Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
This was pretty, but I did find it a bit odd, really. Without knowing quite why. Appreciate your thoughts above Sofie.
What can I say… Spectacular!. I found the visuals clever . I don’t believe the message was one to incite any anger and I do believe it was such a connection to the entire programme that it would have been more odd to leave it out. Plus I think it tied a bit of Auckland History to their story which the Museum seemed absolutely the right place to do it.
So in all, lots of wine helped create these not so great photos, and as one may see in a couple of shots, I think Jackson had a better spot than me (to my right :) -
Few more…
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Also Jackson, what was the chicks about. Battery farming?
I have none of those but I liked very much the Container Docks with the fence.
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With the demise
And the farewell.
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Nice pics Sofie…. so spectacular we went again last night…..!
Went early to get a spot closer… time to catch the warm up acts.
There were marching girls… not The Marching Girls.
But these dancers and drummers were amazing, especially in the golden glow of the sun going down….
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More dance and drum
and boys and stiltwalking butterfly
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Waiting….
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Being closer I could actually see that some of the costumes were bird themed….
and even managed to get a shot with the suited ones standing fairly still
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Mr Leggs was most impressed with the moving figure eight of sequenced over-sized bunsen burners. The heat was almost as intense as standing next to the kitchen door at a local chinese dumpling restaurant!
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The museum clothed in seismograph
And the backlit glasshouseIt really was a great show (again). I had a better sense of how the rainbow warrior segment worked within the whole show this time, an important episode in the NZ timeline – the crowd response to this segment was the same this time as on Thursday night – non-plussed and silent.
One thing that really added to the show experience last night was the gaggle of 7 or 8 year old boys behind us. There responses to the show were priceless - laughing and gasping all the way.
Have to say the final burst of fireworks seemed even more intense and frenetic, and the smell of sulphur appropriately hung heavy in the air as that pall of smoke moved off across the domain, heading for the harbour.
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Some flowery garden delights.
1. Sunflower, nearly ready to open.
2. Petunias, in brassica patch, with beans and nasturtiums
3. Alyssums and lobelias, amongst the chili peppers, chives and sorrel. I notice now there is also a predatory insect for the reader to identify. -
Artichoke with a bee. Think this one is past the recommended use by date.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Think this one is past the recommended use by date.
Unless you are a bee : )
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ChrisW, in reply to
It really was a great show (again).
Thanks Nora, Sofie and Jackson for the great coverage.
I had a better sense of how the rainbow warrior segment worked within the whole show this time, an important episode in the NZ timeline – the crowd response to this segment was the same this time as on Thursday night – non-plussed and silent
So again the silence of an otherwise responsive crowd belies the Metro Arts review of the show that Sacha linked to earlier –
One of the clearest messages of the night was a comical portrayal of dastardly cartoon frogs in scuba gear blowing apart a rainbow. It came across as a very public acknowledgement of the crimes of Groupe F’s countrymen and a bold apology to the people of Auckland for the Rainbow Warrior bombing.
Not so – it wasn’t a clear message, didn’t come across as a bold apology, it wasn’t received even if the reviewer’s superior insight enabled her to perceive the intention.
1985 is a long time ago for one so young. Art for Art’s sake seems indeed the best way of looking at it, a great show, but no messages.
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Sacha, in reply to
non-plussed
could it be something else like respect for death?
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Scenes from the Greek fair and market day, Saturday, at the local Coptic church, just by Western Springs.
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Scenes from Pasifika on Saturday.
The Tongan brass band (they sing too!) beginning the morning.
A survey being taken.
The Love Your Condom stall. I love the contrast betwen the enormlous drag queens and the tiny woman with them.
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Scenes from Avondale Markets today. The books are part of an amazing deceased-estate collection of sci-fi and occult books (I picked up a couple of vintage militant secularist pamphlets as part of it). Clearly, the family didn’t value what Uncle Ernie was into.
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And, before the game at Eden Park today.
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JacksonP, in reply to
Jerusalem Artichoke flower.
And, before the game at Eden Park today.
Wow, your must have been exhausted. I am, just thinking about it all. Guess you rode your bike all over town too?
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Our inglorious government’s assets sales – that of Mighty River Power in particular – is well on the way to causing me grief now, after the anger, and then the lost hope that the Maori Council’s appeal to the Supreme Court might be successful in putting a spanner in the works for long enough.
I had formative years aged 6-11 living in Mangakino, construction town for most of those hydro-electric dams on the mighty Waikato River. Whakamaru was just along the road. Its photo features in the paper version of Saturday’s NZ Herald business story on share sale processes and prices – same photo badly cropped here , insensitively truncating Kaahu and Whakaahu, iconic maunga to me. That point down the bottom right was my father’s favourite fishing spot. Many a good feed of manuka-smoked trout …
My two photos above taken in October 2007 from the dam itself, over the powerhouse roof to the ‘tail-race’ – the short reach of ~natural river before Lake Maraetai by which we lived.
Those rock-islets in the middle used to be part of the solid land on the right bank until 1962, when weeks of maximum flows through both spillway and four turbines eroded away the gravel and sand of the terrace that tied them to the rock-based slope to the right. Somewhere in the old disorganised collection of colour slides I have inherited are some of a pre-1962 family fishing expedition/ picnic on those rocks.
The dams and power stations were ours – anyone could visit – call in at the control room to say gidday to the duty staff, then pretty well wander at will, to the fishing spot, and/or through the machine hall to see the generators, downstairs to a shiny spinning turbine shaft, along the concrete tunnel to the lift up to the top, sometimes with a detour on a long inspection tunnel through the body of the dam along its full length. Sometimes as a 10 yo alone, while my father fished.
We did many tours of the bigger older Maraetai dam nearby too, proudly showing them off to visiting friends and relations. Sometimes further afield to Atiamuri, Waipapa, Ohakuri under construction, then when finished and operating.Things changed with SOEs and electrified barrier fences, a more corporate face of ‘ours’ than the innocent prideful ours of the early 1960s, but still ours. And now this Government claims the right to sell our power stations, 49%, 51%, 100% – not much different in principle really, still seems like the bastards are putting them out there like those rock-islets, gone, out of reach.
Good grief, quite apart from the economic sabotage, it’s enough to make one angry!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Wow, you must have been exhausted. I am, just thinking about it all. Guess you rode your bike all over town too?
Naturally. But nowhere was very far.
Having nearly sliced off the tip of my left index finger with a big, sharp knife, I'd been off the bike for a couple of weeks to avoid stressing the finger and let it heal.
Got back on last Thursday and celebrated by getting a rear carrier and convertible (to a backpack) pannier bag. -- which has been a revelation. Huzzah! Wish I'd done it sooner, but I'd had an idea about getting a cheap shopping bike.
With the pics, I'm just pointing an iPhone and hoping, but the being-there is the thing.
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JacksonP, in reply to
With the pics, I'm just pointing an iPhone and hoping, but the being-there is the thing.
Shh, you're giving away trade secrets. I love that about the (i)Phone camera. It's always there, and you can catch stuff you'd otherwise miss. Also, the app effects are fun to play with. I tend not to use Instragram in the way they intended, but like the border and Lo-fi filter, so use it like a virtual Polaroid for Tweets etc.
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Sacha, in reply to
yes, yes it is
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