Are you tired of the concrete jungle, the traffic and the smog of the big city? Why not go a bit country then. Denim fashion is what you need to know before you jet.
Cowboy denim style: photographed by Azim Haidaryan.
Paul Robinson of Dunedin runs Rodeo Drive Southland, New Zealand. Being a cowboy is his family’s gig.
USA, Canada and Australia are riding south to New Zealand for a rodeo. In Australia’s GQ Magazine coutback fashion style takes a cowboy twist in Australia’s multicultural cosmopolitan cities. Click on pic above to see denim, country cowboy style. Mark Sainsbury and Mercury TV original reporter of Invercargill, Megan Martin reporting.
GQ‘s Wayne Gross writes: Think Indiana Jones and Dallas, a cowboy is never complete without the perfect cowboy hat – see Akubra for one. Don’t be afraid to wear a denim shirt with denim jeans, just be sure to break up the ensemble with a classic chocolate leather belt. Don’t shy away from an expensive pair of jeans. They’ll last you longer, and certainly look the part. Boots are made for walking – and in this case complete any cowboy look. Lighter styles in shades of caramel and cream contrast well with darker denim. Hold up your denim with a good quality leather belt with an oval buckle.
If you still prefer the city or your tastes are more Brit-Brat Pack Martini Club in style. Also check out - A Fashion Retrospective – Style Tips from HRH Prince Charles. Having lived in California, cowboy culture of Cali is synonymous to tequila, margueritas and chillaxed beer with a tonne of salt and fresh lime. El Gringo Style on the Hollywood range totally… and the sweetest waitresses with chola brows and cheesy smiles, spring to mind too. Lol!
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 17.11.12~
Breaking Amish and “reality TV shows” are watchable, apparently.
–The world’s no.1 intriguing pop star, outside of the USA, Rihanna on Daytime Talk TV.
About Breaking Amish:
The Examiner Reports: “Something about four Amish and one Mennonite breaking away from their communities to go explore English life in NYC obviously appealed to a broad array of viewers. How do we know?
On Tuesday, November 13, TV by the Numbers reported that ‘Breaking Amish’ has been named ‘TLC’s top rated freshman series’ ever. Based on households, total viewers, and women in the age range of 18-34, TLC has seen their greatest success in nearly a decade.
The cast members have revealed a great deal that has put these questions to rest in the last few episodes. Previous marriages, children, DUI’s, and police reports have surfaced and been confirmed since the season 1 premiere.” (more…)
Although China and Taiwain split in a civil war years ago, Beijing’s political party under new leadership is highlighting how the two nations have depth of diversity in political opinion, tastes and styles of politics.
With a population 50 times bigger and an economy 15 times greater, China overshadows Taiwan in almost every respect, except Taiwan’s freewheeling political system.
Trade and travel between China and Taiwan has increased. (more…)
On Hollywoodblog there are 20,561 blog posts. That means 20,561 opportunities of variety and 20,561 chances to see a diverse range of sights and views.
If you’re new to the website, Happy exploring and contributing. Have fun. You’re welcome. :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.10.12~
In the Kiwi dream, The Child asks: What is beauty?
Then The Bard sagely replies:
Beauty is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
Beauty is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.
Beauty is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.
. . . But you are life and you are the veil.
–Khalil Gibran poetry, Lebanon.
Peace!
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 20.9.12~
In looking at New Zealand’s most read newspaper’s website, it is fair to say that Maori do not feature enough in news agenda setting and political agenda setting mindsets. If The Herald is anything to go by, NZ is only flashing a white nipple today and has forgotten about its Maori nipple. It’s also mainly a 55+ white nipple being flashed as NZ’s look.
Where the missing nipple is, in ‘NZ’s topless photos’ look, we’ve painted on a look of diversity, as body painted replacement nipple pastiche, to hide our racism concerning Maori exclusion. I say that in jest, though that’s how news is looking from the Herald and The Beehive today.
