Author: noizyboy

Site upgrade

Hey all, just did a site upgrade (from Drupal 5.something to 6.17, for those that are inter­ested).

I seem to have lost some com­ments off the last couple of posts – they should be recov­er­able and back online tomor­row.

If you notice any­thing else amiss, drop us a line at our info email address.

(Incid­ent­ally, this new theme is tem­por­ary – we’re work­ing away on anoth­er one in the back­ground – this one was just easi­er to use with the upgraded sys­tem instead of upgrad­ing the old theme, which was riddled with, errr, idio­syn­crat­ic code).

Free Pompeii (for Wellingtonians)

If you wer­en’t aware, just a heads up that the Pom­peii exhib­i­tion down at Te Papa is free for Wel­ling­ton rate­pay­ers and res­id­ents this Thursday (4 March). Details here.

[hat-tip: goNZo Freak­power]

Weight Watchers

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Par­al­lel Dance Ensemble (and their video mak­ing team) for tak­ing out the top award at this year’s Handle the Jan­dal music video awards. Enjoy…

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQRJTVraV1M]

Oth­er win­ners (click thru for video on You­Tube):

Best Use of Exploit­at­ive Tac­tics to Pro­mote A Band:
Judah Finnigan and Ben Forman for High­life’s Ber­serk

Best Editing:
Joe Fish for James Duncan’s A Obvi­ous

Best Cine­ma­to­graphy:
Kim­ber­ley Brown for Elec­tric Wire Hustle’s Per­cep­tion

Best Concept:
Lisa Dunn for Par­al­lel Dance Ensemble’s Weight Watch­ers

Best Anim­a­tion:
Pre­ston McNeill for Isaac Aesili’s With You In My Bed

Rising Star:
Greg Paw­sey for Cou­gar Cou­gar Cou­gar’s Satan’s Blues

Real Hot Bitches – record breakers

Who knew (this par­tic­u­lar Wel­ling­tonista did­n’t) that our fair city’s top ’80s cheese-rock dance troupe’ – the Real Hot Bitches – had set the world record for most people in a syn­chron­ised dance? In Christ­ch­urch, of all places. Here’s the evid­ence, in all its leg­warmed, span­dexed glory…

 

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8izqfvSXQs]

 

[Hat-tip: From the Morgue]

Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra – Tickets Giveaway

The Wel­ling­ton Inter­na­tion­al Ukulele Orches­tra have flicked us a couple of tick­ets to give away for their upcom­ing show at the Michael Fowl­er Centre (Sat 27 June). 

To be in to win, watch their new ‘It’s a Heartache’ video, then email info@wellingtonista.com with the sub­ject line: WIUO Com­pet­i­tion, and in the body of the email, answer this ques­tion: what is the fla­vour of the tart that fea­tures in the video?

Com­pet­i­tion closes Noon, Wed 24 June.

Win­ner has been noti­fied! Thanks for all the entries.

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqynAAYdLW8]
 

Bus STOP

Hey, Mr Bus Driver, that per­son run­ning down the foot­path, wav­ing at you, just ten metres or so from the bus stop? They prob­ably want to get on the bus.

And the guy who’s just got on and tells you to “wait, there’s someone just com­ing” – he’s prob­ably want­ing you to wait, ‘cos there’s someone com­ing.

I under­stand you’re the ‘Express’ – but, really, no-one is going to be put out if you wait an extra 5 seconds to let a strag­gler catch up (espe­cially if you spend a minute har­anguing a pas­sen­ger for dar­ing to try and pay their fare with a $20 note.)

Big Freeze Video

Video of last week’s ‘Big Freeze’ (pre­vi­ously blogged about by Sue here).

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WezMQg_LCpQ]

  Cour­tesy: The Sidestrip