Tag: New Zealand
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Fools & Dreamers – Hugh Wilson & The Hinewai Reserve
I stumbled by accident on this documentary about Hugh Wilson and the Hinewai reserve rewilding a desolate part of New Zealand for the last 30 years. It’s an amazing story, and also some wonderful nature porn for New Zealand. Calming and inspirational and shows that when people call you (or indeed Hugh Wilson) a ‘fool…
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Crumplstock 9 Roundup & After Party set
Phew another Crumplstock is over! Friday night to Early Monday, nearly 40 artists, streaming most of that. I found myself having to bail on Saturday after listening for 12 hours (I really wanted to stay up and hear Dan Untitled and MsMiep), and was listening til the bitter end a few hours ago on Sunday…
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Breaking Dad
Love this picture from Cardboard Box Office – two parents moved with their baby from New Zealand to Sydney and had loads of boxes, so they started doing recreations from films and TV series usually commenting on parenthood too. Here’s Breaking Dad, We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Baby, The PlayTrix, The Life Domestic (the first…
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OpBlackout: You Should Have Expected Us, Megaupload raided
It seems Anonymous has called for war, and this won’t be pretty. Reason? The US raided and pulled down Megaupload, on foreign soil (New Zealand – where they passed or close to passing ACTA – don’t worry, if the EU or your country passes ACTA they will come for you too). So Anonymous, who has…
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The grandaddy of VJing – Len Lye
Years ago I bemoaned the lack of the amazing animator and grandaddy of all VJIng and music video animation on DVD, getting a response from Roger Horrocks that the Len Lye Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive were working on it…well several years later it slips out unbeknown to me on Re:Voir, and you…
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Ukelele Stripper
*insert comment here about being disappointed he didn’t also strip* 😉 *ahem* 😉 Nice playing, and nice player…He’s from New Zealand and so has an accent to die for too *swoon*