Posts by lotech
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Bam! I think you got it pretty much spot on Graham.
Why did hip-hop fail in NZ? Was it the assumption of a year of hustling the artists future success was earned? After a huge first album where is Scribe? I remember the Exponents touring every 4-6 months when I was a kid but find it hard to catch a similar band once a year now?
PS - the movie industry suffers the same problem - other than PJ who actually is getting anything from this 'Movie Industry'? Theres jobs for people but damned if any of our other directors are taking the world by storm.
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I think this post at Tumeke summed it up - http://tumeke.blogspot.com/2007/02/barack-obama-and-rise-of-generation-x.html
The baby boomers are dying - and if they've taught us anything 'Me First' is a great way of screwing everything for most people - mankind can only get to that ideal better/smarter place by working together.
This whole religion over science is an excellent example.
Maybe, in 20 years we'll be eating stem cells or have them automatically put in our water supply. -
I'm all for loosing the billboards - I bet 6 months after it comes in to effect people will realize how marketing had taken over far too much of the Auckland landscape and that in the end was a good move.
And for all the 'lose of a $70mil industry" should realize that advertisers are still going to need to advertise - and in other mediums. We lost Pavement (for better or for worse) and numerous other magazines thanks to a lack of advertisers.