The look is every ‘race’ has been encouraged by NZ’s PM to feast off the back of Maori, like a gang bash of vampiric white cannibalist-led bullrush. At bullrush, people have turns being ’it’, (the target) yet not under Mr Key. He has regressed Maori reality under his rule and needs to rectify this track record quite substantially in the next part of his leadership. Then bullrush as national sport taught to children, can be enjoyed more in a less racist light. Economically, this is not what Maori signed up for when welcoming trading partners into NZ. So, we need to stop this smug behavior, or at least curb it.
What I mean is (metaphors aside): How do we change this when Maori wage inequality, economic access equality opportunity in the wider NZ economy and Maori unemployment is at an all time high in NZ history since the 1930′s? A sideswipe of cattiness towards Maori, is ultimately a sideswipe to all New Zealand citizens, just a few years down the track. Pakeha (or new immigrants) don’t realize this, yet history has told us, that is the case – hence doing this post today.
In the 1930′s though, Maori owned a lot more land than Maori do now. Today, never before in history have Maori been more at risk than in today’s current New Zealand and global climate. Pieces of the NZ Herald’s website run throughout this article. I love the fun and silly news tone of the paper (way better than a year ago – less crime, less grief, less dark torrid tone – a good thing it’s picked up, as it was like living in a cemetary when you read the news in NZ, before the more up beat tone that now features, thank Chrissendom!), yet it’s just that Maori have gone missing in a good light (or at all) from the visual representation of the news. Millions of dollars are spent on creating news generating headlines and stories each year – millions of tax payers dollars are – so we need to realign this spend with the law and include Maori as equal treaty partners of The Crown, in such newsy spending sprees. Who makes those decisions of ‘the spend?’ and more Maori need to be on ‘that board’ who is.
How do we change the current look of total Maori exclusion in mainstream flow of culture both economically and in reality of daily life, to reflect more a people, observing the spirit of the treaty of NZ’s founding document concerning Maori people?
Cheeky John Banks $250k donations from German chubby teddy bears with hot Asian baby momma wives, for Mayoralty races or politics for example, aren’t as important an all consuming issue to garner news coverage over Maori water equality recongition, with water rights useage and flows.
Our nation’s religion and sports cults hobbies [sic] like rugby and cricket are fun, yet if the Maori language is not being spoken enough by all New Zealanders or new immigrants are not being strongly encouraged that it is a key part of holding a New Zealand citizenship to further the Maori language, then what good is the Maori haka’s real message outside of a football field televised setting? Also, what are immigration officers ensuring as quality control for New Zealand when ensuring new citizens ‘observe a Treaty of Waitangi in spirit’ focus, as a rite of passage to acclimating right into NZ? These compliance tests need to be done from NZ government’s payrolled peeps into this area concerning Maori and immigration in NZ perhaps about now. They also need to be carried out on NZ enterprise right across the private sector too. That job, will create a lot of employment and grow the economy too. Maori are creative. Giving Maori a stronger chance of showing that by clearing away the greedy racism needs to be a top priority of NZ at this time, before an indication to foreign investors that NZ is a safe investment is sounded from NZ.
We need to try harder to include Maori content more across all levels of NZ society and our media and our govermental policies and political agenda and economic setting games. At the same time, Maori have to lift the game and be more assertive while showing a globally relevant and conscious face that is media representation worthy on a daily basis. It would be equally unfair for Maori to expect press, or increased profile, if not living as leaders worthy of it. So we all need to work across the board more to create a more inclusive Maori-friendly and inclusive playing field.
We need to work hard in ensuring this on all sides concerning Maori’s strong future in NZ, the South Pacific, Asia-Pacific’s next wave of wealth creation for a win-win for all Kiwis and foreign investors being taught to include and not exclude Maori too.
Chinese (or Asian investments) take overs of New Zealand companies are of concern to New Zealanders too yet in the same manner New Zealanders fear a ‘foreign’ take over, is similar to Maori fears of the same experiences past and present.
Bringing Maori to the fore also helps to evaluate any concerns on such issues. To reduce Maori’s voices means leaders want to sell NZ off and direct the economic flows only theirs and their friends way. Good? Not good? To be expected? Or does more need to be done to shove back at such games largely going unquestioned in a rhetoric of distractions being employed to do it? To hoodwink Maori out of fair economic recompense and earning capacity through racist stealth, is not a matter to be proud of. It is a matter of shame that must stop.
