Posts by James Littlewood*
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Sooo, I was engaged in my usual commuter stroll up Queen St yesterday with Hornblower when he deadpanned "oh look, we're in a Bravia ad". And sure enough, hundreds of purple sphere were rolling across the Queen/Victoria intersection. One plopped into my foot. "www.purplespehres.co.nz". Right. "Sounds like a Prince song gone wrong". Ho ho ho. Still, the design and innovation team at work were well curious.
My only hope: none of them ended up in the Waitemata.
And speaking of the environment, Green party campaign launch today:
http://www.greens.org.nz/election08
Why would you not?
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I first heard Montgommery in the 1970s when Peter Lester won a solo dinghy class world champs off Takapuna. He was just as pointlessly noisy - and bereft of insight - then as he is now.
In the opening ceremony, did anyone else notice the Japanese team waving both Chinese and Japanese flags? I thought that was a nice touch.
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Or perhaps as trans-gender, sword brandishing hit man/woman/being from Ashes of Time Redux.
Without being well familiar with Kar-wai's work, this escapade put me in mind of Lean's Lawrence of Arabia and Chris Marker's La Jette. Plenty of powpow, but mainly in the camera, editing and art departments. the fight choreography was -as predicted - a tad ambiguous. The story lost me on the 2nd frame, without inhibiting my enjoyment of it at all.
Pologies for the clunky off-topic segue.
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Wong Kar-Wai doesn't do 'wahoo fun powpow' more delicate melancholy and eye-poppingly luscious, highly stylized visuals.
True enough, and well supported by You Tube cheat clips. And the programme note wasn't kidding re. egg-yolk yellow desert.
Still, eye-ball popping, egg yolk-yellow visuals should be ok of a sunday morn.
Agree on the return of the Asian component.
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Fair cop
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Oh an much as I love Niki's films, I do remember her telling Pavement Mag ...
"I'm not sure if Elam's stamped it out yet, but when I was there, there was a bunch of us who only wanted to make narrative-based films" or similar.
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Philip
Understand the reluctance at assigning Greg to the poetry basket.
Not so much kitchen sink, as toilet bowl. Perhaps I'm responding to his dedication to risk-taking images, stories and ... importantly ... characterisations. But hey - what use poetry, if not risk?
Has anyone read The Man From London novel?
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Robyn G: Yeah consuming less works, and true, it's hard to sell.
But consumption is not only the responsibility of consumers. It's something that can be controlled more effectively at the point of production.
The Greens' water-usage tax is what is needed across the board ... if you implement water efficiencies, you pay less tax.
National & Key, and Labour if they get the chance, should follow suit: reduce income tax and company tax, but increase consumption taxes. That will enable the creation of recycling industries, which takes the responsibility off consumers without adding to the cost of living. I think.
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Never mind Liquoland. Us westies go to "King Dick's".
Yeayaah!
Ahem. But back to the chat ...
While the Aussie measures seem a tad draconian, perhaps it's a matter of what you're used to. There was a time when smoking was an unassailable right. Now even the brits can't do it in pubs.
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The off-licences are generally dreadful, and the bars provide a steady income courtesy of that other scourge, pokies. The supermarkets still sell booze, just via a jack-up with the trusts.
True, they do tend towards the dreadful. And it's insane that they specialise in precisely the kind of muck that liquor companies use to target youthful binge drinkers.
But limiting the number of licences is precisely the goal. Regarding the pokies, I think The Trusts enables the reduction of that particular scourge, although I'm open to correction on that ...
Still, ownership is important. Who's the more desirable profiteer: Foodstuffs or local philanthropy? Who's the desirable beneficiary: private stock holders or local charities?