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 7.01
PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT | Leo Koziol 21.12.07
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>
 4.10
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>
4.09
IT'S ABOUT WHANAU | Leo Koziol 15.10.04
Nuhaka
is a land that comes most alive for tangi. I muse without irony
on the notion of the Tangi Multiplier Effect; all those rich bling-endowed
whanau spending their city and ozzie dollars in low-income Wairoa,
the city folk in search of a decent coffee, our oz cousins cold
on a 25 C day... more>
4.08
28 DAYS LATER
| Leo Koziol 7.10.04
Last term, my son asked
me for a topic for his English essay. I suggested George Bush. George
the elder, who was in office the day he was born, in 1990, and George
the younger, our current encumbent world leader, preaching "freedom,
truth, justice and the American way." Just like Superman...
more>
4.07
LOST IN THE LAND OF THE JAFAS
| Leo Koziol 19.8.04
Auckland Tamaki Makaurau
is the largest city of our great burgeoning nation. A melting pot
for a new millenium: spirited Maoritanga, chuckling Kiwiana, hedonist
Polyfornia, and a heady dash of Middle Earth celtic rurality and
Oscar success. Auckland needs vision to take its place as the preeminent
city of Aotearoa... more> Also
posted on Public
Address.
4.06
THE TIDE TURNS
| Leo Koziol 2.7.04
I had a dream the other
night that I was in a theatre watching Michael Moore's new film
Fahrenheit 9/11, and as the film started onscreen I found myself
uncontrollably sobbing. It was partly subconscious energy, party
because I'd read way too many reviews of the film in the previous
days... more>
4.05
GREEN REVOLUTION
| Leo Koziol 4.6.04
Two possible futures
for Maori seem apparent: one along the current traditional Western
economic development path; the other along a green economics path.
The question is: do green economics offer a more viable choice for
Maori in the 21st Century?... more>
 4.04
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
| Leo Koziol 14.5.04
In the film, the world
is gripped in weather chaos as the effects of global climate change
kick in in a surprisingly rapid fashion; a global climate "tilt"
occues in a matter of days - not years. Melting polar ice caps stop
the Gulf Stream, and things go haywire... more>
4.03
BACK TO THE AHI KAA
| Leo Koziol 26.4.04
Nuhaka to me seems to
be the nexus of the remainder of a coastal landscape fast disappearing
in the northern half of Te Ika a Maui. I've dubbed it the
"Spirit Coast," stretching from depressed Opotiki, to
depressed Wairoa, and perhaps on further to the depressed Wairarapa...
more>
4.02
CLIMATE CHANGE
| Leo
Koziol 12.12.03 This
is the first in a series of articles that, over the coming months,
will examine the concept of nationhood in Aotearoa NZ today. We
are at a critical juncture in terms of race relations, economic
development, and ecological futures. Our nation is on the brink...
more>
4.01
ABOUT NAKED IN NUHAKA
| Leo
Koziol 20.03.04 Naked in Nuhaka is
tacitly a means of exploring issues of identity, culture and place
in Aotearoa NZ in the 21st Century, but it is my hope that it is
seen by its readers as much, much more. A state of mind, a place
of sentience, a haven of sanity in a world gone mad. more>
3.14
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>
3.13
THE INTERACTIVE IMMIGRANT
| Leo
Koziol 06.11.03
Like
San Francisco, I can imagine Aotearoa New Zealand becoming a "spiritual
portal" for political progressives of many stripes, a place for
a certain global sentience to reside and connect with. We have the
potential to lead by example, to make this place a point of importance
and relevance and sanity in an age of clear global disreality...
