NEWS SHAKE UPS
news shake ups: cnn’s office is hollywood news?. why?
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.1.13~
SATELLITE HUMBLE – BEYONCE’S ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA, MERCHANDISING MARKETING STRATEGIES AMP UP 2013
Beyonce Knowles is a bit of a merch marketing empire. The Houston native, NYC dwelling diva not only blogs, instagrams too, she’s also launched BeyHive. Kinda Austin Powers funny. It’s a website ”through my eyes,” the singer-dancing-athlete says. Artwork of fans is what the site features (Americans go overboard for creating pop art tributes to their most loved stars, in a way nz doesn’t yet know how to, or care to much either). Interesting ideas Beyonce is loving or being inspired by also make the site.
The singer’s fan base in New Zealand is strong. We’ll be in the mode to “stay tuned” for sure. Why we like her? Her sister is funny on twitter. I’ve been a big fan of Solange too since Sol-Angel started on social media as a pioneer of it, way back when. A beautiful creative artist with words and cultural expression in quite an understated cleva way. Non stop cleva. (more…)
WALL STREET’S APPLE SET TO DIP
IT-Wall Street carry on: Apple shares dip, Wall Streets rush to lower forecasts.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 25.1.13~
SACOUSTIC INSULATION DESIGN TECHNOLOGY & GREEN ROOVED CITYSCAPES
Photo: this rooftop garden utilises sacoustic insulation. A layer of glass wool, rock wool or polyurethane foam panels, weighing about 30 Kg / mc, with a vapor barrier is laid out on a slab. The green is then built on a roof or on a terrace of a house, to avoid condensation.
The roof garden not only can feed an apartment building (if growing veges), it’s good for the environment. How exactly? Here’s why:
Water Balance: the green roof can retain up to 70% of the rains to return the water to the environment in the form of water vapor. Air cleaner: the green roof can seal up to 20% of dust that circulates in city air. Noises muffled: the turf absorbs sound. Temperatures Mitigated: reduces heat loss in winter.–source: happy2B@home.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 23.1.13~
WILL, DREW, OLIVE NYC – 16th JANUARY 2012
Will, Drew, Olive meander through NYC.
[Photo: Splash News Online, images@People]
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 16.1.13~
NY TIMES TURNS TO ATHLETES FOR INSPIRATION
NY Times: Training Insights From Star Athletes & Theater-Sports fusion: When a performance is a workout & vice versa.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 15.1.13~
COCA-COLA ADMITS CALORIE CONTENT IN LATEST MARKETING CAMPAIGN
NYC is 58% battling with obesity. As a result, companies like Coca-Cola are being encouraged to admit calorie content in new ads. Sugar addiction has caught many a former skinny person in its flow. The high calorie content is not always good. So, the company’s new advertising campaign is novel for NYC and the world. (more…)
SPORTS NEWS THE BULLS 110, THE KNICKS 106
Sports News: The Bulls beat the Knicks 110-106 in MSG in a game that was full on. ESPN SC brings news on at the pic.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 22.12.12~
CAMILLA BELLE & TIM TEBOW HAVE SPLIT
The rather stark featured and gorgeous Camilla Belle has split with Tim Tebow of the New York Jets football team. (more…)
MARTIN SCORSESE DOES MOVIE PUBLICITY FOR STEVEN SPIELBERG, DECEMBER 2012
Doing movie publicity for Steven Spielberg‘s world wide box office bid with the Lincoln film: Martin Scorsese says he plans to make a documentary about Bill Clinton for HBO. (more…)
PARAMOUNT PICTURES SPORTS THEMED MOVIE SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT FILM PROJECTS ARE UNDERWAY 2013
Ivan Reitman is developing Draft Day a new NFL themed football script he hopes to direct. Reitman is working it up. Rajiv Joseph (pictured) and Scott Rothman are invisaging the script. Both writers were college buds at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where each earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing. (more…)
LITERARY MANHATTAN… WHERE TO GO
Book Lovers Stores in Manhattan: A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan… nerd’s bliss.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 16.12.12~
PIANO LIGHT… JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE… MADISON SQUARE GARDEN RETRO HIGHLIGHTS
I was thinking about when JT used to songwrite, sing live, play piano. He was a bit magical at Madison Square Garden one year. Here’s that view, when he reminded the USA to be kind to remember to be kind to people, in a song.
