Comments on: Big Day Out http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/ A wide-angle view of architecture, urban design and life in Wellington Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Matt http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5241 Matt Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:58:41 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5241 Sidenote, it was not em who found the image on Alexander Turnbull website, it was Robyn. Sidenote, it was not em who found the image on Alexander Turnbull website, it was Robyn.

]]> By: Maximus http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5236 Maximus Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:08:04 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5236 Right - extra images added. Thanks Matt and Robyn and M-D for your great links and helpful advice. Right – extra images added. Thanks Matt and Robyn and M-D for your great links and helpful advice.

]]> By: Maximus http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5235 Maximus Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:42:21 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5235 Yes, Robyn's link is the correct one - thank you Robyn, and most of all, thank you to the Alexander Turnbull Library for putting such a great image on line. Its actually so much better viewing it on their site, as you can zoom in to an unimaginable degree. In fact, I think I'm going to have to stick some of the blowups in for you to have a look at. Hold on a sec till i figure this out.... Yes, Robyn’s link is the correct one – thank you Robyn, and most of all, thank you to the Alexander Turnbull Library for putting such a great image on line. Its actually so much better viewing it on their site, as you can zoom in to an unimaginable degree. In fact, I think I’m going to have to stick some of the blowups in for you to have a look at. Hold on a sec till i figure this out….

]]> By: Will de Cleene http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5234 Will de Cleene Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:56:28 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5234 Of course hats were popular back then. It was before the invention of shampoo. Every day was a bad hair day. Of course hats were popular back then. It was before the invention of shampoo. Every day was a bad hair day.

]]> By: Matt http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5233 Matt Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:04:45 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5233 If the hatty-crowd image was by William Hall Raine, and he died in 1955, is the image in the public domain http://bit.ly/11I8E ? Should be sitting on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_general_election,_1931 too I reckon. If the hatty-crowd image was by William Hall Raine, and he died in 1955, is the image in the public domain http://bit.ly/11I8E ? Should be sitting on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_general_election,_1931 too I reckon.

]]> By: M-D http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5232 M-D Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:40:37 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5232 OK, so I posted the links, which haven't appeared - so I suspect a moderation filter is at work here...? For those of you in a hurry, just paste these titles into the youtube searchbox: "Inaugural Poem recited by Elizabeth Alexander" and "Making Fun Of The Barack Obama Inauguration Speech" (skip to about 1:20 to get to the Daily Show clip) OK, so I posted the links, which haven’t appeared – so I suspect a moderation filter is at work here…?

For those of you in a hurry, just paste these titles into the youtube searchbox:

“Inaugural Poem recited by Elizabeth Alexander”

and

“Making Fun Of The Barack Obama Inauguration Speech”
(skip to about 1:20 to get to the Daily Show clip)

]]> By: M-D http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5231 M-D Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:36:41 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5231 That poem - for the literary masochists amongst us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FHAL7l7HpI And the Daily Show segment (skip to 1:20): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuXIx76mIFc That poem – for the literary masochists amongst us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FHAL7l7HpI

And the Daily Show segment (skip to 1:20):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuXIx76mIFc

]]> By: M-D http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5230 M-D Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:35:11 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5230 I'm not sure if the comment that I made this morning is still awaiting moderation (as it contained a couple of links) or whether it just got lost somewhere in the ether, but here is another shot at it (please delete the other if it is still in the moderation queue...): The poem was truly awful - trite and rather prosaic as well, and while it would have been great to have been able to make that judgment for ourselves, in the end I think the NZ media 'personalities' actually did us all a favour. Obama's own speeches contain more 'poetry' than that drivel. You can hear the poem in the first of the youtube links that I will put in a separate reply below) As for CHANGE, The Daily Show had a terrific send-up of the inauguration speech last night, by splicing excerpts of one George W Bush into highlights of Obama's speech - the rhetoric was nearly identical, it could have been from a template of stuff-that-the-American-public-like-to-hear. Which really does beg the question, eloquently put by the Jason Jones at the end of the segment (the second youtube link below): "why is cheese delicious on Italian food, but when you melt it on Chinese food it's disgusting"? I’m not sure if the comment that I made this morning is still awaiting moderation (as it contained a couple of links) or whether it just got lost somewhere in the ether, but here is another shot at it (please delete the other if it is still in the moderation queue…):

The poem was truly awful – trite and rather prosaic as well, and while it would have been great to have been able to make that judgment for ourselves, in the end I think the NZ media ‘personalities’ actually did us all a favour. Obama’s own speeches contain more ‘poetry’ than that drivel. You can hear the poem in the first of the youtube links that I will put in a separate reply below)

As for CHANGE, The Daily Show had a terrific send-up of the inauguration speech last night, by splicing excerpts of one George W Bush into highlights of Obama’s speech – the rhetoric was nearly identical, it could have been from a template of stuff-that-the-American-public-like-to-hear. Which really does beg the question, eloquently put by the Jason Jones at the end of the segment (the second youtube link below):
“why is cheese delicious on Italian food, but when you melt it on Chinese food it’s disgusting”?

]]> By: Robyn http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5228 Robyn Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:56:48 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5228 Here’s the photo, and there are others in the archive. I was going to comment on how similar everyone looks, but I suspect that 70 years from now, our decendants will say the same about us.

Re TV commentary – I wonder if this is because NZers are so used to it with sports commentary. We can’t just watch (or read a caption) – we have to have every last minute filled in with a description of what’s happening and some trivia facts thrown in.

Re public spaces – I rather like how Wellington’s capital spaces have sort of evolved with strong influence from the landscape, rather than being laid out by a L’Enfant or a Burley Griffin. The snaking Lambton Quay is a far cooler grand route to Parliament than any boulevard created by a designers ruler.

]]> By: Drewfus http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5226 Drewfus Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:18:27 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/big-day-out/#comment-5226 Try the Timeframes search engine at the Natlib. http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz. Try the Timeframes search engine at the Natlib. http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz.

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