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Mincing about in waistcoats
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Mincing about in waistcoats
Art dealers usually target the older and wealthier set, but not so Adam Bryce and Ben King of recently opened Auckland gallery Plaything. Instead, Adam and Ben would like the young’uns to become interested in art and learn more about the artists themselves.
How are the contemporary pop and street art hipsters going about this? Read Felicity Monk’s story about Plaything and Noise Media, and learn how having good contacts helps shave off zeroes in the name of democratising art.
SP TV
Semi-Permanent 09 is done and dusted but the ideas presented will linger on. Deirdre Roberts and Vincent Heeringa were at SP, videocamera in hand, capturing some of the zeitgeist and speaking to Paul Soong (The Church), photographer Alexia Sinclair, typographer David Carson, Harry Pearce from Pentagram in the UK, and animator Philip Hunt.
And don’t miss comic artist James Jean spilling the secret to ageing backwards: only on Idealog TV, of course.
Crack spot
Obviously, the advertising brief for the MSI X-Series laptops was to show off how thin they are. From there, however, to this clip … what happened? Potentially offensive to anyone with any modicum of taste at all. (Via Gizmodo)
Avatar sneaks
Weta Digital’s involvement in the new James Cameron (Titanic, Terminator) movie Avatar has been all very hush-hush. So have Cameron’s infamous temper tantrums. But the first sneaky trailer is now out, and includes a surprising mix of real life and animation effects. Curious. Is this the, er, finished product? Not sure if I like it—yet.
Manufacturing discontent
What if advertising could be, like, good? I mean really good, as in morally uplifting and a positive force in society? Insanity such as this has won Art & Copy, a film about advertising, official selection at numerous film festivals including Sundance. Ridiculous—see what you think.
Location based cheers
Congrats this week go to Pocketweb of Wanaka, which has made it to the finals in the Forum Nokia Developer Community 2009 Calling All Innovators competition that received over 1,700 submissions from 85 countries.
The software that put Pocketweb in the running in the Apps on Maps category is PocketLife, a location-based social network app for the web and mobile devices that uses GPS and Nokia’s Ovi Maps.
Well done, guys, and good luck on September 3 in Stuttgart, when the winner of the Calling All Innovators contest is announced and cash prizes handed out.
Soft and yellow
Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman says the Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, doesn’t discriminate against people and is without political connotations. That may be, but Duckie is still quite menacing at 14 metres high. Hofman’s biggest duck was floated in Nantes two years ago, standing 26 metres tall.
Ska music
SKA could be the biggest thing since the Big Bang. Well, at least the Square Kilometre Array—up to 4,000 antennas spread over a 5,000-kilometre baseline—will be the next best thing to being there. The project, partly led by AUT’s Professor Sergei Gulyaev, got a boost this week with the official Aussie-NZ agreement on the bid for the for billion-dollar project. Back when the project was a baby, Matt Cooney was looking forward to big things.
Gear up for GuideGecko
You’re a writer looking for some exposure, of the business kind? Then take a look at the GuideGecko International Writing Contest, which runs from now until September 24.
GuideGecko publishes travel, lifestyle and entertainment guides, and is holding the competition in conjunction with that massive tribute to literacy, the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, where 300,000 visitors mingle among the works. The competition is open to anyone, and the winner gets a trip to the FBF. Plus, the top three titles will be showcased at the fair.
There are more prizes, such as a selection of Lonely Planet travel guides and travel magazines subscriptions as well, and the competition has very flexible rules. Copyright is retained by the authors and royalties paid, too, which beats the pants off most New Zealand pirates—sorry—publishers.
More about the GuideGecko competition at their website.
Quote of the week
“Creativity is like watching spores. You know how when they multiply? Without a certain few number of spores, you’re not going to get more spores. Does that make sense?”
—Te Radar has creativity sussed.
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Juha Saarinen
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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
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