Posts by Mike O'Connell
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Not sure where the best place for this but along with recent Chch-focused posts (80s music, and this, greening the red zone), we now have a potential new one, the form of the regional council (ECan) after the 2016 elections.
Out today, Environment Canterbury Review: A discussion document Govt agencies are seeking feedback on a proposed mixed-model governance structure.
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Hard News: Villainy and engagement, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
The 'play within the play', an example of meta theatre. Shakespeare used it in Hamlet. Maybe the Romans were on lead and didn't notice! It became a much riskier affair in front of the likes of Henry VIII.
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Michele A'Court has also weighed in on the X Factor The problem with putting real people on TV. Interestingly,she doesn't mention Moon and Kills by name. She also suggests a different model for reality TV - fakes. E.g. the House (medic) character of recent seasons.
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You may be interested in the Avon-Otakaro Network’s vision for the Avon River red zone. Also I’ve come across this recent project report by post-grad geography students A Future for the Avon River in which they gauged the community perspective on the implementation of constructed wetlands within the residential red zone as a viable method of treating storm water contaminants.
Not surprisingly, their proposal would need to gain the support of the wider community surrounding the wetlands proposal; a diminishing community with probably other things on their still coming to terms with their collective and individual losses.
Whether decision-makers would take ideas like this into account is a moot point. The government’s agents haven’t listened to the public so far in regard to the highly-contentious proposal to reconfigure Victoria Square.
‘Community participation’ - which amounts to an on-line survey! - is nevertheless underway. For those interested (and I certainly am), do Share Your Thoughts via The Future for Victoria Square. Feedback closes 24 April.
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And a view along River Rd.
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And this one in Lois Place.
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I'll have to put these up individually.
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Hard News: The greening of the Red Zone, in reply to Russell Brown,
I found it far less troubling than it was when the empty houses were all there
I haven't looked at these for a long time. They date from Feb 2012. In River Rd and Lois Place. In a couple, the house numbers can be read on the plywood. Funny, in a way I find it more troubling now with all the empty spaces, wondering about the lives lived and livelihoods lost there.
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I know it must be the killing time...
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Hard News: Friday Music: Christchurch,…, in reply to MarkHarris,
The link works Mark. What a great find! I had to listen to it straight away.
BR (re)introduces to us to a heap of those 'NZ independent minor labels of the 1980s': Sausage, Onset/Offset, F-Star, etc. There really are some obscure gems in there - a fav is The Wasp Factory track. Cue Audioculture:
F-Star Records was a little known label based in Gisborne in the mid-1980s. It was centred around a small handful of local musicians, most of whom rarely played outside of the East Coast of the North Island. In just under three years the label managed to release six records, including Wasp Factory’s brilliant ‘Steel Blue Skies’. But as fast as the label and those behind it sprung up, F-Star was gone, and has been largely forgotten since.
I imagine someone somewhere is (hopefully) compiling stories of those other small and in some case long gone minor labels?
Re: 'When the Moon is Strong', another cracker track, I'm pretty sure Toerag was/is one Stephen Tobeck (who grew up in Burnside, a couple of streets away from me).