What goes around comes back around...
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 13.12.12~
JESSICA SIMPSON & JENNIFER LOPEZ – THE WORKING MOTHERS CLUB DECEMBER 2012
Always doing well is: Jessica Simpson…
Photo: Max and Emme doing some retail shopping in Melbourne, Australia with J-Lo and Casper Smart on Wednesday on a world tour. Photo: Splash News Online.
More celebrity pics at People Magazine.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 13.12.12~
THE USA’s TOP TEN – 12.12.12
Beyonce and Jay-Z are photographed by Issac Baldizon for NBAE & Getty watching the Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawkes basketball game. More celebrity pics can be viewed at People Magazine.
The USA’s Top Ten are:
2. Oil Press NZ
3. Oil
5. Kool Kiwis
6. Actors
8. Teenagers
9. Sarah Oakes List of Women against Sexism
10. James Cameron‘s NZ land buy ups
Thanks for reading. Happy shopping…
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 12.12.12~
HANNUKAH – IT’S TRUE MEANING FOR JEWS IN THE USA – THE OIL LAMP BURNING AS A MIRACLE, EXPLAINED
Jews don’t celebrate Christmas. In fact if you live in the USA at Christmas time, the Jewish community can even get really aggressive when it comes to supporting non-Jewish people having a fun Christmas celebration.
American Jews take holidays as the US does and also Jewish holidays too. Believe me, Jews in the USA do worship freely too. Good on them! :)
At the same time, most non-Jewish people don’t know much about Hannukah, one of the many Jewish holiday celebrations.
The New York Times Hilary Leila Krieger is the Washington bureau chief for The Jerusalem Post. Hilary zooms the USA in on The True Meaning of Hannukah. Here’s what she wrote:
Guest Commentary: When my brother was in kindergarten, where he was the only Jewish student, a parent organizing enrichment activities asked my mother to tell the class the story of Hanukkah. My mother obligingly brought in a picture book and began to read about foreign conquerors who were not letting Jews in ancient Israel worship freely, even defiling their temple, until a scrappy group led by the Maccabee family overthrew one of the most powerful armies in the world and won their liberty.
The woman was horrified.
The Hanukkah story, she interrupted, was not about war. It was about the miracle of an oil lamp that burned for eight days without replenishing. She urged my mother to close the book. My mother refused. (more…)
A BRIT REVIEWER THINKS THE HOBBIT MOVIE IS MILKING IT WITH SCREENTIME DURATION – BORED RIGID
“Like butter that has been scraped over too much bread,” is how Brit fan and ‘movie reviewer,’ Robbie Collin‘s described the new take on J.R.R Tokien’s book, referring to ”the supernatural world-weariness of Bilbo Baggins” in Sir Peter Jackson‘s new movie. Underneath the heavy costuming, the cast moves around as a kind of amorphous dramatic blob, joked Robbie. Thank heavens for Andy Serkis, whose riddling return as Gollum steals the entire film. Perhaps building it up for films two and three Robbie writes: “as a lover of cinema, Jackson’s film bored me rigid; as a lover of Tolkien, it broke my heart.”–Telegraph. (Robbie is such a good writer).
Without a henous review here and there, why else would you go and see the film at cinemas if not to prove Robbie wrong. There are movie goers who only go to a movie, to do that you know. I do take Robbie’s point though when he suggested that perhaps the movie was a bit long. To a Hobbit fan this means decadent value at movie ticket level, yet perhaps for new audiences to Tolkien’s work onscreen, the critic fears that this is not what the film offers them. My favorite part of Robbie’s review is when he jokingly said, “saying one or two of the characters names wrong for the entire film, is unforgiveable.” If you live in Wellington (Hobbit HQ, New Zealand), that is very funny.
