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The art issue
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The art issue
When you hail from the home of New Zealand’s most controversial art gallery, the Govett Brewster, I reckon it’s your birthright to decide what art is not. It’s not the strip of wallpaper that was once hung, not affixed, to those hallowed gallery walls. It’s not the blank piece of paper that failed to get crowds contemplating either. In issue 14 of Idealog we pay homage to a bunch of Kiwi artists who tick the only art criteria box there is: original thought. There’s Sofia Minson, who makes a very nice living inviting busloads of art buyers into her living room. There are the Ponoko designers who are making art-making a very intimate process—just them, the artist and the public at large. And there are the people making fashion out of utter rubbish, with just a good idea and a good wash in between. Grab the new Idealog on Monday; guaranteed to be more illuminating than a blank piece of paper in any case. Subscriber copies are in the mail.
Sweet as
Imagine plying your coffee with a sweetener that doesn’t force you to make a choice between tooth or brain decay. We have a New Zealand company to thank for this sweet future—and Big Sugar to thank if it all goes sour.
Mind games
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas unearthed all kinds of impressive technology—but none more so than something you can’t see. A headset lined with brainwave-reading sensors allows the wearer to power the direction of a computer game with their mind—and that’s just the beginning. Mind power has already selected music based on mood, moved Second Life avatars down virtual hallways, and robots down real ones. Kind of makes Wii look a bit pissy doesn’t it?
Hobbit house
To Lord of the Rings fans, this may be the most precious treasure of all: instructions on how to build your very own hobbit house. The materials are simple—stone, mud, straw and reclaimed wood. Digging down to Middle Earth, however, could prove a bit more difficult. (Via Geekologie)
The un-dirty dozen
If you need a fitting car to park in your underground Hobbit driveway, check out the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy’s 2008 list of cars. Turns out, owning one of them doesn’t have to cost any more than building a mud house—the greenest, the Honda Civic GX, will set you back just US$25,000. But, because it runs on compressed natural gas, a cleaner-burning and less carbon-emitting alternative to gasoline, you’ll also need to buy one of Honda’ at-home pumps. Then, with the ability to tap into your own natural gas line, you’ll never have to leave home again— unless, of course, you actually want to drive somewhere.
Toasting the Six Pack
Okay, it’s not so much an event as a date with a pen, pad and a bottle of your favourite creativity igniter, but if you’re an emerging or established writer this one’s a biggie. Six Pack, the well-known NZ short story anthology, is back for a third year and there’s only six weeks left to enter. This year organisers are encouraging writers of essays, travel pieces and biographies to have a go along with authors of short stories, novel excerpts and poetry. To download entry forms and criteria visit NZ Book Month
It’s the Year of the Rat, but you can get yours off to a much less sinister-sounding start at The Lantern Festival in Auckland’s Albert Park. The free event will light up tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday evening with tons of entertainment, food and, very probably, lanterns. 5.30pm–10.30pm
But if family entertainment doesn’t do it for you, maybe this will: Downtown Brown has just brought out a new compilation for Sandwiches Summerset. Let us know why you need some bass in your life and we could very well provide you with some.
Quote of the week
“The entire economic systems of some countries are based on sugar and, all of a sudden, here comes something to challenge that. Just the idea puts a lot of people into fear.”
—Stephen LeFebvre, Sweet Science
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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
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November 24, 2006: November 24, 2006
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