more>
3.12
STATIC INTERFERENCE
| Leo
Koziol 19.09.03
We
live in an age of disreality. The whole point of the explosion of
reality television is that we can all slip in and be part of the
media matrix. And we can all be happy, and rich, and well fed, and
famous, and immortal there. Are we not entertained? Plug in, enjoy
the rollercoaster ride, and just pray that no static interference
takes your soul with it... more>
3.11
MOO LOO LA LA LAND
| Leo
Koziol 12.09.03
There's
a gold rush going on in this country. Its geographic epicentres
are the exploding property prices of the Auckland isthmus, the overcrowded
tourist traps of Roto-Vegas and Queenstown, and pretty much any
slice of land within cooee of a half decent beach. We are witnessing
the death of the ramshackle bach, the end of affordable first housing
in the big cities, and increasingly expanding commuter zones as
people search for cheap housing that has some semblance of the kiwi
quarter-acre dream... more>
3.10
THE MAORI AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
| Leo
Koziol 08.08.03
When
four months ago President Bush landed on a U.S. aircraft carrier
in a Navy jumpsuit a dictator's triptych of lies, deception and
masquerade became complete. Hawks and scavengers fly over an expectant
carnage that does not look set to eventuate, even though the weight
of evidence stacks higher and higher. A sense that something inspiring
is going to happen truly does seem palpable, something to
give us hope. Talks of a 21st Century Watergate abound, but in these
post-ironic times, will it really happen?... more>
3.09
THE MATARIKI LONG WEEKEND
| Leo
Koziol 20.06.03
Living
in San Francisco, one of the things that really touched me was how
the seasons connected with the celebrations. Easter was in the bright
newness of Spring. Halloween was when the huge Autumn "Harvest Moon"
would rise up over the horizon. New Year's marked the depths of
Winter. And Christmas came at just the right time to brighten up
the gloomy darkness of long nights... more>
3.08
THE PAKEHA ELECTORAL OPTION
| Leo
Koziol 22.05.03
It
is only dogs that eat scraps. And that is exactly what the Maori
seats offer Maori. Those on the left and who purport to be supportive
of "Maori causes" suffer from a form of aporia. The right wing Englishes
and Peters' say "Abolish Maori seats! Abolish Maori seats!" The
only response from the progressive left must then be "Retain Maori
seats! Retain Maori seats!" The response is automatic, because no
alternative is offered that does not lose what little scraps Maori
have been given to date... more>
3.07
URBAN ECOLOGY
| Leo
Koziol 16.05.03
Look
at Auckland and environs, and a deep ecology of fear emerges. Gateway
to the world, with the largest seaport and airport, the city is
a "buffer zone" for ecological and biological scourges drifting
in. Urban Auckland sprawls across dozens of volcanoes, pimples primed
to bursting. Add a dash of global sea level rise, tsunamis east
and west, and the not oft mentioned potential for a major quake,
and the ephemerality of this "city on the make" becomes easily apparent...
more>
3.06
ENTER THE MEDIA MATRIX
| Leo
Koziol 02.05.03
When
I watched the Matrix in 1999, it blew my mind. It was full of hip
postmodern references and reality slips that exploded the preconceptions
of an anxious fin-de-siecle pre-Y2K audience. It redefined film.
Though clearly a piece of "suspension of disbelief" sci-fi, it hit
on a number of deep and important themes at a very anxious moment
in history... more>
3.05
HUNKERING DOWN
| Leo
Koziol 28.03.03
Here,
it was a crystalline Autumn day outside, the kind you get as the
weather turns around the autumnal equinox. The cameras on Baghdad
showed a similarly perfect day emerging. A dull light emerging over
the city, the sound of birds awaking. Looking at the screen, I could
almost feel the cool chill of an Arabian night passing... more>
3.04
HAMBURGERS AND FRENCH FRIES
| Leo
Koziol 14.03.03
Donald
Rumsfeld's description of Germany and France as "Old Europe" (and
therefore irrelevant) spilt over when Cubbies, a restaurant in Beaufort
NC, dropped the "french" from its fries and labeled them "freedom"
fries. The same goes for french dressing, which is now "liberty"
dressing. So, one guesses, hamburgers, must be next: "justice" burgers,
anyone?... more>
3.03
TIPPING POINT
|Leo
Koziol 29.11.02
The
whale was lying on her side, waves fortunately splashing over her
to keep her moist. But she had clearly been scorched by the day,
and was not happy. Half out of water, the weight of gravity must
have been slowly killing her, heart and internal organs pained,
ribs buckling under the incredible weight... more>
3.02
IDENTITY CRISIS
| Leo
Koziol 28.02.03
What
does it mean to be a New Zealander in 2003? What depths of patriotism
must we display to be a real Kiwi? To be a "K-1, W-1, till the day
we die?" Are we a close-minded community esconced at the farflung
bottom of the South Pacific, or postmodern worldly world citizens
ready to take on the challenges of the new knowledge economy?...
