January 2012
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December 2009
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Kobe Beef Certificate →
from Dinosaurs and Robots: Lazily flipping through a free magazine, an article on Kobe beef caught my attention. Aside from the secrecy that shrounds the raising of these prized Japanese cows (a purported diet of beer and sake, daily massages to encourage maximum fat marbling) I was even more fascinated by this bit of info: The Japanese take this breeding so seriously that their beef arrives at...
Dec 12th
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If you have some free time you could do this with...
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Dec 10th
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Dec 7th
November 2009
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Kid’s Drawing Reenacted Using Professional... →
Nov 29th
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Design Nirvana: Lego Teams Up With Muji →
Lego meets Origami! awesome stuff!
Nov 26th
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Roswell Angier - "Sticky Floors and White Men... →
“Stripper-stretch marks and desert-devil-dust… Mexican-Men and Tequila-Worm-Lust… jiggling breasts and White Men roars, sticky palms and sticky floors… booze-boars and bottle-breath, broken-teeth smiles and flailing-fist-death…” via American Suburb X
Nov 26th
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Isopropyl alcohol for cleaning negatives? - APUG →
I’m becoming a film developing nerd, learning about using isopropyl to dry negatives, releasing the patterson tank lid after each agitation to release pressure (and stop leaks), and spreading out the development process to increase contrast. Man film rules.
Nov 1st
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October 2009
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Oct 25th
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Oct 10th
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Golden Harvest - I Need Your Love →
I bought some Golden Harvest brand margarine the other day, it’s not very good… Thank fully the original Golden Harvest and their brilliant Maori Disco groove ‘I need your love’ is flipping AWESOME! Check out the faked playing-with-your-teeth guitar solo at the end and gat pretending to make synth sounds…
Oct 9th
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Blam Blam Blam - There is no Depression →
One of Don MacGlashan’s best tunes, and another classic from the New Zealand film archive. Ace. Worth it for the Dancing Vegemite and Marmite sequence!
Oct 9th
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Ray Columbus and the Invaders - Till We Kissed →
One of the finest moments in Kiwi 60’s pop. Had this in my head since the VMA’s the other night.
Oct 9th
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Oct 9th
Wild Things’ Forts! →
A Fort Building Contest! Great photos so far, all in the aid of the theatrical release of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’.
Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
this is what fun looks like. →
Wow. Amazing cut-out textured art work.
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September 2009
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in b flat →
a collaborative music project! create beautiful, tone-rich ambient sounds from a butt-load of youtube clips, all recorded in b-flat. so nice.
Sep 17th
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Jody Lloyd's Summer Ragga-Muffins →
Trillion musician Jody Lloyd made this recipe and accompanying video for the search for NZ’s favourite recipe. Check it out the video (it’s HILARIOUS) and vote for Jody!
Sep 8th
Sep 8th
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Rubber Soul
“Produced by George Martin and released in December 1965, Rubber Soul had been recorded in just over four weeks to make the Christmas market.” You should hear the stereo remasters of Rubber Soul. Seriously. It’ll blow your freaking mind.
Sep 6th