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Blade runners
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Blade runners
‘Three engineers get fed up of doing the dishwashers and chuck the lot to the wind’ may not sound like much of a story, but trust us, this one’s powerful and a good read to boot.
Amanda Cropp speaks to Wayne O’Hara, Richard Butler and Bill Currie about squeezing kilowatt-hours out of thin air with revolutionary single-bladed turbines—and how they feel about taking the step into the unknown in their late forties. Read the story on our website.
In a viral
These guys have obviously never driven in Auckland rush hour traffic. See that kind of stuff every day.
Call that a motor?
And while we’re on automotive subjects, designers Mike and Maaike predict that sometime around 2040 you’ll hand in the steering wheel for good. And the car keys. The baseball-cap-backwards brigade won’t like it much.
The video Idealog doesn’t want you to see
Truly shocking moments of HB Media deviancy captured on camera: see Vincent Heeringa close up and Matt Cooney doing it on stage with a microphone. Rest of the staff from Good and Inspire get in on the action and OMG … just remember that once viewed, it cannot be unseen.
The incubus goes there
Shutterbug Heeringa also made his way to the Icehouse to chat with CEO Andy Hamilton about incubators and receding hairlines.
No camels then
Congrats to Travis O’Keefe (Ngati Porou) who picked up the Supreme Eye of the Needle Maori Innovation Award last Saturday for Health TV, which spreads health and wellbeing information in medical centres.
Alan Wichman (Ngati Porou/Rarotonga), Glen Katu (Ngati Rereahu/Ngati Maniapoto), Rhonda Kite (Te Aupouri) and the Taonga Education Centre, Manukau City (Georgina Kupa, Anne Candy, Marama Whaiapa) were named Innovation Icons for their work over the past years in technology, health and business.
Maurice Tipene (Te Arawa/Ngati Awa/Ngapuhi) and Dr Adele Whyte (Ngati Kahungunu/Whakatahea) were named Rangatahi Innovation Icons for their sterling academic and research efforts too.
The Maori Innovation Awards took place at the Atamira: Maori in the City biennial exposition last weekend in Auckland.
Job of the Week
Creative Director - FMCG (P0512)
Our client is an established and prominent design company who specialise in branding and more specifically FMCG packaging design.
They have developed a fantastic team environment unlike any other and have some great 'personalities' amongst it. Their premises are fabulous and are centrally located on the city fringe.
This is an exceptional opportunity for a current Creative Director looking for a change of scene, or a very senior designer (8-10 years minimum) at the top of your game, who is looking to develop their skills in overseeing a team and the creative product coming out of a hot studio. They are looking for an inspirational, energetic and edgy person who has the passion and personality to drive and mentor a team of like-minded individuals.
You will need to be effective and comfortable in a client facing role and have a portfolio showing some strong work. It is essential this identifies your strengths in branding and profiles some of your exceptional FMCG packaging work. Your strategic skills will need to be well developed, you must be an amazing 'ideas' person, and you will be an effective communicator who is confident and shows the ability to inspire others to produce their best possible work.
Most importantly you'll have a wicked sense of humour and an outgoing personality.
If you are ready to really give it your all and would like to be leading a highly talented interactive team, then do contact at Portfolio Recruitment on 09 379-9303, or apply on our website.
All fall down
Here’s a dramatic story on why you need to watch out when workers really dig it.
Go the Onyas
Your web work is better than you think, and the Onyas wants it. More information on how to enter is up—and the answers to a bunch of questions—so check it out at the Onyas website. Entries close on August 20.
Upstage wouldn’t be right
Do you prefer not to duke it out with intoxicated punters late at night but still want to see some of Wellington’s hottest bands? Do you go to face the music, only to realise that you have work next day and have to leave?
In that case, the Soundstage at the Downstage Theatre could be right for you. Once a month on Sunday evenings, Soundstage will feature some great local acts, starting on July 19 with The Woolshed Sessions. This is means “lashings of lap-steel guitar, lush vocal harmony singalongs, taonga puoro and banjo punctuations” from some of NZ’s most respected independent musicians, with a Takaka Twang.
Quote of the week
“It’s amazing! We’re going to make energy out of thin air!”
—Wayne O’Hara of Powerhouse Wind recalls a competitor’s delight
More at Idealog online
Read more on our website: web exclusives, opinion, creative directory, Idealog TV, the Idealog blogs and the Idealog podcast. See you at idealog.co.nz.
