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ON THE WEB | Leo Koziol 26.4.08
The
Los Angeles Times has a comprehensive article about Ta Moko, interviewing
Ta Moko artists in the Taranaki. Te Puni Kokiri has launched
their new, redesigned, bilingual
website. Depressing scenarios for the End of the World from
Vanity
Fair and Salon.
Oh, and Guillermo Del Toro gets enslaved
in Wellywood for three years.. more soon >
LONG
HOT SUMMER | Leo Koziol 16.4.08
Yet
I've also been quite focused on that whole "Frog in a Warm Pot to
Boil" scenario, all the westerners happy and smiling as the weather
gets warmer and we all seem quite oblivious to the fact that the
coming global climate change oblivion is in reality quite shitty.
more soon >
REAWAKENING
THE BLOG! | Leo Koziol 16.4.08
So
the epiphany came sitting in a writers' workshop at AUT Auckland,
when I posited the question to the writers present if, when they
are writing, they find their creativity flowing from somewhere outside
of themselves, out there perhaps in a collective unconscious. And
Briar Grace-Smith replies simply, "Yes"... more soon >
THE
BLOSSOMING OF TAMAKI MAKAURAU | Leo Koziol 16.4.08
Auckland
is no longer a precocious child. No, he is an awkward, gangly teenager,
about to blossom into full adulthood. We are bearing witness to
the blossoming of Tamaki Makaurau. Welcome to Awkwardland... more
soon >
 OUR
DAD | Leo Koziol 13.2.08
Mum
describes Dad as her "Tall, handsome Polish 'Catholic' solider boy
who followed her to Utah and whom she followed to California in
1961 where they started their family." Mum and Dad had an adventurous
life in America in the 1960s. Mum would fly off to Hawaii to perform
the Flaming Poi in Waikiki. Dad would take the whanau for road trips
across the country, much to Mum's chagrin when they'd end up sleeping
under the stars in the High Sierras... more>
PROTECT
ME FROM WHAT I WANT | Leo Koziol 13.2.08
The market
demographics splinter more and the Long Tail makes itself felt and
suddenly a new generation emerges that has access to all of the
fringe film, music and television of a Century of multimedia creativity,
and the world of the mashup begins; how many genres can you combine?
How many pop culture moments can you strip-mine?.. more>
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NEW ENERGY COMES TO WAIROA | Leo Koziol 9.12.05
A juvenile
sperm whale had been spotted in the mouth of the Nuhaka river, apparently
returning safely to sea. I mused on whether this was just a coincidence,
or whether perhaps it was in fact a reflection of the unique energy
that had sprung forth in Wairoa that weekend... more>
THE
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS | Leo Koziol 9.12.04
I looked like a Mallowpuff on the telly. They say television adds
on the pounds, but was that really the same fellow that I see in
the mirror each day? I must ban Oslers meat pies from my diet forthwith.
I did appreciate my rather dark East Coast tan, I do vaguely recall
the sun started shining here in August... more>
CHANGE
IS GOOD
| Leo
Koziol 12.12.03
The
agenda of the chardonnay socialists marches on. We've already got
legalised gambling up and down the country, prostitution just became
a legal profession, you can buy and consume liquor twenty four seven,
and our happy little nation has finally caught up with California
and introduced smoke-free bar legislation... more>
IN
SEARCH OF THE 7TH SPIRITUAL PORTAL
| Leo
Koziol 10.09.02
Why
Naked in Nuhaka? I like that the title is nicely alliterative and
I’m a great fan of David Sedaris. The thoughts will be naked, but
not much else, and the columns will be written here in Nuhaka. more
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