Posts by Joe Wylie
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Polity: Hekia's waynebrave, in reply to andin,
"A tune was being played, sparing of melodic invention, free too of any marked variation in volume, rhythm, harmony, expression, tempo, or tone-colour, and, more or less in time with it, groups of dancers were wheeling, plunging, and gesticulating while the ogre, more aphasic than before, mumbled at full strength:
'Ya parp the Hawky-Cawky arnd ya tarn parp-parp, Parp what it's parp parp-parp.'"
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim, 1954
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Sydney Padua
*Appreciated*
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to David Hood,
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Tony Abbott is mourned in Australia...will be missed by the country’s wordsmiths.
Wordsmurfs, more like it. Going by their mealy-mouthed collection of bland "Australianisms", that lot couldn't get a soapy stick up a dog's bum.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I understand that London's Victorian underground railway has resulted in a sometimes fatal disease now known as Tube-berk-closeness...
:- )...not to be confused with brucellosis, encountered mainly around Earl's Court?
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Hard News: Stop acting like the law is…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Mike Yardley (Chchch's own Mike Hosking clone) weighs in with a highly emotive and ham-fisted rant against legalisation...
Yardley generally manages to sing from the same hymnal as the Herald's John Roughan. A while back their opinion pieces - talking up e-cigarettes, spruiking offshore oil exploration - appeared so tightly synched that you could've been forgiven for assuming that the same folks had been shouting them lunch at the same places.
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Legal Beagle: The law to make it easier…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Korako's example seems ill-thought out.
Claire Trevett's apparent fuzziness with detail can't be helping. For example, how did Cosgrove manage a "ministerial trip" in 2010 when he'd been an opposition MP since 2008?
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Hard News: Friday Music: Just William, in reply to Russell Brown,
I recall the first time I actually got to go inside and behold William's vast basement record library ...
From the infectious ease of his writing you never feel daunted by William Dart's expertise. Ever since encountering his work in Rip It Up back in the late 70s I've loved the way he makes what he writes about seem like a shared discovery. As a side note to Peter Alsop's superb work on NZ photo history I found this worth revisiting:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10752444 -
Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to John Farrell,
...this grandchildren's lives.
Because shapeshifting reptilians have multiple lives, like cats? For those who follow the signs, the truth occasionally oozes through.
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Marvelous piece of history, thanks so much for this.
A photo about 35x50cm would take about one morning to colour.
That's pretty quick, even by digital standards.
Some may find the Colourising New Zealand Facebook page of interest. For me the examples that don't come off are when someone has pitched in with the digital colouring without tweaking the tones of the black and white original for maximum clarity, and the results can be disappointingly flat or lost in shadow. No doubt Whites Aviation had that down to a fine art.
A modern-day "colorizer" whose work I enjoy is Patty Allison, who blogs under the moniker Imbued with Hues. Although she's based in Portland, Maine, one of her nicer works is a treatment of a 1930s shot of Titahi Bay. While she claims to rigorously research her historical subjects, the golden tone if those sands seems inspired by somewhere other than Porirua.
