Friday, 18 September 2009

118 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 18 Sep 2009



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Pictured: Martin Henderson, Lizzie Gillett, Adam Turnbull and David Melling, Josh Emett, Kris Bright

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in BBC, Wine Spectator, Daily Mail, Guardian, Economist, Billboard, AdFreak, Hollywood Reporter, Big League, Condé Nast, China Daily and Telegraph include:

• Martin Henderson, 34, Battle in Seattle star, signs six-figure ABC deal
• Lizzie Gillett, 31, “ran a crew of 105 in 6 countries for 2 years”
• Turnbull & Melling, 23, cross Cook Strait in floating Toyota Van
• Josh Emett, 36, Ramsay’s right-hand-man, stars in Chef de Cuisine
• Kris Bright, 22, striker, signs with Shrewsbury; likened to Ole Gunnar
• New Zealand runner-up best destination on the planet
• Air New Zealand asks Twits for comment on Grab-a-seat campaign
• New Zealand wine industry for sale; foreign ownership over 45%
• Grant Ryan’s YikeBike “collision between mantis and child’s scooter”
• Mark Baldwin, Rambert artistic director, inspired by Darwin and birds
• R. Bank, “first to pass hard-and-fast rules for liquidity since crisis”
• Danielle Miller, Warriors cheergirl, voted no. 1 in the NRL
• Midnight Youth, Ladyhawke nominated in upcoming NZ Music Awards
• Short-haired bumble bee queens in NZ help reintroduce insect in UK



NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept 25, 6pm, Len Lye Book Launch, Govett-Brewster
Director Rhana Devenport and the team at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery celebrate the launch of Len Lye, the most comprehensive presentation of Lye’s art to date. Co-edited by Govett-Brewster Len Lye Curator Tyler Cann and critic and poet Professor Wystan Curnow, Len Lye throws fresh light on the inventive vitality of one of our most celebrated artists. Visit Govett-Brewster website for further details.

Artistic Director Mary-Jane O’Reilly choreographs an entire festival of dance across several Auckland venues featuring contemporary showcases, hip hop and urban dance, film, studio open days, late night burlesque, student productions, and workshops. Presentations by Footnote and Royal New Zealand Ballet. Personal highlights include the launch of the book Black Milk, a collaboration between choreographer Douglas Wright, photographer John Savage and publisher Craig Potton based on Wright’s acclaimed 2006 dance-theatre work (pictured); honoring the career of Limbs’ foundation dancer Debra McCulloch; and the late night performances by four stunning veteran performers Marieke Marygold, MJ O'Reilly, Lyne Pringle and the always extraordinary Kilda Northcott. http://www.tempo.co.nz/



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Saturday, 12 September 2009

117 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 12 Sep 2009



From Brian Sweeney, Producer, http://www.nzedge.com/

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Pictured: Lynda and Jools Topp, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Mahe Drysdale, Tall Blacks' Lindsay Tait and Kirk Penney, Zöe Bell

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in Nylon, Toronto Star, USA Today, BBC News, Financial Director, Financial Times, Examiner.com, Guardian, Times Online, Philippine Star, Vogue Australia, Daily Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Telegraph, Nhân Dân and Wall Street Journal include:

