Posts by Kerry Weston
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How about a gigantic living sculpture for Auckland? Something people can touch and walk through. something that will grow into its full glory - like David Nash's living sculptures. He's done another of flowering cherries that are trained into a dome and the blossoms create a roof, but, alas, cannot find a picture of it. This is his Ash Dome planted back in about 1977 in the woods around his studio in Wales.
Imagine a living dome of kowhai or pohutukawa...
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Sumner road strewn with the wrecks of runaway drays, and drink-addled solid citizens paying five pounds apiece for imported thrushes and blackbirds,
I seem to recall that Chch had a phenomenal number of madames and bordellos back in the goldrush days, when the panners and miners came to town for a bit of r & r. The toffs wouldn't have partaken of such sinful delights, goodness me, no.
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I got that Kenny Rogers feelin' coming on.... oh, Ruby, don't take your love to town ... didn't someone remake it recently?
That song is one of the most annoyingly stick in yer head numbers ever and it's going to play in mine all day now. Bob would love it!
You've got the bones of a Chch circa 2025 film, there, Emma. Complete with mad scientist and word hunter.
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Ahem, beer.
Love it. The resurgence of Lad Culture - I'm especially charmed by this:
At least I've finally found a use for my chemical engineering background".
can't he find a job in military research or pharma development?? What Aussies do with their brains....
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Well, the DomPost is free on Massey campuses now - do they think they can snatch back an audience? I notice alot more students reading it waiting for lecture rooms to free up etc.
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Please point me at any part of the Copyright Act 1994 that deals with the cultural issues you're raisin.
Perhaps this is why we're talking past each other. I'm talking about copyright as it is, as an economic mechanism, why it's broken, what the future holds for it as a source of revenue etc.
You appear to be talking about the social issue of artists being cared for and rewarded.
Mark, you come across as an evangelist. You've got your eyes so firmly fixated on the prize that you exclude any pov that doesn't help achieve it. Are we surprised you were a public service manager in another life? No.
What laws set out to achieve and how things work in real life are never really synonymous. People find places, nooks and crannies, within the system where they can be comfortable to do their work. Artists of all kinds have been especially adaptable in doing this.
And despite your protestation to the contrary, i agree with Kyle - you sound very free market to me with the adapt or quit stuff.
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Sofie - yeah, i agree about the job summit, pisspoor. I like the cycleway idea less as a response to recession, more just a good, simple idea that could benefit enterprising persons along its path.
I certainly like it better than bailing out banks etc or even the astonishingly brilliant 9 day fortnight.. .I heard some reporter say those present at the Summat represented some 80% of our GDP. Talk about a scintillating Brains Trust.
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I think he means we're all gonna get skinnier...
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You might want to check your facts on this one, Douglas Myers has never been Knighted.
You are however not along in making this mistake, it has been made many times over the years by the media.
I stand corrected, sir. He's a CBE, according to the Alumni of Auckland Uni. Doug Myers
I did check b4 I posted, TVNZ referred to him as Sir so i thought they *must* have got it right.
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I like the cycleway idea precisely because it is small scale and offers opportunities to build on the hospitality theme in quite individualistic ways - as someone else mentioned upthread, bikes need servicing, hungry cyclists need to be fed and watered, entertained now & then, have overnight shelter. Maraes could provide all of that. Or informal homestay networks that bypass bureaucracy. That old-style, casual, laid-back friendly culture revived.