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May 17, 2012
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John Boone started out with just a few hundred dollars, some borrowed drums and a group of backpackers roped in with bribes of beer and barbecues. He’d never even heard of “corporate drumming” until the lead singer in his band suggested he give it a go. And it’s a good thing he did; setting up Rhythm Interactive allowed Boone to combine his two main loves, music and drama. Now, 2,500 drums and 820 shows later, Boone is at the top of his game. As he tells Idealog, the power of performance can’t be underestimated. Watch out, world.
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“Pure art, craft and performance.” That’s how Christchurch man Simon Courtney describes his handcrafted bicycles, and it’s a vision that won over the Steinlager Pure Futures judging panel, who loved his idea, passion and drive. As the grand winner of the campaign, Courtney receives $10,000 toward his dream. Said Dan Gosling, director at label Stolen Girlfriends Club: “I liked the
idea and the green feel. He is a young guy trying to do something a bit
different with a design and it has great commercial viability.” In his spare time, Courtney makes individual
bicycles by hand, but in order to increase his volumes, he needed better equipment and more materials. His vision was first born when he ordered a hand built bike and
realised that demand for customised frames was so high, it would take a
whopping five years to reach him. Self taught in welding and metalwork, he believes this gave him the chance to write his own rules.
“Each bicycle is made to a customised set of angles and lengths, using
specifically-chosen steel tubes so it will perform outstandingly when
ridden with intent,” he says.
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Bigger, brighter, the bestest most scientifically proven amazingest conference ever. What else could it be but Webstock 2011? And the lineup just got even more star power with the addition of a) superstar blogger John
Gruber of Daring Fireball and b) Peter Sunde, the co-founder of The Pirate Bay and founder of Flattr. They join Doug Bowman, Tom Coates, Kristina Halvorson,
Nicole Sullivan and many others, with still more to come. But most importantly, there’s one more week till early bird pricing ends, so now’s the time to
mark February 17 and 18 on your calendar and book your tickets.
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It’s a cross-country trip unlike any before it—self-described inventor Haidar Taleb is currently undertaking the 322-kilometre journey across the desert of the UAE in a wheelchair of his own design. Success will mean breaking the world record for distance travelled in a solar-powered wheelchair, a record he already holds for a 129-kilometre trip he made just weeks ago. Struck by polio at the age of four, Taleb has the following message to share: You can do anything you want if you have the courage and ambition. With that in mind, he’ll be stopping at schools and centres for the disabled throughout the seven emirates, and will be updating his progress here.
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What if…?
Imagine a world where imagination runs wild, a world which can manifest whatever your mind conjures up. There are no limits—not even the laws of physics apply. Yes, this is an ad, but that doesn’t stop us wanting to watch it again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvl7kG82EfI
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Forget about New Zealand’s Next Top Model—the hunt is on for Enzed’s most inspired, well-stocked and lovingly-crafted bookcase. At stake is a $500 Booksellers Token (accepted in more bookshops throughout the country than any other voucher) to help you add to your collection. The contest coincides with the current Booksellers campaign featuring
bookshelves that have been cleverly arranged to spell out famous
literary quotes. So take a good look at the bookshelves in your life, snap a photo of yourself next to it, and email it to website@booksellers.co.nz by December 12. All entries will be posted on the Booksellers Flickr stream. “When it comes to entries, there are no restrictions. Entries could include a treasured bookshelf in a family home, a precariously-balanced book sculpture, or a series of four-by-two planks and a few old bricks in a student flat, laden with text books, crime novels and dog-eared Lonely Planet travel guides,” says Lincoln Gould, chief executive of Booksellers NZ.
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Jordan Barnes can now quit his odd jobs, well, at least for six months at least. That’s because he has just been awarded the inaugural New Zealand Affordable Art Trust Artist Grant, beating out a field of other 500 applicants. Barnes is 25 but the grant is the icing on an 11-year artistic career;
he sold his first piece at age 14 and has been consistently painting and
exhibiting since he was 16. Painting on a full-time basis always seemed a mere
pipedream (he supplements
his income through acting, modeling,
music and other work). But the award, which includes artistic and business mentoring, studio space, an exhibition and a $15,000 salary, brings him one step closer to fulfilling that dream.
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In the creative industries, collaborations exist for the most part within the confines of one discipline. But Make Something 2010 challenges that notion, pairing six graphic designers with the likes of musicians, architects, visual effects producers and others. This year’s non-commercial collaborations come from Brogen Averill & Jamie McLellan, Xanthe Harrison & Anja Harrison, Tana Mitchell & Julia Deans, Dean Poole & Mechanical Turk, Bevan Tonks & Davor Popadich and Leonie Whyte & Angela Jackson. Given free rein, their mash-ups promise to blend the best of their talents and the results will be on show at Achilles House (corner of Custom Street East and Commerce Street, Auckland) from today through till Sunday.
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Bird's eye view
Can’t shake the feeling of being watched? To demonstrate just how pervasive surveillance cameras are, birds with cameras instead of heads were placed throughout the city centre of Utrecht in the Netherlands. But most eerie was the caged camera bird “in captivity”, feeding on snapshots of people’s faces. Watch
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Quote of the week
We kidnapped backpackers with the lure of a beer and a sausage and rehearsed in our garage. — John Boone on his early forays into group drumming
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