Juha Saarinen
Ideologue, Weekly
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Previously in Idealog Weekly …
October 30, 2009: Man of the moment
October 23, 2009: By the numbers
October 16, 2009: Pavlova principles
October 9, 2009: The secret of the songbook
October 2, 2009: Free and easy
September 25, 2009: What the world wants
September 18, 2009: A slice of the pie
September 11, 2009: Walking man
September 6, 2009: A calmer kind of business
August 28, 2009: We have issues
August 21, 2009: Mincing about in waistcoats
August 14, 2009: Wired on pop culture
August 7, 2009: Trust is not a commodity
July 31, 2009: Fuzzy logic
July 24, 2009: Game of life
July 17, 2009: Grape expectations
July 10, 2009: Blade runners
July 3, 2009: Free: another word for nothing left to lose
June 26, 2009: Poorly pleased
June 19, 2009: The giver
June 12, 2009: Buggy on down
June 5, 2009: Brand Cambo
May 29, 2009: When the going gets tough, go proactive
May 22, 2009: Bayerische Wasserstoffmotorenwerke
May 15, 2009: Rugger blogger
May 8, 2009: Get on our cloud
May 1, 2009: Easy Tiger
April 24, 2009: Tiki tacky
April 17, 2009: The not-so-great indoors
April 3, 2009: A site for sore eyes
March 27, 2009: Dual control
March 20, 2009: Worth their Alt
March 13, 2009: Biofuels or bio-fools?
March 6, 2009: It's electrifying
February 27, 2009: Experience-rich and theory-poor
February 20, 2009: It's a hundred-and-fourteen-pager
February 13, 2009: Own your mistakes
February 5, 2009: Rules—made to be broken
January 30, 2009: Money: that's what I want
December 5, 2008: Framed by the thousands
November 28, 2008: Spank-branding novelty next week
November 21, 2008: In the Loop
November 14, 2008: Your good health
November 7, 2008: Misfits of science
October 31, 2008: No absence of colour
October 24, 2008: Plain-speaking Peri
October 17, 2008: Rebels with a cause
October 10, 2008: Seoulipsism
October 3, 2008: Fall seven times and stand up eight
September 26, 2008: Don't label us
September 19, 2008: Bloody Graham
September 19, 2008: Dream proposition
September 5, 2008: Taxi!!!
August 29, 2008: Up-Skilling on Idealog TV
August 22, 2008: 144 pages of pure pleasure, plus politics
August 15, 2008: Wash down that Lovemark with a Steinie
August 8, 2008: Strange journey
August 1, 2008: SMElly and happy
July 25, 2008: What a dive
July 18, 2008: Softly and woolly does it
July 11, 2008: The saviour from Timaru
July 4, 2008: Last laugh
June 27, 2008: King Kev
June 20, 2008: Slow ART
June 13, 2008: Killing two birds with methane
June 6, 2008: A combine harvester
May 30, 2008: Gold paint
May 23, 2008: Rock, out
May 16, 2008: Goodwill hunting
May 9, 2008: No wine jokes please
May 2, 2008: Who's bad?
April 24, 2008: Succession success
April 18, 2008: Out now or thereabouts
April 11, 2008: Paint by numbers
April 4, 2008: Reincarnated good
March 28, 2008: Making it
March 20, 2008: Knock three times
March 14, 2008: The customer is always tight
March 7, 2008: Beautiful words
February 28, 2008: Goodnight, I'm off to work
February 22, 2008: The art issue
February 15, 2008: Straight to the top
February 8, 2008: H for hot
December 13, 2007: Nothing in common? Perfect
December 6, 2007: Who needs a beer?
November 30, 2007: Dirty secret goes public
November 23, 2007: Don't speak
November 16, 2007: Worthy work (and free beer)
November 2, 2007: East meets best
October 25, 2007: Raid the fridge
October 19, 2007: Looking good
October 13, 2007: Can't miss it
October 5, 2007: Fresh meat delivery
September 28, 2007: If the walls had eyes
September 21, 2007: Phoenix rising
September 15, 2007: Can we fix it? Yes we can
September 6, 2007: Feats of social engineering
August 31, 2007: Doesn't bite
August 24, 2007: Telling us where to go
August 16, 2007: Tomorrow time
August 10, 2007: Going West
August 3, 2007: How to ... be your business
July 27, 2007: Freaky food
July 20, 2007: Meet the neighbours
July 12, 2007: Free Hollie
July 6, 2007: Green queen
June 29, 2007: The truth about youth
June 21, 2007: Walk this way
June 14, 2007: Times ten
June 7, 2007: The ape woman needs a label
June 1, 2007: Impossible is something
May 25, 2007: Yeah, we're still here
May 11, 2007: Trophy time
May 3, 2007: Friends with the band
April 23, 2007: Why worry?
April 19, 2007: Done by the big jobs
April 12, 2007: A rockin' good read
April 5, 2007: No fear
March 29, 2007: Out to pasture
March 22, 2007: Hip-hop and The Human Touch
March 15, 2007: Crazy Frog and Billy T
March 10, 2007: The Benadryl edition
March 1, 2007: We can be Xero
February 22, 2007: Back on board
December 15, 2006: Free beer
December 8, 2006: December 8, 2006
December 1, 2006: December 1, 2006
November 24, 2006: November 24, 2006
November 16, 2006: November 16, 2006
November 9, 2006: November 9, 2006
November 3, 2006: November 3, 2006
October 26, 2006: October 26, 2006
October 19, 2006: October 19, 2006
October 12, 2006: October 12, 2006
October 6, 2006: October 6, 2006
September 28, 2006: September 28, 2006
September 21, 2006: September 21, 2006
September 14, 2006: September 14, 2006
September 7, 2006: September 7, 2006
August 31, 2006: August 31, 2006
August 24, 2006: August 24, 2006
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