Wellington Killah Beez on the Swarm

We like our blue cheese served with hon­ey at Pol­lux, and we like our cock­tails hon­ey-rimmed at S&M. It’s fair to say that we here at the Welling­ton­ista are fans of bees, no mat­ter what their polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tions may be. That said, every­one knows we’re a bunch of pinko left­ies, so it’s only fit­ting that […]

Online to On the Wall

We all know that Welling­ton is a great place to take pho­tos: its nat­ur­al beau­ty, pub­lic art, live­ly street life and eclec­tic archi­tec­ture all con­tribute to a visu­al­ly stim­u­lat­ing city. The busy Flickr-ers of the Welling­ton Flickr group know this, and they’ve decid­ed to take their best pho­tos into the real world.

Online to On the Wall poster

Online to On the Wall” opens at the Para­mount The­atre tomor­row night at 6pm, and runs until the 28th of March.

The horror!

Videoblood brings you ‘FIRST BLOOD’. This dvd project brings togeth­er 11 video artists and vision­ar­ies to cre­ate an orig­i­nal mas­ter­piece with the only rule being that it had to fin­ish with­in 90 sec­onds.

Filled with motion graph­ics, stop motion, clay­ma­tion, porno, com­e­dy, 3d, surgery, fly­ing, dude, geisha, planets,cosmic arts, snails and all in one serv­ing of 15 min­utes.

The Para­mount is a mas­sive the­atre, tell every­one to come along because it’s FREE! FREE! FREE!

Fea­tur­ing work from:

Alis­tair Cheyne
Vin­cent Lowe & Jon Strang
Lak­sh­man Anan­danayagam
Mike Heynes
Sal­ly Tran
Guy Cap­per
Matt Pitt
Paul Her­schell
Sam Web­ber & Gareth O’brien
Ed Davis
Jere­my Mans­ford

Check out the teas­er at:
www.videoblood.com

FIRST BLOOD DVD LAUNCH SCREENING FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3RD, 9:30pm PARAMOUNT THEATRE

Lachii @ Paramount: 27 November

One for all you film and music enthu­si­asts out there (and more espe­cial­ly if you’re both): Lachii — the sin­­gle-shot film by Ed Davis with accom­pa­ny­ing live music by HDU’s Tris­tan Dinge­mans (aka Kahu) — is hav­ing a pub­lic screen­ing at the Para­mount this Sun­day night (Novem­ber 27) at 9:30pm ($15/$10). From the blurb… Lachii […]

Of Paramount Importance

While oth­er mem­bers of the Welling­ton­ista debate triv­ial issues such as road­ing, the non car-own­ing amongst us think it’s time to address the more impor­tant things in life, such as the Para­mount ren­o­va­tions. This isn’t a post to talk about the two new the­atres (one with couch­es), or the glo­ri­ous big bal­coney, oh no. It’s […]