• Topp Twins, singers, yodelers, Untouchable Girls film plays at TIFF
• Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, poet of Sth Pacific complexities, dies, 84*
• Mahe Drysdale, 31, unbeatable in Poland; 4th single-skulls title
• Tall Blacks thump Boomers 100–78; earn spot at World Champs
• Zöe Bell, “stuntmaster turned actor of the moment” in Angel of Death
• Fonterra’s vast areas of clean grass; clear competitive advantage
• Meridian Energy buy US solar facility to explore potential in NZ
• Emirates Team NZ “back to their best” winning back-to-back regattas
• New Zealand wine, favourite for Australians; exports up by 31%
• Rob McCallum, veteran explorer, leads search for Amundsen’s plane
• Kevin Hayes, London-based Man Group’s FD and hedge fund maestro
• Jan Nye, development advisor, Dili, 59, cycles inaugural Tour de Timor
• Anna Paquin, who “has an Oscar and a cool accent”, talks to Nylon
• Judy Millar, artist, “at home where the world ceases to exist”
• Uni of Otago study shows boys perform best in single-sex schools
• Neil Finn, Liam, Elroy, brother Tim, Wilco create album of “real gems”
• Jane Campion’s The Piano, “a seminal moment in Australian cinema”
• Mark Blumsky, former mayor, on Slippers: Service and Selling
• Kiri Te Kanawa no “elitist”; opera sung by“ordinary” people
• Ian Yeoman, travel futurologist, predicts robot service, space tourism
• Dave Murray one of four NZers in grueling 1000km Mongol Derby
• Rachel Reid, 17, wins US scholarship, and time to be with ill sister
• Jossi Wells, 19, skier, silver at Winter Games, “big news overseas”
• James Kember, ambassador to Vietnam, earns medal for friendship
• Shane Bond, 34, back to international cricket after two-year hiatus

* In Wellington Alistair Campbell associated with a rebellious set of young writers who became known as the Wellington Group and published his first book of poetry, Mine Eyes Dazzle (1950), which was hailed by the New Zealand poet James K Baxter as "one of the defining events of recent New Zealand poetry". Its greatest poem, Elegy, memorialises a friend killed in a mountaineering accident: "The shattered cliff's sheer/ Face spurts myriads/ Of waterfalls, like tears/ From some deep-bowed head/ Whose colossal grief is stone." (Guardian)





Here are the Top 10 titles for August:

  1. Flare – A Ski Trip, NFU short film 1977 – Snow 'ski ballet'
  2. A Haunting We Will Go, TV 1980 – Enter Count Homognized
  3. Revolution – Fortress NZ, doco 1996 – 80s economic reforms
  4. Trio At The Top, doco 2001 – McLaren, Hulme and Amon
  5. Play School, TV series 1975–1990 – Preschooler's programme
  6. Top Town, TV series 1977– Town against town, TV Gold
  7. Billy T James – Live, TV 1990 – Swansong for non-pc comedian
  8. Ten Guitars, doco 1996 – Roots of "national anthem of Patea"
  9. It's In The Bag, TV Series 1973–1990 – Popular TV quiz show
  10. Patu!, feature film 1983 – Doco about 1981 Springbok tour



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Wednesday, 2 September 2009

116 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 2 Sep 2009



From Brian Sweeney, Producer, http://www.nzedge.com/

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Pictured: Jemaine Clement, surfers at Piha, Neil Finn, Black Ferns, Chad Taylor

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in Rolling Stone, National Geographic, Times Online, Bust, Globe and Mail, Dexinger, ABC News, The Weekly Times, The Argus, Brisbane Times, BBC News, Phnom Penh Post, Fox News, The New York Times, The Toronto Star, Guardian, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald include:

• Jemaine Clement, Conchord, Bust’s favourite cleft-chinned comedian
• Piha beach secures 2010 Quiksilver World Junior Surfing champs
• Neil Finn join Wilco, Radiohead on The Sun Came Out for Oxfam
• Black Ferns, to play November double-header with ABs, Twickenham
• Chad Taylor, writer, pens new book The Church of John Coltrane
• Christopher Banks’ 13min Teddy first NZ film to screen at Iris Festival
• Rob Hamill, Olympic rower, confronts brother’s murderer at KR trial
• New Zealanders vote ‘No’ in smacking debate; “law is working”, Key
• New Zealand and Australia; “alot of differences”, union not the answer
• Badtown, West Auckland punks, sell possessions for Brighton tour
• Coronet Peak, perfect piste for international Winter Olympic training
• Jeremy Clarke, NJ-based chopper pilot dies, 32, “skilled, professional”
• Lloyd Watkin’s Tirau farm, a “peaceful middle of nowhere”
• Fat Freddy's Drop, Dr Boondigga album, “infectious loping grooves”
• New Zealand to Australia flights soon as cheap as domestic
• Omar Slaimankhel, Afghan, now Warrior, signs 2-year NRL contract
• New Zealand type exhibit tells stories in “our own local accents”
• Short-tailed bat, endangered walker, evolved from Australian relatives
• Andrew Adamson, director, to take helm on adaptation of Mister Pip
• New Zealand earthquakes triggered by deep water beneath plates
• Napier’s Art Deco Weekend, the city’s “expression of pride, identity”
• Sidhe Interactive, Welly gamesters, launch Playstation game Shatter
• Michael King, Toronto impresario, renowned for charm, accent
• Rhys Darby, comedian, takes Park Ranger, UFOlogist to Edinburgh
• Sam Neill, actor, plays ruthless railroad baron in mini-series Iron Road
• David Short, Fielding farmer, invents portable shearing handpiece
• Harold the Giraffe, mascot, first NZer and giraffe to go to space



