Posts by Simon Grigg
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Nice shots Mr. P. Looks like a hell of a night.
Anyone get any video for we out-landers?
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Thank you for that - but trust me I suffer from that urge to obsess about some perhaps best forgotten fifth form memory that nobody else quite gets too.
Fortunately I'm married to a brutally honest quality controller.
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Hard News: Friday Music: This stuff works, in reply to Greg Wood,
It's the teeny things...
Yeah, but it will get there. I think the concept - and 99% of the execution - is pretty amazing and money well spent.
As I tweeted, I would've done anything (almost) for a site like that when I was first putting out records (not that we had 'sites' of course).
I got some odd pleasure when I was the first person to Like The Audience on FB a few weeks back - and that She's So Rad choon got my instant vote too. Their album hasn't left the stack beside the CD player for since it arrived.
I'm going to be extra cheeky and plug my new music-obsessive blog too. I know the world probably didn't need yet another anal trainspottery music site but it now has one. A couple of guest posts are on their way too.
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Hard News: Reading the Numbers, in reply to Russell Brown,
FWIW, the people who come up and talk to me about Media7 (and it happens quite a lot now) are older New Zealanders -- they're the ones who'll lose most when the channel ends.
From personal experience I'll agree with that. I've been on Russell's show twice and both times elderly relatives have contacted me afterwards to say they've seen me on television. It has, at least from my folk-level research, a large audience of those who feel they have less and less viewing options.
My parents, in their 70s and 80s, watch the channel daily. Their TV habits are fairly restricted - they watch TV One, UK TV and TVNZ 7 only now, with less and less of the first, feeling, as they do, that the continued dumbing down of what was once 'their' channel has taken that away from them.
I guess, coming from a generation where good, investigative, thinking television was a part of their world, they've grown used to having that as an option.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Eek! Glad you mentioned the hound was missing, I was straining to see him/her.
Sometimes you do. That thing on the top is a sun/rain shade for the poor beastie.
@Sofie, that thing behind is another variation on the same.
As soon as I see one with its cargo onboard - assuming I have a camera - I'll provide a shot.
When we first arrived we used to put our dogs in a kennel out west when we left town. It had:
1) a large pool
2) air conditioned serviced suites (or non - we chose the latter)
3) a restaurant with menus - the owners chose the menu for each day they were away. It included cuisines from around the world - or just biscuits (we chose).
4) Individual 24hr web-cams for each room.
5) a 24 hr taxi service (proper taxis, not vans).
6) an outdoor exercise field with treadmills and a pretty decent obstacle course to run around.It was $30 a day for two dogs :)
Now they just stay home with the housekeeper, which they seem to like far more (she feeds them hotdogs and thinks we don't know when we're away).
A friend was doing a house interior for a very wealthy guy in Jakarta. He had a marble walled suite, with a kingsize bed for his dog. The dog had its own full-time maid.
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One dog stroller as promised (sans hound in this case as it was still in store - but these are not that uncommon)
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Chris Waugh,
In China it might be a function of population density. Chinese dogs will certainly bark when a stranger enters their apartment or, in the countryside, their courtyard, but outside of that space they'll very rarely bother anybody.
It's mostly the same here. I guess they're just so used to existing with people (that said the white yappy poodle across the road is an obnoxious little shit, on its last warning... ).
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Waiting with bated breath, hope it is your mission to bring a shot of a dog in dog pushchair as soon as possible
That I promise :)
This is the most dog obsessed nation on planet earth, I swear. During last year's floods there were countless volunteer canine recovery units patrolling the 'burbs and more shorts of saved and safe hounds on the local news sites than people some days.
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From the city where dog-pushchairs are not that uncommon (and restaurants advertise specials for your dog... )
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Hard News: Free the Street, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Around the same time SBS screened the toweringly camp 80s Mexican Den of Wolves, which totally creamed SS as an exotic soapie import.
Those Latin American supernatural soaps are the bomb. Used to have them on in Indonesia with the (completely surplus to requirement) audio off.
The Indians do a pretty fine range in these too, all flying shivas, wicked stepmothers and talking beasties.