more>
3.01
WAIROA STAR
| Leo
Koziol 21.02.03
I'm
notorious in Nuhaka, world famous in Wairoa, an underground gadfly
in Gisborne, and have also been known to be spotted on the streets
of Island Bay and Ponsonby... through the fruits of my labours,
I'm not only Naked in Nuhaka: I'm a Wairoa Star!... more>
2.10
THE SENTIENT ISLANDS
|Leo
Koziol 13.12.02
I don’t think that our nation will ever become an “Eco-Nation,”
or a “God-Zone”, or some kind of “Promised Land”.
Utopia is for idealogues. But I do think we can do an awful lot
of moving ourselves -- and the rest of the world -- towards such
possibilities through leadership by doing... more
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2.09
TIPPING POINT
| Leo
Koziol 29.11.02
Are
we at a tipping point? Is whatever happens from here on out, no
matter how ridiculously unimaginable, now actually possible?
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2.08
THE CUTOFF FALLS
| Leo
Koziol 15.11.02
It
had been a long drive across the fertile green plains and over the
Kaiwai Ranges before I began the smooth descent down towards the
seaside town of The Mount... more >
2.07
THE ART OF THE URBAN HIKE
| Leo
Koziol 10.09.02
Scott
had spent a similar ten years in New York City trying to escape
what he called: “Hipsprawl”. He told me about how he lived
in the depths of Alphabet City, a rough and tumble part of town
with dirt-cheap rent... more >
2.06
GOD DEFEND AUSTRALIA
| Leo
Koziol 18.10.02
I
think, and hope, that the events of October 12th will bring Australians
and New Zealanders closer together... more
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2.05
ALIEN FEELINGS RISE IN GODZONE
|
Leo
Koziol 11.10.02
Coming
home to New Zealand after five years in San Francisco, the level
of racism towards Maori looks from a California lens quite astounding...
more >
2.04
NEW ZEALAND UBER ALLES
| Leo
Koziol 04.10.02
The
first time I met Governor Jerry Brown, it was a late summer's day
in 1996 and I had a personal invitation to meet him and his followers
at his warehouse commune in Oakland... more
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2.03
KAHUNGUNU THE MOVIE
|
Leo
Koziol 27.09.02
The
film, titled “Kahungunu: An Epic of Great Proportions”, has been
described by Variety as being a "Polynesian Braveheart," with Kahungunu,
a warrior, lover, and soldier-statesman, pulling the war-oriented
society into the modern age. more
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2.02
SPRINGTIME IN THE BAY AREA
| Leo
Koziol 20.09.02
As
I approached Te Kuri the clouds broke and the sun poured through.
As my new friends and I climbed the hill, rainbows filled the valleys
north and west, my ancestor Kahukuranui laying blessing over the
land in this rebirth of Spring. more
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2.01
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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1.01
ONE DAY IN AMERICA
| Leo
Koziol 10.09.01 A year and
a half ago, I was at a rave. January of 2000, A new decade, a new
century, a new millenium. So much of the horror of the 20th Century
we seemed to be putting behind us. The crowd was convivial and friendly
and overwhelmingly positive. A bit of a burning man groupie crowd.
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