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 […]