Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Joe Wylie,
art school confidential...
... whose talents included artist’s model par excellence.
That'd be him!
from a Neil Roberts interview about early days of art school...
I've told the story many times, of when one afternoon when there was a life class, and the model was Alan Franks, who appears in quite a few of Sutton's paintings. And it was toward the end of the afternoon – it was probably about three o'clock, and it was a winter afternoon, so I remember the light being quite subdued, and there were about four or five students left. I was over in one corner of the room, and there was an easel – one of the students was working on something. And we were actually concentrating on the head. And so Sutton was actually instructing the students on something to do with the head, and Gopas had walked into the room with his hands behind his back – he always wore a garage coat – a grey garage coat, like a smock – and he walked in, and he had his pipe in his mouth and he walked around the room looking at what students had been doing. And then he walked over and stood behind Sutton, who was talking to a student, and listened.
I wasn't concentrating on what they were talking about too much, and I don't know to this day what the problem was, but I heard Gopas say to Sutton that what he was telling the student wasn't correct. That there was a better way. And rather than Sutton – to his credit, I suppose – reacting and telling Gopas to get out of it, and overreacting, as some people would do, he said, 'Rudi, you have your views and I have mine. Let's put it to the test.' So they both got butchers' paper. (We actually went to the butcher's shop and got this, which was used usually for the charcoal drawings and brush and ink. We'd use this over a board, attached to the boards, and you'd do another drawing and flick it over, and dispose of them.) I remember them both sitting – there was an easel either side, and were both concentrating on the head. They both did a drawing of the head. I didn't know what they were doing, because I was concentrating on what I was doing. They were drawing away for about fifteen minutes or more and then they stopped, and Gopas walked around to see what Sutton was doing, and then walked away.
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Hard News: Friday Music: An accompanied korero, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Snap
I have that Arthur Brown LP too...
Incandescent times!
the Christa Paffgen story
I'll be your memoir...
I also just found my copy of the 1992 book Nico - Songs they never play on the radio by her keyboardist James Young, it's yours if ya want it, lemme know. -
Hard News: Friday Music: An accompanied korero, in reply to Russell Brown,
NZ His story...
...people like Keith Sinclair
...who married my cousin Raewyn Dalziel - we don't need need no six degrees of separation in NZ, everyone knows everyone else!
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Deja VU...
...that was one of the first records I ever bought.
Makes me think back too...
My first was the Soundtrack to South Pacific!!*
followed by Cheap Thrills Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the holding company, then MC5 Kick out the Jams - it's all a blur after that...*inspired by a crazy night at Mollett Street - when someone or other (Alan Franks maybe?) did a version of "I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair" - same night as The Doomed did the Gingernuts ad song (I think) - Punk n dunkin' style...
<oops, sorry about the threadjack - we shoulda got a room over at the Friday music thread...>
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Christchurch folk have some live Lilburn coming up next year (not sure if this will be his full on Electronic compositions though):
Christopher’s Classics announce their 2015 season artists:
March: Bonanza Trombone Quartet return with a great new programme.
May: Aroha String Quartet play Haydn, Lilburn & Schubert.
August: Mark Menzies Violin, Gretchen La Roche Clarinet, Flavio Villani Piano, play Lilburn, Bartok, Schumann, Debussy & Ravel.
September: New Zealand String Quartet, play Lilburn, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich No 3 & Tchaikovsky No 1.
October: Miles Jackson, Classical guitar
November: Voices New Zealand Female Choir, with harp and two horns, present Holst, Brahms, and new work from Leonie Holmes.
(all held at St Michael and All Angels by the Avon.)To receive their excellent Season Subscription offer and Season Brochure, join our database for post or email - contact classics@ihug.co.nz
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I hear your pain...
but nobody listens to me…
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an informed public is important to democracy
if you are in Chchch on Oct 31st go to this meeting:
THE TPPA – TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT – What Is It And What Does It Mean For Me?
Friday 31 October, 7.30 – 9 pm,
at the WEA, 59 Gloucester StThis seminar will help to explain how the TPPA would affect your everyday life; from your access to the internet, the cost of your health care and medicines; and the rate of your wages, to how it will straitjacket governments’ ability to make laws that protect the environment and mitigate climate change.
Speakers:
Professor Jane Kelsey The investor state dispute settlement process and how this will affect us (by video link)
Dr Erik Monasterio The effect of the TPPA on the cost and access to medications and the effect this could have on cultural minorities, and patients with serious mental illness
Beverley Ballantine How the TPPA will affect our access to the internetAll welcome!
Entry by gold coin donation.
Supper to follow
Canterbury WEA Ph: 366 0285
Web: cwea.org.nz----
I see Tim Groser has 'assured' us that the TPPA will not affect Pharmac's ability to source cheaper generic drugs, Hah!
- Can you say 'Max Bradford & deregulated electricity market' kiddies?
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beLabouring a point...
To be honest I don't understand the MSM and others' massively vocal preoccupation with the Labour Party's leadership search - at this point it is really only relevant to voting Labour Party members, once a leader is decided then the general populace and pundits can weigh in on that person's merits and possible contribution to the country...
...in the meantime I'd rather the focus of media was on what the National Govt is doing or planning on doing, and following up on all the loose ends they left in the wake of Dirty Politics and other revelations and disingenuousness. -
Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to mark taslov,
Heir of the dogged...
He always struck me as someone who’d strop till he drops. with no heir apparent..
...and life in the Thorndon 'Bauble' can't be all bad...
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to mark taslov,
...some mention of this being Winston’s last term
Does that mean he's petering out?