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Alec Baldwin & Jimmy Kimmel Recreate New Zealand Soap Opera
•March 2, 2017 • Leave a Comment
Because dialogue gold “penis” makes for good cliffhangers.
Shortland Street is a long-running soap drama here in New Zealand, 25 years to be exact. I don’t watch Shorty, but like every New Zealander in the country, we all know it. Someone close to you watches it. You will hear about it at some point before the week is out. It is the inescapable, the never-ending, 🎵Shortland Streeeeet 🎶
Bleeders — “Nightmares” [throwback]
•February 25, 2017 • Leave a CommentSaw Kiwi actress Kate Elliott at the pride parade with her friends tonight which made me think of the first time I saw her. I really wanted to say hi but thought fuck it — the chili in my burger aided me in making that decision. She looked the opposite of a nightmare.
Also, The Bleeders are fucking awesome! Night Sky is my fav song off their debut album As Sweet as Sin (2006). The rest are classics in my book. I wish they became bigger, but maybe it adds to their charm that they weren’t.
You’re welcome 😉 and the album booklet had great artwork by Chris Knox:
LOVE IS LOVE [animation]
•February 14, 2017 • Leave a CommentA collaborative animation with 120 artists, illustrators and animators from around the world contributed to the creation of “Love is Love,” a provocative animation project celebrating the beauty of unconditional love.
Directed by Heckler’s senior art director Kyra Bartley, produced by Aborah Buick, music by Johnny Mackay. / Full list of contributing artists — http://www.heckler.tv/loveislove/ [instagram.com/loveisloveanimation/ / facebook.com/loveisloveanimation]
“In a heart full of dust / Lives a creature called lust / It surprises and scares / Like me, like me.” ~ Björk
•February 14, 2017 • Leave a Comment
Chinese New Year at the Auckland Lantern Festival
•February 10, 2017 • Leave a CommentThe Auckland Domain. Strolled and ate for good luck and prosperity with a friend who is just as good at doing those two things at the same time as I am. Better actually, I was sweating balls for some reason. 4x chicken and pork buns. 4x siu mai (open-topped steamed pork or shrimp dumplings). 1x bag of fresh lychees. 2x Japanese mushroom dumplings. Watermelon flavoured cotton candy. Korean spicy rice cakes and 2x Taiwanese bubble teas to wash that weird spicy-bland stuff down.
Also, I hate to admit this but I was having difficulty getting at my pink drink having to deal with the adhesive-vacuum-stuck plastic seal over the cup. Apparently you use the slanted end of the straw to pierce through it. Did you know about that? … …Well fuck.
We got there relatively early and there were already so many people around the food stalls, more-so by the time we left, and of course there were the pretty lanterns about, forty-fifty year old traditional singers, and awesome dragon dancers, one of which I’m certain was my friend’s older brother, Andrew. Pretty cool. Yeah, it was a chill evening. So was the drive back.
Penguin on a Trampoline Pencil Animation by Artist Bashir Sultani [stop-motion animation]
•February 9, 2017 • Leave a Comment10 Great Moments of Subjectivity on Film
•February 6, 2017 • Leave a CommentMovies are often at their best when they augment or twist reality to visualize that which has no form: concepts, emotions, mental states, illnesses, dreams, nightmares. CineFix presents its picks for the best subjective scenes:
Stories are told through a certain character’s perspective and filmmakers create various pathways to bridge the gap of understanding between character and audience. We’ve compiled a list of the best examples that convey a character’s specific state of mind.
GPS Doodles by Artist Stephen Lund
•February 3, 2017 • Leave a CommentStephen Lund, a proactive cyclist who excises his physical and mental stamina on a daily basis has taken his bike riding one step peddle further and turned his cycle routes into an art project with help from a GPS app. Granted these look like shit, in my honest opinion (which I suppose is of course due to infrastructure), what is undeniably impressive is the method of their conception.
Strava is a popular GPS program used by runners and cyclists to track their workouts. Victoria, British Columbia-based artist Stephen Lund uses the program to create these “GPS Doodles” instead. Pedaling an average of 70 kilometers in a single day for each design, Lund completed 70 doodles last year! Here is a selection of his work below:
See more GPS doodles at https://gpsdoodles.com/ It seems like a tedious effort to me, but then again that’s exactly why only a lover of cycling or long distance stepping could pull it off. But I wonder… Yes, I can see them now, my own attempted efforts…
The Time Guardian (1987)
•December 28, 2016 • Leave a CommentThis Australian B-movie gem stars the late Carrie Fisher:
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