Tonight at the Embassy the­atre there will be an visu­al explo­sion of enthu­si­as­tic ama­teurs, with the annu­al Han­dle the Jan­dal DIY music video com­pe­ti­tion com­ing to the big screen for one night only. 

This Welling­ton­ista hand deliv­ered one of the entries all the way from that heav­ing metrop­o­lis Auck­land, so may pos­si­bly be a wee bit biased about who she thinks should kick some arse. 

Remem­ber the con­tro­ver­sy over the Hot Grits and the milk swill­ing babies (booze for baby?!?) last year?

Grab your Jaf­fas and head along tonight to cel­e­brate the skanky and dis­rup­tive DIY spir­it of our cul­tur­al sec­tor on the big screen.

What: Han­dle the Jan­dal — DIY music videos

Where: The Embassy The­atre

Cost: $17 pre-sales $22 on the door

Details on the Radio Active web­site here.

I know, I know, super-bad pun but the folks here at Welling­ton­ista seem to have real­ly real­ly high pun thresh­olds.…

Any­way, this Sat­ur­day being part of a long week­end there are a lot of events com­pet­ing for your atten­tion out there in Welling­ton.  We have Craft 2.0 Fair at the Dowse as Sue has already post­ed, I will be work­ing the kids table and it would def­i­nite­ly be my pick for tomor­row.  How­ev­er maybe some of you can’t make it to the Hutt or want a few more options in cen­tral Welly.

A quick reminder about Beans, appear­ing on Sun­day night at SFBH in Cuba St. (pre­vi­ous post here.)  Sup­port is from fmr-Trin­i­ty Roots-man Riki Gooch’s Eru Dan­ger­spiel out­fit, and DJ Alpha­bet­head!

Tick­ets are $25 and avail­able from Slow Boat Records or Under The Radar… updates and more info from Gales­burg.

Over at Eye of the Fish, Max­imus has a good report of last night’s pub­lic meet­ing about what should be done about the Maranui surf club.

Mon­ey quote:

… all 4 sce­nar­ios went down like a cup of cold sick in a burnt out shed on a cold wind-swept beach­front. A mem­ber of the crowd put the feel­ing into words and start­ed the ball that we should vote for a Fifth Sce­nario. An imme­di­ate show of hands con­firmed over­whelm­ing sup­port for this pro­pos­al, which was, as anoth­er crowd mem­ber suc­cinct­ly put it into words: “The 5th Sce­nario is that we just want Maranui rebuilt, so why are we debat­ing all this oth­er shit?”

The whole thing.

Vot­ed by you the pub­lic as win­ner in the Smarten Your Snap­per com­pe­ti­tion is Wave by Yana from Chro­mato­pho­bic.

Yana wins a Snap­per loaded with $100 and a free table at Craft2.0 this Sat­ur­day.

One of the great things about this cov­er is its see-through nature, espe­cial­ly use­ful with both red and green Snap­per cards out in the wild.

Yana designed the cov­er and then using the Laser cut­ter at ponoko she whipped this nifty cov­er up using 0.3mm polypropy­lene — and you thought polypropy­lene was just for warm clothes!

Vot­ing was extrem­ly close so we award­ed a prize to the run­ner-up Amy from Bad Ani­mals and her Pirate Patch. Amy will receive a free table at Craft2.0 this sat­ur­day.

Think shop­ping, hand­made, free treats, free mak­ing and out­door knit­ting, plus cup­cakes and craft — loads and loads and loads of craft — and you have Craft2.0.

It’s being held at the­New­Dowse this Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 24th from 11am till 3pm.

It costs noth­ing to turn up and if you are one of the first 100 peo­ple through the door at 11am  you score a FREE good­ie bag from Craftrun­ner chock full of treats, includ­ing good­ies from felt.co.nz, Cafe Reka, Teza iced tea, Super­very, Emma Makes and more. Plus there is tons of to-die-for swag from the Craft2.0 raf­fle and so much more. 

Typ­i­cal­ly over 60 booths are present sell­ing every­thing from glit­ter­ing uni­corn pins to hand print­ed t‑shirts. If you are a fan of indie fash­ion, then you’ve found your DIY par­adise. The best part is meet­ing the crafters behind the styles and see­ing how some of their cre­ations came to life.

What kinds of crafts will you find? Well, you won’t find any of that mass pro­duced or import­ed stuff here, no siree! There’ll be sur­pris­es galore includ­ing recon­struct­ed cloth­ing, punk rock baby clothes for that lit­tle Sid or Nan­cy, hand­craft­ed jew­ellery, whim­si­cal and dement­ed plush toys, hand-spun yarn, screen-print­ing, avant-garde art and much more.

Best of all, Craft2.0 is more than just shop­ping. Kids of all ages can design and cre­ate their own mag­i­cal masks. Whether you’re a bird lover or are just look­ing for some­thing exot­ic, feath­er masks are a great craft project. These beau­ti­ful cre­ations work well as cos­tume pieces or dec­o­ra­tions. and it’s free.