“Every generation has a changing of the guard in media.”
Shane Smith
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How to be a successful Evil Genius
Dr Doom, Wile Coyote, The Brain, Darth Vader. Evil Geniuses. We all love to hate them. We villianise them. But one thing you can’t deny, they come up with some radical, creative and very ambitious schemes fuelled by a relenting drive and determination. And no...
Don’t tell us to clean up our waterways
The vision is clear - divert attention from a disturbing fact: New Zealand’s freshwater is in severe crisis, and it’s probably due to dairy farming. Two-thirds of New Zealand’s rivers are too polluted to swim in and half its lakes are irreversibly damaged - and...
Keeping up with the Ardashians
In light of recent media events, well when I say events – I mean the political saga of all sagas. If only media outlets hadn’t used up the title ‘the mother of all scandals’ over Winston Peters pension repayments because now would be a better time for it. The...
Our favourite not so evil genius
When you think of human trafficking, wine isn’t the first thing that springs to mind. But maybe it should be. This week I spoke to Alanna Chapman from 27 Seconds – a winery in North Canterbury, changing the world one bottle at a time. Alanna and her husband, Pete...
110% Wanky or Wonderful
I was inspired by a couple of punters who sat at the bar throwing blog topics they would like to see covered. We narrowly avoided the history of golden showers and the evolution of porn. After bypassing such realms which aren’t my speciality we...
Hench-people. Creatives. Thinkers. Doers.
Through the eyes of a Non-Techie
The mother of all procrastinations
As I reach a new found level of procrastination which includes washing everything I own, making actual real food from scratch (not from a packet) and doing actual exercise I have stumbled across the next blog topic. We take a step back from...
A love affair with plastic
We are living in a world which is slowly being killed by our complete lack of responsibility and love of all things plastic. The CCC’s recent decision to wage a war on plastic straws is the latest in New Zealand’s ‘too little too late approach’...