Mike Mellor answers our questions
We offered to publish the answers from any candidates in the local body elections and Mike Mellor who is standing in the Eastern Ward has stepped up.
1. You have 30 seconds to convince someone to come to Wellington. What’s your pitch?
WOW 2010
It’s World of WearableArt season again, where scores of ladies (and some gents) converge upon the capital it witness the extravaganza that is the World of WearableArt show. This year’s awards show was held on Friday night, and again The Wellingtonista was invited along for the WOWstravaganza.
The fun of the WOW show is that it’s never just models walking down a catwalk. For a start, WOW uses dancers (and some of the costumes require physical strength and stamina to wear) and that catwalk is an three-headed serpent with rotating circles for maximum display potential.
After the jump, winners and pics galore!
Click Local
North of Wellington is a sunny paradise, known as Petone. Petone and its surrounding suburbs now have their own website created by local webby types, Brent Dickens and Michael Haymes. Click Local sets out to give local people, groups, businesses, artists and organisers a place to promote their ideas and events. Its evolution will depend very much on the people who contribute, so it would be great to see heaps of people get involved.
If you’re keen, contact Brent Dickens: brent@clicklocal.org.nz
John Bishop answers our questions
We offered to publish the answers from any candidates in the local body elections and John Bishop who is standing in Lambton Ward has stepped up.
1. You have 30 seconds to convince someone to come to Wellington. What’s your pitch?
A raft of wonderful entertainment and recreation in a compact city – good for mind, body and soul
2. How do you think traffic flow to the hospital and airport could be improved?
Wider roads, more buses and more space for cyclists. Perhaps light rail too depending on cost
3. Where do you stand on the issue of opening up government data?
Shine the light.
4. What plans have do you have to improve recycling/composting facilities?
Lids on bins to reduce rubbish blowing about. Support council’s new plan for kerbside sorting
Marcus Ganley answers our questions
We offered to publish the answers from any candidates in the local body elections and Marcus Gangley who is standing in the Lambton Ward has stepped up.
Mark Greening answers our questions
We offered to publish the answers from any candidates in the local body elections and Mark Greening who is standing in the Lambton Ward has stepped up.
1. You have 30 seconds to convince someone to come to Wellington. What’s your pitch?
Wow, a capital city with the heart of a village. Waterfront vistas, green hills, amazing: coffee, food, art and culture!
Botanic infamy
OMG. The Wellington Botanic Gardens, currently teeming with life and colour and general springtime joy, gets a mention on an upcoming episode of The Simpsons, the first of the new series.
The episode guest stars local boys made good Bret and Jemaine Conchords, and the pair use the Botanic Gardens good name for great lolz:
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJkdPbpoc5s]And remember the annual Spring Festival is currently happening at the Botanic Gardens, so why not take the opportunity to frollick in the spring blooms and say you were down with the gardens before they were famous.
Grouper (US) with Pumice and Glass Vaults tomorrow night.
For those who caught Grouper during her last trip to NZ, she will need no introduction. For those who missed her – don’t repeat your mistake! We are lucky to have a return visit from this Portland native, playing once again with Auckland’s Pumice with newcomers Glass Vaults at Happy tomorrow night (Tuesday September 28th). Presales are $15 from undertheradar.co.nz. More on the door.
Liz Harris’ GROUPER evokes the ghosts of songs, using minor-key, folk-derived melodies swathed in sheets of delay to carry her fragile vocals. Over albums such as Wide (2006) and Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (2008), Harris has expanded upon her deceptively simple form, moving from all encompassing ambiance, cocooned in oceans of reverb, to a more stark, yet no less absorbing form, vulnerable imagery emerging from the music like half-remembered dreams.
Auckland’s Stefan Neville a.k.a. PUMICE is in no need of an introduction for discerning NZ listeners. A ramshackle one-man band, playing guitar, vocals, tape loops and drums simultaneously, he bridges the void between all-out improvisation and tightly executed song craft. It’s noise, it’s lo-fi, it’s drone, it’s pop – often all at once – Pumice defies all expectations with his live show. Neville’s discography is beyond extensive, having been consistently pumping out releases since 1994.
Having already brought her arresting and beautiful show to NZ in 2009, Grouper’s return is a welcome chance for those who missed out first time around to see Harris’ aching and moving music in the flesh.
Rex Nairn answers our questions
We offered to publish the answers from any candidates in the local body elections and Rex Nairn who is standing in Southern Ward has stepped up.
1. You have 30 seconds to convince someone to come to Wellington. What’s your pitch?
Central city harbour jewel
A zephyr blows through
Event and party H.Q.
2. How do you think traffic flow to the hospital and airport could be improved?
Can’t get through the CBD
Transport system, hah!
Buses, not automobiles
3. Where do you stand on the issue of opening up government data?
Sorry some stuff you can’t see
Most of it you should
Nothing to hide from no-one
4. What plans do you have to improve recycling/composting facilities?
We need to reduce our waste
Compost organics
Put it on public gardens
WOW winners
I’ve just got back from the WOW Awards Show, so here’s a quickie post with the winner and runner up.
The winner of the 2010 Montana Supreme World of WearableArt Award was Loops by Yogesh Chaudhary and Manas Barve, both design young students from India. Loops is a seamless piece made from felted Australian merino:
The runner up to the Supreme WOW Award was Horridus Lynn Christiansen of the USA. Inspired by the thorny devil lizard (Moloch horridus), it’s made of copper and had a distinct clatter as the model moved in it:
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A full report on the WOW experience will come soon, including the bit where Jo forced me to touch Te Radar’s lovely soft curly hair.