Posts by Damian Christie
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Cracker: Bloggers: Pr*cks, Ars*holes,…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
You can’t really be taken seriously when you complain.
I've been on many a work overseas Jolly. Most of my own making, in one way or another. Most recently I went to China for three days, most of which was spent in the back of cars cruising from one side of a shitty great city (not even one of the good ones like Shanghai) filming clothes factories and the like.
I wouldn't describe it as a holiday, but as a life experience it beats 3 days in the office.
My partner used to go on sampling trips, essentially shopping her way around London, Paris, Barcelona etc, with a work credit card, buying clothes that inspired her in some way shape or form, to adapt (rather than just copy) elements of for a fashion range. I went along with her for a day in Paris - shit it was a long day, 10 hours traipsing around shop after shop - I was dead at the end of it, and she'd do that for two weeks non-stop. Exhausting - but she knew well enough not to complain about clothes shopping in Paris on the company dime!
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
You made the same insinuation about Lockwood, Graeme. Is this because a) Lockwood will resign and b) Banks will get kicked out or c) You don't envisage the legislation will get to final reading until the next term of Parliament after which both a) and b) will be true anyway.
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Twitter is great for this. I've been chasing Richard Prosser around the room for most of the morning. Marriage pre-date religion he says. Great, so what basis for it to be hetero then? Human pair bonding goes back a long time, apparently, and/or I'm just representing the views of ordinary conservatives. So you don't agree with them, and if so, on what basis? etc etc.
Also, he agrees (with Colin Craig, interestingly), that the state has no place to regulate personal affairs, or as Craig says "no place in the bedroom". On this we agree, except I think they both miss the irony of their position.
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“In the big picture, it’s not that important… We’ve been focused on the broader economy.”
– “I can only fuck up one thing at a time.”
Brilliant.
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What lens/settings were you using here Jackson? Flash? Great pics, something I'm almost never able to replicate when I'm doing live music shooting...
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And finally: we will again be serving delicious Hallertau brews from the keg, but we're not in a position to provide food
IANAL (Well IAS-OAL... IUTBAL) but... ?
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Target demographics for advertisers top out at 49, and the programming reflects that.
Actually, just to be accurate, both TV1 and now TV3 (which shifted its demo upwards recently) target the 25-54 demographic. So you’ve got another few years before you’re ignored completely Russ. :)
Stupid though, as you point out, there’s a huge amount of money in that older demographic, but from various stories I’ve done, it seems it’s as much about the people the ad agencies want to pitch their cool new crazy campaigns at, as much as who’s got the money. Maybe there are arguments to be made about advertising towards older people who are already brand-loyal (TV1’s 60+ audience share seems to reflect that, as Holmes found out to his detriment), but I saw some stat somewhere that 1 in 3 big screen TVs are going to people older than that target demo…
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Up Front: You're Telling My Child What, Now?, in reply to Megan Wegan,
I know that mixing toilet cleaner and bleach is a really bad idea,
Is that a sex tip? If so, I've got a lot to learn.
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It is great news for Media 7/3 - well done Russell. And credit to TV3 for taking it on. Not only do they get some great programming, they also get the chance to stick it to TVNZ for letting its public service programming slip away. I'd imagine the latter was at least a small consideration - the icing on the cake :)
The difference between Media 7 and Back Benches is that we're made by TVNZ, produced internally as part of News & Current Affairs. So when the announcement was made to close TVNZ 7, Top Shelf and RB did what any good production company would do, and hit the phones, worked contacts, tried to find a new home. Whereas TVNZ clearly aren't going to do that, at least not outside of TVNZ. We lack, if you will, a 'champion'. And given neither Wallace nor I own the concept/name, it's not ours to shop around.
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Cracker: Audience wanted for lively TV discussion, in reply to Martin Roberts,
Or is the idea to have solar on 100% of roofs? I'm down for that
Yeah, sorry, that's the idea - to have 100% of roofs having solar panels on them. Not that we can supply all NZ's energy needs with sunlight. Few issues on the frequent cloudy days... :) But as I might have said above, Israel has 90% penetration, so it's definitely near-achievable, if we wanted to.