Just received my copy of the event guide to AK05 – Auckland Festival ’05 and it looks like there’s something for everyone. Of interest to me in particular are events at the Corban Estate Arts Centre which is about 5-10 minutes walk from home. So I’ll be trying to get to Gleem – Multimedia Light…

Over the last few days I’ve been trying to impose a level of order upon the chaos produced by writing and teaching. That, plus having to clean out my Carey office, meant the office at home has been covered in paper for days. Draft chapters, notes taken, half developed lectures, that same lecture/draft/article printed several…

November Wired Magazine’s lead story was about music, sampling, remixing, copyright and creative commons. Came with a CD of music (and MP3s on the web site) from well known artists released under a creative commons licence. Some musings on the creative process as being in part derivative or creating using others work as inspiration. Also…

So the wintery weather appears to have moved on for the moment – blue skies and wamer temperatures at the moment, though it was cold and wet this morning. Too hard in high winds, rain and hail to attempt to outside decorations, but inside the Christmas tree is up, Advent calendar is progressing and the…

Journal article submitted, marking finished, supervision meeting on Monday to wrap things up for the year, and no outstanding deadlines. A time to catch my breath. Tomorrow will be a day of stuff – post office, overdue library books to return, Christmas decorations to do with the children (Kim’s bought 32m of fairy lights, plus…

Gale force winds, hail and rain. Then five minutes later clear blue skies before a repeat of the rain. Must be Auckland 4-5 days before summer officially starts. Hoping all the roof tiles stay on tonight.

Just heard a guy from this being interviewed on the radio. Sounds like an excellent way to get some relevant community programming – and they do the hard work of actually making it. See Open Door. The Open Door project gives access to TV3 Network television to selected individuals and groups of New Zealanders. If…

Went for a walk a day or so ago around Paremuka Lakeside Reserve which is about 5-10 minutes walk from home. My back’s been sore so I’ve been taking breaks from essay marking and rewriting my current article and walking around the neighbourhood. Today my youngest and I walked down to the public library for…

Just caught the end of the review of this on the radio (National Radio – advance to 48 minutes) of THE END OF SUBURBIA which sounded interesting. From the film’s web site Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge…

Had an amazing day today with lots of friends who came around for a day long gathering (11am through to the last people leaving around 9pm). No special reason – just time for friends and their families to come, share some food and drink and catch up with each other and meet some new people.…