If New Zealand is at the edge of the world, then there is no place geographically ‘edgier’ than the province of Southland (Murihiku). Radio and television broadcaster Marcus Lush presents a very personal offering on the grit, charm, and heart that makes up the fabric of the Southern region, in a new seven-part series South, screening 7pm Sundays on TV One. The jaw-dropping scenery is the obvious star of the show but its inhabitants also play a lead role. Characters such as pioneering aviator Herbet Pither, and Peanut, the finder of this country’s largest piece of space junk. The series may be a thank you note from Lush (who fell in love with the region before moving to Bluff six years ago) but it could also be a nod from the rest of the country to an area that delivers more than its fair share of epic geography, pioneering spirit and good old-fashioned heart.



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Thursday, 20 August 2009

115 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 20 August 2009


From Brian Sweeney, Producer, http://www.nzedge.com/

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Pictured above: Kiri Te Kanawa, Valerie Vili, Lucy Lawless, The Black Sox, and Sam Neill

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in The New York Times, Brisbane Times, Xinhua News, Bust Magazine, Financial Times, San Francisco Gate, The Independent on Sunday, ShortList, Thaindian News and Times Online ABC News, WA Today, Los Angeles Times, Vogue Australia, Telegraph, Art & Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Korea Times and Guardian include:

• Kiri Te Kanawa, 65, to retire after Der Rosenkavalier, April ‘10
• Valerie Vili, 25, throws shotput 20.44m, takes gold at World Champs
• Lucy Lawless , 41, Spartacus star, "being naked on-screen no fun"
• Black Sox, NZ softball team, perform "scary" haka at World Champs
• Sam Neill turns down knighthood for being "just far too grand"
• Sarah Walker, BMXer, 21, wins World Champs, Adelaide
• Lisa Reihana, artist, alternative reading of her work put forward
• Ngaire Woods on recession and theory of “global regulatory capture”
• Peter Jackson's District 9, "rarity" for not being an adaptation, remake
• Swheeb, pedal-powered monorail, a direct response to future traffic
• Peter Yealands, to wrangle miniature sheep as lawnmowers
• Ted Jessep, All Black then Wallaby in first ever Bledisloe match in '34
• Wellington's "glam beer hall" Mighty Mighty, BATS Theatre, profiled
• David Jeffries, recent UK émigré, misses nothing about home
• Peter Jackson on Dam Busters: "bombing raid in 3D would be neat"
• New Zealand from a camper van opens doors to local conversation
• Rhys Darby, comedian, 35, stands up in London and soon Edinburgh
• Dr Kevin Burns, says NZ trees evolved camouflage to cope with moa
• Waiheke, Martinborough, Waipara Valley tempt epicurious Aussies
• NZ Fashion Week, to showcase Pamela Anderson's eco-swimwear
• Jim Eagles, NZ Herald journo, takes to Korean karaoke in Seoul
• New Zealand leading world in fight against overfishing
• New Zealand Syrah and Sav, best in the world at 2009 IWC
• St Mary's Bay property, Auckland high-end real estate for foreigners
• Kaikoura's Dolphin Encounter, swimming with "tarts of the ocean"



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Monday, 10 August 2009

114 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 10 August 2009


From Brian Sweeney, Producer, http://www.nzedge.com/

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Pictured above: Peter Jackson, Eleanor Catton, Kevin Roberts, Jonathan Porritt and Jenna Sauers

