Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: CWC 2015: Contains graphic horror, in reply to David Ritchie,
Are they trying to appeal to lowest common denominator with graphics and layout designed for low-end 4:3 tvs?
It looks that way, doesn't it? At the same time they're bragging about providing 4K coverage.
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I'd started writing something, so I'll just pop it in here ...
New Lynn, the town centre that serves a cluster of West Auckland suburbs, has long been an unlovely, if functional, strip dominated to the east by car yards and centred around LynnMall, which was New Zealand's first American-style shopping mall in 1963, but has seen better days.
But things are changing. New Lynn's place on the revived Western rail line (with its award-winning railway station ) and ample space for brownfields development make it a poster child for Auckland's city planning. While various comfortable suburbs have railed against the Auckland Unitary Plan's vision for residential intensification, New Lynn has embraced the idea – along with a bundle of public projects called The New Lynn Transformation.
The projects include the planned Crown Lynn residential development, which will place a park and apartments on the site of an old clay pit. But the first big step towards a goal of having 20,000 people living within 10 minutes walk of the transit centre.
It seems to have been a bit of a slog: the new shared spaces are in and operating, but it's just not an area people have been used to thronging to. But the news late last year that the new owners of the mall are to spend $36 million on a refresh indicates that it's starting to take.
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And a couple more from the lane.
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Hello! I popped over on my bike to join the trickle (fnaar) of curious locals. Here are a couple of picture sof the famous New Lynn cock-and-balls from less saucy angles.
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“Field Apart” Angus Muir & Alexandra Heaney was my favourite. It’s 36 columns of mirrors & you get a different view with each step you take, not to mention when people walk around you or it.
I think this work was installed at Splore last year. It's fabulous.
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First track from a new Unknown Mortal Orchestra abum!
Quite the Hot Chip vibe.
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Another edit: see the new entry above about Ian "Blink" Jorgenson's 'A Movement' photography project.
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Whoops: forgot to add this to the post. Flying Nun is offering a free Robert Scott album to one of the people who shares its new Spotify/YouTube playlist Flying Nun: an introduction.
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Speaker: Sex with the office lights on:…, in reply to Rick Shera,
Hosking v Runting
It always, eventually, comes back to Hosking v Runting ...
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As I noted in the review, the protagonist in the book, Kahu, is is quite verbally able. So there’s a job to be done yet in enhancing understanding of non-verbal autistic kids.
Suzanne Warburton made this video about her son for his start at kindergarten, and gave me permission to post it here. Great idea, great kid:
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