Posts by recordari
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Personally, if I was a 24 year-old pop star, I'd be havin' it large.
Yeah, what are you all trying to be, her dad? I think that roles taken. The pink dress was so un-BDO main stage it was perfect, and the sing-a-long break up songs, accompanied by thousands of youngsters for whom the sentiment was like, fo' real, ya' know, kind of made my day. I was young once too, rumour has it. Although my break up album was The Cure Disintegration, so this is way more constructive. FU and your crew! If only someone had told me...
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He also put in a design for Te Papa, incidentally, I wonder if any of you knowledgeable chaps or chapesses knows where one could get hold of it.
Not claiming special knowledge, but it did exist, and I remember people going 'Oooh' and 'Ahhh!' and 'That'll never fly', which it didn't.
There should be a copy in Te Papa, and I'm sure if you asked they'd be helpful, and tell you where to go. Of maybe Jenny Harper has it in Christchurch?
Anyway, I want this coffee set.
Oh, and did anyone notice this aardvark toilet?
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I just want to read my book.
Ka-ching!
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Hold the phone! Australian's booklust fuels nationwide abstinence, according to ground breaking research conducted by Scandinavian furniture company IKEA.
In a survey of over 1000 Aussies, 45% of women and 25% of men would prefer a book than a bonk. This is sure to whet the appetite of both booksellers and the Vatican, while they formalise the canonisation of Mary MacKillop.
Ok, so I used a little artistic licence, but the salient points, as you will see, are entirely true. Whatthe?
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TVNZ's HQ in Auckland was designed to be converted into a shopping mall if the whole television thing didn't work out.
So it didn't work out then?
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Cecelia, think you mentioned Murakami up-thread. I just went in to Baci to find I head a $28 credit, which was exactly the price of Dance Dance Dance. Reading the blurb, I think he may be my new favourite author, and I haven't even read any yet. Where have I been?
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Shh, you will get the Sci-Fi fanboys excited.
Reaches for his sack of flame retardant in readiness...
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Much of it is additional atrium capacity, for corporate events.
Yes, that's what it looked like. In my experience hanging artworks on glass walls is a little tricky, and too much sunlight is not a good thing.
They would have been better opening the tunnels under Albert Park, white washing the walls and hanging some lights. I should reserve my judgement until it opens I suppose. But so much of our national collection is in crates on Tinakori Rd (or is it Taranaki Street?) and if that is anything to go by, I don't have high hopes.
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Speaking of bolting on new bits, found this video flythrough of the new Auckland Art Gallery (with an entrance canopy that looks suspiciously nikau-ish):
Another tacky-on destroyer.
Having worked in the NAG, and been through the discussion and planning for the MONZ/Te Papa, I don't really care what it looks like, I just want to know how much of the space will be actually dedicated to showing art. Hopefully that was in the brief.
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This has been a bit of a bumper month for high-temperature PAS threads, no?
Amazing really. I could kind of understand it on the 'Feminist' thread, which Russell even admitted was a bit inflammatory, and I won't mention the eerie affair involving a red card.
But on a thread about Google in China and now a book thread? What's up with that? I only started this last December, but I feel that I've seen pretty much the best, and worst, of what PAS has to offer.
Still, on balance, the good stuff far out-ways the bad, so I shall stick around and see what happens next. Architecture, Music and Taxes. That should keep the home fires burning.