Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: CWC 2015: Contains graphic horror, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
For better or worse it's still pretty common internationally to protect for 4:3
And there's no way of delivering separate feeds? Like I said, it seems weird when they're bragging about how they're going to do 4K coverage.
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Up Front: I Walk the Line, in reply to Morgan Nichol,
I always felt like my partner’s face was so beautiful every time she took off that mask.
I had to get written permission to film in one of the radiation rooms at Auckland Hospital, I haven’t got any of that video broken out, but there’s some footage starting around 4:34 in this longer thing
That's wonderful.
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Muse: A C!#& and Balls Story, in reply to Soon Lee,
There was a multiplex on Clark St* where we would go regularly and maybe one day there will be again.
The multiplex coming to the redeveloped Lynnmall is Reading Cinemas' first foray into Auckland.
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Muse: A C!#& and Balls Story, in reply to Ray Gilbert,
It has has number of different quality restaurants to eat out in and most shops you could want.
There seem to be more restaurants at the west end of the town centre every time I go there.
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From TransportBlog:
This is a very good and important addition to the mix of dwelling options for Auckland. It will not suit everyone just as detached houses at the end of a long drive does not suit everyone, and nor does it need to. It is great at last to see the market being able to diversify beyond the monotony of ever more distant new greenfields developments.
Just as important are the considerable efforts by all parties here to provide as high quality features as possible for the lower end of the market. In recent decades this has been a segment that no one has properly addressed; we have either built luxurious but expensive apartments or cheap and nasty ones. Both types are clearly visible in the central city. It is really important that the both the Council and the private sector close the door on that regrettable chapter, and find way to insist on and enable higher quality at all market segments.
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Muse: A C!#& and Balls Story, in reply to Steve Curtis,
Next to it is a new library which is not much different in size to the old version built by New Lynn Borough Council in the 1960s
It's 1000 sq metres. More than double the size of the old library. And it's not exactly new.
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Muse: A C!#& and Balls Story, in reply to Steve Curtis,
It does sound Russell that you have hardly ever been in New Lynn and relied on the marketing blurbs personally couriered by Penny Hulse. ( Clean Politics?)
Well, twice in the past week, the first time to pick up a new HOP card from the customer service centre at the station. And quite a few times over the years.
I am regularly in there for the last 25 years and remember the opening of Lynn Mall in its original open air mall version. It was all a human scale then.
That was 1963. In more recent years, it was basically abandoned by Westfield. It's been a dump for quite a while. Now it gets a major refit and a multiplex.
In reality the redevelopment is a version of Christchurch s experience without EQC, but with public money being used to maintain commercial land values and a 15 storey block of flats that went out of ‘fashion’ in London 30 years ago but in its Auckland version is plonked down on multilevel concrete carpark.
It's high-density living right on a transport node. And while some of the apartments have issues, overall it's the thing we want more of in Auckland: actual affordable apartment living.
This has been in progress since before the Super City. Another 6ha has just been opened up for development around the forthcoming Crown Lynn Park. It seems pretty good to me. Where do you think new housing should be built?
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Here's the artist Gregor Kregar's portfolio and his Gow Langsford page.
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Muse: A C!#& and Balls Story, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Ok. I’m just a bit confused, because the media pics so far are just of “that” one, yet the other pics includes a few others, so I’d assumed they’d all be together. But are they being installed around different locations ?
No, it’s a single work comprising multiple pieces in the new alleyway to the transit station.
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Muse: A C!#& and Balls Story, in reply to Grant McDougall,
If the other pieces were installed first, or all the pieces at once there'd be no story. Silly, silly Herald.
I'm not sure that one was installed ahead of the others actually. The work at a whole is still being installed. It'll look quite different when the lights go on.
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