Hard News: The Wall and the Paper
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If folks want to show their support for Askew and more lively street art instead of bland grey walls in AKLD, please sign the petition over at Sideroom.com.
http://sideroom.com/magazine/petition-no-more-grey-walls/Thanks for the mention, Russell. Look forward to seeing the show.
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What's the legal basis for Auckland Council to paint over a privately owned wall without consent?
Is painting a wall a restricted activity in the district plan - if so they should get an enforcement notice, shouldn't they? Is there a by-law which allows the council to overpaint graffiti without the owners consent?
In teh absence of that, it's criminal damage on the part of the council, surely?
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steve black, in reply to
I would think it was a civil matter not criminal. Although we know from recent history that it becomes criminal if you kill the artist.
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SteveH, in reply to
I would think it was a civil matter not criminal.
Why civil? If I go and graffiti my neighbour's house it is a criminal matter, is it not? How is the council painting a wall they do not have permission to paint any different?
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The Sunday Star Times is looking very directionless and confused, in general. The Sunday magazine is basically crap - umpteen pages of fashion advertorial and once-over-lightly features often just pinched from UK papers.
The "new" sections are only "new" in format and name, completely lacking anything actualy new, interesting and adventurous.
It is now almost as hopeless as the Listener.
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Will have to find this on demand as both topics sound extremely interesting. I feel angry every time I read Laws and dislike that he's got that platform, but also selfishly hope SST's numbers don't continue to fall, given the opportunities they've presented me with...
Peter, I saw that link on Twitter. Am enjoying reading the comments.
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I despair with our Sunday papers here. It is the biggest thing I miss from living in Dublin (albeit that you can get the UK papers). I am compelled to buy both the Sunday papers because it is a ritual to read them for me, but I am flying through them at a rate of knots now. I do actually like some of the new style of SST, particularly having the music, film and book reviews together. If they could just get rid of Michael Freakin Laws I would feel a bit better.
The Herald on Sunday is, IMHO, even worse.
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Former policeman Shields, as is clear in this New Zealand Herald video, is a man who loves his work:
Yes, his claim that people feel too scared to go out because of graffiti is probably true, but it does rather say to me that said people should harden the fuck up.
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I am one of those people that the SST targets as a potential subscriber and I get free offers of papers from time to time, including at the moment. The last two feature Michael Laws at his ugliest, so hardly any inducement to subscribe.
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The only real reason to continue to buy the SST is Rod Oram's business column.
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When you're losing sales to a competitor you know what always works? Copying the competitor.
It's like all those iPod knock-offs, they've done so well. Or that singer who's a lot like Lady Gaga. Or that movie that was like Twilight. It's surely just an aberration that CNN continues to lose viewers to FOX News, despite increasingly copying FOX's style.
History really respects those who were there second, who refused to forge their own path, to take risks, to try something new. Good on ya, Sunday Star-Times.
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James Butler, in reply to
When you're losing sales to a competitor you know what always works? Copying the competitor.
See also Phil Goff. /threadmerge
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Re: SST
When you're losing sales to a competitor you know what always works? Copying the competitor.
It's like all those iPod knock-offs, they've done so well. Or that singer who's a lot like Lady Gaga. Or that movie that was like Twilight. It's surely just an aberration that CNN continues to lose viewers to FOX News, despite increasingly copying FOX's style.
History really respects those who were there second, who refused to forge their own path, to take risks, to try something new. Good on ya, Sunday Star-Times.
Android phones? :)
Good post, but.
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What on earth are the SST doing ditching Finlay Macdonald’s intelligent column, turfing the eloquent Steve Braunias while elevating Michael Laws?
The format changes are kind of interesting, so many inserts, including inserts inside inserts – it was like one of those Russian Dolls, vaguely reminiscent of pass the parcel, all rather fun on a Sunday morning. When I finally got to the last doll / parcel and found no Finlay McDonald, no Braunias and no majorly inspiring content to offset this loss ( I never read the Laws pieces – I don't do despair on a Sunday). I went out to my garden – tossing the paper in the compost on my way. What a shame. -
Nick Kearney, in reply to
The only real reason to continue to buy the SST is Rod Oram’s business column.
