This competition is now closed.

Ok, we still have a super sweet Nokia 5800 smart phone, worth $899 to give away, courtesy of Vodafone, so it’s time to mash up this competition to make it easier to enter and therefore easier to win. Yay.

To enter, all you need to do is visit www.Vodafone.co.nz/easy and watch the video called "Internet Access Easy ANYWHERE" and answer this rather easy question: What is the occupation of the mobile internet user in the video?

Email your answer to info@wellingtonista.com with the subject ‘Vodafone Competition".

I especially recommend entering this comp if you like doing cool stuff online but you’re labouring with a crappy old cellphone. Cos mobile internet is one of the best things about 3G.

The competition closes at midday on Friday 15 May and the winner will be determined by a random draw. You must be a New Zealand resident. Righto.

UPDATE

We have a winnar! Congratulations to Brent Dickens who will very soon be getting a lovely new Nokia 5800.

Thanks to everyone who entered!

Don’t miss this 35mm screening of the brilliant Rust Never Sleeps (USA, exempt, 103 mins) this Saturday night at the Film Archive.  Tickets are $8 ($6 concession) and this feature length documentary could sell out so get your tickets now.

The Godfather of Grunge is in essential (read: grungy) form on this acclaimed live video, widely considered to be the best record of Neil Young’s spectacular concert presence. Filmed in 1978, Young and his backing band, Crazy Horse, rip through sixteen of his best songs, including Like A Hurricane, Cinnamon Girl, and the modern classic, After the Goldrush.

Rust Never Sleeps is one of those rare concert films that renews one’s faith in rock and roll. Tell your Dad.

It’s a Tuesday night. Rather, it’s 5.55pm, approximately. You walk into a restraurant that has its ‘OPEN’ sign up. The man behind the counter talking on the phone that gives you a "I am on the phone" look. You nod politely and look around the restaurant. It is totally empty. When he finally pauses his phonecall, he gestures you towards the six-seater right in front of the door and disappears again, apparently to finish off his terribly important phone call. You retrieve a bottle of wine from your bag, even though a glass of water first would be nice. The wine is a screw cap, but it takes you a couple of minutes to crack. No sign of water or menus, so you pull out your copy on NW and start the sudoku, even though you’d really rather order an entree before the rest of your friends arrive because you’re totally starving. and the intense heat in the restaurant and the HI NRG Bangra is really really offputting.

However, even though you’re not particularly fast at Sudoku, you manage to complete the entire thing before the waiter returns with menus for the whole table. You order some samosas, and turn your attention to the smaller crossword, which you plow through before your little pastry parcels show up. The crust of the samosas is not melty, the cabbage scattered on the plate has definitely seen better days, and the tamarind sauce seems unusually concentrated. For $5.50, it is acceptable, but not with that kind of service.

There’s a fabric fair/market on tomorrow in Welly called Fabric-a-brac – come along to buy or to hock your too-big stash of fabrics off to someone else.

Or just come for the coffee!

Email Josie for info about registering for a stall, or check out the blog.

Hope to see you there, it should be fun! The idea is that people take a table at the event, and sell all that cool vintage fabric, those buttons, patterns and sewing-related items that they are just never going to get around to using.

Some people get some cash, others get some great fabric at bargain prices. Hey presto!

12noon – 4pm,  Saturday 18 April

Brooklyn Community Centre, 18 Harrison St, Wellington

Put simply, Wellington artist Douglas Bagnall is an artsy computer-nerd genius (hopefully he won’t mind me saying so).

Tomorrow eve, Wednesday 15 April at 5:30pm the Film Archive’s mediagallery is unveiling his interactive project:

A MACHINE THAT TRANSFORMS CRAYON PICTURES INTO UNIQUE VIDEO GAMES THAT YOU CAN PLAY! 

I kid you not. Take your kids during the school hols, take your Nana. The exhibition is free and runs until May 16. 

Take whoever, and most importantly, take yourselves for a drink on Wednesday eve! 

Film Archive, corner of Taranaki and Ghuznee Sts

We all know Craft2.0 is very much a shopping mecca for those who love handmade.

But Craft2.0 is not just another craft fair, it’s also an all-day crafting party. Thanks to Hutt Valley Community Arts you can unleash your inner crafter with an entire dedicated space set aside for freestyle making. Share your ideas and learn from others in a laidback and relaxed environment that’s 100% free.

Turn up at 10am and you might be one of the lucky 100 people to win a free Cafe Reka Gift bag. Inside are tasty treats from Cafe Reka and a heaps of crafty and yummy extras.

But don’t worry if you miss out on a gift bag – until 2pm you can enter the prize draw to win loads of beautiful things from the Craft2.0 Crafters, TheNewDowse, World Sweet World and Felt. Added up it comes to about $100 worth of crafty goodies.

There will also be free face painting!

So get your shopping shoes ready and come along for a stress-free day of local craft and fun activities. All stalls accept cash, or CraftCash is available on the day. Remember to check out TheNewDowse exhibitions while you’re here, and stimulate your own creative impulses. See www.craft2.org for crafter profiles and blog updates.

EDIT: We’ve changed the entry criteria to make it easier to enter. Details over here.

Thanks to our pals at Vodafone, we at the Wellingtonista are giving you the chance to win a super sweet Nokia 5800 smart phone worth $899.

First, some background:

Vodafone plans to complete its rollout of 3G coverage to 97% of the places New Zealanders live work and play by 31 May. With 3G coverage it means Vodafone customers can do heaps more with their mobiles – including mobile internet, video calling, music downloads, mobile broadband and more.

To get people excited and involved in 3G, Vodafone has set up a mini site called 3G made easy www.Vodafone.co.nz/easy

Vodafone has also created some tutorials on how to get to know your 3G mobile. But they think that their customers could probably do better, so for every video that gets posted on the Vodafone website, Vodafone give that person $10 airtime credit and the top 5 most viewed videos will also get a Nokia N85 and $500 credit. The most viewed tutorial will also get a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 and 1 year free mobile broadband (1gb/month plan).

So that’s a lot of ace prizes already up for grabs over at www.Vodafone.co.nz/easy, but a Nokia 5800 smartphone could also be yours if you give it a Wellingtonista twist.

What do you need to do to win? Find out after the jump!