Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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Is, on average, highly paid and highly educated. (43% >$100,000 annual household income)
Please advise where I can get my salary topped up to meet this demographic. (A substantial top-up will be required - my current contract ends in August!)
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Hard News: NetHui is here, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I have used . info for my new website, which has a nice neutral ring about it.
My new website is a .co.nz. Despite having had a domain name for my personal website since 1998, this is the first .nz domain I've had. It absolutely felt like the right thing to do.
Weirdest domain I've ever owned - niger.st, a page dedicated to Niger Street in Arch Hill.
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Hard News: That's Entertainment!, in reply to Andre Alessi,
If only a New Zealand musician were to be able to use Fassavoy imagery in their videos, it would be something like a cultural perfect storm.
Fassavoy vs The Feelers. It is obvious who would win.
Fassavoy vs Fits-era Shayne Carter, quite a tough battle.
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Hard News: That's Entertainment!, in reply to Joanna,
Also, I can't wait to read Robyn's analysis of this particular video in which our favourite bad man about town is ROBBED, TOTALLY ROBBED.
Music videos only, but perhaps that one is worth a special mention.
Actually, that video is one of the two vids I watch if I'm feeling a bit low. It perks me up instantly (little Tom!). The other video is Amanda Palmer performing Map of Tasmania on Media 7. Brilliant!
And thanks, Russell, for the mention. It's quite exciting seeing it right up at the top of the page. (Though I'm just as excited as news of the UMO album. Yus!)
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Muse: Emotion Pictures, in reply to Islander,
I’ll wait for Arrietty (first touted as “The Borrower Arrietty”) to come out with English dialogue
Which reminds me - why is it that people are happy to watch foreign-language cartoons dubbed into English, but turn their noses up at the same for live-action films? The English script still has to be written and spoken to fit the voice moments of the original language.
Having said that, cute French animation A Cat in Paris is screening at the festival with both English-dubbed and subtitled versions.
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Directly related to this very topic is one of the films in this year's NZ Film Festival* - Page One: Inside the New York Times.
The film-maker has been given access to the NYT's media department, following both an old-school journo (the awesome media columnist David Carr) and a new-school social-media-fuelled reporter (Brian Stelter). Along the way, the paper deals with the Wikileaks saga, and indeed struggles with the question of what their future will be in the constantly changing world of modern media.
And it will make you think - if this is what the NY Times is dealing with, what's it like for smaller papers?
* Disclaimer: I'm currently working at the NZFF, which is how I have come to have viewed Page One already. But I bloody love this film and I think y'all will <3 it too.
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I figured that was the case, though NZ On Air's Kiwi Hits website seems to have a column in its catalogue search results page for displaying music videos (but even so, NZ On Screen does it better).
It's a shame be cause there are hundreds of those old videos that aren't available online. The songs that people remember and love get digitised. It's the weird little bands that have faded from our digital memory.
The Film Archive has lots in its archive that aren't (yet) online. Otherwise, most NZ music videos online are the result of artists or record companies uploading, and fans lovingly making digital copies of their videotaped collections of old music videos.
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I really like the idea of NZ On Screen being the accessible side of New Zealand's film, television and sound archives.While the archive bodies look after the footage, NZ On Screen are the ones who curate the works, displaying them on online and providing some context and behind-the-scenes info. The same thing could apply to content from the radio archives too.
Meanwhile, I would like to see every single music video made from NZ On Air funding to be available online. There is a lot missing from the webs! (This is related to my cool new web project, which I will be announcing soon.)
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Best thing about the Colin pic - the foot in the lower left-hand corner. It doesn't seem like it should be there, and yet it's the perfect place for a cat's foot.
Also - in the future when antibiotics stop working, doctors will prescribe internet lolz.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Emma Hart,
If I consider your comment triggering, I will disemvowel it.
For those of us who aren't familiar with the concept of triggering, can you please give us a brief definition?