Open­ing tonight at the Film Archive (this one well worth a look) is artist Nova Paul’s exper­i­ment­a­tion with the bright bold world of Tech­nicol­or.

Part trippy, wan­der­ing col­ourscape, part highly tech­nic­al pro­cess, film geeks and art lov­ers will drool over this one…while many should remem­ber her work from last year’s Pro­spect show at the City Gal­lery.

Plus she’s present­ing a screen­ing of some of her works along­side Tech­nicol­or gems from the Archive’s vault on Thursday 5 June – includ­ing the fas­cin­at­ing Tuber­cu­los­is: How it spreads: How to pre­vent it (1954, Mor­row Pro­duc­tions, NZ)

Open­ing tonight 5:30pm at the Film Archive. Exhib­i­tion runs til Sat­urday 21 June.

As a fly, I am obvi­ously dis­gust­ing and there­fore a Nation­al voter. But it is entirely pos­sible that you are a bet­ter per­son than me, and you might,therefore, be inter­ested in ming­ling with oth­ers who are that way inclined, which is where this email we received might come in handy:

Drink­ing Lib­er­ally – pro­mot­ing demo­cracy one pint at a time
Like polit­ics? Like drink­ing? If you answered yes to both these ques­tions then join us for the launch of Drink­ing Lib­er­ally, a fort­nightly event aimed at build­ing ties among left-lean­ing people. So come along on Wed­nes­day, grab your­self a pint and meet our guest speak­er Nandor Tanczos, Green MP.

WHAT Launch of Drink­ing Lib­er­ally Wel­ling­ton
WHEN 6pm, Wed 21st May
WHERE South­ern Cross, Abel Smith Street
SPEAKER Nandor Tanczos, Green MP
CONTACT wellington@drinkingliberally.org

An order of 15 cof­fees is a lot. I know that. But when I go into a cafe, such as Espresso­hol­ic on Cour­tenay Place, this is not the exchange I expect.

Me: …long list of cof­fees…
Espresso­hol­ic Per­son: That’s a lot, that’ll take [the two baris­tas] ages to do.
Me: (in my head) Yes but I will pay you money in exchange for these good and ser­vices.
Me: (in real­ity) Oh well I can go to anoth­er place if it’s a prob­lem…
E‑hole: No. It’s just…(mutter mut­ter)

As time goes by a queue forms behind me, because it does take a long time to make 15 cof­fees (a fact which I aware of before mak­ing my order). Do the staff maybe take orders so that these poor folk don’t have to stand and wait? Nope. Obvi­ously I’m the asshole hold­ing up the line with my unreas­on­able demands for cof­fee in a cof­fee shop. So the order was com­pleted and the vari­ous cof­fee types poin­ted out.

E‑Hole: …and that’s the long black
Me: Sorry, I ordered two long blacks
E‑Hole: No I just made one.
Me: (pause for thought) ok.

I paid and left. And finally E‑holic, I can do without the sneer­ing too, thanks.

So let’s say you’re a little bit unhinged, and you’re tired of pick­ing up hook­ers on Mari­on Street and then run­ning them over. What you really want is to stay home and play Grand Theft Auto, but you hate the fake New York­ness of it all, and wish it could be a little bit more like home. Well we’ve got just the link for you – skin your game so that the police cars, tax­is and ambu­lances are all famil­i­ar Wel­ling­ton sights!

And of course, what’s a GTA story without some mor­al out­rage sur­pris­ingly sup­port­ive com­ment­ary from Break­fast News?

The feud com­mences. I quite like the cur­mudgeon role.

Rob Olsen, the edit­or of the Wel­ling­to­ni­an has respon­ded to my request that The Wel­ling­tonista “Addressed Mail Only” sign be respec­ted:

What is your house address?
Rob Olsen, edit­or, The Wel­ling­to­ni­an
474 0147
editor@thewellingtonian.co.nz

To which I replied:

Does that mat­ter?
It’s the one with an “Addressed mail only” sign.
Please respect my wishes.

