Posts by Alien Lizard (anag)

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  • Island Life: So, what do you think of…,

    12 . 19 . 17 . 2 . 6

    Bingo!! House!!
    I got a line on this....
    ...1034 days to go...
    and the Cosmic Lottery continues!

    as for K'inich Janaab' Pakal - I think his nickname of Sun Shield may be very apt - especially if we get the kind of massive solar maximum predicted between 2011 and 2013 - we didn't have a full-on electromagnetic culture when the last really big one occurred...
    and solar output cycles seem to be approx 1300 years which seems to fit well with the Mayan propensity for 13, 26, 52 and larger sequences with zeros after them - those clever Mayans had Zero before Columbus arrived (and Zero afterwards as well!) - if only Columbus and those that followed hadn't made such a Mess o' America
    and burnt all the books!

    PS: I love Pakal's sarcophagus lid - which is usually shown in portrait (or the classic Von Daniken astronaut pose) but when shown in landscape it reveals a hog riding dude astride his "Long Cycle" - or is that Solar Cycle 24 (bring on the 6th world or the 13th b'ak'tun... or is it just another cycle of the precession of the equinoxes? - approx 26,000 years.... )

    the House of the Rising Sun anyone?

    The Arrrgh Complex • Since Jan 2010 • 158 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Death of Evidence,

    firewater

    aqua vitae - water of life
    acqua alta - high water
    aqua alter - even "higher" water?

    The Arrrgh Complex • Since Jan 2010 • 158 posts Report

  • Southerly: Interview with Rodney Hide,

    ka pai (well done!)

    ...or is that Ka Pi
    (that wacky Egyptian Soul Music
    of a certain ratio...?)

    I'd always thought of Rodney as a nasal retentive,
    a kind of P-Layby Huge Huffner...
    But can he keep the The Big A (& NZ) solvent?
    (or put another way, will Jaffas become sniffters?)
    ...and ACT has always believed in Magic Markets...

    The Arrrgh Complex • Since Jan 2010 • 158 posts Report

  • Hard News: Auckland: where only one man votes,

    ...and has plans for scores (no kidding) of Hydro schemes in Canty, in part to feed the industrial dairy machine. And everyone knows this is Kiwi fruit with tits on

    let's have done with it and call it
    Flesh Water Management! from now on...

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  • Island Life: Anyone can do design.,

    those associations were made pretty widely when the thing first came out

    Understandably - when did it come out?
    this is the first time I have seen it I think...
    if it was used in conjunction with that "Wrought Iron Gates" Ak promotion we all had fun taking apart last year I didn't pick up on it...
    ...and what happened to that campaign, it seems to have disappeared.... or maybe it doesn't get as far south as Chch

    The Arrrgh Complex • Since Jan 2010 • 158 posts Report

  • Island Life: Anyone can do design.,

    IMHO this Big A logo is a bit of a space sucker
    basically occupying a square

    using this in paper ads and on posters
    it would make the word Auckland
    very squitty in many applications
    and i don't think the A cuts it on its own as a brand

    having spent many years dealing with disparate logos to fill up those "Logo Ranches" of sponsors on arts projects / posters, and the like those square ones with "modest type" just disappear when ya have them the same relative size to the others

    I think the tourism Auckland one is fine -
    the low horizontal format works better and saves column centimetres in paper ads as well!
    Sure it is a tad "all-things-to-all-people"
    (but luckily no kids with balloons!
    or latte swilling proles under umbrellas... :- ) )

    it has the sea and sails and Rangitoto
    (and really Rangitoto is Auckland's Eiffel Tower -
    ie an instantly recognisable symbol

    and at least Auckland is largest word/element - maybe use the stronger font from the A logo to punch it out a bit...
    Then they could just change the "Tourism" to whatever word was needed
    "Transport", "Water", "Parking", etc

    if it ain't broke and all that...

    The Arrrgh Complex • Since Jan 2010 • 158 posts Report

  • Island Life: Anyone can do design.,

    I quite like this logo

    hmmm... but what is it saying
    Auckland - frayed knot!
    or
    Auckland - the unravelling fabric of Society

    though I quite like the subtle volcanic cone
    in white in the middle

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  • Island Life: Anyone can do design.,

    and they don't want volcanoes in the visual mix
    so I guess this is out of the question...
    and this is the city that magma and ash built!

    ...still a good name for Aucklanders maybe?

    yrs
    Jaffa The Huff

    ps: maybe the supercity could be more of a magmalopolis

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  • Hard News: Research Fail,

    [steps back, nothing happens]

    when summoning Keithulhu you must always remember to sacrifice a virgin...
    or as Mr Judd put it in the next post:

    The cherry picking of students comes up.

    The Arrrgh Complex • Since Jan 2010 • 158 posts Report

  • Busytown: Holiday reading lust,

    English translations

    and machines that can help...
    and some thoughts on turning over old leaves...

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