Posts by Mark Easterbrook
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We could always license drinkers instead of outlets...and have automated doors that only let micro-chipped, licensed drinkers in.
You'd report to the testing station when you turn 18, knock back a dozen RTDs, then they'd monitor your behaviour and interview you on a range of topics.
If you didn't come across as too much of a dick, you'd pass. I you wet your pants, punched someone, fell asleep, or voiced your support for ACT, you'd be stood down for a year before you could try again.
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Gosh Mark, you're an even bigger comics geek than me if you've been following the Marvel U that closely lately. Which villain is it?
At 6'4", I'm a bigger geek than almost anybody ;)
Basically the sort of territory explored by V For Vendetta before it became fashionable to discuss.
That's my point - when even the most mainstream end of the comic spectrum is in that territory, it speaks positively for the whole medium.
It would be kind of like Adam Sandler doing a high-grossing blockbuster that drew attention to unsustainable palm oil production and the plight of the orangutan. If even he was doing that, imagine what great work would be happening at the independent documentary maker end of the film spectrum.
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The convergence of comic-con and the film industry represents - to me - the huge flaw in current Hollywood film making: their products are all aimed at children, or adults with Peter-Pan complexes (nee geeks). I'm happy to watch movies about wizards and elves and robots and dragons every now and then - once or twice a year, say - but most of the time I want something a bit more grown up.
The joy of comics (as I've recently rediscovered after a 10+ year absence) is that under the surface of the arrested adolescent explosions and robots and wizards, is some very savvy exploration of media, culture and politics.
As an example from the most mainstream of the mainstream, the central plotline currently running in the Marvel Comics Universe has a former supervillain becoming a Rumsfeld-esque figure with a disturbing level of control over the US government and its enforcement agencies. He gets there by having a masterful understanding of media manipulation and being seen doing and saying the right things at the right time.
There's plenty of explosions and spandex, sure, but there is also a critical examination going on of how the Bush administration used the media and the fear of terrorism to manipulate the public into giving up their freedoms.
It's not high-level political/social science, but it shows that the medium has depth, even at its most commercial and mainstream end.
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Congrats to the PR bod who came up with "eleven slices", now a compulsory part of the catechism, like plasma TVs in prison and hip-hop tours. Not ten. Not twelve. Too even, too round. Eleven it is, and ever shall be
OT but related to this earlier comment...why did nobody in the media/opposition puff and pout about John Key's Pacific tour entourage, which included a hip-hop dance crew?
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Don't knock that view of the Mt Albert - Waterview motorway Damian. I plan to mount an anti-tank gun in my lounge window so I can blast those criminals from South Auckland as they approach the off-ramp.
I'm going to call it "Melissa".
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There's not much to complain about there.... I think it's actually quite well done?
Speaking as someone loosely connected to this...
The safety video and the related TV ad have been very well received and drawn few complaints from anyone.
The TV ad is up to 2,250,000 hits on YouTube, and has featured in media all around the world, garnering some great PR for the airline and NZ, and hopefully some record sales for Gin Wigmore.
Yesterday, the safety video was even on the front page of CNN.com
As you were...
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Ooooooooo....that Tiki Taane's a lovely bit of Friday goodness...
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Let's combine those ideas Scott. How about 10 to a container, then load them all on a boat? We could do like the Europeans and dump our refuse off the coast of Somalia. They'll appreciate the extra hands for their burgeoning piracy industry.
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Mmmm...I've got a Laphroaig tucked away in the cupboard at home. I wonder what's an excusable time to slip away from work today?
Nice to chat with you briefly last night Mr Slack, and I raise my (not yet in hand) glass to your (re)visionary history of our Glorious Cycleway.
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Love that Diamond Sea cover.
The original used to get inadvertently thrashed at bFM in the early mornings ...if the next DJ hadn't turned up, and the current host had the pip, they'd put the system on automatic and leave.
The computer would automatically search for the longest tracks it could find - and at 19:36, Diamond Sea got picked every time.