The UK Guardians other Hobbit stories are a bit more kind. Links follow:
FOOTBALL NEWS: JOHNNY MANZIEL WINS HEISMAN TROPHY 2012
USA’s No.1 Sports Story is: Johnny Manziel Wins Heisman Trophy: Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel becomes the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy.
ESPN reports: One year ago, Johnny Manziel had spent a year at Texas A&M, still hadn’t played a down and found himself without a coach. Texas A&M had fired Mike Sherman, the head coach for whom Manziel had turned down Oregon and Stanford, as well as his staff.
“It was heartbreaking to see them go,” Manziel said. “For me, that was a tough time. There was a time when I didn’t really know where I was going to go from there,” Manziel said. “My fate was kind of up in the air… I mean, it’s always a dream. You dream about being in New York and hoisting the Heisman Trophy. But for it to become a reality and me to even be here, it’s crazy.”
That victory turned Manziel into a national figure. He stopped watching “SportsCenter.” He didn’t want to hear the raves about Johnny Football.
“If you work hard enough and you put in the time and effort, that’s not going to happen. If you continue to strive to try to be the best football player in the entire world, which I want to be, I think good things will happen… How thankful I am for Coach Sumlin, Coach Kingsbury and Dr. [Eric] Hyman, [the athletic director] and everybody involved in the program,” Manziel said. (more…)
THE USA’s FASCINATION WITH MAORI & NEW ZEALAND ART
Popular with the U.S today is: MAORI ART & TEN NEW ZEALAND POSTS
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 10.12.12~
DAVID LETTERMAN’S SHOW FAKE KIDNAPS BILL MURRAY. DUSTIN HOFFMAN APPEARS TOO
Made in the USA TV. “It’s nice to be back.” Tres dramatic.
Read at boing boing. Really the show was Dustin Hoffman‘s moment though. As a producer, Dave is such a Yankee rogue. That headline here. (more…)
GREG McELROY Jr. & GREG McELROY Sr. HAVE A CHAT – NFL FOOTBALL FAMILIES NEWS
The Jets’ Greg McElroy on a run in his N.F.L. debut on Sunday.
It’s Christmas in the USA. On the table is the art of father-son football coaching. Greg McElroy of the Russian owned NY Jets NFL team is the star profile of the seasonal holiday family sports entertainment media genre.
Ben Shpigel of the New York Times writes: “FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Greg McElroy and his father, Greg Sr., shared plenty of late-night conversations about his football career. They usually went something like this:
“Quarterback Greg McElroy taking the field between the injured Tim Tebow and the starter Mark Sanchez, whom McElroy replaced in the Jets’ 7-6 victory.
Son: I know I can play.
Father: I know you can. Just stay patient.
Son: But I know I can play.
Father: Stay patient.” Read on…
Photo: Ben Solomon for The New York Times.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 7.12.12~
THIS CHRISTMAS, A LONGINES WATCH IS WHAT NEW YORK IS GIVING – BECAUSE ELEGANCE IS AN ATTITUDE & A STYLE
What to give for Christmas in New York: As seen on New York Times website. Click on pic to see the range.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 7.12.12~
REESE WITHERSPOON LIGHTS UP NEW YORK
Reese Witherspoon‘s sunny disposition lit up New York on a recent visit.
Photo: PC News. More celebrity pics at People Magazine.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 7.12.12~
NEW YORK TIMES FRONT PAGE – 28th NOV2012 & TEN ITEMS OF INTEREST TO U.S AUDIENCES
USA’s Top Ten as SEO ranked via Google for an online audience (not the website’s own stats per se) are:
4. Search engine fed trends of 2012
5. NZ Politics – David Shearer
6. USA & NZ – boats. jets. jobs. oil – trade & freight wins
7. Franchising Ideas + HW archives
8. Enlightened
Cuisine Pic: Kushara & The Top 10 Delicious and Unique Egyptian Foods via Listverse has got my attention today. With Egypt’s 80 million people using up a lot of energy today, I wondered if NZ & the USA should think more about what would could send them in way of ingredients for their future needs. (more…)
