I woke up Maori today and it was amazing! :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 18.4.13~
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ANGELS
One of my favorite photos: The day after it was taken, snow fell in The Valley. The image sort of sums up what media do worldwide: angels of news.
Sometimes angels come to you: Unexpectedly. Do we have eyes to see them, when they do? Read the rest of this page »
A-Z
This website is in two even parts. The Hollywood Years & The New Zealand years. To find out more about how and why the site started, read here.
Hot right now is: the art of screenwriters: sort it.
A-Z: take a tour.
thanks for reading, contributing, journeying, being in the picture. two clips: fbdo + never again grace liz.
this is post#: 23,330. Audience is @5,379,787. Peace! Three popular posts are: (NZ) s+i (California) Sugar fish buds & (NZ) Innovation – Sir Ray Avery.
In 2012, a list of people and topics that interested us the most as voted by audience were: 50 stars.
screenwriting thoughts: ”i really wanted to capture as much of California & New Zealand as I could. not just in the architecture and landscape, but the spirit… the people.”
~Photo: Google’s graphic. 14th Feb2013, as a reminder that your heart is a wonderland of goodness only you have as a special gift. Yea! Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 9.2.13~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN 9TH FEBRUARY 2013
The Horiwood Top Ten are:
1. New: 100 leaders who impacted history
2. About Horiwood*
4. Mike Tyson
5. Rihanna Stay
7. Sir Tim Berners-Lees - on why an open internet is important
8. Jeremy Grantham -billionaire politics + democracy
9. Friday Night Lights: World News
10. New: Show biz town: Hollywood vignettes.
image: creative kiwi actors.
youth: tahi. young adults: rua. teens: toru. cuisine: nyc.
*about horiwood: on the ‘real’ me – tree crest. mom’s birthplace home town. family insights.
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bonus:
australian stories kiwis can relate to in 2013. :)
enviro-conscious screenwriting: improving Hollywood’s scripted scenes, smart movie settings thinking: tahi + rua.
evolving nz cinema + young hollywood’s next gen filmmakers: new media, new cinema ideas + how we use it.
solar-powered, graphene-energy storage-fueled - water homes of light: future architectural thinking.
a favorite recent post - all i.t is written across light… therefore we are light, in the world.
history: Graham tartan, as published in the Vestiarium Scoticum. The Graham family of the Cruickshank-Montrose-Graham families were responsible for overturning the law that once prohibited Scottish people from wearing their traditional colors. Courage in freedom and liberty’s truth and a quest for the highest good has always been a marvellous family trait as a rule for most… though, we have all had our fair share of fumbles and trying moments too. :)
good momentum of the day: 11th feb 2013: a Kiwi songstress, kimbra, wins a grammy x 2. whoot! And: was able to help one nz business, (a pop & mom investor’s business), make inroads with their new product into the usa.
1st contact for them is: los feliz’ one and only katie walsh. with their specifically, unique product, kate will absolutely know what to do. go nz in usa. :)
family fact: on the maori side of my family, i have fifty first cousins. the name of my youngest first cousin is holly hill. she’s kinda a global young adult. a jet setter from an arts-business, power infrastructure builds & movie loving family. having a young cousin named holly hill made me smile when i got to hollywood. :)
new content: 4-3-13.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 9.2.13~
AT THE COUNTY FAIR WITH MOM
hitting up the fair today… a farming community having fun.
how it was: up at the fair, the young farmers club regional contest is on.
craig williamson from methven-ashburton way is the sponsoring bank’s m.c. as the farmer contestants compete in a constructed obstacle course.
it’s nothing flash: eggs, giant cream trifle squares in plastic containers, forestry, utes, pruning pine trees then felling pine trees to fall on a black balloon, loading quad bike trailers with green fence posts, looking for electronic tags in hay bales, solving concrete blocks puzzles, strainer posts fencing games are what the farmers do over an interesting rural soundtrack barrage of coded farming commentary: it’s all a bit potty, laden with otago gold dig & s-land slap stick comical references to help our farmers out. all done in heavy-undertoned rural humour (heavier than previous years of farming scene observes, i might add) with a serious business face to boot, for sure. the mc truly clever in their craft.
