprise at the time – surfing the technology wave – wahooo…)
I see an ex-Copy kid Hannah Beehre has just won the Parkin prize!!
(Which John Ward-Knox has also won in the past… they’ve both had special mentions as well)I’m starting to feel old now, must go make a cup of tea…
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Modern photographic archaeology would have to consider Trade Me and eBay and the like as the most lucrative middens to scavenge through – the things one misses out on…
http://www.ebay.ie/sch/Photographic-Images/14277/i.html?_oac=1&_nkw=slide&_sop=19There are plenty of Whites pix here (including the one above):
http://www.carters.com.au/index.cfm/index/1740-new-zealand-themes-photographs/
and
http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/price-guide/Antique-Photos_hq/7/1.htmlAlso ‘Somewhere’ I have a box of slides from the ’60s/’70s that Guthreys travel and Newmans buses were throwing out – not to mention the headshots of every Jockey in Canterbury on ready to print half tone plates – that The Press threw out when the technology changed…
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magic…
A parallel industry would have been the hand painted ‘magic lantern’ slides, a vestigial art from the Victorian days and earlier – I still regret not even having a dollar on me when in an antique shop (in ’70s Chchch) that had a whole box of these slides including one of the pink and white terraces – they were selling them for a buck each!
I went back later, but that one had gone, I did buy others though and had a working lantern for quite a while – I used to use them in primitive light shows at school and afterwards – I must dig them out some day (they’re in a box somewhere – hmmm, I might use that for an epitaph)Picture sources:
http://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/missions/nhphoto3.htm
and
https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/thehockenblog/2014/03/05/some-advertising-magic-is-released-by-a-recent-acquisition-at-the-hocken/
and
http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/price-guide/Antique-Photos_hq/143/1.html