Because we’re super her­oes dude, we can­’t go giv­ing our address out to the media, people would come & see us chan­ging into our tights & capes.

Which got me this:

Is it 1 Wood­ward Street? It mat­ters if you want the paper stopped.

It’s not, and I think it unfair to all the oth­er “Addressed Mail Only” sign own­ers that we have to per­son­ally plead with any­one, to stop put­ting unwanted stuff on our prop­erty.

But Rob says it’s out of his hands. It’s the “Sys­tem”.

Without an address I can­’t act. We have to instruct the com­pany that deliv­ers the paper not to deliv­er to spe­cif­ic addresses. “Addressed Mail Only” is obvi­ously not enough info. I am sorry to have to labour this point but that’s the sys­tem. Oth­er­wise I sug­gest you take it up with my man­ager Diane Clayton on 474 0362.
Rob Olsen, edit­or, The Wel­ling­to­ni­an
474 0147
editor@thewellingtonian.co.nz

The first unstamped Fools­cap envel­ope bear­ing the two cop­ies of the Wel­ling­to­ni­an that were delivered last week should be arriv­ing on Rob’s desk today or tomor­row.

That’s “The Sys­tem” at work.

It’s all going on this Sat­urday after­noon in the south­ern sub­urbs. For a start, at Solan­der; works on paper in Lyall Bay is the open­ing of the show Near and Far: New prints by Kyla Cress­well and Inge Does­burg.

If any fur­ther induce­ments are required to guar­an­tee your attend­ance, we have been assured that bubbles will be being served between 1 – 3pm.

Click on the image (above) to view the full invite, includ­ing a map to the gal­lery.

A ques­tion of com­pre­hen­sion:

A sign say­ing “Addressed mail only” on a let­ter­box means:

a) only items spe­cific­ally addressed to an occu­pant of the premises to be pos­ted in the let­ter­box?

b) who knows? Bung the junk­mail in any­way?

Please note, we’ll be mail­ing any fur­ther cop­ies dropped in the Wel­ling­tonista let­ter­box (just below the “addressed mail only” sign) back to you without post­age. Until it stops.

Remem­ber that time that I went to Cap­it­ol for a Seris­en wine din­ner that cost $85 and was frick­ing amaz­ing? Well it turns out that there’s some­thing sim­il­ar hap­pen­ing every month at Cel­lar-Vate, but for only $35! Holy crap! So, in order to invest­ig­ate this phe­nomen­on for you, my dear read­er, my fear­less din­ing com­pan­ion Kar­en and I sub­jec­ted ourselves to six courses of food matched with Clear­view wines last night. Oh the human­ity.

It’s such a hard­ship to sit down to dine with new people just wait­ing to become your friends, Rachel from Cel­lar­vate who took the time to explain her menu selec­tions, and two people from the winery to chat to. Food was served on com­mun­al plates, and while it was­n’t huge amounts of any­thing, even Kar­en and I, who do like our food a lot, left sat­is­fied. You need to go to Cel­lar Vate on Moles­worth and ask them to put you on their mail­ing list so you can come along to the next diner. The menu after the jump.

For the last few weeks there’s been an air of rockin’ excite­ment passing around Cap­it­al City… and lots of flights being booked down here from that place up north that houses the Auck­land­ista. Remin­is­cing on social net­work­ing sites has reached a fren­zied peak and the rumours have been proved true – the Has­sel­hoff Exper­i­ment are reform­ing for a once-only show this week­end in Wel­ling­ton.
More after the jump.…

Every­one loves a good apo­strophe cata­strophe. I was delighted to find this one at a chem­ist near the train sta­tion:

ORLY?

I was think­ing maybe it’s a product name, like “Dr Fight­’s Cold & Flu Rem­edy”, but real­ist­ic­ally it seems like just anoth­er sad case of a hor­ribly mis­placed apo­strophe.

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