PRESERVING THE WILDLIFE – A SUPERMODELS MISSION TOTALLY!
A supermodel Rachel Hunter momento:
Rachel Hunter and “a precious Kiwi bird.”
Wonderful. :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 25.11.12~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – 27th OCTOBER 2012
The Horiwood Top Ten are:
1. Kiwi Business Franchises Strategies for China -2015-2050
3. Mark Wahlberg & Dwayne Johnson
4. Chris Martin , Cameron Diaz & Gwyneth Paltrow
5. Senna Kowhai
7. Mountain Summits & New Zealand’s Visionary Thinkers
8. Billionaire Politicians – China
9. Prince Charles - People Magazine
10. White Milk
[Images: Brown University Vintage Scrum Rugby Shirt - IvySport & Banner Supply Company. Stanford Vs California, Football Program 1913 – Collectible Ivy.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.10.12~
MAORI NEWS: RANGAHOU TE RORO ME TE HINENGARO – AT THE CENTRE OF CULTURAL DRAIN & BRAIN REPELLANTS
At the centre and working together to prevent brain drain.
& an exodus from New Zealand too. :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 7.10.12~
LYCHEE RED DRAGON VODKA MARTINIS – SOUTH PACIFIC SPRING WEEKENDS
Demystifying Potatoes Allure:
Making Red Dragon vodka Martinis are kinda all the rage in the South Pacific at this fickle minute if you keep up with politics and trade deal intentions. So, with that thought in mind:
All the things you can do with potato products! One thing you can do with potatoes is make vodka, to help withstand extreme cold or to get festive in summer sunlight hours too.
About Red Dragon Vodka: “Red Dragon Vodka® is a registered trademark used for Vodka and owned by J.Smigelski, Llc. Full trade mark registration details, registered images and more information below. View more.”
New Zealand potatoes are the best. Don’t believe what the Aussies tell you. Or the Russians either. When they get to NZ, they both eat our spuds. The Irish and the Brits more than have their fair share too.
Why Red Dragon vodka is a good change for a potato product. Share your red dragon vodka recipes too if you can be bothered.
[... Was that enough red?!]
My favorite: Blue Elephant’s Lychee Cocktail recipe. Just make it with Red Dragon vodka instead of Sputnik Vodka. Check it at the swizzle.
Photo: RedBookMag.Com.
[If you're a social bunny, feel free to bump this post on if you do drink, while drinking legally and responsibly. You don't need to drink to have fun, too. Cheers].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 6.9.12~
SYMMETRY: SILVER FERN
Wow!
Photos: David Wall.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand. Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 6.9.12~
HOW KIRK DOUGLAS HELPED TO BREAK BLACKLIST
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 caption: Source: Wikipedia, courtesy of Mesa County Libraries. Spartacus movie still ATTV].
[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~
POHUTAKAWA MISTY FREQUENCIES
Sunkissed Paihia on a rare misty beach day has flowers like bliss-filled showgirls.
Joe Cotton kindly stars on a stage as a singing, smiling mermaid in Auckland City.
German tourists drink all they can of Aotearoa into their blackberries.
On wifi karawhiua wings they send snapshot messages of New Zealand’s timeless beauty afar.
Like a wood pigeon carrying hope, their pixels of paradise fly.
It’s pai here, good here, safe here, healing here - their flying pixels say.
I pray. They know. Inner Paradise. Angel myrrh love revealed above. No human or galaxy alone can give.
Pohutakawa nettle buds bloom fully in hot house mists of te kamera boxed frames. Showtime tweets of home.
[BTW: German visitors are heading Paihia's way for some much needed recharging before heading back to Germany].
Mauri Ola Paihia. ;)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 15.1.12~
SOME HOLLYWOOD LOCALS FEAR THAT MARK ZUCKERBERG IS INFORMATION COLLECTING FOR OTHERS
The best way to be is free. Don’t care. Write creative lives–(Horiwood on Facebook fears as a agency of world governments’ fears to ‘not know everything.)
