Archive for February, 2011
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Just to say that I am OK. I've been very lucky, and my thoughts go out to all of those who have been less fortunate. Christchurch will rise again, but with everything that defined it, the architectural heritage, erased, it will be a different city altogether. Please spare a thought ...
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
Oh My God - the New Zealand Police's new advertising campaign is making people a little bit sick in their mouth all around the world.
Check it out - we will never live it down. I've already started getting emails about it
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/02/cre.html
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
De-Building at Christchurch Art Gallery is a difficult show to form an opinion on. As Jay from America's Next Top Model would say, I'm not mad at it. If you'd never toured contemporary galleries overseas and seen this sort of thing before, it is going to be very good for ...
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Some of you may be surprised that the vast majority of media reports on the Ron Mueck show at Christchurch Art Gallery focused almost entirely on the record breaking visitor numbers and said almost nothing about the art itself. Being a member of that august institution - the NZ arts ...
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Sunday, February 6th, 2011
I was born in 1975. The year 1975 (in Roman numerals MCMLXXV), twentieth century, second millennium – was a remarkably turbulent year all round, not including the terrible storm that ripped the roof off of Timaru Hospital as I was being delivered via the surgically invasive manner attributed to the ...
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