Posts by Joe Wylie
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If the Press's readers are as dumb as it appears to assume they are, do they deserve to live? A sometime insurance industry employee poses as a happy quake-affected homeowner, complete with borderline kiddie-pimped toddler. If it wasn't for the bubblehead corporate claptrap tone of the piece, and the fact that a couple of his victims recognised him, he just might have gotten away with it.
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Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Saleyards gallery from 2009 by Brendon Keenan.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Sacha,
the shameful lack of viable alternative representatives to vote for
Alternatives? Like with ECAN effectively abolished, and the rush to push projects through while CERA is still an effective dictatorship?
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Hebe,
It is easy in Christchurch to forget that the rest of NZ and much of the world is in economic crisis:
Except the convention centred cargo cult isn't a Christchurch-originated phenomenon. While it has its local cheer squad, like so much of the bureaucratic refuse that have been drawn to the "rebuild", it's been largely foisted upon us from outside.
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Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to JacksonP,
Three nice ones there Jackson. Definitely a different eye.
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Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to Kebabette,
On my blog Episodic Table.
Thanks!
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"Methylphenidate was first synthesized in 1944 . . . by Ciba (now Novartis) chemist Leandro Panizzon. His wife, Marguerite, had low blood pressure and would take the drug as a stimulant before playing tennis. He named the substance Ritaline, after his wife's nickname, Rita."
As Lou Reed said, those were different times.
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Hard News: When the drug warriors turn, in reply to Farmer Green,
You could still get a buzz off it.
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Hard News: When the drug warriors turn, in reply to Farmer Green,
Anyone remember the little benzedrine nasal inhalers that were used in the 50s and 60s?
Presumably you're referring to those little items sold as Benzedrex. Still available in the US, but banned here in the early 2000s. You'd have to be very old indeed to remember when they contained real benzedrine. Despite the misleading name, by the end of the 50s the active ingredient was the P-like propylhexedrine. As you say, don't bullshit the kids.
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Hard News: Photoshocks, in reply to Russell Brown,
It's interesting to speculate how much of the killer-cyborg vibe is context. The pic, by Peiter Hugo, originally appeared in the New York Times last year to, it seems, no controversy at all.
It's certainly interesting how the image gained a whole new life once the context changed. Its original message seems to be the kind of thing that fits well with corporate mythology, with all those implications about overcoming adversity being down to motivation, with a little help from technology.
I remember a prominently displayed hoarding in similar style that was all over Sydney in the late 90s. A men's basketball team, all disabled athletes, were featured in a lavishly lit studio shot, with as much emphasis on their gleaming protheses as on their almost psychotic eyeballing of the viewer. Paid for by the bank who happened to be the team's sponsor,