The Commandments, Rev.Ed.

Spotted at St James on Willis St in Wellington

I was in town for the day for a work meeting and was on my way to get back to the airport. Someone has a sense of humour and good on the committee that went with it!

Forget you knot

A local artist designed this and got a jeweller volunteered to make stirling silver broaches to sell at Womad to raise money for Christchurch. I noticed this 'serious' version of the design, the knot connects us in NP to then in Christchurch. Fab.

Fried Hungarian Bread...

and Kiwi beer, flags in the park and the crowd going off to Monglian Rock and 17 Hippies from Berlin can only mean one thing...WOMAD.

For the the last 2 years I have watching people eat this bread at the festival but the queue is legendary so when I arrived after work on Friday and saw that it was only 10 or so people long I jumped in and finally got the chance to try it. Now I know why you would wait for an age to get some!

And who knew there was such a thing as Mongolian rock music, tradition instruments and outfits (minus the fur hats) plus bass guitar and drums, fabulous stuff! The 'life's rich tapestry' award goes to the Inuit throat singer. I can't even begin to describe it but for some it will be meaningful that she has sung with Bjork - nuf said.

'Proper' art

On Saturday night the Gallery opened it's latest exhibition. There are pieces by several different artists but this one really is quite stunning - stunning as in you stand there and can't really believe that not only has someone dreamed this up but they have actually built it. And it's huge.

Yup, seriously, cardboard boxes and packing tape, the whole thing. Our exhibitions guys were helping out and one of them was working on this. It was built off site, dismantled, carted up the road to the gallery, put back together and then hung, upside down, from the ceiling. Wow doesn't even begin to cover it.

Street art

The last time I saw serious street art was near my place in Melbourne.


but recently some pretty decent stuff has been popping up here in New Plymouth.

Cool eh?

One Eyed 4 One Day

To support the people of Christchurch a good chunk of the population today wore red and black, the Canterbury Rugby colours. See Clare at work and me below. It was wonderful to see especially as it also indicated a donation to the Red Cross through work for most people.


Also, in a totally Kiwi moment the mayor of Christchurch did his late afternoon press briefing in a red t-shirt with 'IT'S MUNTED' written in shaky black. To be fair this is a direct quote made by someone when trying to describe the damage. Translation - Munted = cactus, broken, beyond help.