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The News Star, Guardian, Daily Mail, Travel + Leisure, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Sydney Morning Herald, Bloomberg, Irish Times, American Medical News, The Independent, Samay Live, News Miner and New York Times include:

• Peter Jackson praises fan's enthusiasm, hopes it will rub off on execs
• Eleanor Catton, 23, author, in Iowa writing "fantastical", epic novel
• Kevin Roberts, nzedge.com co-founder, awarded Honorary Doctorate
• Jonathan Porritt, "sustainability ninja", leaves SDC after nine years
• Jenna Sauers, 23, model and fashion insider reveals 'hidden' identity
• Fiordland earthquake shakes NZ 12 inches closer to Australia
• Hew Mcleod, historian and world-renowned Sikh scholar dies, 77
• Carol Diebel, former Te Papa director, to head Alaskan Museum
• NZ Wine Industry's "growing glut" threatens Australia's wine exports
• Team New Zealand win "difficult" MedCup Sardinia Trophy on Mistral
• Wellington, place where film geeks satisfy cinematic cravings
• Cheryl McKnight's 8cm-high Maltese pup potential Guinness Record
• Ivan Yukich, Brancott, Montana wine "visionary"; NZ's "star rising"
• Classic Campers' VW Kombis make for "up-close and personal" travel
• Anna Paquin in LA's Gjelina's, not nervous, but "offbeat and wry"
• Kauri Cliffs' The Lodge, voted no.1 in region by Travel + Leisure
• P750 XTOL, Hamilton-made aircraft, to rival Cessna over Alaska
• New Zealand enticing destination for US doctors seeking change



CONCEPT MUSCLE: JULIAN DASHPHER 1960–2009
Our friend Julian Daspher, artist, died on 30 July, aged 49, in Auckland. He was loved by many and will be greatly missed. What he leaves is his art – his early paintings and a substantial body of conceptual art exploring location and art itself. Julian signed up with nzedge early, a decade ago. He was already making the local/global trip. Curator Christina Barton has written that Julian had "the unique perspective of attending to an internationalist art history from a distance, enabling him to devise strategies to work around his geographical isolation whilst simultaneously articulating its effects." He undertook a project in three editions of the premier international contemporary art magazine, Artforum. "Julian was not at ease with the institutions of art, and rightly so, maintaining a distance which was energising. Distance becomes us, and, in 1992 he inserted an exhibition-as-advertisement in Artforum magazine. Artfrom New Zealand comically defied the politics and constraints of the one-way conversation, and marked out the possibilities of the self made guy" (Natasha Conland). Julian was a connector, a hustler in Texan boots, an internationalist from West Auckland. The list of his international exhibitions are the story of his working life: Trieste, Leiden, Topolove, Canberra, Aachen, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Kluzé, Saskatchewan, Sydney, Versa, Copenhagen, Tokyo, London, Marfa, Berlin, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Houston, Oxford, Los Angeles, Athens, Brussels, Sioux City, San Luis Obispo, Lincoln, New York City, Wichita, Melbourne, Oslo, Birmingham, Vienna, Basel, Toowoomba, Den Haag, Durban, Staten Island. A true edgster, Julian worked from remote locations. Of his 2005 Iowa exhibition, Larry Taylor wrote "Sioux City is just off of about everyone's map, even in an era of MapQuest. Perhaps that, ironically, makes it the place to begin reasserting some concept muscle: less hampered by the standard coastal baggage, such a locale offers its artistic self tabula rasa." Indeed. And just to confound the notion of what a conceptual artist is or should be, Julian was a big fan, nay, a believer, in the Warriors aka the Auckland-based rugby league team that delivers ecstasy and agony in equal measures. During his illness Julian would fortify himself with a video of Ruben Wiki hammering a Roosters player ("he's in Disneyland!"). Big Ruben visited Julian in hospital a few weeks before his death, with the message "stay strong and keep going." He did, and his art ensures he will. Tears and cheers to Marie and Leo.



