Recent Posts Tagged With 'art'

• What maketh the man?

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 05:51 in art, education, life, business, society, motivation, community, new zealand, attitude

  I was a scrawny, nervous young lad when I got to high school. For those from overseas, high school is around your 8th year of school through to when you leave school at around 17/18 in NZ. Anyway, I had a hard time. The nickname for my school was Pen...

• Creativity

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 04:21 in art, family, Culture, music, entertainment, artist, observation, motivation, attitude

  I honestly can’t pin point the time when I knew I wanted to be a creative person. Looking back, I see trigger points. A unique solution to a problem, playing Dungeons & Dragons as a kid and spending more time working on the story line that...

• Dealer gone rogue - Ron Coles

  Posted on Sunday May 17th, 2009 at 00:42 in art, law and order

  An art dealer gone bad, with 30 million in artwork gone astray read more | digg story...

• Observing the Observer

  Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 18:03 in art, life, artist, observation, people, cafe, sketch, kebab

  I’ll be the first to admit that I am an introvert. I dislike crowds, noisy place and find it very difficult to be comfortable around new people I have only recently met. But despite that, I like watching people, actually, it’s closer to a...

• Australians unimpressed with NZ TV

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 04:01 in art, entertainment, business, movies, TV, Rant, observation, television, new zealand, screenplay, directors

  NEW Zealand is a pretty small country, in fact, Sydney has about the same population as the whole of New Zealand. But we have produced directors the likes of Peter Jackson, Roger Donaldson, Geoff Murphy, Vincent Ward, Bruce Morrison, Jane Campion, Le...

• Is the music industry dead?

  Posted on Monday January 5th, 2009 at 23:23 in art, Culture, internet, technology, entertainment, money, business

  I read some article ages ago (still trying to find it again, but that issue is  for another time) about the state of the music industry. They were, and are, in deep shit.  This is bad for the artists, and largely the executives of the various music...