Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
the origin of the spacies...
No distracting city lights anywhere.
Pure stars and planets...That was one of the upsides of the February quake
and all the power outages
- we got the milky way back (for a while)!dust bunnies...
And we are but star dust
and of course you realise that star dust
is an anagram of stud rats and we are
somehow fittingly, both...
(it just remains to be seen
how and when we will
abandon the planet...) -
Roamin' space, chasin' tail...
More comet Lovejoy, but from a unique vantage point
just a short piece from the International Space Station
Very 2001 and all the speckles in the darkness at the start
are lightning flashes, what a planet we share... -
Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Joe Wylie,
the reanimators' revenge...
possible further knock-offs such as The French Letters, who would likely have lived in a condominum.
and the theme song woulda been Sheath a mod!
How about My Thracians
with cuzzy Spartacus... -
Hard News: Merry Christmas, Blossoms, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Won't someone think of the poor South Islanders and inland North Islanders who can't enjoy pohutukawa in full bloom?
'salright , we got a lovely subdued seasonal
Feijoa in flower... -
a sense of wander...
Nov 22, when we first launched Capture,
seems a distant memory. We had hopes...You might even call it 'sticking your neck out..."
And what an elegant neck it is, all angle and poise!
So how wonderfully apt to have an Audrey Hepburn
hat-tip titled post for the holidays...
neck minute (part 2)......or was it those furshlinger scooters you were thinkin' of?
hmmm : - ) -
Shake, some action...
Home from my Mum's place now, she's fine but her TV screen took a hit and is most psychedelic, luckily I'm not so much dealing with liquefaction on our property, but it is bubbling up in some of the usual places in our street and neighbourhood, not as bad as Bexley and Avonside apparently.
We just have the usual stuff off shelves all over the place - our power was back on when I got home, which was a blessing, and I have now found all the cats and cajoled them into eating and relaxing a bit.
But with jolts every 20 minutes or so it feels like good old quakes and ladders - back to square one again - looking at the excellent Canterbury Quake live site (now someone should give those folk a knighthood or honourable citation!!) the quakes look like a Jericho assault, marching up and down the coast from South Shore to Motunau firing salvoes inland...
Heard Prime TV News and Bob Parker was in oralliquefaction-mode again, the poor reporter tried about 3 times to get a word in, but Bob just kept it coming, bubbling, burbling, sigh....
I wonder if Tony Marryatt will fly back 'specially from Queensland, now he's getting the big money ...
or as Joe Wylie so accurately depicts it - Chchch the new high rollers tableland... -
Going up north for a while...
As I recall this was also made as part of a creative works scheme - in which unemployed artists were given work while learning at the master's feet - and Joe taught them how to become compleat animators, various people had certain sections to do and certain techniques to use.
They had a great set up in an old building in Federal street (I think) or some old part of Auckland round there...
But Joe can, I'm sure, finesse the details...I see a Ken Sparks in the credits and I'm assuming it's 'our' Ken who did such fine work on When A City Falls more recently...
...and I'm pretty sure Joe's 'Blue Men' predate the Watchmen
comic by a coupla years!and why Flying Nun haven't used the Point that thing sequence as a clip is beyond me (probably tied in ludicrous legal niceties) - seems like perfect cross fertilisation and piggy backing of culture to me...
here's some really fresh Joe Wylie work
just to prove he has a collage degree...
(and fire in his belly, still!)
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Southerly: Coming Up For Air, in reply to Ross Mason,
Star dust!
It is the realisation I am this mere speck of dust in this vast universal expanse that makes my life my one and only opportunity to try and enjoy it and to see others around me having the opportunity to enjoy theirs as well.
I believe they call that the 'speck tackle'...
We think too much.
quiteRemember that this season folks:
Don't think and drive...or is that actually:
Don't think, and thrive! -
one for the cometariat...
Comet Lovejoy is apparently quite a spectacle an hour or so before sunrise at the moment, something to show the kids on Christmas morning perhaps - I just can't seem to get up early enough myself... -
Capture: City Scenes, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Never mind the Bollards, pt 2...
nativity event
...and here the 3 Wise Bollards are seen preparing to go look for a babe hiding in a one star accommodation...
(or more correctly a scene from The Reserve Bank Annual & NSFW launch in chch in 2010. Bollards include Dr D. Haywood, J. Wylie and I forget who the 3rd one was. sorry)Happy Solstice everyone...
- one year that's all we got
till things change...