BEATRICE TINSLEY – QUEEN OF THE COSMOS
Cosmologist, violinist, teacher, mentor and nzedge Hero, Beatrice Tinsley, is the subject of a new 20-part series on Radio New Zealand Concert called The Stars are Comforting: The Letters of Beatrice Tinsley. Produced by Adrienne Baron, the series airs Wednesday nights at 7pm, and is based on the internationally-recognised scientist's letters to her family. Beatrice Tinsley was a truly extraordinary New Zealander whose work on how the evolution of galaxies affects the origin and size of the universe had a profound effect on scientific knowledge. But tragically she died of cancer in 1981 aged 40. Bob Brockie's tribute to Tinsley's life in the Dominion Post this week encapsulated her as "daughter of a one-time mayor of New Plymouth, she overcame almost insuperable odds to become a scientist and professor of astronomy at Yale University." For further information on this stellar New Zealander's story be sure to have a look Christine Cole Catley's fantastic biography Bright Star: Beatrice Hill Tinsley, Astronomer.



NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL DATEBOOK

RECLAIMING THE PAST
LONDON, September 10 – October 10 2009: 'ethKnowcentrix: Museums Inside the Artist'. October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL.Artists Shigeyuki Kihara, George Nuku, Rosanna Raymond and Lisa Reihana present mixed media and performance work exploring the idea of the ethnographic gaze in a major exhibition – the first of its kind in London – next month at the October Gallery. 'ethKnowcentrix: Museums Inside the Artist' reconsiders the spaces of meeting, looking and representing across cultures, and explores how the ethnographic gaze has been reciprocated and challenged. "With acerbic wit, these works promise to radically subvert the European legacy of museum classification, reclaim popular imagery of Pacific Island culture, and offer fresh perspectives for a shared global future."

YMCA hosts its inaugural 'CBD-Connect' fundraiser event with nzedge.com co-founder Kevin Roberts as guest speaker. There will also be music performances by Tama Waipara and a poetry recital by 'slam poet' Courtney Meredith. For more info or to book a table, contact Michelle Delahunty at the YMCA, email michelle.delahunty@nzymca.com or phone 09 306 3750.

1301PE gallery hosts 'Wall Drawings', a new exhibition featuring work by Angela Bulloch, Kate Ericsson, Mel Ziegler, Jorge Méndez Blake, and New Zealander John Reynolds. Visit 1301PE website for further details.





Here are the Top 10 titles for July:

1. Flare – A Ski Trip, NFU short film 1977 – Snow 'ski ballet'
2. The Leading Edge, feature film, 1987 – Extreme 80's thrill-seekers
3. Peter Snell – Athlete, NFU short film 1964 – 800m Gold Medalist
4. Britten: Backyard Visionary, doco 1993 – DIY designer John Britten
5. Trio at the Top, doco 2001 – Legends McLaren, Hulme and Amon
6. Games 74, NFU film 1974 – 1974 Chch Commonwealth Games
7. Gloss, TV series 1987 – Yuppies, Walkmen; 80s cult "glitter soap"
8. Play School, TV series 1975–1990 – Iconic show for preschoolers
9. Kaikohe Demolition, feature film 2004 – Far North demo derby
10. Bred to Win, NFU short film 1968 – Racehorse breeding in NZ



STEINLAGER ON THE EDGE
The "They're drinking our beer here" ads for Steinlager in the 1980s were a benchmark for internationalism-from-the-edge. Cultural cringe be damned, in the fanciest bars and swankiest hotels in New York, LA and London, "they" were drinking "our" beer. The brand wandered off in the late 90s, but has made a comeback with Steinlager Pure ("the taste of paradise in a bottle") and now with Steinlager Edge – "the beer for people not prepared to compromise on any aspect of their full lives. Steinlager Edge is built on a belief that finding balance in life isn't about doing less, but about doing everything." Perhaps Lion have provided the basis for a new tourism proposition for New Zealand: Pure Edge. The TV ads are a little, er, metrosexual, for me, but I'd like to like to try a bottle or three. Thanks Lion – level 14, 100 Willis St, Wellington.



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