c-bury is in a land so far away to these farmer’s community’s realities, in local terms i question its strong presence at the event’s location. it does recognise diversity of region in nz perhaps, to entertain a group of particular farmers. in farming banter terms souther-exotic even. they’re good sports, they don’t react to the invasion of their consciousness at a cultural-community regionally-proud ag-level in their own right.
the amusing mood? farmers kindergarten-activities for grown ups – meets lots of enthusiastic support. a good crowd to be in. it is harmless fun in the sun. Read the rest of this page »
SONG AT STARLIGHT
On the wall of vertical water in his living room, David inserted the chip. Up came the scroll, of his peoples’ seasonal thanksgiving karakia. The words swam across the wall of incandescent water as he read their life-giving words:
“Eyes of God,
watching over the land and its people,
you reflect on our place in the world.
The season has changed, safe weather for long voyages begins,
the stormy seasons are now past.
Oh, sailing stars above us,
you are peace and plentitude on the land.”
SERENDIPITOUS SINCERITY
on serendipitous sincerity: i am lucky to be alive, therefore i am here, sincere.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 9.2.13~
POEM 2013
i live in hope
and with love, elope
with the angel.–sam hunt 2013.
~a good description of what spiritual relationship, or prayer is: Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 9.2.13~
WONDERFUL, WILD, WEIRD & FREE
q: what were some of the weirdest moments you experienced in hollywood?
a: um… here’s ten posts that are weird & free.
1. A black eye incident, pre-Grammys when young passion went wrong was the reason the website started. That was all sorts of sad weird for a crew of gun publicists in California to sort out at the time. All were shocked at the time.
2. Blogging in California about China’s angel cat in May 2009 was certainly different.
3. Who audiences find newsy is always a freaky surpirse. The 2009, stars list was not what you had expected if reading-watching the news that year, yet online people, often know way in advance who is big news.
4. A daily penchant for Stolichnaya Bakery pastries, lasted six months. An act of total rebel-dom that was fattening, good fun weird. Healthy I thought at the time, better than vodka it was.
5. New Zealand celebrities sending me a sports doll was both funny and different. My first reaction was a boulevard photoshoot. :)
6. Blogging about Bollywood stars in Hollywood was fun, weird, strange, because there were so many real US stars all around me in person – why I still felt the need to use the magic carpet of the internet in 2009 and democratically journey online to India’s movie industry too… was weird! Read the rest of this page »
APPRECIATION CLUB
appreciation club: okay, 59 months in the US, 7 years involved in publicity, marketing, show biz. Two years of that pioneering new media, intensively doing a blog in the US (followed by another 22 months in NZ doing the same). how was it? Most of it was computer-intensive, laptop driven time spent typing tonnes of words, sharing thoughts, links etc. In a way, most of it was similar to any desk job involving long hours (where ten-twelve hour work days, was a lite working day – fourteen hours a day, common)… Perhaps for that reason, my tolerance of lazy thinkers isn’t the best. Love, joy, peace (patience’s fruit) needs a rev up in me. Patience is just not there, a side-effect of being a part of the experiment. In those long hours conditons being committed to the experiment, you do feel like you’re in a wheelchair, just the nature of that experience.
You also have your brain’s contents being cyphoned from you too (that’s also a strong reality).
parts of the experiment though in the usa, weren’t computer driven at all. yet as the u.s consists of the vast reality of 50 states and 309 million people (US Census 2010), via a computer is still the best way to be an American. Read the rest of this page »
A WRITER’S LIFE
Writing in a lifetime: “Obviously an immensely important find” is lucky to happen once in a writer’s lifetime. More than once, makes a literary darling.
A writer’s best work is often hidden and enshrined on the pages of their imagination, emotional palate, life experiences and heart’s pages.
Courage to reveal insights are worn of spirit on the woven threads of our mortality’s skin, that makes us all human.
A good story is universal. Human enough for most to be able to relate to it. Thus a writer’s life is the world’s, constantly being shaped and written. Read the rest of this page »
