Posts by James W
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There's lots of examples of people who are not particularly qualified to do something having a crack at it.
These people are called amateurs. When they get good at the thing they're having a crack at, they can become professionals. This is not to say an amateur will necessarily do a worse job than a professional, but experience and qualifications aren't just long words.
This anti-artistry has tinges of the anti-intellectual movement to it. "What do the experts know? Bah, I could do that!"
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I can pretty much guarantee that both the Auckland City Council and Telecom logos were the results of clients thinking they know better than the designers. The fact they both look awfully try-hard and completely vague at the same time is proof of Fraser's point: not everyone can do design, including clients.
I'm sure both researched well, however.
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I found it interesting that the Herald's graphic in today's paper (showing what your net gain from the tax cuts minus GST hike would be) started the income at $30,000, despite over 50% of the population earning less than $30,000. Since $30k a year equaled about $2.59 more per week, what will those below that get?
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My favourite bit from this mess:
mining in national parks to go ahead with the establishment of a conservation fund from some of the proceeds as a sweetener.
A conservation fund to conserve... um...
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Just want to say what a fantastic entry today, Russell. Really good, interesting read.
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I, too, watch a lot of TV on DVD. It's often better to get into a show like Mad Men a few seasons late so you have a few box sets ready to go through. I don't know how people wait week to week for a measly hour of content.
I have a HDD recorder and watch most "live" TV this way: start recording, wait 10 minutes (start dinner, go online, talk to a real live person), then start watching. That way I can fast forward through all the ads. Hour-long shows end up taking 40 minutes to watch. I believe this way I am accomplishing more in my day. I should write a self-help book.
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I blame Kim Workman. Had he not gotten smart with his Official Information Act requests – the ones that found that the version of three-strikes introduced would have saved precisely none of the lives ACT were trumpetting prior to the election...
Are these new claims then?
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Graeme:
6. Finally, the initial proposal of the Sensible Sentencing Trust and ACT's to include smacking as a strike offence has still been rejected.
Those two groups wanted to include smacking? Why? I thought the SST didn't want smacking to even be an offence. Why would they want it to be a strike offence? For PR purposes?
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Couldn't we just stick to fiction? Here we are, golden age of television, with an endless supply of beautiful, sexy and scandalous stories... and yet the saddest part is not that we choose "real life", but that we choose to enshrine its stupidest, crassest, most debased stories... and call it celebrity news.
I'd rather we do away with the facade and just put porn in its place.
Media 7 Season 3 Episode 11 2/10/09:
Russell Brown: Is that in itself a justification for running these stories, that people will watch them?
Mike Valentine (producer of Sunday): Um......... no, but ,you know, the justification is that they’re interesting and people- - [realises he’s about to say 'people will watch them'] - - you got to look at them in the whole mix of things, you know, in amongst them is a lot of serious stories too, and people are not going to sit there, every night, and watch a whole lot of serious stories... You know, it’s a mix. And we work hard to give them that because in the end, it is about ratings. People switch off, people lose jobs. Simple as that.
After that, I struggle to complain about the media's titillation reporting. Mike said it. It's about the ratings. They might as well show porn.
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I would've thought the entire reason for designing a new Maori flag in 1990 was because what existed carried too much baggage. That the Tino Rangatiratanga flag has since been used at protests to me says more about race relations in this country than any "meaning" imbued in the design.
I don't see a reason it can't now go on to mean something more unifying, and being allowed to fly it on the bridge on our national day celebrating a treaty between two people seems like the perfect start.