Its that time of the year again, when the sun comes out just as people have things to tempt us indoors. Coming to cajole us this week are a plethora of End of Year Graduation Exhibitions, dotted around our fine town. No pictures yet – maybe later – but as a starter for 10, there’s a Weltec final exhibition hidden away in the basement of 39…
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Our previous post was all about the glorious polystyrene and digital fabrications of Weta Workshop and the mind of Sir Peter Jackson. Yes, we do love a good hobbit adventure, and yes, I’m thinking that in some ways the architecture in the three LOTR films far surpasses nearly everything our city has built IRL. But, there comes a time when one has to wake up In…
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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” So, after a week or two of stoush, the waiting is over. Just as…
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A quick post here, that brings me much mirth – and specifically for our Melbourne subscribers. Tonight, at RMIT, if you rush now you will be able to catch it, is a special talk, presenting the results of over 3 years research. I beseech you, someone, to go there and please report back. I need to know how to do this properly – I’ve had so…
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On a lovely summer day like today, the last thing you want to be doing is sitting inside – but there is one conversation going on today that we should be talking about – The Rock. Unveiled to the Media yesterday (no, we weren’t invited) and to be opened by the Key Minister today, there is going to be a Public Open Day soon too –…
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There is a letter in the DomPost today, from a John Wilson in Roseneath. In it, he says in regards to Kerry Prendergast going, that she “leaves us with more than $250 million of debt and unquestionably the worst architectural building developments in the entire southern hemisphere.” I have absolutely no idea what he is referring to. Do you? Presumably, as he is blaming her personally,…
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A slight segue from what we normally discuss here, but a question for you: because I just don’t get it. What is the big fuss about selling privately owned land to foreigners? I really don’t understand that. It is pretty simple: you don’t own that land now, or have any rights over it now – and nor will any of that change in the future. The…
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Well that was a surprise! Here in Fish City we get little in the way of advertising blurb from candidates, and so I was pleasantly surprised to see the result come through on the wire that we have a new Mayor. Not that I ever had anything against our previous Mayor, but you know – after 3 terms, its got to be time to give the…
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While we’re all waiting for the case of the hung mayoralty to be settled (due today – will it be Prendergast for a 4th or Wade-Brown with a 1st?), Post-script: Just announced – We have a new Mayor. Celia Wade-Brown beat Kerry Prendergast by a total of 176, the closest mayoral race yet seen. End result: 24,881 to 24,705 votes. To be sworn in 27 October….
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So: the race for Auckland is over, and Brown has pipped Blue at the post. At the time of writing, we’re still to see if Green will pip Blue in Wellington, with Celia and Kerry running neck and neck down the home straight. But I am very happy that John Banks is not the new mayor of the new city of Auckland. The issue I have…