Artwork today from the Hollywood hood as people question the user experience of Facebook communities and what is occurring within information going into this think tank of words [IP] networking [connect the dots linking mapping] and messages appearing at the sides of users Facebook pages.
And because this artist is drawing of all Hollywood’s attention to this fact (maybe true, maybe not) in this graffiti? post it art–let’s not even discuss what is occurring within the mobile telephony information sharing game either.
Mark and his buds could be totally innocent. This is just an artist’s impression and free expression. But you know, Wikileaks culture these days and all, it’s not hard to look innocent when leaking information. It’s all too easy. Just use a third party, right? In New Zealand, our peoples words, thoughts IP are viewed as cultural taonga that cannot be shared, sold etc by anyone. It’s written in law that our taonga remains with these people. I hope Facebook knows that? And were informed of this.
This artwork is a reminder that we must live our lives like their is no privacy. I’m fine with that. Are you?
This pic worth sharing today as inspiration to write exciting lives online and within states ‘wireless’ freedom. We’re so blessed here in the USA! China too with internet 3 x faster than what we have here in America.
The solution perhaps… is to spend more time on a blog, than Facebook, for this artist plastering this stuff all over telephone boxes. It’s totally spy culture paranoia. A common trend people are feeling more and more.
The trend rests on the premise, that no one wants to miss out on an invite to others fun. Governments are the worst for this. Invites are always more polite and better! :)
I like to think that Mark did this poster himself, for a laugh. Now that is the best possible light to see it in.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 4.5.11~
MAORI POP CLASSIC – POI E by THE PATEA MAORI CLUB
Cute is the Patea Maori Club singing and swinging the Maori poi via Taranaki.
Poi E is one of those classic Kiwi songs that always brings a smile, when you watch it.
The song is like a gift of authentic culture, uniquely created in Aotearoa New Zealand and loved by the people of Hawaii, USA, that keeps on giving.
Enjoy. Let’s go Maoris! :)
Maori – Kiwi Star Power tribute as Hollywood Art Today – Russell Crowe‘s Hollywood star, Walk of Fame, Hollywood California USA. Photographed by Horiwood.Com.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.13.11~
UNLOCK CLEAN ENERGY SAY THE AUSSIES
This pic shows a rising sentiment for clean energy, as expressed by Australia.
I can’t remember where I sourced the pic from, I guess I’m doing an Arianna Huffington on this one, and posting it without a credit. Oops. I almost feel a little bit like a New Yorker media person just now in doing so. :)
A powerful message for the planet. UNLOCK GREEN ENERGY! The rest is all BS.
Believe it or not, these people holding these placards are some of the wisest and fairest people on the planet in this moment. They have an important view.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.13.11~
ALANA HILL 18
Alana
on your
eighteenth
birthday
let your
fiery grace
be your
strength
set on a
bright Hill.
–Uncle Sam.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.9.11~
69ER DAD – A BIRTHDAY POSTCARD FROM HOLLYWOOD
At 69
just
in time
you still
stand
az mai
dad.
–Hari huri tau dad. With love.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.9.11~
CATHEDRAL COVE COROMANDEL, PENINSULA IS A FUN TRAVEL SPOT
Three views of Cathedral Cove Coromandel remind us of what life is all about.
It’s about nature. It’s about living in relationship with nature. It’s about enjoying the beach, children growing up safe and playing until the sun sets in the paradise of outdoor playgrounds and, it’s also about adventure with friends at all times.
Three photographs by David Wall of Cathedral Cove provide inspiration today to love community, love fun and love the earth, sea and skies.
All romantic couples should at least get one photograph of their epic love on this timeless beach.
~Posted by Horiwood Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.9.11~
MAORI SPORTS STARS TRIBUTE DECEMBER 8th 2012
The term “Maori Sports Stars” has been trending for a while now.
So… here’s a tribute snap shot of Maori-Kiwi pop culture… to all that Maori stars have ever gifted us. :)
Kia kaha. Kia ihi. Kia Manawanui.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 8.12.12~
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