Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Richard Aston,
tick tock orange?
Calling the above torture is ill informed I believe.
Indeed, seems much more like Fracking ...
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Lilith __,
Monet or mon drain...
Washing on the line.
I feel your pane...
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Up against the wall...
I have memories of a lost Eldorado of those posters: as a kid in Sydenham, the Railway was a large part of the informal entertainment infrastructure, many a weekend was spent playing under the Sydenham/Colombo over-bridge and along the tracks, towers and tunnels - and stacked in deeply seried ranks were all the posters from south island railway stations still on their boards - bone dry under there it was - years later I went back all gone, dammit!
And in the February 2011 earthquake I also lost a master set of NZR carriage and station stencils (rescued from the demolition of the Addington workshops} - but did manage to hang onto some of the old Health and Safety posters from the '30s to '80s... showing a similar stylistic evolution.
Somewhere I also have a box of slides from '70s Guthrey's Travel promotions -
Fellow ephemera collectors may be interested in the NZ Society of Ephemerists the web site may not be up to date but their excellent magazine continues (I am printing issue 8 this weekend) and it has had good articles on travel and tourism ephemera and much, much more... -
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Capture: The Night Time Is The Right Time, in reply to JacksonP,
DIY?
Would love to have one.
Will start saving…Have they stopped the inorganic roadside
collections completely in Auckland?
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Amy Gale,
Space the vinyl* front ear...
... just doesn’t take up much mental space at all.
<ramble>
...and there is an infinite amount of mental space...
more than a cathedral, more than a city,
even on standby visualising power it can
hold a perceived universe together
observing, absorbing, recording...while we are
getting further
seeing smaller
going where......but in the cranial dark
how do we light our dreams?
where do the photons come from?
I really wanna know...I figger that
just as vast galaxies
harbour black holed hearts
our tiny intellects cocoon
sputtering universes
broadcasting
accessible
tunable
pitch forks in the road...Can Maxwell's Demon be far behind?
(silver hammer wielding, or not?)</ramble>
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the Entropy KidPS: as it's Frigga's Day, time for a cuppa tea...
now to try and get the washing machine fxed
<sigh...>*regrettably some cloth ears may be issued.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
in the crowd
sorry, that cap don't fit, this time
(that may've been Garry Moore)
I was far from that maddened crowd
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Hard News: Future shock for the media, in reply to Gareth Ward,
CLICK HERE NOW!!
This link isn't working...
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
word power...
What what what?
Only 3 watts? You're right I was being dim!
Gudrun, sorry for confusion, it was no comment on your words, I was just using them as a springboard from the riff the words started in my head (exacerbated by having watched the Star Trek movie at the weekend) - The Vulcan phrase "Live long and prosper'' has a similar cadence and scansion and well, one thing leads to another - basically, I'm just wired weird.... with a harebrain trigger...
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Hard News: Media3 starts next week, in reply to Bart Janssen,
That's another fine Messier...
M3
I'm sure this is really a reference to the star qualities brought to the table (or tablet for many) and an indication of the constant elation the show's survival brings to watchers...