At the time of writing, protecting Prince Williams wife’s nipples privacy is viewed as important. Yet in New Zealand the issue is not as important as the raping of Maori resources, (or not addressing a habit of doing so, in the past adequately enough) or denying Maori rights to access economic opportunity more fairly. There is a running list of priorities to focus on and address, that NZ should not be distracted from.
Protection of Maori’s future place in NZ, needs to happen not only in New Zealand but also with what Maori are capable of achieving economically as entrepreneurs for people of the South Pacific. A true leader elect of New Zealand will protect Maori interests more so than Prince William for example, protecting Kate’s nipples’ privacy. That’s the look, NZ wants to see happen for Maori, is the Windsor tone on Kate’s nipples. All media need to be informed of that. Or should be.
William’s family’s lead on protecting Kate’s nipples privacy needs to be the same tone taken when protecting Maori’s future interests economically in and from New Zealand. How can our government be more like that, when protecting the Middle nipples of NZ, ie: Maori people and Iwi aspirations who are legally The Crown’s true treaty partners. Yet when you look at statistics, the equality is not present, suggesting that The Crown has not been protecting its ‘middle nipples’ at all in the manner a Windsor would protect their wife’s nipples per se. So, that attitude needs to change from NZ leaders from the top down. The racism is a cancer to the health of NZ cultural life and also a real guilt free economy.
To obfusicate (a game of politicians only working for an elite minority not the majority they were elected to work for in these times), is to suck out attention away from stablility of Maori inclusion economically at this time. Okay, granted we are not as skilled at that game in NZ as say, Elena Kagan of the USA is, yet we do a darn good job at the art of obfusication fobbery and avoidance to detract from more important issues, especially those concerning Maori inclusion.
Can we sorta include Maori more?
Don’t get me wrong, I know obfusication is a legal art of politics and economics that we appreciate, yet it shouldn’t be carried out at the expense of Maori. We can evolve the art in other ways now, perhaps.
To obfusicate at Maori expense, is a political tactic that only will make New Zealand more Chinese, Russian, Wall Street and Lloyds of London, German and World Bank owned. NZ will not be stronger, as those culture’s haven’t reigned in their fossil fuels consumption rates, so where is their next fuel meal coming from in the years ahead? Think about that if those games are entered into, at the expense of Maori.
Therefore, the game being played will make NZ vulnerable (more so than Lady Gaga’s fan club name) of being chomped by the foreign investors whims, once in that net and trap. They all will benefit off NZ, yet NZ citizens won’t win long term. The countryside won’t be as we know it in our great grandchildren’s times. The foreigners (consumers far away) won’t care either.
Maori are the only test New Zealand has of ensuring a New Zealand that is actually owned by New Zealanders. Maori are the longest gatekeepers at ensuring NZ is as we know it. We need to show more respect to that, not shunt Maori out of the way in secret trade deals when as equal trading partners they should always have been present at all major deals concerning NZ. We need to make that a new trend in NZ and live within a treaty spirit that reflects this new trend. A restoration of historic wrongs, finally being addressed and changed.
When Maori go ‘missing’ in our media, it’s a sure sign that exploitation of New Zealand is occurring on all sides. Honesty from government would issue: Pirate patches that should be worn by all New Zealanders as a reminder as to what’s actually going on and that citizens of NZ are conscious of that fact, more visually with Mr Key’s policies that tend to not create, (he’s lazy and big on talk and dividing NZ) yet his policies just want to bust up stuff and then sell it off once people are too devastated to fight the sales.
Okay, that was harsh, yet there’s truth in that style of brutal sale strategy that has been employed in NZ too. Any Kiwi living outside of NZ has witnessed that happen, outside looking in, to a nation Kiwi citizens love. It’s been a bit butchered of late.
When Maori aren’t present at the main negotiating table (or this is reflected in news agencies as well), it’s a sure sign that the wrong nipples are on display for the wrong reasons of politics and global engineering. They are greedy, lying, cheating nippes on show. Maori need to stand side-be-side in all main trade and political decisions. That should be the new look of NZ. So where does this leave Maori or New Zealand as we know it?
