Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Digital persuasion and the…, in reply to ,
Are there no door handles?
The vandals took the handles!
and... you don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blowsLook out kid...
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Interesting initiative announced today:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/112982552/new-public-media-fund-to-boost-regional-news-coverageThe $1 million of public money being tipped into a pilot scheme to hire more reporters to cover local news around the country won't save media as we've known it, but it's a start.
These reporters will go into places where the local newspaper is battling economic headwinds, and struggling to provide coverage of the depth previous generations of readers enjoyed.Sounds good, but I'm not seeing any mechanism that ensures editors will actually run the stories...
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Hard News: Rip It Up: A history of us, a…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Secondary School Students’ Association
I remember those halcyon days, I was part of the Christchurch Secondary School Students’ Association (and Resistance Bookshop) - I think there was a national conference in the same year as the first Ngaruawahia Music Festival ('73), as I went to both in one trip.
But damned if i can recall if the conference was in Auckland or Wellington or inbetween - old neurons. -
Hard News: Rip It Up: A history of us, a…, in reply to Alfie,
Stick It Up
Mmmmmm… cow gum.
I think it was mostly 'Bull Gum' in NZ
- here's a pic of my last remaining can- (kept with my waxers and Letraset in the "Just in case' box... where I still have a stack of blue-lined/gridded layout sheets and rolls of 'border tapes' of various weights and patterns.
Like you Alfie I covet those old sturdy film boxes, Letraset had some pretty neat storage boxes as well. There is one brand of modern printer paper that has something comparably robust - I really miss the large photographic paper and plate film boxes (A2 at least and bigger). -
Hard News: Rip It Up: A history of us, a…, in reply to ,
Speaking of nostalgia.
and the above is the night after…
Check out that line up!
(if you click through the larger poster is vertical for ease of reading) -
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Hard News: Rip It Up: A history of us, a…, in reply to Russell Brown,
It was usually Wun Loy, up on Hobson St, or the Mekong on Wellesley St, on the other side of the block the RIU building was in. Crucial part of deadline.
Usually dependent on how much cash from the Mail Order books came out of the PO Box at the end of the day - Duran Duran fans kept us fed!
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Hard News: Rip It Up: A history of us, a…, in reply to Russell Brown,
It’s wild how small things change the course of lives. Would I have got to Rip It Up if I hadn’t gone into the shop one day and had that conversation?
You should option that movie idea
- working title?
'Roy Division'
- of course!;- )
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Very sad to hear about Malcolm Black.
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Hard News: Cabinet and the Reeferendum, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
We can sum up the 2019 Nats: sausagey slushy gummy bears by stealth.
We can now also add the ’Bridges of Sighs’!
National leader Simon Bridges was kicked out of the House on Tuesday after loudly sighing before an argument with Speaker Trevor Mallard over an alleged “barnyard noise”.
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On his way out of the house, Peters said that Bridges had made a “seal” sound.Gee, it’s not like Simon to do things by ‘arfs’…
Of course the real Bridge of Sighs is in a ‘real city of intrigue’, Venice, where the 2019 (58th) Art Biennale opens this week (aptly named too on the poster above) – and of course NZ is there with Dane Mitchell’s Post Hoc (nice to see Debbi Gibbs continuing a fine family tradition and acknowledged as a patron sponsor – Onya !)
