With more than 350 million video mobile phones out there, a Kiwi at some point had to make a mobile movie. This week’s Idealog podcast describes how Aucklander Andrew McKenzie produces, directs and stars in his own animated mobile-phone ... More …
Here is the short formula for those fast readers.(F+S+A+H+P)*C=Artists/M², where F=Financial Resources, S=Spaces for Arts & Culture, A=Access & Awareness, H=Human Capital, P=Partnerships, and C=Culture of Appreciation.The ... More …
Here are two great numbers I heard of today. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the resident population of the United States, reached 300,000,000 on 17/10/06. In less than 40 years since the ... More …
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." I heard that on the same radio broadcast today that Jason Kemp blogged about in the previous post. When Dennis Dutton confessed, grudgingly, that it was most sensible ... More …
I’ve heard a lot about the Flight of the Conchords. Well … a bit. I know they have done well at the Edinburgh fringe festival. I gather they have scored a show on HBO. That has to count for something ... More …
I wrote about the need for innovation in the carpet business in my column (Idealog #6, in stores now). One idea that occurred to me was harnessing the kinetic energy from walking on the carpet to power household appliances. Just ... More …
What is about Wellington that it produces such a great business idea as Star Now? And Project X? And how come Christchurch gets the greenest buildings? Is Auckland really the home of bad design? Idealog ponders the state of ideas ... More …
One of the most viewed video bloggers (vlogger?) on YouTube is an English gentleman in his seventies. His first video alone has been viewed 1.9 million times. That is the thing about the creative economy. Forget all of the ... More …
TV viewership is under the gun. TVNZ have just heavily discounted their rates by up to 14 percent. The Herald’s coverage attributes that to a slump in the economy, but I suggest wider strategic forces are at play, including ... More …
Can New Zealand reduce its carbon emission to zero? Is that a good idea? And what’s the cost? A new report from the Royal Society this morning shows there’s a fantastic opportunity for NZ to leverage its clean ... More …
I recently had a contrary discussion with a friend about whether science should be considered part of the creative economy. On one hand it is a component of the creative economy, or rather technologies are, but I make the distinction ... More …