Why are the most talented Maori shackled, silenced or being economically persescuted, marginalized, downplayed by the current government on many key areas? Why do smart Maori return to NZ (smart Kiwis too), only to be put through a grill under this current government? Clearly, they were not included for a reason. Their lack of inclusion, a huge slur on NZ’s economic strength planning in future years. A few greedy people, will need to answer to the thwarting tactics of this game too, in years to come.
You see, what you did to someone else, comes back on you ten fold. So, how do we change the karma as a result that will surely hit NZ, and make that more safe too?
Such thoughts whizz through my brain as I witness the selling off of New Zealand, by someone who is a first? generation Kiwi and his team.
It makes me think, with such results occurring, if NZ was to get a school report card by an external reviewer, a fair comment on it would be: “why didn’t New Zealand just lease a PM from China for five years instead? Wouldn’t you have got a similar result?” would be a fair criticism worth Key’s team discussing, to go back it in and do the rest of the match better. It makes me want to ask Christchurch City too, what they think of this panda-like track record they gifted NZ from the Southern City. Really!
When I see such games being played, I do laugh too though as these are difficult times for leaders. They often get zero thanks for the good they do.
Another thought is: Does the Beehive need a Panda in the front yard of the Capital green lawn to go with New Zealand’s next three years headlines? Wouldn’t a real Panda be cheaper too in detracting the heat? The amount of bamboo the Panda chomps could be a good metaphor at our rising debt pile unless we all (not just Mr Key and his team of peers) get more creative in building a stronger export economy.
Of course I’m semi-joking. It is an honor to have a Jewish PM. Even though his ability to look after the original ‘Jews’ of NZ, (eg: Maori) needs to show way more signs of improvement perhaps.
[The paper is fun today. I want to 80% totally affirm it, not grump about it. It's very cool. Just where are our Maori bros and sistas aye?! Let's see the disturbing trend of 'everyone else except Maori being featured in news' headlines. It's an unconstitutional representation of NZ until we become more active in creating Maori heroes as a norm and being prepared to include and showcase their inclusion more. Let's maintain the fun (awesome! :) while being more mindful of representing Maori in a good light and more often, please. Thanks for reading and hearing].
The Herald’s 5 Top healdines by popularity today are listed as being young royal bikini scandals and rugby hits as news generators:
It’s Rosh Hashana time. Los Angeles Times has compiled a line up of recipes this year. More so than normal. I hope the Jews of LA are feeling secure this year.
A suggestion: Maybe the Orthodox lads are able to wear mufti this year to Rosh Hashana festive celebrations?
Always incredibly symbolic verging on superstitious-max, it is always quite interesting to read the symbolism embedded in the Rosh Hashana dishes each year. Here’s a quick recap as Jewish-friendly trivia, from a nation like New Zealand that is Jewish tolerant and friendly at the time of writing. Faye & Yakur Levyconvey their latest recipes with symbolism attached.
Pommes & Potatoes on the menu: Most families will begin Sunday night’s holiday dinner with apple wedges dipped in honey to symbolize the hope for a sweet New Year. (more…)
It’s a long standing Kiwi tradition to deliver the mail.
The simple pleasure of checking the farm letter box is the most exciting event in rural communities. I remember it being that way growing up in my teens on a farm.
To this day, TV that I love watching is Rural Delivery. It’s a TV series featuring stories about New Zealand people who are the unsung heroes of our City populous mindsets. In Rural Delivery I tune in to the faces of people just like us, whose earth romance daily, shows a connectedness to landscape and place that I appreciate, admire and respect. Well mannered people living sun up to sun down as a rule.
On this week’s show: Find out how pine trees in Nelson are being used to create high-tech, architecturally designed buildings that can better withstand earthquakes.
What I learned from last week’s show:The Young Farmers Club have grown their club numbers by 20% during the 2005-12 farming calendar. That’s awesome. Mentoring programs have been established, with new field trips in key areas of agricultural growth teaching skills younger to equip youth showing interest in farming earlier.
What I was thinking: How can the Young Farmers Club help young Maori learn about farming? How can the YFC integrate with Iwi programs to impart knowledge, grow the club in a culturally aware way of New Zealand, showing a good lead for NZ’s bright future in this manner? How can Iwi Development work with the YFC’s Club for win-win partnerships in the upcoming years through cool cross-pollination of ideas, resources co-management and dreaming big as one?
