Posts by Chris Waugh
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And some more. Wow, only 29 hours from San Francisco to Australia and New Zealand on new DC6s, with day-long thrills in gay Honolulu! And Air New Zealand's 'edge of the world' is pretty cool too - don't sail too far east, you might fall off!
Alright, I'll stop now.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
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Here's a few more 1930s posters.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
The excellent 1959 anthology Verdict on New Zealand
Surprisingly difficult to google. Will persist, though.
ETA: This looks interesting, but much earlier than the likes of Kipling, Twain or Butler.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I seem to recall reading that Rudyard Kipling, after his visit to New Zealand, said something about how he'd never heard people talk so much about hard work and do so little of it. Googling now... This has a rather more positive spin:
His visit to this country in 1891 was an unqualified success. He fell in love with us New Zealanders, and with the country.
"Wellington opened another world of kindly people ... large, long-eyelashed and extraordinarily good-looking..." he wrote. Take a bow, you Wellingtonians!
Interestingly, he thought New Zealand's greatest role would be in literature, and that women writers would play a determining role in our literature. But that the country ('one big encumbered estate') would need to become economically independent before this happened.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Sophie G,
Definitely not artificial. I dunno, it doesn't look like a rose when I'm up close and personal with it. Then again, I'm not much of a botanist. Probably a variety of rose different from what I'm used to and the others around the gardens here. And considering the weather these ones have survived, robust is a bit of an understatement.
Oh, another look and I do see the rose in it from that angle. From above it looks a little different.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to DexterX,
But of course the FBI wanted the Doomsday Device.
Umm... nobody informed them Dr Strangelove was a work of fiction?
yes, I know, back to editing...
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Lotus.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Mr Nokia cooperated on the intensity of the colour, but not clarity. In the flesh they don't look quite so rose-like. And the roses about here were stunning when they first appeared, but now look decidedly more decrepit. These flowers - the ones in the foreground at least - don't seem to have changed for months.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Sophie G,
Nice, kind of glowering, with bright rays for relief!
Thanks. It was one of those rare occasions when my phone cooperated, although it did still need a bit of fiddling to get it to show what I saw. I miss the camera in my old N72.
ETA: Oops... forgot to add... I've long been puzzled at the longevity of these flowers. The colour has remained precisely that fierce the whole summer.