Nah.
That would be my reason for cancelling my subscription.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Android phones? :)
...which I just lurve mine.
Also, I must go photograph the corner of Morningside and New North Rds just in case....
How is anyone scared of street art?I mean c'mon guys! -
Thanks Nick - you reminded me of one good reason to keep my subscription - Rod Oram's column - that man should be advising govt
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Yes, his claim that people feel too scared to go out because of graffiti is probably true, but it does rather say to me that said people should harden the fuck up.
Probably the same McMansion dwellers who cotton wool themselves and their kids behind razor wires and concrete walls. And whinge about how society is going soft and PC. And then the pot said to the kettle...
How is anyone scared of street art?I mean c'mon guys!
Entartete Kunst 2.0, anybody?
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Heather Gaye, in reply to
Also, I must go photograph the corner of Morningside and New North Rds just in case….
That’s the view from my bedroom window. Suffice it to say, I’m more than a little apprehensive about its future.
Just as an aside – the other day my flatmate drew my attention to a bunch of people getting wedding photos taken in front of that particular piece. He thought it was all kinds of wrong, but I reckon that’d be the coolest wedding album ever. Granted, when I asked him what kind of wedding photos he'd want, he said "none at all".
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James Butler, in reply to
What on earth are the SST doing ditching Finlay Macdonald’s intelligent column, turfing the eloquent Steve Braunias while elevating Michael Laws?
I'm sure that what Michael Laws writes gets much more exposure than anything Finlay Macdonald or Steve Braunias ever wrote (example: this blog post). After all, any publicity is good publicity, right? Right? Anyone?
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
After all, any publicity is good publicity, right? Right? Anyone?
No. I would probably buy the Dominion Post if it was just mediocre, as opposed to both mediocre and racist.
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I don't miss Braunias - wittering Kiwiana has only so much to give and he's been on repeat for a very long time. I eventually found Findlay Macdonald's brand of Public Intellectual just as annoying as Emily Perkin's Public Writer. Strangely, I do miss Rosemary McLeod...
I guess the age of the considered newspaper columnist is over - bloggers rule in that sphere. So, in the SST, it seems we are left with the deliberately unpleasant shock-jockery. Unless we find the SST readership complaining while simultaneously cancelling their subscriptions (something those inspired could also do in emails to those who advertise on Law's radio-show) this will not change.
But that 30,000 slide should give some room for reflection. I can't see alterations in layout or columnists affecting this. The dumbing-down (vide TVNZ) is simply going to continue in what seems to be some sort of awful species-drive toward eventual entropy.
I have always thought New Zealanders are simply not suited to the unpleasantries we think are required by Capitalism (especially in our odd shut-in's version of it - and especially not in our media). We should simply settle down to being the nice face of eco-tourism.
So bring back Rosemary. Those occasional columns on knitting and tea-pot cosies were little masterpieces.
[Russell, btw, I have to admit the phrase 'in defence of Jonathan Marshall's honour' is a great one. I bow in admiration...]
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Paul Williams, in reply to
Strangely, I do miss Rosemary McLeod...
I disagree. McLeod's not said anything new, constructive or insightful for years. She mightn't be as regularly offensive as Laws but I recall this thoroughly trivial piece full of false praise for Helen Clark (and including gratuitous criticism of Grant Robertson's win in Wellington Central). Trite bullshit.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
It's a great wall. I'm guessing you may be in that leaky looking building :) I imagine that wall would be great for many photographic essays including weddings that you mention.Recently watched "Exit thru the Gift Shop" and I was impressed at all the interpretations on that. Street Art, gold!
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JLM, in reply to
Is that why Oram's latest column isn't online?
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