When my mind walks down that country road of thinking, I could spend an entire day, exploring the new frontier of the Aotearoa prairies on that one. However, I don’t want to get too excited about the bright possibilities too much. Iwi and Farmers must do this as one themselves. In future years, delivering the rural mail is just going to get more exciting. More scientific, yet allowing nature to be king too, the story of Aotearoa New Zealand’s stunning cast as observers of all that the land produces for us all. There’s a pretty high standard of rural post delivery traditions to uphold in NZ.
A story that reminds me of my late grandad:Schimanski Dairy Award Winners: Otorohanga farmers Don and Wilma Schimanski are the winners of the Dairy Business of the Year Supreme Award for 2012. The national competition looks at all aspects of a dairy farm owner’s business, in particular farm profitability. Entrants in the Dairy Business of the Year Supreme Award for 2012 were scored out of 70 for their financial performance, 15 for environmental care and 15 for human resources. The competition is organised by Intelact director Chris Pyke. The judges were independent – Professor Keith Woodford of Lincoln University and Emeritus Professor Colin Holmes of Massey University.
Don and Wilma Schimanski have been dairying together for 23 years, and built up their business by putting three farms together. They now milk 748 cows on 184ha. Previously Don was a bulldozing contractor. Their philosophy is to fully feed the cows, keeping them healthy and well. They pay particular attention to grazing at the three leaf stage. Good management means keeping a finger on the pulse all the time, Don says. “You can’t really stop criticizing yourself. My philosophy is to look after my managers and workers. I have been lucky there. The focus of our team is on pasture harvest, and utilizing as much pasture as possible.” The figures show the Schimanskis have higher than average pasture harvested at 13.7tDM/ha compared to the Waikato average of 12.2tDM/ha.”–More@TheGumbootDiaries.
Superannuation was a hot topic today as well as youth home ownership for first time home owners. PM John Key spoke well on TV live from the National Party convention centre.
In a $50 million earning bracket himself, I was more listening for whether he is in touch with the real needs of majorities of Kiwis. He was more sobre-minded when speaking to cam. Superannuation, needs to and will be addressed.
As yet the urgency has not entirely hit the PM yet, due to his own personal fortunate circumstances acting as a buffer perhaps, though it sounds like he’s working on it with his cabinet too. New Zealand is ageing prematurely, meaning grey power have a lot of say and our population is ageing and also older immigrants love the safe haven nature of NZ too. Is there enough oxygen in the air for youth and young adult culture to have a platform enhancing the future good life of our esteemed grey power set of cool Kiwis? Youth can’t afford to listen all the time to grey power. Yet grey power if they turn and face youth, have the keys to draw out the dream NZ needs for youth and grey power to be secure and have more fun. So, a little investment from grey power into the young, could quite possibly cause young people’s innovative gifts to rise now to the fore. It’s time.
Where are those forums, that can feed back into strategic angel investor pools as well as the MPI hub of business in the near future? Let’s get it fast tracking. It’s exciting.
Immigration: Immigrants have accelerated rapidly in NZ. Critics say Maori are resistant to immigrants. I found the statement kind of insulting as a Maori-Kiwi, simply because Maori have welcomed more cultures into New Zealand than many other people, so Maori have the longest standing immigration manaaki record in NZ history. If Maori show signs of immigrant fatigue, it’s only due to our no.1 partner (The Crown) deliberating playing Maori off against a plethora of immigrants, perhaps creating a feeding frenzy upon Maori by all in unjust ways. Get back into the pitt and negotiate properly, is what politics should be doing concerning Maori and The Crown right now. Courts should be doing the same. The foundations and getting them right will save a lot of money and heartache, if we take the time now to be considerate and get this right.
What causes resistance could perhaps be economic structuring. An idea, or suggestion: What is needed is something like an Iwi-Kiwi bank for Maori NZ citizens and friends. What is also needed is % quota shares of oil, water, NZ resources sales (similar to the fish case in the Supreme Court) that goes into the Iwi-Kiwi banking structure and is administered to tribes. The money is not for ‘living.’ It is more for development purposes. This would sure up a fast track stream of development for Maori to grow the wider NZ economy quicker. All Kiwis would benefit. Also, people like Mark Solomon, Tainui and Sir Ralph Norris have the business skills to spin out this money for maximum return – if they wanted to get involved.
If Indian immigrants did the same (own their own NZ owned bank etc). If Asian-Kiwis did the same too, then the government’s job would be a key joy. In the US, people develop without government so much. In NZ, government is extremely strong. At times heavy. So a balance between both of these styles of biz governance could perhaps benefit NZ by freeing up the economy more. Then government could more concentrate on the success stories, (throwing more parties in a culture of success celebration achievement), within the four sectors of biz growth and cross-polinate these models (eg: MPI etc) with strategic meetings that would then work more like an economic science of growth, based on what’s actually working being highlighted and replicated and perfected in new ways, thus streamlining the growth process. (Gosh, what a bad structured sentence!).
It’s exciting no matter what way you look at it though.
Young People: Democracy is always built on young energy. If we deplete it, we are stripping the country’s best interests. When we age we can tend to get selfish (although some of the most youthful Kiwis in heart are elderly people – it’s about attitude of being youthfully accepting). We we can lose our peripheral vision as we move into our ‘contentment’ phase of life.
Prof. Paul Spoonley noted with Jessica Mutch the alarming (or just global times realities) statistic of 150,000 young New Zealanders leaving the country since 2008 (the global financial crises years). (more…)
A few weeks ago I watched a TV program about New Zealand’s immigrant settlers and their contributions to New Zealand’s South Island Communities. Kees Meeuws zooms us in on the remarkable stories of New Zealanders in the South.
Thanks Kees. Rock on!
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 16.7.12~
ABC’S David Muir zooms viewers in to celebrate the life of Kirk Douglas, as a Hollywood light who stood against censorship in a culture where politics was too heavy-handed and blacklist occurred from government. A friend and mentor named Robert, who is 91 and lives in Beverly Hills, once got black-listed because he worked as a journalist who would socialize with black people in Los Angeles when reporting.
He was Jewish, yet he could pass for Parsee. Robert was associated to Lena Horne‘s circle of friends, when Lena was black-listed as a communist. He was blacklisted too. They were crazy times. Robert is still a registered member of Pen America to this day, an organisation that is a global literary community dedicated to protecting free expression and celebrating literature in humane ways.
David Muir’s story goes: “In the 1950s Hollywood was consumed by the blacklist. Writers, producers and actors were called before Congress amid fear they might be Communists. The mere mention of a name was enough to end a career.
“It was the worst time in Hollywood,” Hollywood veteran Kirk Douglas told ABC News. “Everybody told me I was crazy.”
Crazy because as a producer of Spartacus Douglas put his own career on the line, his own fortune, to hire Dalton Trumbo, one of those writers on the blacklist.
“If you do it … you’ll never work in this town again. You will be declared a Communist,” Cleo Trumbo, Dalton’s wife said people told Douglas.
But Douglas, hired Dalton Trumbo anyway, and Spartacus became the top movie of the USA that year. The movie wasn’t only a box-office winner, it was also instrumental in breaking the blacklist.”
Douglas realized that within the face of Dalton Trumbo’s faceless story was his own story, that “there by the grace of God, go I.” He acted on that basis with integrity in liberty, in one pivotal action of inclusion that went beyond surface appearances of the milieu-of-the-day, thus changing history. With confidence in peace Douglas disciplined a system that had become drunk on power, elitist exclusion for personal gain and was blind to the image of itself, while being clearly unjust towards humanity. Kirk Douglas hacked the system of inequality and greed backed unjustly by a state system’s might.
The tyranny of the blacklist was broken. He was an agent of redemption, the only true firm foundation of real grace. Freedom returned, the marginalized advanced and Kirk Douglas included others more honestly with his spirit of wise compassion and fearless courage to love others as he wanted to be treated himself. He demonstrated: “there by the Grace of God, go us.”
[Photo selection: Author's own & Graden Carter for Vanity Fair]
To the grey-set, wise Jewish doms of Beverly Hills, California… for their humanitarian philosophical thoughtfulness… their sense of humor in displaying a wider humanitarian cause through the oft shallow glitz of show biz’s circus… we say “thank you.”
News selection: as broadcasted on air in New Zealand by Mr. Peter Williams, TVNZ.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.6.12~
Director, producer, a patriarch of young filmmakers in New Zealand and film festival collaborator, Roger Horrocks appears with Anthony Timpson in a TV interview, highlighting the International Film Festival 2012. View it above. Also check out the line up this year of a film festival 100,000 people are supporters of.
The Cultural Icon Interview with Roger Horrocks from The Big Idea – can also be viewed here too.
To this man in NZ, we say “thank you” for all he has done to further film and filmmakers work, their skills, ideas - with his trademark passion of sincerity and his brand of encouragement. There are many teachers, few fathers. In the film world, Roger Horrocks is known as both. Mauri Ora. Rock on!
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.6.12~
–one reason why if you are Jewish, you should always take a copy of The Torah (or a bible) to work if you want to are the wise words in Hebrew, above.
Or, you can take a print out of your favorite piece of poetry to memorize while at work, if you want to as well.
[Image - Beth Jacob Congregation, Los Angeles on Facebook. Photo caption: "Recently Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks inspired us with his words of Torah throughout his visit. Shabbat morning at Beth Jacob brought unprecedented crowds to our shul. We look forward to continued efforts of Achdut and enthusiasm."].
It takes all kinds of people to make the world go round. :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific.
"Variety is strength, not the characterisations of the past."
–Who said that this week? Variety is a magazine, okay?
Characteristics of the past give a culture its foundations. Variety is of value when it is a catalyst that switches up these cultural traits in more meaningful and useful ways, paying homage to the things that have worked in the past, but with a different spin on it. Diverse actors and new players, help us achieve this. Hence, the ‘added value’ they may or may not gift an existing culture, from the grass roots up, across the board.
Humility is strength. Diverse expressions of strength, reinterpret the humility of the people who did the work long before we ever arrived here.
Humility also admits to the characteristics prior (and present) that did not work, and changes these too. Variety helps us to be open to see other perspectives of wisdom’s diamond gleaned from the knowledge of human experience and (within the realms of New Zealand’s longstanding cultural lore); our inextricable links to earth preservation, landscape, ocean and place. At the end of the day, the diamond’s distinctive features and characteristics must always be Kiwi, yet we allowed different perspectives of light to shine through our Kiwitanga to create a varied face that remains distinctively our own.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.4.12~
It takes a whole team of people to let new writers be placed right to shine.
Fox Studios Diverse Writers Program has identified new talent in their finalists to be mentored by industry screenwriting greats.
This year, finalists (with rep agencies names in brackets) are: Nick Citton (Advance Talent Management), Alessia Costantini (Artist International Management), Jan Eliasberg (Rain Management Group), Jason Gavin (The Alpern Group), Nicole Jefferson Asher (The Gersh Agency), Tina Mabry (Independent), Eric Nazarian (Creative Artists Agency), Mark Valadez (Brant Rose Agency) and Iris Yamashita (The Gersh Agency) to name a few.
This year’s Fox workshop will be taught be screenwriters and producers: writers and producers Bones creator Hart Hanson, Davey Holmes (Awake), Patrick Massett (Friday Night Lights), Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (Family Guy), Virgil Williams (Criminal Minds), Peter Sollett (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist), Eli Dolleman (The Cleveland Show), Laurence Andries (The Pacific), Jessica Sharzer (American Horror Story) and Roy Lee (The Departed).
Organizations who fielded the diverse range of new talent writers to Fox were: National Hispanic Media Coalition, Sundance Institute, New York Foundation For The Arts, Outfest, Film Independent, Writers Bootcamp, Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, and Visual Communications.
How exciting! :)
~News Source: Nikki Finke. Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 16.2.12~
SWEET N’ ROUGH HIP HOP – AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
Music Facts: Hip hop music is the no.1 selling music genre on the planet.
How is this fact played out in New Zealand on the music scene?
Quite well this Maori language celebration time in New Zealand. Thank goodness!
Have a listen. So clever.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aoteraoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 25.7.12~
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